This is a genius post. Finally, someone says something about all of those people who think they're saints and deserve trusted. Not to insult the people who post those kind of posts, but it really gets a bit irritated to have someone rage at you just because they're not trusted.

This just about sums the whole problem up.

"It's no big deal, you just have some extra features, woo hoo."

My take on it is: Keep quiet about quitting or raging over trusted. You don't exactly deserve it if you post thinking you deserve it. Sorry.

Good post! Keep it up.

I haven't seen very many people quitting over becoming trusted and losing it or not becoming trusted recently. I have only seen one person attempt to quit because of not being trusted recently but he has learned his lesson and he is going to keep trying. I remember how frustrated I got when I lost 3 trust points but then I got 2 of them back and continued to try my hardest and eventually I became trusted. This is a great thread, SuperCrash. I'm proud that you have decided to announce that you are tired of that. I'm tired of it too. The worst case I've seen of giving up on not getting a certain rank was about a month ago. You might have heard of thing1 giving up on being a good member because he couldn't get the elite position or become a moderator and he kept getting downrated. He went as far as to get himself permanently banned again. The way he explained the situation made it sound like he only was a good member so he could get a certain rank and that's pretty sad.

SuperCrash64 : God am I sick of these threads. There are so many of these.
Well, time to disagree, and yes  I know you will dislike this post.
1. Your point #1, trusted IS some kind of Golden Trophy, it is a really respectable rank. But I do agree that is does not mean THAT much.
2. Rage quitting is a stupid thing to do, but if you are planning on leaving, why not leave on a bang?
3. I agree with that, just do it.
4. Yeah
5. Yes, Yes it does. I was going to leave a long time ago, but I didn't.
6. Yep
There you go.

Barathemos : I'm sick of them too.


point one was basically People were taking trusted as it was important to earn as a golden trophy. But I was trying to say it's not all that important.


that's something that some users need to realize.


So I won't be disliking your post though.


PacmanandMariofan :

I know. This is becoming an issue with vizzed ranks.


goodboy :

I made this entirely because I was tired of it, and Wanted to adress it.? That post of your's right there clarifies my point here.

Oh, now I have to quit! You know i'm joking Crash. It took me a good little time to become trusted but if I never got trusted oh well. I also do what I do, never put on some phony baloney act or do something just to get trusted. I have seen a few people quit just because they had some trust points that got took away or wanted trust points. Its about time someone has posted something about this, now I would be mad if I got up tomorrow morning and all my points were gone (really just because I would like to know why) but I wouldn't stop doing what i'm doing or act like a tuff guy or a jerk because of it. But yea, enough droning on, good points Crash.

yeah, I've seen so many people make the trusted status out to be WAY more than it is.

Sure, it's an achievement to get it but it's not guaranteed. And losing it isn't the end of the world either. I've seen people who were considered terrible members take the time to turn their reputations around and become respected moderators. It's not overly common among the younger members but I have seen it happen.

However, if people want to rage quit over the underground forum and the dotted username then by all means go. I don't have time for people like that.

To me, raising an issue because you're no longer a trusted member is just really uncalled for, look, with me, if I did go back down to a normal member, I won't flip out, yeah, I might get a tiny bit upset, but nothing to complain about, the right thing is to say "Man, I lost my trusted membership, well, I'll help out all I can to regain those TP once again."
I was really close of loosing my trust membership, but I didn't flip out over it, I did what a good trusted person would do, help others out.

It is about time someone stood up and pointed this out. I would have did it, but I never thought about making a thread on it. I usually tell people manually who Pm me this. Anyways this was a great genuine post, that is really great. Trusted member really isn't anything special. It took me a short time to get it, but that is because people notice my notorious post on the site. I didn't just get it for no reason. Great post dude. I know it took a lot of thought and effort to make this thread and show people the truth.

I for one totally agree with you though. I don't know what they see in trusted, but it doesn't have much potential. Well other than what you said I know that trusted members actually are pretty good. They have a place to chat where without having spammy threads. The Underground, and Development forum. That is about the only thing TRULY special about the rank. Giving trust points, making font layouts, and have a dotted name is just for show .

Well I haven't seen any trusted members leave because they got mad because they  lost a trust point. All you basically have to do is try to earn it back or just respect the fact that you lost ONE trust point. Honestly its no biggie at all, just cope with the fact and just forgive and forget. Also why rage quit? That does nothing to help them get the trust point back. That's basically all the user has to do.

B619ook : They don't quit over losing one trusted point. I've seen some quitting over not getting the status. or Losing the status.

I do agree on this. Seriously, the only thing you get is a dotted name, a few more Viz for posts, and access to ONE more forum. Just one. And the thing is, that form is not really all that active. So you really aren't missing much. Maybe it is the title "trusted". People don't want to be considered untrustworthy. Trust is a very strong word. Especially when so many trusted members here are far from trustworthy. Maybe if they called it something else like member+, it wouldn't have as much as an impact.

Amen. If you are a good user, post quality posts or review, you will eventually become trusted.

And trust me, nothing extremely exciting goes on in the underground.