The new title algorithm should take into account age, the frequency and/or number of their bans, the number of "question"-type threads they have gotten the "best answer" for, perhaps their number of followers if it is to also track popularity, and probably a few more bits of data that I can't think up right now.
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Age should be excluded and exchanged for wisdom and education level of experience with social ability. Age can be lied about over forums.
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Good ideas, though the problem with purely user popularity is that some people will spend hours of their lives creating alt armies and then masking their IP. :/