Sup
So, I finally got bored enough to come back to SG and I figured I'd try an HG revival out of left field. It's really been my plan all along to bring back the purple.
There shouldn't be criteria involving money donated or years of service related to being an admin. There are already admin promotion ranks and it shouldn't be a glorified or "Super" supporter position. It should be up to the CE's or above to dish it out based on length of participation and actual worth to the community. I don't think any criteria should consist of definite numbers of posts or dollars, just that those deciding have a ballpark idea as to what is considered an HG.
Besides, if we have posts or dollars deciding the rank, you'll just get the inevitable bitching about how so and so have gotten the requirements done and are mad that they aren't HG yet. If the criteria is being a valued member of the community rather than posts/money, members' goals are not going to be to post/donate to be HG. Its sort of a reward, not an application like you would fill out with being an admin or member.