The problem with the mentor system

[Miste]

Not certainly in that way. Speaking in your own language of metaphors, it’s as if accidents caused by unscrupulous drivers occurred all the time on a broken section of the road, so we don’t complain about unscrupulous drivers, we give examples and ask that the section of the road be corrected so that it was no longer possible to break the rules. Because only police reports, with such a system, do not fix anything.

My metaphor wasn't talking about possible "fixes" or "improvements" to said road. If you reread my post you'll see I was specifically talking about people who want to outright delete the road entirely. So your metaphor isn't really relevant to mine.

Even with your metaphor, you still have to prove the road is completely broken, unusable, or that the majority has a negative experience first to actually get people on your side to rally to fix said road. You know how governments are, you have to get the government think it is worth it to spend the time/money to fix it.

What if the majority of people think the road is fine? You have to find this data out to make logical reasoning. If 0.03% think the road needs fixing, but the other 99.97% think it is fine as it is....then what? This is just an example though, obviously we would need way more information on the good side of the road first.

Hence the whole issue people have with "I had a negative experience, delete it."

The proposal of the OP to change the icon seems very reasonable to me, because there will remain people whom the newcomer will be able to ask for help, but this will not be visually related to prestige or elitism. It would also be good if we had a really working blacklist, so as not to meet these people in roulette.

Make sure you read my previous post. I have no issue with the OPs suggestion to change the icon. I actually said they could change the icon if it will help, I personally don't care what icon they use. I just personally don't think it would change anything, but that is my opinion.