New Veteran Status - Opinions?

[Mulie]

Originally Posted by HoneyMelonCalibrator

Then the veteran status could correlate to original join date and membership length. But the word veteran ultimately ties into how long someone's participated in something, everything else everyone is mentioning is basically irrelevant.

Semantic analysis of the word "veteran" is irrelevant; it was arbitrarily chosen. The benefits should be rewarded for activity, which a holistic calculation using already defined and recorded statistics should account for.