- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: noreality
Posted by: MrJames
Posted by: noreality
It would create elite-ism within the members, which was already averted by removing he post count and member join dates. That and Bungie is making a game, would you rather they make new unneccessary things for the site, or make a kickass game?
Honestly, what is it with people on this site and elitism?! So what. If I do something great for the site, I would like a reward. I'm sure everyone else would. Yeah, people say "Oh, I do it because I want to help out!" but 99% of the time that's bull. There's nothing wrong with some people having a higher rank then others.
EDIT: Fine. I'll give you a perfect example of ranks here. Theme masters. Yeah, we can all see how horrible and orrupt they've become. They flaunt their title around and degrade other members to no end. I can see why you'd want no ranks.
Wait. They never do that. Since the new hotness (I wasn't around a whole lot before it), the only example of a new member rank on this site has worked incredibly. Hell, Bungie can't even keep up with the new themes coming in! Imagine other things this could be used for.
Eliteism is a huge problem, people will get it in their head that just because they have more posts, or have been a member longer that means they are better than someone else, which I hope you know isn't true, here's an example. ICEMAN ASSASS1N is fairly new to Bungie.net, yet he know more than people who have been a member for longer than a year or two but a member that has made twice as many posts and been a member for over a year say, "No iceman, you're wrong, you're still new here, you couldn't possibly know that". Such is a case of eliteism. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want that occurring all over the place now would you.
For one the themes aren't being accepted right now. Okay, and about the Theme Masters, they actually don't have any authority over us, and it's not a rank, more of a recognition that they created something that we didn't. Theme Master also signifies that they are mature enough to make something appropriate for Bungie.net and it's groups, compared to people who are immature enough to spam the forums and no take anything seriously.
If you want ranks then how do you propose that we give them out? Number of Posts, no that won't work because other people will just spam for the sake of a rank. Moderators and Admin give them out, no because that means they have to sort through roughly 2 million members in order to know the right people to give them you to. That would also cause lots of arguments based on this "Oh *member* doesn't deserve one, they'll just spam, and stuff" or, "I want a promo" As so stated by an above poster (sorry I forget who you were). Other member give points (negative and positive) based on their post, no the wouldn't work either, then people will be giving negative points to people just because they don't like them, or people will give positive points because either A: they are the same person, or B: They'll do it because the other person will do it to them.
So there's a few ways to hand out ranks, which obviously don't work, if you can think of a successful way to give them out, then my hats off to you, but for now, just live with the current Bungie.net forums and get your ranks in groups.
~Mark~
Why is it such a huge problem is someone who contributes a ton to Bungie.net gets it into their head that they are better then someone who doesn't? Aren't they better? What you're saying is that nobody should get any material recognition for positive contributions. I can't understand that.
And a Theme Master is absolutely a rank, so don't try to pretend it isn't. No other rank proposed here would have any power, and none would be given unless the poster showed maturity. Don't try and say that the bribe of being given a title hasn't caused mroe themes to be submitted, either, because you're wrong there too. The only example of a rank being implemented has been a resounding success. I don't see why everyone is so afraid.
And as to ranks being distributed: Who ever said that thousands of people needed to be given a rank? If you don't do something, you don't get a rank. It's really that simple. I can't image more than about 15 or 20 people holding a rank anyway, so it's not like the mods would be swamped trying to hand these out.