Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26080047-20170303033658/@comment-4964341-20170303193011

TheShadowAssassin wrote: Keplers wrote: Again, though: at the time of the MBs' closure, they held the rank. Nobody could feasibly hold the rank given most estimates; it would require as much time of activity as the MBs had existed, hundreds of thousands of posts, etc. We cannot simply ignore that the rank was given to all users because we dislike it on principle. I still support the idea of including the fact that the user held a different rank previously. I never said that we should ignore the fact that all users were given Alien during the closure of the MBs. I do believe that we should include it somewhere; however, because I believe their rank prior to the "invasion" should still take precedence, that should be the rank that they are officially recorded at.

Benboy755 wrote:

Considering that I only cheated to even the field with users who had 600,000+ extra minutes because of glitches, you're going to have a big problem with truly figuring out who actually earned what. Okay, then we have to draw the line somewhere. If this is truly the case, then I support recording your rank at what it was just prior to the Alien invasion, as we should with every user. We can't tell when a user achieved a rank as a result of glitches or cheats, but we sure as hell can tell when (a) user(s) achieved a rank simply because it was just given out to them willy-nilly, and that's the difference to me and where I draw the line. It's still a fact that they held the rank. Like I keep saying, this isn't about whether you thought it was "willy-nilly" or not earned -- it's about what was on the rank tab.