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It was a cold day near the southern base in Blood Gulch. Cortana and I were relaxing over a game of Go Fish, WHEN OUT OF NO WHERE 700 BANSHEES CAME FLYING IN!!! I GRABED MY SPARTAN LASER AND LET HELL REIGN DOWN UPON THEM. I HOPPED IN THE NEAREST WARTHOG AND TOLD CORTANA TO GET IN.
Posted by: Keith Byrne
On the concern of Elitism. It is an issue in any major forum. You should have seen that the member since dates have contributed to a form of that. They were seen by some the community to have a "rank" status, and hence the longer the member, the better the member they were.
Do you see sense in that? Its not even logical.
As for post counters? I remember them here before. The amount of spam that was created in the short time that they were viewable. Many members, all trying to outpost the other in spamming threads.
the members of this community have risen quite substantially since then. And the general spam has increased. Could you imagine the hell that would be created if post counters were involved?
As for ranks in general. It comes back to elitism. The I am better than you. My karma is higher than yours so therefore I have more of a say than you do.
Post counts will not work. As for members will spam to get the rank up. So they are meaningless. Assigned by moderators? A handful of moderators organise over 2 million members? Absurdity.
And as for karma? I am better than you again? Please no.
Keep the three ranks for members. Master Ninja, Ninja, Member.
Keep the unique member titles for Bungie Employees.
(Theme Master is not a rank. It is a title of an ordinary member. It in noway denotes community involvement. Abilities on Bnet. Or increased status in teh forums. It is a title that indicates a theme submitted by them was approved.)
Let me ask you this. Who is most likely more knowledgeable in Bungie Lore; someone who has been here for seven days or seven years? Who probably knows how the forums work more; someone who joined two days ago or someone who joined two years ago? The answers are all pretty clear to me. So far as I can see, older members do tend to be better members. This isn't true all the time, but if you stay here for three, four years, chances are you've got some intrest in keeping a reputation or not getting banned from a forum. You've probably heard the rules a thousand times. Naturally, shouldn't their advice be taken more seriously? If every single sign says that they probably know more then your average user, why should they not be respected more? I see no problem with people saying that they have a bit of a better opinion because they've been here longer. When people say that "You're an idiot because I've been here two weeks longer" they're only making a fool of themselves. If someone is honestly hurt by that, well I don't think Bungie.net is the right site for you.
I agree. Post counts won't work. They encourage spam. A rank would encourage better behavior.
Alright. About the Theme Masters thing. Are you just looking for things to contradict me on? Fine, I went so far as to look up the definition of "rank" for you. Here.
rank
–noun
1. a number of persons forming a separate class in a social hierarchy or in any graded body.
Hmm. I have a feeling we'll get stuck on class now, so I'll give that definition too.
class
–noun
1. a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort: a class of objects used in daily living.
So you're sayiong that a theme master is not a rank? Well let's see. They all share the same fact that they all sumbitted outstanding themes! They are all exceptionally artistic, persevering, patient, all that stuff. I think that Theme Masters qualify as a class. So we can throw that in the "rank" definition. Let's break this down.
A number of persons (good so far, there's more then one Theme Master) forming a seperate class (Yup, they all have their own title and the qualities and attributes necessary to become a Theme Master. Still good here) in a social hierarchy... (There! Done!)
Call me crazy, but I think that Theme Master is a rank -_-