New Message Board Thing?

Sooo....Notice how on the left side of the message boards, everybody's status has been changed to member? Does anybody know what that's about?

I kind of liked my status. Even though it hardly increases anymore because the post counts stopped counting toward story comments, which was pretty amazing. Speaking of is Dujo gonna bring the post counts back for the comment boards on the stories? Cuz that would be pretty awesome. Or is it just another change?

Either way, I'd like to know what's goin on. If anybody knows anything, could you enlighten me please?

Thank you so much. XD