Just hopping the wagon.
In regards to actual SL account rank. Personally, I've paid my dues with the forest and have leveled and bought numerous accounts high and low; so the actual account rank really meant nothing to me on that standard. You won't see me button mashing anymore, anytime. But I take it that people RP how they seem fit in any aspect. Most new players always started out with limitations and restrictions in regards to KG, multiple nature types, and other things of the like. Eventually once they've interacted with people, their characters would continue to grow and gain those previous restricted abilities. It didn't have to be a long transition, but it definitely helped them integrate into the SL community. I know it did when I first started and my characters are still growing as they age. I've seen genin with better RP skill than those whom claim kage-status powers and whatever.
I've been told countless times that SL was never intended for proper RP, as it was never created for such purpose. Essentially, we the people playing the game, brought RP to the site as we see today. We all pretty much RP how we like in a way to interact with other people in the same manner. There aren't appointed NPC's whom role play with us, set up by SL staff without request. We do not abide by canon but reference it for our justifications, let alone have even created a concept of 'claimed lists' and yadda yadda. There is no juicy story line of our history its all made up from our minds. In order to start actually caring about that stuff, I feel like as a community we should care about our RP as a whole. Not like some sort of US Government; invasion of all privacy and forbidding all their needs, but an organized method of carrying out RP. I feel like the implication alone is scary to you all, as if someone is going to butt into what your doing and say that its not 'fair'. When that simply goes on today. Just a way, we as a community can understand how our RP is carried out, so there aren't so many massive disputes. That's just my thought though. Maybe with village appointed GM's we can carry out some NPC roles that allow newer players to interact with, in order to help them improve RP as well as carryout RP for them. Because most people don't even know what to RP, unless they are offered an idea i.e mission or they just end up trying to fight and kill everyone to prove some sort of 'honor' if its even that; which ends up in forum arguments that just waste our typing time that could have gone to RP.
TL;DR I owe SL for teaching me how to button mash, epicly. As well as how evil of a person I am for always choosing the option, to kick the rat.