- Pink Menace
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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: Mabian
Posted by: WyattFNEarp
Who cares if people are egotistical elitists or not. It really comes down to the quality of their posts. Nothing should be changed as far as ranks go unless it is done by the mods of this site. If the mods choose based on quality then the right person will get recognition. If they are full of themselves, who cares? As long as the quality of posts does not suffer it will not be a negative.
Sure, it doesn't hurt us now. How could it? These people are keeping theirfeelings to themselves. Does that mean that nurturing their elitist beliefs won't affect their behavior? Certainly not.
If you want to convince me that ranks are good, then you'll have to convince me that elitism in any form, or the promotion thereof, if a good thing. Or give me a good reason why honor isn't enough.
I think a definition of elitism is in order.
Elitism is the belief or attitude that the people who are considered to be the elite — a selected group of persons with outstanding personal abilities, wealth, specialised training or experience, or other distinctive attributes — are the people whose views on a matter are to be taken the most seriously
So you're morally opposed to having a professor in your college? I don't understand why everyone hates elitism so much.
Aren't the mods just a group of people whos specialised experience has led to their selection by Achronos? He trusts a small group of people to maintain order, in essence to rule, a larger group of people. I'd be willing to bet that you don't dislike them any more for it. Do you harbor any disdain for the theme masters?
Let's say, hypothetically, that you have an older brother who's basketball team won the state championship. Would you dislike him and his team for having won? No, because they earned it.
Can we agree that these forms of elitism aren't bad?
Assuming the answer is yes, why would it be terrible to add another rank to Bungie.net? Equate it to the mods. Achronos, or the mods, find an outstanding members who really contributes. Everyone knows him and knows all the good he's done. He's now a higher rank. Is that really such a bad thing? Why is every person who gets promoted evil and horrible and cruel? Do you really think that the mods are so shortsighted that they can't tell some elitist jerk from someone who really has good intentions?
EDIT: And adding a ranking system can hardly be called nurturing negative elitism. Nobody is sitting down spoonfeeding Bungie.net lies about why it's "cool" to discriminate. It's rewarding good behavior and punsihing bad behavior. I dont' see how it's much more complex then that.
[Edited on 11/29/2006]