It looks like all of hype posts from season 3 launch have just exited the window of recent post count, leaving many of us regular-less. 
Looks like we are gonna have to go back to working hard for that regular status 
Yeah, I noticed that too.
Even the devs lost their forum titles. They are no longer ādevelopersā but are now āinternsā. So try @interns.
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For me itās cause school lol I used to keep up with pretty much every new thread but I got way too busy for that. Oh well. I still check in when I can but I donāt post much or check what the new thread are about unless the titles interesting to me.
I was kinda curious about thatā¦not that I really care about an arbitrary title, but how exactly do you get to become a regular?
It has to do with reading a certain percentage of the threads and posts, replying to a ascertain percentage etc. Itās an indication that you pretty well live your life in the forums.
Edit: you can see the exact requirements by going into badges and clicking on it.
Edit 2: actually I was wrong. The requirements arenāt listed under badges. I canāt seem to find them. Donāt know if theyāre gone or if they arenāt easy to find on my phone.
It seems pretty clear they did some kind of reset - intended or otherwise. There are only a handful of people - mostly devs and moderators who have retained the title. Itās unlikely we all dropped off our activity level that much all at the same time.
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I can shed a little bit of light on this.
There were a series of issues with users changing the category/name/others of posts and threads which was a result of the Regular badge/status. In order to correct this, we had to change all the Regularsā user level, as those permissions are currently locked to the āRegularā user level.
Permanent? Temporary? I donāt know. But I can at least assure you there was a specific reason for the change.
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This is probably partially my fault - I moved a thread from general to suggestions and cleaned up grammar/capitalization on a few thread titles.
Sorry if this offended anyone, that certainly wasnāt my intent.
I think it might be normal, after all. Yay, I lost my status too. Ahaha
I doubt it was you. I occasionally would fix spelling but at least once I changed one for accuracy - then had the OP change it back to the original misleading title. I let it go because I didnāt want to be āthat guy.ā Frankly though, the potential for abuse is really high so itās not surprising that this became an issue. Iām a bit astonished so many people ever had that ability and, frankly, pretty impressed that it didnāt become a crazy town of people griefing threads they didnāt like. The Internet is sort of a constant āLord of the Fliesā experimentā¦
@xSkeletalx recognizing that being a moderator here is an unpaid public service, and recognizing that itās probably not a great idea that lots of people get the ability to edit thread titles - can I ask that the mods be more aggressive about this? Itās going to sound petty, but itās really aggravating to read a dozen thread titles like āit seems to meā¦ā And āsomething I noticedā¦ā 9 out of 10 times these are deliberately misleading because the author knows if they write āAnother thread saying S1 was better than S2-3ā or āMore whining for nerfsā no one will bother to open the thread.
There should be some rules about providing titles that have some actual relationship to the post within.
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This was the jist of my response to a mod when I PMād them about it a day or two ago. Definitely no hard feelings - I can totally see the potential for those powers to be abused, despite them seemingly being there in the first place to make the moderatorsā lives a bit easier.
I think it the tier as it previously stood was predicated on the belief that if someone were to have stuck around that long and survived this level of community engagement without flags/vacations, theyāre probably good to go on reclassifications and minor edits. This is an absolutely heart-warming sentiment that falls short once put into practice due to baddies being baddies.
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