You mean the apprentice rank etc.? I don't see how it serves any deeper purpose except indicating how long someone was active on the origin forums and how much experience and knowledge one might have.
@Wickett42 wrote:1,452 XP what the he-anyway
I don't have a particular problem with this forum, as I've used some that were far worse (i.e. vBulletin software run by people that didn't have the first clue how to install MODs) but I would be curious to know what software this forum uses because it doesn't look like any I've ever used before.
That was in January 2019. Consider 2019 was the year I was most active in BUG reporting, this is what it looks like now:
