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Originally posted by EvilSeph
Yes, i meant remove the ranks and stars, not the post count

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no point.... ppl would stop caring about stars and prefer post counts

Yes but otherwise as i said u have problems with people not knowing what advise to trust.

Well, lets wait for the staff to decide, I mean, post counts too then. Forums are a way to communicate, not a place to act like the king of the world just because of a rank that you have.

Yes seems a good idea

I would just say:
Kill the T&T seciton and hire someone to browse the topics and kill the spam!
Id gladly help, but Im not an admin

yeh sorry, i havnt been here long, and i thing ive rote quite a bit of good points, but it still says im a ' Junior Member ' which to tell the truth dont make you feel that good when you see people like
reisyboy and soo on which who knows how many stars

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Originally posted by Animefan
No dont remove the !
I like em! They are so nice
But just kill the T&T Forum! Its no use!?

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That's exactly the OPPOSITE of what we want!!

No, I stay with my decision, no matter what you say - the ranks are genuinely useful. They determine who are the helpers, who are the spammers and who are the newbies. I think the only thing that needs to change is helpers' attitudes toward newbies. The ranks are in no way degrading or annoying for anyone and if they are, tough. Maybe we could disallow ranks until you're a member or whatever? Simple, just set the rank titles to blank... I dunno, but I think the full, senior, etc. ranks are useful for determining who knows and abides by the rules and who is used to the forums and who knows the most... I don't see any reason to change this. I'm sure no helper out there thinks if someone's a newbie to the forum they're a newbie to everything.

A spammer can just as easily get a high rank as yourself, Billy.

Think about it, yes they are spamming. But what if they do it in a way that it doesn't seem like actual spam, but they are. Most of the senior members and up notice it and get annoyed by it, INCLUDING yourself. I mean, its not fair if someone sits their providing quality posts bustin their ass off just to get a nice rank to prove they are helpful. When a spammer can do it in half the time and just has to make things up.

I can see both sides of this arguement, you want ranks and stars to show the contribuations and to distinguish memebers. The problem is with spam this can also happen their rank goes up and a flase message is sent. What would be a good idea is if the staff could set new ranks for helpers all over and spammers or general talk people or people who offer support for plus/msn etc. That way with titles related to how you contribute to the forums you could work out a rank system based upon how they contribute no upon how many times they post. Therefore having the people who "spam" not clogup the system.

Or. Keep the ranks remove the post counts and the staff decide who to promote and who to not, though THE same situation arouses, where people are singled out.

Edited because of Billywoods1, the bitach (:, making such a big deal outta typos