Hear Hear!

[flash=]BOOM. RIGHT IN THE KISSER[/flash] (gay flash no work)
I support what is being said here. I don't usually talk up because i don't know what to say, or who to state it. so I stay out of it.
But since someone has finally spoken. I feel obliged that something needs to change. I don't care what it is, But shit needs to happen for 1.7
After seeing Thobo's poor act on taking shit on this server, (seriously?) I believe a selected few people should be banned. From the server files and a total clean up on the back door to the server. But who am I to judge? I am just simple builder minding his own business.

truth right there.
1 thing though; the ranks

The ranks here aren't for building skills, really. (Artisan is)
Regular rank is for guests who are nice, have been here quite a while, etc, etc.
Donator rank is for Donators.
Artisan is for the really good builders, who are also trusted players. As this is not mainly a build server, but as you said, a suvival PVP server, the ''gap'' between these ranks don't really matter.

That was beautiful.

I felt like I read a literacy masterpiece.

I feel like, as SevV said, however, you have the ranks idea all wrong.

Ranks aren't to give to people to make milestones to climb to, it's to designate quality in the person and their dedication to the server.

However, contrary to Sev's claim. I do feel like there's a bit of a silly gap. If you play every day for hours at a time, you are no more or less than a player who came on for a month and played SG.

They both fulfill the rank, but who deserves more?