Compare these introductions to the ones from back in the day. My introduction was like half a paragraph about how I played wirebuild, liked e2, and thought minic was cool as hell for knowing tons of e2. No bs about knowing all of the forum members who never play anymore, or anything like that. And the admin who replied gave me a two or three sentence personalized response welcoming me to the community.
Nowadays, admins expect you to know everyone, write a detailed fact sheet about your life, and have some sort of contribution to the community (before you are even regular). And they deny you with an image macro. No feedback like the old days.
Oh and you need to pass that hell-exam to be able to participate in the democracy of voting, the luxury of being acknowledged by the other regulars, and the special gift of being able to save your things in the BUILD server (because nothing you make before you are "regular" is even worth saving, right?).
Sounds nice to me.
Before any admin pushes the burden of coming up with a better idea onto me("Why don't you think of something better"), how about this:
Regular=20 hours of play combined on any random server. Automatically applied.Thats what a regular is isnt it?
Vip= introduce yourself to the forum community(equivalent to the shit a regular has to do)
Admin = be known and trusted by a good portion of the admins
