Generations

Generations (also known as Gens), is a ranking system that categorizes users based on their approximate join date. The start of a gen begins at between the month of July, and ends at June in an annual span. Gens are not always determined by their join date - the relevancy of a user can also be determined (this is called the Jared's Rule). For instance, if one user happens to join on January 2017, but is seen doing stuff in August 2019, they are categorized as a Gen-20 user instead of Gen-17 (unless if they happened to become relevant in that previous time span). Generations are often used to judge a whole userbase performance based on that gen, determining whether they are a good influence to the community or a bad influence.

Categorization
According to how the system works, there are currently 15 generations



Origin
The term "Gen" was originally coined by the user velitecabal (who retired and deleted his account in around 2017). He introduced the Gen system concept because he saw that as an opportunity to bring more future users onto the site. The reception of the concept was generally received strongly positive from the community, and is still being used as of today.