Wait, WHAT?

Are you Illumanti-esque admins now going to bring back all who have been banned, and see if they can "earn the right to come back to the forums"?

Well, I'll still be here - old habits die hard. But this was the silliest move on a website since... well, ever.

first jagex goes mad and kills runescape, now the admins have gone mad and killed runevillage

so by the looks of it anyone can become any rank, fine.

everyone be good for a week and you might get a nice shiny purple name.

idiots!

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I suppose this is one solution to the moderator bloat, although it's going to create a lot of drama for a while. It certainly makes it obvious who's just here for the shiny rank.

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You could have at least made us elders, noobs!

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dr henry wrote:

I'm not against the idea, I just think that it is stupid and we don't need it.

What the hell, if i lose my rank then so should all you Admins. I have only just got mod and ive been legend for years an this is how you repay me .

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Yeah why not elders :S

Ah well - The legends fourm is like 90% spam

No great loss

Now to get 5k posts and have a special rank again XD

*spams everywhere*

also when will these new people be chosen ?

lol Killa - your sig should be updated as well - Legend from **** till ****

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Watch this space, I have a feeling hiker will announce something later on today...

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Faint as a will o' the wisp
Crazy as a loon
Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon

It's only the 31st guys.

You dirty, , backstabbing pieces of .

How the HELL can you remove all of us?! What the were you thinking?! We work FOR FREE for you guys, and this is how you repay us?!

you.

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Doughnut Juice ~ And you're not a normal user, you're like The One Village Staff to Rule Them All.
Henner ~ You're the coolest in my eyes, Gamestar.
Jared ~ You make me lose the game. :[
Rocky Martin ~ Substitute effect: buy less potatoes.

All the cool kids have 5,000 posts.

Seriously what the Hiker you've lost it people work hard on this place and you go and wipe everything its stupid. I'm off.

RV

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Live forever.
Live free.

Seeing the mods complain-Priceless
Seeing the non mods prepare-Priceless
When Hiker says "April fools"-Epic win.

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Struggle is Nature's way of strengthening it.

LOL

Wait, i lost my normal status? Damn, now im back to being a village noob.

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(At this point i've stopped counting how many dragon drops i've had so far. Lets go with 35.)
5 99's | 7+ Years on RS
XBL GT: KilroyJenkinz
Legends are never forgotten.. unless someone beats them.

Lmfao...that would be so funny

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Now I'm nothing. I used to be an E-gangsta and now all suddenly I'm nothing but a nerd behind my comp! Thanks a lot! Even a warning about this would have been nice. But no no no.

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The Oldest member since Rubinous mysteriously disappeared!

That would have actually been a really good idea (minus the bunny.)

While the logic might be there in spirit, I fail to see how leaving the entire board completely unmodded save for the admins is anywhere close to a good idea.

And when this all comes back, 10 Board Moderators and 20 Forum Moderators? Didn't we have, like, 20 Board Moderators and 10 Forum ones? Even if everyone who was a mod gets their powers back (which doesn't sound like it'll happen) that's still just like demoting ten people for a silly reason that not everyone agrees with (Glod, for example.)

Whatever. I'm not going to leave RV over it, but this still sounds like a really dumb idea.

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Wow. Champion of Saradomin rank. Never thought I'd see that. XD

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.Legendary themed months are back! Maybe.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why are some people going crazy just because they lost their rank? Don't you understand this is why Hiker is making these changes?

This site was never supposed to be about the ranks you earn, the ranks never made you a better villager, remember thats what we ALL are, just villagers, regardless of any extra responsibilities some of us were trusted with we are all the same.

If you do lose your rank permanently what difference will it make? Runevillage will still be the same old community, you will still be able to interact with the same old people, thats what the site is supposed to be, just somewhere nice and relaxing where we can escape the world a while.

To be honest I felt Hiker had made too many mods and he made them for the wrong reason, even though his heart was in the right place. Correct me if I'm wrong but I feel Hiker made a lot of people mods because he felt they deserved recognition for their dedication to the site, but the truth is the recognition should come from our peers, the other users around you, even in the small way of someone saying thank you for helping them or the friendship someone offers you.

You can feel the same joy from helping someone as a normal user just the same as you did a mod, you can still offer your council and wisdom exactly the same as before which is what I know some of the mods enjoy doing. I'm sure Hiker does appreciate all the work the moderators, staff and legends have put in, just because he has come to this decision doesn't mean that he thinks any less of any of you or doesn't regard you as "important", he just feels this is something that had to be done.

The only thing is you won't be able to get rid of the bad people, which is what a moderator should be. There should only be as many mods as that are required to keep the forums a safe place for its users in all time zones, nothing more, nothing less. The phrase "too many chiefs, not enough indians" comes to mind, I know often when I have logged into the forums the online list looks like something out of josephs technicolour dreamcoat (which btw is an awesome movie if you get the one with donny osmond in) even going so far as onto some times of the day there would be more "ranked" users than normal users.

I'm quite looking forward to this new runevillage, I feel it is a change, albeit it an extreme change, for the better. However I am worried about people panicking and leaving the site, this feels like a real make or break moment for runevillage. I am sorry for those that are upset because they lost their power, but I'm happy in the knowledge that many of them will get it back, the truth is you'll probably know in your heart already if you are going to get your powers back, if you feel you probably aren't then maybe it is for the best, even though you don't care to admit it. My only advice is to stick this out and see what happens, regardless of the anger or sadness you may feel now, the villagers are great people and I wouldn't want people over-reacting to their emotions.

Hiker won't have done something extreme like this without a lot of thinking, with both his heart and his head, he built this fansite up to the one we know today so I ultimately trust his decisions regarding it.

Happy april in aussie land guys, god I can make up some sincere stuff on a roll

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Clearly this is the best move for RV. I frankly think the mod numbers Hiker has chosen are too high. We need 5 mods for the forums and 5 mods for the chat, tops.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The champion of saradomin rank just got a lot less rarer

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