Should Legendary/Hero/Sr Members be de-ranked? Additional user ranks?

[TMAN]

Why not eliminate all Rank and DT. At the same time, ban ALL sig campaigns and account farming. I'd gladly trade Rank and DT for that.

Agree with removing sigs.. I only did it this year and only cos my mates were doing it!

DT - we need something, but what we have now is wank.. cant have an open trust system due to the cunts like QS..

[spiker777]

I would suggest a way to resolve this would be to put upper level users on a probation system where they have to gain a certain number of merit over the probation period to maintain their rank, otherwise they get demoted.

so old hands who are on vacation (or dead) during the "probation period" get demoted?

are we demoting hal finney from senior member? he's only received 26 merit.

you're basically erasing all contributions that people made to the forum between 2010 and 2017. the people that made this forum great once. screw that. old hands shouldn't be penalized just because most new members are spammers.

The outline I made in OP isn't perfect, of course there are some flaws and I do not believe that all members should be held to the same standard, even though it would be seen as unfair. I think that certain, clearly well-known, informative and respected users could be immune to the system, this would likely have to be a manual upgrade and could be decided based on community votes.

[RYXES]

At first I didn't think it would be possible to come up with a de-ranking system that would work but after sleeping on it I think I might have got it.

The forum should hire in addition to moderators a new elite group of Shitpost Scrutineers (The SS for short). It would be their job to monitor all sections of the forum but focus on the spam megathreads and award -1 merit for every shitpost they find. Any account would be instantly demoted to the rank their new merit count earned and if they reached a negative merit count they would be nuked.

How about anyone below the rank of full member who uses the word merit gets nuked? could be automated.. would remove 5 billion threads and posts.

You just beat me to it, except that I was going to suggest they went back to junior, or maybe we could have a fema rank ( failed to embrace merit awards)

nope just ban the window licking entitled arse holes.

Or Three Strikes/Warnings and they're out? People would get the message quickly.