Anyone ELSE feel that mentors are a blight on society...?

[Misstique]

Mentors are people who have played the game for a while, are expected to know how to play all roles, and were decent enough players and human beings to receive player commendations a certain amount of time. And that last part is what makes us mentors not SE's representatives, but the community's, because without comms you wouldn't get the crown.

I keep my mentor crown off because I'm personally embarrassed by it.

You don't need comms to get mentor status. I've seen a few who received their mentor status by meeting the crafting requirements. I was in a potd 51-60 and ran into a mentor who only had 1 level 70 combat job with all other job/classes either below 20 or not even unlocked. He also only had one crafter at about level 63 with all other crafting around 20 or below and a 70 miner with sub 20 btn and fsh. He was playing a archer and had no idea what he was doing obviously. This isn't the first time I ran into a mentor like this.

In NN a few days ago, someone mentioned that they were new, and had gotten mentor status after only 22 days of playing, also through the crafter requirement. (seems to happen more often in preferred worlds due to 100% exp buff on all jobs)

I also see pf groups looking for quick trial clears to reach a 1000 dungeon runs so they can get mentor status.

I really think the mentor idea is a good one and there are quite a bit of genuinely good and helpful people that use it, but the ones that stand out are the terrible ones or the mean ones and the system is terrible.