If the future holds the possibility of leaders viewing the fluffy ranking it wouldn't make things easier. Leaders have and always will have the difficulty in deciding who enters their covens. Hadit provides a good depiction of what the rankings really are like. Very few of them are accurate and the majority of the time a lower ranking is due to someone talking to them on a bad day. All I can suggest is the interesting habit of allowing your members to vote on applications, that is if you don't already.
Ive no idea how it works but I noticed after posting a lot of stuff on the forums, my old account got beginner ranking, it better than no ranking I guess :D
Legend the amount you post will not give you a rank, it's the knowledge and experience in learnings in your post that will tell the Knoweldgeable and Adepts what rank to place you, sometimes they don't know right away, so your account gets put on "No Rank", then it goes from there, any fluffy business, they rank you "Fluffly", if you show improvement and show you are learning at least a bit about your path(s) then they will more likely add you at least "Beginner", then the list goes on and on.
Taking instructive criticism and not taking offence to it, is a good way of showing maturity around this site.
I really dont understand why people keep making threads about reptuation. You really shouldn't really worry about reputation. You should only just focus on the content and topics you can contribute to the site and the forums etc.
There's articles on this like the Lovely Personified said. Search it up, there is nothing wrong with not having a rank, don't ask about it for chances are you will not get it. Personified is right, and take her word for it.
Moon_Wind, I was only curious. I saw I just had "member" on my profile and I wanted to know how high that was. It was purely curiosity and that curiosity has been satisfied.
Though someone mentioned voting members into a coven. I think that sounds like a really good idea. I think having Priest/esses pick who could be good members then handing over the applications to members of their coven to choose which applicants would be best to allow into the coven would be a really good way to go. And if anyone has a serious problem with an applicant, it will give them more opportunity to say so to their higher ups.
