I would on the surface agree that the title 'Senior Member' has lost alot of meaning and agree that the status should not be based soley on post count; however, I would have to disagree some on the requirement for two years...I have only been here a little over a year, but I feel I have made some very good contributions to AO over that time, and to me the time restraint denigrates those contributions...

Maybe there is some happy medium? 1000 posts, 1000 AP's, minimum year? Dunno...

/nebulus

EDIT: I do remember a discussion a long time ago about gold dots, blue dots, etc...maybe adding more teirs to the membership and boosting the Senior Member requirements way up, but giving something else in the middle would be a possible solution?