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Posted by: Spartan_1089
is there currently a glitch with the member status?
I was a Heroic member a few days ago but now I'm a member. I wasn't blacklisted or anything as far as I know, at least I never got anything.... probably another bug, like when it upgraded everyone to Heroic. Nopers. You see, trust rating has many factors going into it. So, it's not just bannings, warnings, etc.

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Thank you for that helpful information

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Posted by: permit2kill
You probably posted in a spam topic. You don't get warnings with those. Your title just drops.

Did not know that, thanks.

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You almost never recieve warnings. My friend got blacklisted for posting on a spam topic, and no warning before-hand. Some moderators give warnings, some don't.

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Posted by: Fuzzy McDoodle
You almost never recieve warnings. My friend got blacklisted for posting on a spam topic, and no warning before-hand. Some moderators give warnings, some don't.But still, either you receive a warning or a blacklist.

Posted by: RoboNixon08
My title dropped a couple weeks ago (and went back up sometime in the last couple of days), but I have never received a warning, a ban, a stern talking to, or anything else that would indicate a forum foul on my part.

I knew that actually getting a warning could lower your title, what I thought was new info was the part about not being warned for replying to spam, while still losing status due to posting in spam threads. Is that info wrong? Yes. You will not lose a title simply for posting, regardless if it's a spam thread or not. The only ways to lose one's title, is for you to receive a warning, a blacklist, if your criteria isn't up to par with everyone else, or if your trust rating isn't as high as everyone else in that title category.

Basically, this is what seems to have happened to you: Posted by: Achronos
...your title is determined by what your score is in relation to the person with the highest score for that day. So... if the maximum score goes up further than you go up in the same time period (even if you didn't do anything wrong like get a warning or ban), you can easily lose your title.

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I guess I'm not clear on what constitutes a "warning".

I've never had one (and will hopefully continue such a pattern), but will the moderators make it clear when a warning is administered? Is it something they generally hand out through a PM?

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Great post man, very informative.

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Eldude95's Theory on how trust is earned:
So I was thinking that since Arachnos can't look through each and every single post, I had a theory on how you earn Definite Trust. It's added up daily so it might be something along these lines:

As we all know you earn trust for being active and stuff. It's added to your account daily. The amount of gain is called "Daily Trust Gain" or DTG it is added (or subtracted) to every users accounts once a day. If your trust goes up or down enough, you'll rank up or down.

We know you definitely EARN trust by:

Making post
Logging on.

So then, some who make lots of large, intelligent post seem to "Title Up" faster. So you earn likely trust points from posting off of the following guidelines:


Size (usually shows a good, intelligent post)
Number of daily post (duh)
Replies to post

The system will look into these stats daily and compare your gain to your loss. You lose DTG based off the following:

Number of reports your post received
Number of reports other people's posts received (like replying to spam)
Any bans or warnings earned
Number of reports you've filed (assuming you've put in a helluva lot of spam reports)

Now then let's look at Bob. Assuming he logged on B-net his DTG may look like:

[quote]Earnings:
+60 Trust for lot's of good post
+10 for logging on
Losings:
-50 since many people in a spam post he replied in were reported.
Total DTG +10 total trust, now let's assume he's 5 trust away from Heroic, well Bob enjoy the new title.

Hope you've enjoyed my theory, if you have any edit suggestions or questions PM me. What do you guys think ?

[Edited on 05.12.2008 2:48 PM PDT]

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cool, i didnt know it worked that way

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it says im a member but when im in MM i dont have the sevent column sign next to my name and rank.

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I just got demoted from legendary to heroic, dont know why seeing as I havent posted on the forums in about 2-3 weeks. All my posts and topics are relevant to the topic and the forums (not spam), Im always polite and helpful, and I don't get angry. But I guess Bungie doesnt trust me.... saaaaaaad face :(

I took pride in my legendary title because of how often I come on, and I guess I got demoted because I havent been on as much over the past month because of finals and schoolwork.

Im going to stay really active from now on and see if I get my title back.

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I think I might have an idea on how the trust meter is calculated daily. As you can see from my previous post, I had just been demoted from legendary to heroic status after not being very active on the forums for 2-3 weeks. Well I came on and started making posts and ansering questions on the halo 3 forums, I visited the halo 3 files forums and rated a couple maps after trying them out too.

Well check it out, my legendary status is back. I think that there is a certain level of minimum involvement you must have in the forums to keep your rank, if you fall below that level, you lose your rank. I was able to get my legendary ranking back after just one day of posting in the forums and and reading other topics.