Her actually.

If it ain't broke don't fix it?

Personally I think a series of characters would look a bit sloppy under the avatars. Plus, this would require some additional work for Kad implementing the additional rank indication. Perhaps if it were images of the ranks rather than colored characters it would be more feasible.

Personally I enjoy the rank indication as it is.

Fine
/me tosses yet another idea into the rejected file

ok, a couple things, first it wouldn't be any change to the avatar, but rather it would replace what is below it,
E.G.
[VE-ARMY] High General
[VE-DJO] Krath Oracle
[VE-VEEC] Chairman

Would become

[VE-ARMY] +++++|+++++
[VE-DJO] Krath Oracle
[VE-VEEC] Chairman

I haven't done anything other than the Army that would apply to you right now, but that gives you an idea.

Also, while I get the rejection part, I don't receive much in the way of encouragement. I don't think people like my work, and I'm thinking of just dropping it and hoping my chances of promotion aren't ruined by what has already happened.

But thanks for the post, just everyone seems to not like my work.

Slash...stop putting yourself down! With that attitude you won't be getting very far. Keep your hopes up and try to be positive about things. You'll feel better after a little while and you'll see that things will look better for you in your perspective of things.

It's not that people don't like or appreciate your work, it's just that your ideas would be somewhat complicated to implement and use. and I know at least one person who appreciates your work.

If your ideas were made a little simpler maybe they would be accepted by people more, or try doing some for the wikis for a change (just a suggestion), but as Cos said, keep the ideas flowing.

I know I probably sounded a little harsh, but just try looking at this in a different way is all I'm trying to say.

There you go, I like the way you're talking already.

Slasher wrote:ok, a couple things, first it wouldn't be any change to the avatar, but rather it would replace what is below it,
E.G.
[VE-ARMY] High General
[VE-DJO] Krath Oracle
[VE-VEEC] Chairman

Would become

[VE-ARMY] +++++|+++++
[VE-DJO] Krath Oracle
[VE-VEEC] Chairman

I haven't done anything other than the Army that would apply to you right now, but that gives you an idea.

Also, while I get the rejection part, I don't receive much in the way of encouragement. I don't think people like my work, and I'm thinking of just dropping it and hoping my chances of promotion aren't ruined by what has already happened.

But thanks for the post, just everyone seems to not like my work.

Don't think of it as "negative comments" but rather what they are: constructive criticism. As far as "encouragement" goes, I think I and several others have done the job of that: telling you to keep up with the ideas and proposals because one of them may actually be to the liking of the High Council/AHC/NHC. As mentioned before, only some of my ideas are popular while the rest are not.

As far as the ranks under the avatar goes, if you look at it, I think it'd be odd and confusing to a new member to see two divisions with actual written ranks and one division with a bunch of ASCII code. :P

Personally, if I saw:
[VE-ARMY] <++>|<++>

I wouldn't know what to make of that.

When it comes to proposals, sometimes the most "creative" ideas don't go through. The ideas that *do* go through are usually ones that simplify things and make things easier to understand or to make more intuitive to someone. Proposals that tend to make things more complex than they already are, or require someone to take more time to think about what they're looking at, are proposals that don't usually fly.