I'm... actually not sure, nowadays. That used to be a thing more early-on, when there were far less ranks. My memory is hazy so it's entirely possible that I misrepresent things (which is why I avoided using it as an example above), but I think it went something like this: you had "member", "active member", and "well-known member" for directly accessible ranks. Then there were moderators, and I don't remember if Slowpoke and the FTB team even had specific titles at all... it was a community where you knew who Slowpoke was because it was his brainchild and he promoted it.
There was also "new member"
. And, for as long as I've been here, which is only a few months short of your time here, Slow has had his own banner. There was also Wiki Team, Global Mods, Forum Mods, Modpack Team, as well as a few others. I believe the Team Member and Mod Dev ones are moderately new, but I could be wrong.
I don't know if they still give out this rank nowadays. It's more of a blanket recognition whereas the trend I'm seeing now is towards specific recognition - more regular titles that are hard to get without tons of likes (which implies high quality posting), developer recognitions, wiki contributor and team position titles and so on.
They do. Gideonseymour and Yusuonoha got them today.
Well technically none of us get paid still
But Jaded,
http://i.imgur.com/l4f485w.png (this picture is insanely old BTW; from one of the old news threads that Vau and I were discussing)
Watchful and SatanicSanta also put in quite a few volunteer hours.
<3
Also made sure forum games don't count.... sorry
I remember when Vike and I told slow about that, and he said that we should go on a walk every morning, to debate whether or not it matters if internet points are being handed out willy nilly
now we need animated avatars.
Technically those exist, but you an only view the animation on profile pages. Sigarii has one.
The actual "General FTB Chat" forum in the "Feed The Beast" section, or the "General Discussion" forum in the "Chat" subsection of the "General" section? Slight but important difference
I'm not sure it would make sense to exempt General FTB Chat, since we do talk on topic here (occasional spambots nonwithstanding). The other one is an anything-goes place. That sounds like the kind of place that might not count for "community rankings".
The one that isn't in the FTB section