Mentor needs to mean something again

[Krotoan]

Court of public opinion? Or just trolls? Yeah no.. and I rarely defend mentors.

More like GM attention. Your chatlogs and recent party actions are sent to a team of reviewers in SE's employ. If there are an excess of abusive chats or actions (constant votekicks), you are penalized or at least your mentor status is taken away.

If everyone had access to the status instead of giving it a restriction people might finally use it like it should be used: a status that indicates that you're currently willing to mentor someone/currently mentoring someone.

Yes you might get people who aren't qualified answering, but those people exist who have the icon and people who don't have the icon also help a lot from what I've seen even though they don't have it unlocked.

Is that a crazy idea?

This is how it should have been I think. Just a voluntary Opt in with NO rewards or anything more than a "M" by your name or other tiny indicator that "yes this person is willing to help with things". They ruined it by adding incentives.