The problem with the mentor system

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You do not need to have a special status, icon, or mount to help others. You can do it just out of a desire to help.

This. We already have perfectly balanced reward system implemented, it's called "brain". You help, you know you made a good difference, you get your dopamine. That's it. Most of other rewards tied to helping each other always attract greedy people, who's gonna be like "I did a good thing, complement me!". That's just ridiculous.

The argument that people wouldn't want to join a mentor system without a reward could be made, but honestly I would rather have this system, where no mentor rewards are given, and the few who stay in the mentor program are actually there to help, or having the mentor rewards all obtainable by other easier means making obtaining them via mentor roulette a hindrance.

Well, participating in a mentor program is a voluntary stuff already. It's not a job, and expecting getting payed for something you volunteered to do is kinda... odd?

I wish people could just let this mentorship "failure" fallacy rest in peace.

And I wish the majority of people with crowns on I meet started acting like a decent human beings.
But as a philosopher Jagger once said, "you can't always get what you want".

I understand there's a bunch of good hearted people who genuinely want to help and do so as good as they can. I understand there's a bunch of so called "bad apples" who ruins an impression of mentors overall. What I don't understand, is why people keep defending the system that keeps providing us with said "bad apples", most of which never participated in NN anyway and just wanted a status symbol. Wouldn't it be better without them? Wouldn't it be better to get rid of them as a whole instead of picking a few to write a report on to no actual avail?

To the core topic: get rid of the crown, get rid of the commendation based mentorship status, get rid of shiny rewards (tie it to something else instead), keep NN, but implement world chat to keep actual helpers and just talkative people somewhat separate.
Or at the very least get a black list feature to be an actual black list, so we could stop running into people we don't wanna play with for whatever reason in roulettes. Maybe then people would think twice about the reputation they have.