- insaneAssass1n9
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Posted by: dmg04
Posted by: insaneAssass1n9
Posted by: dmg04
Posted by: insaneAssass1n9
I disagree, a person should not need any extra motivation to stay ban free other than the fact that they don't want to be banned.
A ban is meant to deter from poor behavior much like jail is to deter from crime. You don't see the government giving people who don't commit crimes anything special. Don't take it as motivation, take it as a thank you. The thank you then acts as a subconscious motivation, making you want to keep your record clean for even longer. I don't want to take these things and market them as "Hey, be a good boy and you get a sticker!", rather "Hey, you've been a good boy, here's your sticker". I honestly don't know how to explain it other than that, and i can already see people saying 'but dmg! that's THE SAME DAMN THING!'
If only that is how people work. One would like to think that people would not make a competition out of it and turn it into something bad. Some members that have have acquired the "sticker" would flaunt it and purposely irritate and put down "lesser" members.
Achronos has always strived to avoid elitism with in the community, with the additions of these exclusive avatars, it would do the exact opposite.If anyone were to 'flaunt' their title or emblem, they'd be deserving of a 2 week ban [IMHO].
Isn't that what happens nowadays, anyways? Sometimes i see people joke about their mythic status, but it's usually obvious. The only person i've seen be serious about 'Lol i'm mythic and you're heroic GTFO' lost his title pretty quickly.
The thing is, though, it takes so long to get to certain titles. I don't know of anyone who would actually "compete" for 4+ years to get a silly little picture on a website and be like 'YO IN YOUR FACE NOOB, I HAVE AN EMBLEM AND YOUUUUU DON'T!'
Even if people we to do that, wouldn't 99.9% of the community just point and laugh at how pathetic that sounds? Report button engages, warnings and bans are handed out, and the silly bigheads are put into their place.If you were right, and this system could truly be implemented without elitism, then it could work.
However, even of it takes a whole to earn a Tulare, people do things for rediculous reasons sometimes. Also, there is no way to moderate against every case of derogatory elitism. Not to mention in private groups. Although the member can just be kicked out of the group, it doesn't change the fact that it still happened in the first place.