Quote Originally Posted by Silver-Strider View Post
The fact of the matter is that, there is literally NOTHING that can be done to solve this. Its simply a "dealing with the good as well as the bad" type of situation and people just need to accept it as such.
Sure there's something that can be done. Change the commendation system.

Instead of telling players to give a commendation to someone who left a good impression on you (which can mean any number of things), tell players to give a commendation to a player they think is worthy of being a mentor. Remove the commendation entry from the challenge log so players aren't randomly giving out commendations just to clear the entry for the week.

Reset commendation counts every major patch and set a new number as the target to reach during the patch cycle to obtain/retain mentor status the following patch (obviously the number would be much smaller than the 1500 it currently is).

Change the icon for mentors to something other than a crown. A simple rectangle (think chalkboard) displaying a sword for PvE mentors, hammer for trade mentors or both crossed for a mentor who is both would work.

There are things that can be done.