Gregory Seyler

"stifled by some dark, manipulative branding and marketing PR department"
We call him Jordan, but that's also fine. His reasoning, which I agree with is that we'd prefer positive sentiment. A tiny graphic isn't the only way you can express yourself on our community, though.

The old ranks and such were merged into the new Reputation system.
If you want to maintain the ability for people to put some text below their name on the post bit, you can use custom profile fields to do the same thing.