User blog comment:WhiteSeraph/Article Tier Idea/@comment-9734625-20130428061141/@comment-9734625-20130428063743

Necrus, the tier system is kinda like how KotOR Filefront rates the mods, but here having your articles in a tier is a good thing. The tiers would promote good work, and having a platinum article wouldn't suddenly make you an admin without the de facto position. It would only show that a user has found something that he/she/it writes very well, and is therefore someone you can ask for advice on that field. Nothing more than that. It would be like how I would ask an admin for advice for my articles, but now the circle would be widened.

Having a bronze on an article only shows that you should maybe develop it a bit further, or that it is not exactly what you're the best at writing. It could inspire the creation of a variety of new articles and the expansion of several of them as well.