Community Development Team - Rank?

I'm sorry, but people who strive to make Sythe's community a better place deserve the extra "trust" you're talking about. Also anyone with a basic knowledge of trading would know that fun ranks have little to value in the form of trust.

OT: I still think a fun rank should be awarded to the CDT members. Maybe you can make it so that the higher-tier CDT members get a fun rank and the less active members get a minirank. Someone who wants to make Sythe a better place and blatantly shows it in their activity, in my opinion, deserves a fun rank.

 

entrr proves my point of i don't have it so neither can you mentality.


all it really boils down too.

 

It's not trust I'm talking about... if you're in CDT obviously you have that extra level of trust and the fun rank would do nothing to change that. On your second half of your post I disagree greatly either all the members of the CDT get the rank or none of them do you wouldn't want variation among members of the same group.

Not really I started with just agreeing with N4N0 but now I've been termed with "just because I can't have it means that I hate the idea". I just think that if bond holders don't deserve "recognition for their efforts" why would a CDT member get a different recognition when they both help the site run smoother? It's not "if I can't have it neither should you." Frankly it doesn't matter because regardless of the decision I only have 2 months left before University and I'm gone again till next summer.

 

So what about the miscellaneous fun-ranks like mudkip or village drunk? are you opposed to them? that's all it'd be like.

 

Everyone is clearly just getting more mad with me as this goes on just for defending my opinion on the matter. I think we definitely need a new system for miniranks and fun ranks. One dedicated to actually indicating a status such as bond holder or cdt member and one dedicated to fun things such as mudkip and other ranks the only problem now is that there is meaningless fun ranks and even more meaningless miniranks. I think if we were to clean up and remove one of the meaningless ranks in either section it would be easier to apply a rank that truly means something. That being said I think that's the standpoint I'll take, they should definitely get ranks because they do help the site a lot but with the abundance of meanless miniranks and fun ranks dedicated to "fun" not meaningful ranks it makes it difficult.

 

the miniranks are suppose to be meaningless, fun ranks are the only ones that are supposed to hold some value, as they are hard to obtain.

 

Exactly. Currently the fun ranks are more difficult to obtain. I'm not against CDT members getting a fun rank but if were going to make some fun ranks mean anything and all miniranks meaningless we should include bond holders in fun ranks aswell as CDT members. I support CDT members being recognized for their efforts but I think the recognition should be consistent among all jobs which show a raised level of commitment to the sythe community. For example if we give CDT members and Bond Holders both fun ranks we could dedicate miniranks completely to non meaningful ranks that mean nothing which is essentially what that is now excluding bond holders.

 

which goes back to my last statement, if i cant have you cant either.

i mean don't bond holders already get that seal thing?
i mean dafuq is a bond holder even do?

oh let me edit this you are the guys who are processing donations for others, and turning a profit like that whole fuss that elena was doing, isn't making money of people trying to donate enough?

 

I don't understand I'm not saying that at all. Looking at a few things in my last post I don't know how you're getting the "if I can't have it, they can't either"

I'm saying they should get a fun rank because at the current state miniranks mean absolutely nothing. Bond holders are someone who new donators can obtain there 5 dollar initial donation through. The seal thing is a minirank that in my opinion gets overlooked therefore all I was doing is using the logic if we don't want CDT members getting overlooked then we shouldn't want bond holders that bring in new donators getting overlooked either. I support both of them being recognized with a fun rank.

 

re-read my edit, are you not turning a profit from these donations?

 

Some members do treat it as if they're buying gold by giving stupidly low reseller rates but others such as TBT who take donations through paypal accept 5 dollars + paypal fees for the 5 dollar donation.

 

so you are turning a profit? and on top of that you want to get recognition for it aswel with a rank to show your hard work for helping the community, when really the majority if not all, are making a profit from this service, even if it is a small amount.

 

I suppose you're right and if you're turning a profit you're not really in it to help the community more of helping yourself. I did get my vote changed to they do deserve a fun rank but I still feel as if some of the better miniranks such as motm or other things get overlooked because of spam forum miniranks.

 

I'm not fussed to be honest, it would be helpful so people know who to PM, but people usually PM me about stuff like this anyways as I've been pretty active in community general etc until the past week.

 

For the record, if people are taking a profit from running donations then that is just wrong.

 

Of course they are, unless 5$ is now 40M..

Anywho let's try stay on topic pls.

 

I don't mean to sound like a parrot, but when UE was popular, alot of the folks that joined did it for the rank, and i'm sure some folks mistook the rank as a symbol of trust. I'm all for this as long as the holders contribute to a high standard, and don't use this as a symbol of trust (i.e sticking [CDT] in thread titles, not that CDT would make much sense to a newbie anyway...).

 

Nobody in CDT would use [CDT] in their thread titles, guaranteeing that now. That'd be a condition for sure, since that's the only reason people are disagreeing mostly. Anyone not pulling their weight will be removed.

 

So much animosity towards it. I don't see why people are unwilling to let it go through, and if it turns out to be a terrible mistake, just remove the rank.

 

because they don't get one for what they do.