eytanz wrote:
Well, I know, I'm one such person. I used to be a "legendary architect" but then I was demoted - I have no idea why, but I decided against making an issue out of it, so I never asked.
That was my fault (or at least I asked for it -- I think Schik actually did it). Back during the development for JtRH, access to the nonpublic discussion boards was based on rank category. Legendary Smitemasters had access to all the boards, such as administrator related boards, and also had administration privileges. However, some people didn't need administrator privileges, but did need access to the nonpublic boards, including the JtRH development board, so the "
Legendary Architect"
class was created for this access. (
Edit: Incidentally, there was also a "
Citizen"
class for a while, with a similar reasoning -- access to the JtRH beta board.)
Eventually, access to specific boards was decoupled from member class and the Legendary Architect class became redundant (since board access could be specified more granularly). At that point, I asked if I could be made a regular forumite again since there was no need for the special class anymore and I didn't want people giving undue weight to posts I made just because I had one of those "
Legendary"
monikers. Mike and/or Erik agreed that the class wasn't really needed anymore, IIRC, and most of us became regular joes.
Since then I am pleased to say that I've worked my way up legitimately to the rank of Smitemaster -- or everybody has had pity on my fevered rantings and fed me a point here and there. Either way, it wouldn't have been possible if I had been fixed at "
Legendary Architect"
.
By the way, my recollection is that "
Legendary Architect"
was never coupled with infinite mod points, although many of the people who were LAs were in a position to be tapped as moderator deputies.
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[Last edited by AlefBet at 01-19-2007 03:34 AM]