Unfortunatley it seems to be solely based on post count right now (I'm guessing). That's how the original system was, too.

Elites should be currently active and maintain their level of activity.

I'd rather recognize people that are still here and doing stuff rather than people who once did a lot a while ago but now barely visit the site anymore.

I agree that certainly past members should be recognized with elite status. My main concern is that the people currently active should not be neglected. SEN is still a living active community not just a dead record of the past.

This.
But more important to me is uniqueness. I like the teamliquid icons, but us copying an aspect of another site makes me kinda queasy. If SEN had done it first, I wouldn't have objected to the SC icons, but...

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=D?

For the people saying that this is based on post count, here's a quote from the very first post:

No. It's a factor, but ultimately Moose and IP can make anyone whatever they want.

Edit: I just updated a few members that were online at the time, the rest will come later. So don't feel left out yet.

[22:57] Moose: Why did I promote Shocko
[22:57] Moose: LOL

I'm starting to feel like I'm part of some sort of clan now with this explicit hierarchy crap. Give us the option disable this ASAP before I hurl from self disgust.

You've always had the option to disabled this.

Oh hey, I just thought an admin deserves a high-five for adding percents to the Forums tab in our profiles, nice addition

Another thought:
If more minor visual updates to SEN are going to be made, then could the new, border-less user status icons be used? The borders are unnecessary and are a serious eyesore. http://www.staredit.net/topic/4151/

Or just do something important

11px is nowhere near "comfortable" enough to get something that'd be understandable... Unless we do spells which, since they're just shapes, hopefully we can understand them better.

Here are my current views on the ranking system:

Each post a member makes adds certain points to his 'rank'. Posts in mapping-related forums and SD give more points than in other forums. Posts in Null may not give any points at all. If a post gets moderated or deleted, points are subtracted based on what forum this post was in and the severity points given. Say if a member got 1 severity point for a post, half of the rank points that post gave him are subtracted. If he got two severity points, all the rank points gained from that post are taken away. If he was given 3 or more severity, even more rank points are subtracted. You can also incorporate the severity points a member has; for example someone with 0-3 severity gets half of the post's rank points subtracted for a 1-severity point offence, while anyone who has 4 or more severity points gets more rank points subtracted for a 1-severity point offence.

This way, we don't just base your ranks on posts, but also allow the quality of those posts to influence the rank of a member. Since moderation is becoming more effective than it was, say, 3 years ago, we can be more confident that even slightly spammy posts get a refreshing glass of justice served and even the most careful 'rank spammers' get punished.

Unfortunatley it seems to be solely based on post count right now (I'm guessing). That's how the original system was, too.

Omg, what is that? Lynx?

We called this system "minerals".

It would be cool if you got more access on the SeN bot depending on your rank on SeN