[Oblivion Knight]

Originally Posted by The Geek

I don't think its elitism - I think it can motivate some contributers and thats a bonus for those that come here looking for modifications. You may as well ditch HoTM, CoTM, WoTHM as it only creates elitism. Ditch the coders forum (thats very elitist!), get rid of any payment of recognition.

I don't think its really that big of a deal, but I guess its nice to stand out a little more than someone who released a 1 line modification 10 years ago that no one ever installed.

I'm not meaning to give you grief Andy, just hopefully demonstrating that it isn't elitist - its motivational.

Of course, there are always arguements for and against any suggestion..

The reason I picked on the user titles is because at the moment, it's doing more harm than good. While it's motivational, we are also seeing an increase of modifications released whereby it is unneccessary to add or modify any code, and it could be done with a simple template edit. By my own admition, one of my old releases is a good example of this, but at the time I didn't realise it could be done with a template edit..

As I said, there's no reason to remove the fundamentals of those ranks with additional bonuses - but I'd just like to hide them.. I see no problems with HotM, CotM, WotHM(?) or the coders forum.

It's unlikely that this will be implemented anyway, I just thought I'd contribute a relevant suggestion that I'd made to the thread..