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BigMama:
I SURE don't go anywhere without mine! ;D
neminem:
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--- Quote from: iago on May 27, 2006, 10:42:30 PM ---Well, I can always adjust the number of posts per level, or add more. I'm not expecting to attach a lot of meaning to 'em.
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I don't see the big deal about rising in the ranks either, but unfortunately some people do. The biggest problem, I've found, is people making loads of nuisance posts -- one liners, smiley only, or nattering on about things that add nothing to the topic being discussed -- to see the title change under their name.
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I assume that the existence of the "report to moderator" link implies that it's possible to remove nuisance posts, in which case the question would become: does your total get decremented if one of your posts gets nuked?
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Course it does. In any noninsane forum system, it keeps track of your posts in real time. For instance, over at OverClocked Remix, a handful of months ago they removed all the threads with over a few thousand posts, to save on disk space. Some people (mostly postwhores) lost upwards of a thousand posts each.
julchek:
To follow up on one of the points in Dapper Dan's SPAM guidelines (which I thought were helpful):
--- Quote ---4. The double-post: Posting twice in a row, without good reason.
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For those of you who are new to forums like this, one way to work with this type of situation is to edit your previous post if you have additional information to share. What I do is edit the post and add the letters ETA: underneath my initial post, in a bold font like this or a different color, and then add whatever my additional text is. It prevents the double post, and you still get to make your point without having to wait until someone else posts in the forum :)
ETA: :D Just wanted to check on the actual mechanism to edit a post, which is the "Modify" button that is in the upper right hand of someone's post.
Ghoulfish:
Wouldn't it make more sense if the rankings were decided by how much we know about the books - maybe there could be quizes on the site about each book - the more you get right the higher your rank
Just my 2 cents worth (mind you it's Canadian so it is worth much less with the exchange rate as it is right now)
Mickey Finn:
I would say that's a loonie idea, but I don't want to get hit.
In reality, that would be impractal, for 2 reasons:
A) Administering the test with this many members (and sure to grow)
B) The title-based-on-post-count is built into the system code, he just supplied the names.
Good idea, but no real way to do it reliably on a shoestring budget. ;)
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