Levels and ranks are a great way to show how much a person has posted, how good the submissions are and how much effort they put into their submissions.

I personally love the level aspect of this site, it promotes people to keep uploading to get a higher rank. However truthfully I think people should care less on what rank they are and instead worry about their submissions in general. Level ranking is great but there are some bad aspects that I will list out here.

First off, people just want to be a higher rank. Users see other users that are over level fifty and they think to themselves, "I would do anything to get to that rank." So a huge thing that people do is create back-up accounts and use those accounts to like, favorite and recommend their main account's submissions. This indeed adds on to the experience a player gets. They think the more they do this the more their submissions will be seen by others. Which is true however it isn't legit and it is unearned experience. The Rules & Guidelines clearly states that creating multiple back-up accounts is a violation of the rules on PMC.

Second, people think that when they have a higher rank they will get more respect. Honestly that isn't true. You get respect by helping other people, being nice and not being harsh to anyone. THAT gets you respected and a good reputation. However some people think that because they are a level forty as an example, they should get more respect. I very much dislike that. You can be a level one and still be fully respected by people. Just post in the forums, which is a non-experience point giver to prevent spam, and people will eventually respect you and you WILL have a great reputation with the commmunity.

Thirdly, ranks are just for fun. The main reason Cyprezz added ranks into PMC is because it will indeed promote users to keep on uploading submissions to unlock new titles, levels, classes etc. Ranks are not meant for respect and are not meant to cheat for. Just keep uploading submissions and you will rank up with experience.

I know that most people don't even care about their ranks, they just post for fun. That's what I love. PMC is mainly for posting, you shouldn't be worried about how someone is twenty levels higher than you, or has a much cooler title than you. Like your teachers say or have said, "Worry about yourself."

I do agree that getting titles and new classes is awarding however once again, not to be cheated for though. Hopefully this has added to your thinking and I would be interested to what you think about this.