Originally Posted by
Arterra
It is now pretty hard to say in forums that you intend to achieve GoA status without them being suspicious of your reasons.
As for forgiveness... You were not here when I started lol.
Although I spent my time trying to answer every single question, and providing feedback on the game, I also messed around a lot. I made a few useless threads, argued a bit, made comments with funny innuendo, even got banned for 3 days from forum for showing people new way to troll lol.
All that said, I still got it, and first batch to too :)
Mind you, it will take time. There are a lot of other people who also want the shield, and others still who have said nothing about it but are extremely helpful anyways.
A nice way to prove yourself is to come up with unique guides and answer questions. Once you become more experienced in game you can start testing game dynamics and reporting them to the forum.