Well, the results kinda show the effort, and I'm not giving a guy the ability to promote just because he had fun while building a tiny castle.
That's the entire root problem. You tread ranks like some sort of status, were ranks are meant for order only. Why do you think SpA thusfar never had any different "ranks" in the community (cept for the management/techteam "split", but this is just for easy administrative reasons). Other then that everyone is equal. The only thing we care about, is fun. And this is best shown by the decision for example to remove warteam #1 from the community as it was way to competitive and didn't fit in our style. Minecraft is starting to look like that. And if you want to keep the SpA support, that is certainly something that *needs* to change.
But dude, I understand that, but Minecraft is a rank game, we need the ranks for organization, since it's an extremely unorganized game. Furthermore, there are guidelines about how to get each rank, and although I don't think the architect rank should exist, it does, and Lim already said he won't take any more 'advice' about the topic. The whole problem is people think architect is a extension of the builder rank, but it isn't, same as Trustee isn't an extension of the op line. Trustee is for people Lim trusts, only that. Architect is for the best builders on the server. I still think Architect shouldn't be able to promote, and therefore, shouldn't exist, but as I said, it's all up to Lim.