Well, *I* thought it was funny... an even more obfuscated private joke (for new users) would be to use a variety of past and existing nicknames, from lowly trolls to community superstars, to rank users - from "darius-class" all the way up to "GA-class" for instance, with all the shades of grey in between.

Joke aside, I could even see a couple of qualities in such a system, because it could make for *a lot* of possible rankings without having to invent anything at all : everyone's ranking would be more fun and more lively, changing often and indefinitely - one month "qwerty12-class", the next "qole-class"... and it also would make it very clear to all that ranking is there for kicks, not to actually mean anything :-)