Sorry took it the wrong way, reading words can do that...........all is well on this end.....cool w/ you?
Since there is so much discussion on the forums these days with a heap of new games I agree it should be boosted My idea is also based on time as well as post count 0-100 Posts = Junior Member (No time on forums needed) 100-250 Posts = Member (Need to have had your account for two weeks) 250+ Posts = Senior Member (Need to have had your account for one month) This will mean that all these spammers will hopefully be caught before the Senior Member rank or get bored at junior member and spam another site It will make it alot harder to become into the 'Senior' Catergory
Haha. Yea, were cool. That's one of the things that bothers me about the Internet. ( not being able to convey your meanings properly through text)
You can put a post count on it, you can put a time limit on it, or for that matter you could even put a count of the number of emoticons used on it, the labels still won't matter. The fact is I've seen people with less than 100 posts that have far more quality and usefulness to their postings than some people that have 1000+ posts. I agree with what someone mentioned about the Karma system. While it's still not perfect, at least it's someone else taking the effort to say that someone deserves the ranking they get. A ranking system based solely on the merits of the user being ranked will never be objective or have much meaning at all.
I assume you're talking about the colored circle, and I don't actually know what that is. What I'm talking about (at least in the implementations that I've seen) is a system where there's a little thumbs up / thumbs down icon next to a person's name, and other users can click the appropriate icon to raise or lower a poster's karma.
Hey guys guess what? IT DOESN'T MATTER! Why should we give immature n00bs another reason to spam the forums? Why??? The number of posts you have.... who cares?!
That little colored circle is an indicator which denotes if that member is currently on the forum or not. It changes color if they are on and it is grayed out if they are logged off
I am so with this guy. I've been here longer than pretty much all of you yet I only have 300 posts. It's the quality of the posts you make, not the number of posts you have.
Just throwing this out there, but how about we just get rid of the entire ranking system? I could care less if you've been here since the early days or have 2000 posts, and my guess is most people don't either. I come here because I enjoy talking about games, sharing ideas, and hearing what others have to offer. From what I can tell, this is becoming more complicated than it needs to be. This forum is about games which are supposed to be fun, but honestly, there are times I think people take themselves way too seriously whether it's attacking newcomers or just being straight up bullies who think their view is more important than others. In some ways, not having a ranking system is probably better than having any ranking system at all. If you're going to have one, then I think it goes back to why you need one and what do you hope accomplish with one.
My thoughts exactly! I don't even really understand what the ranking system accomplishes, or, why people are so driven to rise in it. I think most people on here long enough, can usually tell by the persons name and/or previous experience, if they generally contribute worthwhile info, or just spam.
This actually makes a whole lot of sense, so I add my +1 to this sentiment. The only people I could see having labels under their names are people like moderators or developers, just so we know who they are. Not trying to single out developers, either, it would just be cool to know who's providing us the awesome software.
now it is... 0-29 - Junior. 30-99 - Member. 100-999999999999 - Senior. it should be... 0-99 - Junior Member. 100-199 - Member. 200-499 - Senior Member. 500-999 - Addiction. 1000-1999 - Obsession. 2000-5000 - Addict.
This does make sense. I have seen people bully newcomers or make fun of them which is totally out of line. Anyway good post Albie!
+1000 I'm tired of seeing people unfairly judged based on their post count. Just because one has a low post count does not make them in any way inferior or inept. Maybe they prefer not to talk (post) a lot. Maybe they joined at the same time as someone with 2,000+ posts but prefer to remain silent & just observe. It's like this on every forum on the internet. The senior members with thousands of posts develop some sort of entitlement complex and a haughty, holier-than-thou attitude. Post counts are meaningless. I vote to 86 the post count.
