This is quite annoying actually, with the occupation of Davostan coming to an end I intended to rebuild Davostan and have them climb up to their former position as an average power economically and militarily, and to be honest I planned quite much for the coming 100 in-game years interesting roleplay that could affect Davostan in the ranking systems, which was to be the whole point, to change Davostan's position in the ranking system. But removing them because of... what exactly? Because some players plagiarized? Because the Moderation's influence over them is too much? Let me put an easy example here: Let's say that Particracy is a school, the players are the students, the moderation team is either the school board or the teachers it doesn't really matter, and the ranking system is the grade system. Now, some students work hard to achieve better grades, others don't try as hard but they aren't lazying around, and some take their time to cheat to get better grades. When a cheater is caught by the teacher and/or the school board, what happens? The student is punished and the student's grades comes into question and is taken care of. But what the teacher and/or school board and/or the students do not do is too actively try to remove the grade system. Why? Well the cheater has been caught, he/she has been dealt with, the teachers and school board is more watchful for more cheaters, and the students continue working hard for better grades knowing that some of the unfair competition has been removed. But there is one advantage the players on Particracy has compared to their student/teacher/school board counterpart, and that is... that every player here can easily check if another player is cheating, or as we call it, plagiarizing.
I don't know how removing the whole ranking system will stop plagiarizers, it would get the opposite effect actually, since there is nothing to cheat for (better ranking), they can start cheating simply to create better posts and roleplay than others. Keeping the ranking system will give MORE creativity, by removing the ability to plagiarize, the players will have to figure out themselves how to create better posts and better roleplays to achieve the rank they wish to achieve.
One last thing, it is wrong to say that the community has lost faith in the rankings. A better wording would be "a part of the community has lost faith in the rankings", because I have certainly not lost faith in them and I hoped to be able to create interesting RP through them, what should I do instead of trying to reach to goal of an average power, strong power or regional power? And its no point if I am one of the only ones who recognizes that I have reached the status of average power while others ignore or outright reject the status. I will never be able to claim myself a high status, since that would make myself as Rob put it "self-pompous" which when I think about I have never done. It is better if I and other players earn the status than claim it for ourselves.
Some of what I wrote might come of as selfish, and it's not my intention. So I hope you all can understand my point. Thank you.