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When I first changed my name, I just asked Feld0 to change my username. I'm fairly positive that if a famous person by the name of weyland registered, Feld0 would not move or change your account because your actually a member of the site. Also if you look in the board rules, "Due to popular demand, we have a special policy regarding the use of canon and fanon usernames. If you cannot register a name, it is either already taken or reserved by the administration. If you do manage to register one of these names, the administration reserves the right to take it away from you. Should this happen, you will be given an alternate name of our choosing and contacted via email regarding the name change.". So after all, I doubt the "imposter" even had his account banned. I bet she was just emailed and asked to change her name to whatever she wanted it to become. I'm also fairly certain that "weyland" is not a canon or fanon name.

Wait, why?

Me linking to that topic was actually supposed to be taken as a joke. I didn't know you knew of it's existence.

I went back in my browser history and the "impostor"'s account was not banned, but removed completely from the site. The reason I see no problem with this is because she (or as it said on the profile) had less then 5 minutes on the site, no posts, no brohoofs given or received, and no status updates etc. I doubt she would have ever returned, but on the offset chance she did, she wouldn't loose anything by making a new account. And honestly, we get a decent number of people like that. Your posting in the wrong thread.

I had a "Thomas the Train" themed birthday when I turned 5. Thomas the Train was for thugs only.

The banned account was someone with no posts, no brohoofs given or received, and had not been online for over a month. I don't see the problem with that.

Well, this got fixed up awfully fast.

You are officially the most famous member of our forums. Welcome and enjoy your stay as everypony fangasms every time you post anywhere. Also, I've taken the liberty of messaging the admin about the issues your having with an impersonator. Feld0 should fix it right up as soon as he gets on, sometime later today.

Sorry for the quote, I'm not trying to argue anything here. All it ever was was an idea, and I was never 100% supportive of it either. I just wanted to present it as something that could possible happen. I'm already almost certain that it won't go through and created this thread with the preconceived thought that it wouldn't anyways. What I mainly wanted to say thank you for being one of the very few to acknowledge the effort I put into this. It's been over 5,000 words and 5 hours responding to everyone and I'm about to put in a few more covering the rest. Thanks for the response. As far as I can tell, your the only one that's responded with firsthand experience with these sorts of manners and I've taken them into thought and linked to your post in the OP. I never fully supported the idea. I'm pretty sure that not many do when fully evaluating the potential issues it could cause. I have thought about it allot, and addressed nearly all the potential problems in the OP and throughout the thread. Already mentioned countless times, and it does seem like the most concerning possible issue, but I added a link under that section to your post. I don't see this as something that would become an issue, and as discussed before, most achievements if ever enacted would probably not be based off of post count or bro-hoofs especially due to the responses it has been initiating. If you look on the visuals I provided in the OP, badges would not go under where the forum rank would go. They would not disturb the asthetics of personal browsing at all. That would fall under "new members may feel ostracized over veterans", so post linked again. If I'm not mistaken, this is pretty much a restatement of your third contention. The forums has always looked great from the beginning and has gone through a number of visual changes. I do appreciate the forums looks right now though. This seems to be the general response of most others also. Thank you for your recognition of the effort I put into the idea though. And I really apologize if I was a little rude in responding to some of your statements, it's just most of them have been stated before and I got 3 hours of sleep last night due to the slam I was getting on this thread. Your fourth contention was probably the best one, and thank you for it. Also, if you feel like reinforcing some of your points, it would be really nice to get some response with a little more detail, so feel free to feed in some more insight on this. Added links to your post under the potential problems list, but it seems just a rehash of what many have said before. Like I previously stated, these badges were all just example and my original proposal was just supposed to be the concept of forum badges with a small little mention of my opinion on what I thought it would look like. If Avatar Crew and Signature Crew badges were given out, they would probably be done manually and would not be just based off of entering, but being active in the groups. It would also be more difficult to make it in and spam in those groups would be regulated. Also, not trying to question your validity (really, I promise I'm not trying to. I already know it's true but I'd just like to see), but I would legitimately be interested in seeing an article about the "motivation for these "reward-driven" volunteers will be much lower than those who actually volunteer out of the kindness of their hearts". These were also not meant to forum "groups" as you hinted toward the end of your post, but just be achievements for forum members. Also, people cannot become moderators. Any achievement that would be made for moderators would probably be made for positions already taken. And even open ones would not be able to be "taken" by members, but would rather be appointed by the staff. Thank you for your response, and I hope I didn't sound rude in replying to it. I'm also not all for this idea, I just wanted to propose it as a possibility and didn't prepare it to go through the brutality that it did, so I also apologize if some of the points of it are opinionated and not thought-out. I've tried to reformat it to provide the most information using as many viewpoints as possible. Lastly, Possible Solutions are always wanted, if you think of one I would be grateful if you posted it. I didn't mean it to try to create a hierarchy among the forum but I can relate to what you said. I have a friend who feels bad just by being in the brony community as a whole and not contributing, so I understand how when getting even more pressured in a smaller group, it could drive to be much worse. I added a link to your post in the OP also, and thank you for the feedback. The mods are fairly outstanding at moderating the forum spam though, and I haven't seen it as an issue around here. Also, if you could think of any Possible Solutions to the problems you mentioned, that would be greatly appreciated. First of, thank you so much for offering an idea for an alternate solution rather then just listing off repeat problems. I didn't mean this system to replace the brohoof system in any manor, and judging by response it's gotten, I don't think that it even would factor posts or brohoofs into it's system if it ever got adopted in. Speaking of whether it's reasonable or not to implement, I don't even know if it's possible to implement. Marco already responded to this topic saying relatively the same thing. Seeing as how I really made this as a proposal to try to give back mainly to the signature and avatar makers and how both the leaders of signature production leaders are not for it, I would really like to compliment the modesty you put into this. Could you elaborate a tad? Listing out some potential problems or solutions to such would be appreciated.

especially sense their website is "GodHatesFags.com". How can this even be a religion, last time I checked, religion was a little bit more about love then hate. For those who haven't heard of them before, this pretty much sums them up.

Am I the only one who expected a Yap-Lap like thing? Anyways, your voice is amazing, and nice singing!

Awesome! More pics!

Again, this was just a rough sketch of mine put together for something I thought might be cool. Almost all the achievements I had listed were merely example and I didn't expect them to get picked at word for word the way they did. SkySong offered the idea of just "brony badges" as really things given when certain members show dedication or loyalty to the community and a few more things. I am open to any modification or change anyone would make for the idea as a whole, and I didn't really expect it to make it in the beginning. Like I said in the OP, It's just an idea I thought was cool that's been tossed around the forums for the passed few months so I decided to make a thought out plan of what it could actually look like if it was put in place. I don't know if IP.Board even allows it. I went through the list of achievements I had written down and tried to knock down all the ones that would encourage such behavior as spamming, but it would be a bit better if you could tell me an a way a bit more specific on what you think is wrong or could be improved. Thanks you for stating your opinion in a calm, professional manner. Most of that's already been bashed down a bit, but I get what your trying to say with the exclusive achievements. To me, it doesn't seem to encourage spam and elitism close to as much as the one we already have in place with the badges does. Plus it wouldn't be something every member would see every waking moment of forum scrolling like the one we have in place. I don't really see rank being an issue with it, the main thing I see would be spam which could be dealt with simply by making achievements that didn't factor around post count.

Jeez, your coming out with music so much faster then I have time to draw! Anyways, can't wait to use this one, it already sounds so great, I can only imagine what It'l be like when it's finished!