Frankly, this forum puts too much importance on kudos and the system is meaningless.
People aren't kudoing things because they have any value to any discussion whatsoever.
They just hand out kudos to friends for no real reason most the time.
It's just another way to spam.
The people on top of the kudo circle jerk pile have more kudos from individual users than days the kudo system has been in operation.
As for custom ranks, I have no problem with the way those are given out and seem far less abused as far as the way they are rewarded go. And that's coming from someone who's never had a custom rank (not for a lack of trying).
Let's see what happens when we take away the puppy.
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