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.
@Bagginses2 wrote:
This is sort of related but kinda not
Why do people suddenly lose xp on the leaderboard? @HCarbonic used to have like 200 and now he has 80, I had 150 before and now I have 120. Is the leaderboard bugged or is there a reason for this that I don’t realise.
Yep, it's a monthly leaderboard like others already responded here. You can change it going to settings:
Then here you open the preferences tab:
Then you choose the XP option under Preferences, and on the right you'll have the preferences for the leaderboard. There are 2 leaderboard settings there, but I honestly have no idea why and which is the one that truly affects the appearing leaderboard. Well, anyway, you may change the time window the leaderboard tracks XP there.
Also the different subforums have different leaderboards, so if you go to the BUG reporting section the leaderboard will look completely different then the one here.
Fixed
The leaderboard
