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Subject: FAQ on Bungie.net Member Titles

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Posted by: sesquipadelian
i have been a bnet member for 3 years and had a title of 'heroic member'. in the last month i was banned twice and warned once, and i have now been demoted to 'member'. this leads me to believe there is a strong correlation between bnet punishment and bnet title.

How did you manage to get banned twice?

  • 01.16.2008 11:23 AM PDT
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first ban

here a person made various predictions about the failure of team hardcore. i posted some other predictions. when i was banned, i was told that i should not make comments that might bother people. looking at the thread now it looks like i was posting to myself since there are no other posts, but other posters made posts and were subsequently banned.

the warning and the second banning

here i am not exactly sure what happened. i got a warning from one mod advising me not to bump. i did not understand how i bumped, and the mod went to great lengths to make this clear to me through multiple pms. he told me that i made numerous consecutive posts, which is called making multiple posts, and that this is against the rules. i had never heard anything about multiple posts, and for as long as i have posted in the threads i have pounded out responses to various posts by distinct posters during the same sitting. he warned me that this is against the rules, and i have kept this in mind since then.

then, within a few hours, another mod looked at the same posts on the same page of the thread and banned me. when i was notified automatically of the ban, the description of my offense was 'spamming'. i did not understand how i spammed, so i sent a pm to that mod asking for an explanation. he told me that i posted the same message 3 times in a row, and that this is spam. i could not see the thread since my posts were hidden, so i asked via pm to be shown the posts that involved me making the same post 3 times in a row. i also asked, among other things, if i was supposed to be both warned and banned for the same posts. i do not know if i was supposed to be punished twice for the same posts, and i did not know if i was supposed to be punished twice for the same posts, so i asked more questions via pm, but i have not heard anything about that.

within the matter of hours my understanding of bumping and spamming changed radically, so i opened a thread asking for further clarification, and hoped that others could learn about this at the same time. in that thread a third mod posted that he did not see any bumping, and that the thread may have looked like i was bumping since many posts in the thread were hidden as the result of other posters being banned. that mod also responded to questions that i asked about the ban and about bumping in general.

if you care about your bnet title and wish to decrease the risk of getting banned, then i would not make posts that share traits with mine that i have linked here.




Posted by: Yuke
Posted by: sesquipadelian
i have been a bnet member for 3 years and had a title of 'heroic member'. in the last month i was banned twice and warned once, and i have now been demoted to 'member'. this leads me to believe there is a strong correlation between bnet punishment and bnet title.

How did you manage to get banned twice?

  • 01.16.2008 12:27 PM PDT
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The mods have no clue sometimes. I hate to say it, but they won't listen after your 1st pm 99% of the time.

If they looked at the larger picture you would have never have been banned on the 2nd offense.

Also any idiot can OBVIOUSLY see you weren't bumping considering you were talking back to someone elses posts.


And 1 more thing, the OP in the 1st offense wanted ppl's opinions and thats what he got. Jesus christ now were banning ppl for opinions when they are asked?

WoW. Welcome to Bungie. Play Nice. If you get screwed too bad.

[Edited on 01.16.2008 12:47 PM PST]

  • 01.16.2008 12:46 PM PDT
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Hah, ha-hah. Good one, BB.

  • 01.16.2008 1:01 PM PDT
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The second ban was clearly a mistake. You should message a Master Forum Ninja about this, if you want your title back that is.

  • 01.16.2008 2:14 PM PDT
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Posted by: Yuke
The second ban was clearly a mistake. You should message a Master Forum Ninja about this, if you want your title back that is.

It was actually a Master Forum Ninja who banned him, but hey... ;)

Anyway, this thread isn't here to discuss Sesqui's bans, is it? We already know bans/warnings have a LOT to do with your rank title.

  • 01.16.2008 2:32 PM PDT
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I'm actually surprised this is still alive.

  • 01.16.2008 2:47 PM PDT
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u are all welecome to join these groups ^__^

Well the Bungie community is a slow moving forum which is kind of nice as I seem to see the same people posting.
I have found this thread very useful for explaining forum titles and their roles and that spam button feature really works.

  • 01.16.2008 4:01 PM PDT
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join grunts pad
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cool that explains the member titles which are something i was wondering about

  • 01.16.2008 4:49 PM PDT
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um im new so idk all the titles and thnx for givin me the headsup.s. wat do yall mean by sticky this

  • 01.19.2008 9:49 AM PDT
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  • 01.21.2008 3:17 PM PDT
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If I joined awhile back, I may be a heroic or legendary member.

  • 01.21.2008 8:57 PM PDT
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HALO 2 will rule 4ever. It is Halo and it is enougth. Thanks Bungie, our life will never be the same.

Nice Thread!

EDIT:

I am a Lengadary member and I didnt know!

When did this new "ranks" appeared here?

[Edited on 01.22.2008 12:57 PM PST]

  • 01.22.2008 12:54 PM PDT
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MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK...
Posted by: Langley
--on another note, I think MLG Chewhatever is an idiot.

Posted by: Achronos
There is a reason I am user ID 1 and my account creation date is before this site came online.

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Posted by: BerserkerBarage
So how do you become a Webcam MVP

~B.B.

Hah, ha-hah. Good one, BB.


Ignoring my question will not make me go away!!

I have no idea how I got my title. Achilles handed me a beer one night...I woke up 3 days later with ~blam! drawn on my face with a Sharpie marker, couldn't walk straight because my ass hurt so bad, and this custom title. I hope you didn't have to go through the same routine.

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  • 01.22.2008 1:27 PM PDT
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I was born on July 7th, BUNGIE DAY. (I'm 15)
People who can't spell or use Grammar correctly on these forums should just leave. ILLITERACY FTL And I hate Naruto now, I just liked it when I made this username.
WIN.

So ur with ur honey and yur makin out when the phone rings. U answer and the voice says "Wut are u doing with my daughter" U tell the girl and she says her dad is dead! THEN WHO WAS PHONE!?

Thanks for this Duardo, I never really understood all of these ranks.

  • 01.22.2008 5:10 PM PDT
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"Kill confirmed" -Unknown soldier

Hmm, I wonder wht it is like being a forum ninja its kinda my dream job just because I like to help people out in the forums.

  • 01.22.2008 7:15 PM PDT
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KOTOR | The WarriorsI'll chain you to the truth for the truth shall set you free
I'll turn the screws of vengeance and bury you with honesty
I'll make all your dreams come to life, then slay them as quickly as they came

So, um... are there any benefits to being a certain rank, or what? Any more privileges than previous ranks? It's been months since I've check the public forums, so bear with me.

  • 01.22.2008 7:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: Muno
So, um... are there any benefits to being a certain rank, or what? Any more privileges than previous ranks? It's been months since I've check the public forums, so bear with me.

Nothing but a nice little title. =)

  • 01.22.2008 7:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: BerserkerBarage
Ignoring my question will not make me go away!!

I have no idea how I got my title. Achilles handed me a beer one night...I woke up 3 days later with ~blam! drawn on my face with a Sharpie marker, couldn't walk straight because my ass hurt so bad, and this custom title. I hope you didn't have to go through the same routine.

~B.B.

Humph.

Well, mine involved a crocodile, a phone booth, some grape jelly, sandpaper, three pencils and a small rodent.

I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

Oh, and something about a, Mr. Hand. You don't want to know what he was for. Imagine explosions. With fire.

Also, I think some very large helium-filled passenger balloon crashed as a result, too.

I don't remember where Achronos fit in. It's all one big haze.

  • 01.22.2008 7:49 PM PDT
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Posted by: masterbarata
Nice Thread!

EDIT:

I am a Lengadary member and I didnt know!

When did this new "ranks" appeared here?


the new ranks appeared recently.

i obviously have no access to the formula used to determine these labels, but given that master has been here since before the launch of h2 and has only 20 pages of total posts, my guess (and this is blind conjecture) is that the formula involves little more than membership duration and number of rules violations.

i suppose that simply having an old enough account with the requisite amount of activity without getting punished will 'earn' the various labels.

  • 01.22.2008 8:15 PM PDT
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They're not ranks, stop calling them that. They are titles.

  • 01.22.2008 11:05 PM PDT
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MY LOVE FOR YOU IS LIKE A TRUCK...
Posted by: Langley
--on another note, I think MLG Chewhatever is an idiot.

Posted by: Achronos
There is a reason I am user ID 1 and my account creation date is before this site came online.

Posted by: Yuke
They're not ranks, stop calling them that. They are titles.


But when I talk down to you because of my "rank" it sounds sooo much better than I'm talking down to you because of my "title". That just makes me sound like stuck-up aristocracy. Hm...okay, "title" works too.

~B.B.

  • 01.23.2008 9:45 AM PDT
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There are two groups of people in the world - those that hope, and those that wish. The first group hopes that nothing bad will happen to them. The second group wishes that they are there when it does. Which one are you?

-Felix

I think it is ironic that I was a "Heroic Member" the last time I was active on these forums - about two months ago, and now I'm Legendary.

Also, the fact that there has not been one "Legendary Member" joke in this thread suggests a great deal of hope for mankind.

  • 01.23.2008 12:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: Nelo Angelo
I think it is ironic that I was a "Heroic Member" the last time I was active on these forums - about two months ago, and now I'm Legendary.

Also, the fact that there has not been one "Legendary Member" joke in this thread suggests a great deal of hope for mankind.


i had not noticed that potential joke, but i find it funny.

your account is yet another one with about 4 years of activity. since you have the title and fewer than 40 pages of total posts, i suspect that you have not been punished much.

the more often that i see the activity of legendary members, the titles seem to look more and more like 'time and title' privileges provided by so many companies.

  • 01.23.2008 1:08 PM PDT
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ya time is 100% a factor, but if we all put our heads and together and back it up with evidence, I almost bet we can figure most of this system out.


Also if we ever manage to discover a lot of it, I ask nobody to spread it over Bnet because then it would turn into a rank boosting competition.

[Edited on 01.23.2008 1:22 PM PST]

  • 01.23.2008 1:22 PM PDT
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Are you prepared!