I've been on Warmane since there was no Cata on Warmane. I can't remember exact dates but to me that's around 2012-ish. I recall donating even back on Lordaeron days. I'm sure we can all agree that the Donation Ranks are a crock of ****. To prove this theory we all have, when Moltdown happened everything was wiped but our transactions, they know and have records of all of our transactions dating back to god knows when. When MoP came back with Tyrannical gear and all of us donors had our refunded coins to fully tyr toons and griev a toon, we all did. I fully tyr'd a toon and donated for more thus the May 2015+ donations. The thing that gets me is, they only count purchases AFTER everything that happened, which is bull****. I've donated well over 500$ and should be "Honored" rank, but I'm not because of Warmane's staff wanting to use this as another ****ing cash grab, LITERALLY.
The ONLY reason I can see for this is so people are given incentive to donate even more for a rank title and a perk coin allocation. If the staff over at Warmane were to be fair, they would update our Donation Ranks according to how much we've donated to them IN TOTAL. Not just after their own server fail.