MOZ TEAM - your system done broke my status as a guru

[AlanBleiweiss]

Dear MOZ TEAM - WHY, when I have 2990 moz points, and my profile shows guru, does my profile banner in the Q&A itself now say ASPIRANT? Such a cruel world this has become !

I know I've wanted all along to have you come up with any title other than "guru" because that word is so dreaded in our world.  Yet seriously - aspirant?  I feel like Roger got drunk one night and decided "let's tease Alan"...

[matbennett]

It's probably not personal.  There is a thread here where are few of us have spotted the same: http://www.seomoz.org/q/bug-with-seomoz-level-display

So either it's a wider bug, or Roger got really drunk and is picking on a bunch of us!

[AlanBleiweiss]

Thanks for the link! Must have been Roger.

[MarieHaynes]

Perhaps Roger has concerns about your experience level Alan.  Would you like me to teach you how to do an SEO audit?

[MarieHaynes]

Oh wait.  Apparently I am now an aspirant too.  Booo.

[AlanBleiweiss]

hahaha.  The blind wanting to lead the blind. How many aspirants does it take to change an SEO lightbulb?

[MarieHaynes]

I don't know the answer to that question.  But probably a guru would.  I wish there were some of them around here.

[AlanBleiweiss]

oh wow. I was hoping you could answer it because I need to know!  Isn't the reason I come here so I can get answers to these tough questions?

[DanielFreedman]

It takes three aspirants to change an SEO lightbulb.  One to change the lightbulb and two to explain why it's not probably not important but yet, paradoxically, all the more reason for a long term contract because the situation may change at any time.

[KeriMorgret]

We're trying to address the problems of gurus in the industry Alan!

I've sent off a note to the team and we're looking into this. Longer-term, we are going to replace Guru and Journeyman, as well as replace the labels in Q&A with stars representing the levels, to make things visually easier to understand.

[AlanBleiweiss]

I LOVE the notion of stars instead of "guru".  But as I am now a lowly aspirant, it will be embarrassing if I only have like a half star or something.  NO disrespect to aspirants. We were all lowly at one point.

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[AlanBleiweiss]

Roger is very dangerous. He looks so innocent on the outside!

[BlueprintMarketing]

If I may make a suggestion stars verse gurus, or we all know SEOMoz has a weakness for unicorns

http://www.seomoz.org/help

And now that we know unicorns are real Beyond any shadow of a doubt because of the North Korean media

http://www.today.com/video/today/50054562#50054562

I would propose having unicorns over stars or just how many unicorn horns equal guru or Unicorn master

What do you guys say unicorn master with maybe a photo like the thing shown in this URL. Happy Monday everyone

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/08/north-korea-unicorn-lair-beast-dragon-head-deer-body_n_2259988.html

Sincerely,

Thomas