- Ghandi 2
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- Exalted Mythic Member
I hate everything, but it's not my fault.
Other forums are more mature than some of our forum-goers. For some reason no-one else has mentioned this, but we did have post totals under our names when the New Hotness first arrived.
Trust me, I was there: it was a problem. There was one guy who wanted to be the first person to 1000 posts and then every other benchmark, so he posted a LOT in true forum cop fashion (except he was stupid, so he pissed everyone off and even sometimes told stosh what he should do). There were other people like him who were trying the same thing, so we got a lot of semi-useless posts to up the post counter. I don't remember anyone actually saying "STFU NOOB, I have 800 posts!", but Achronos didn't want that to happen. If you look back far enough, you can find the news post about its being removed. The same thing goes for the join dates. Being elite over spelling and grammar is different because that's something other people can actually control and change, unlike join dates or a really high post count.
Colors were also originally on the site, but they were removed because Achronos only left them in by accident, people were doing stupid things like making every post in lime green. Also, Achronos wanted to add the new system (Bungie staff post in gold and mods post in white, to make it easier for people to find "official" answers), and if people could still post in colors they could impersonate important people.
You can't have a "Master Forum Ninja" title because (drumroll please) you are not a Master Forum Ninja. If you are a moderator or Bungie employee, then you get a title. People can't have their own titles because that would cause chaos and the aforementioned problems with impersonation, and there are no achievement titles because of the aforementioned elitism problems.