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Dapper Dan:
--- Quote from: neminem on May 27, 2006, 07:01:06 PM ---Hahahahaha... I don't think you understand how quickly people will become "wizards".
<-- has over 14,000 posts to OverClocked Remix, with the 9th-most posts there.
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I know right.... some members on my board are approaching 2000+ posts.... I think my rank system is set up to cover upto 10,000 posts or so. Although I'm not sure what else you could use here unless you did like a further breakdown of your proficiency level as a wizard or some related thing... Although I think its fine just having just those two, even if it come to having you increase the post counts till you reach the wizard level.... you'll always have those members who become obsessed with their post count on message boards even though its just a number and any slight differentation (such as deleting a post of theirs because its SPAM) will cause them to totally freak out *sigh
iago:
--- Quote from: neminem on May 27, 2006, 07:01:06 PM ---Hahahahaha... I don't think you understand how quickly people will become "wizards".
<-- has over 14,000 posts to OverClocked Remix, with the 9th-most posts there.
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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.
Donna:
--- 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'm an administrator of a forum that's almost two years old. It has about 600 members and only about a dozen regular posters, but we have a few approaching their 2000th post.
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.
You may prefer keeping it at 100 posts = wizard, then nothing special for more posts. Just my two cents.
Dapper Dan:
Isn't SPAM wonderful (sarcasam)!!!! heh, fortunately at the board I'm at now that isn't a really big problem. My board is only a little over a year old and we also only have a bout a dozen fully regular members. But every now and again you just get that one who is a bit obsessive with post counts, ranks, karma rating, etc.... Hopefully that won't become an issue here but you never know... Here is part of the SPAM guideline that I have posted on my board for people who don't know what SPAM is:
SPAM Guide
SPAM: Stupid, pointless, annoying messages. SPAM can be in many formats:
1. The one-liner: "Yeah, I totally agree!"
2. Excess use of puncuation/smilies: "Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Say what? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?" or ;) :) :D :-[ :-* :-* :'( :-[ ::) :( 8) :o
3. The irrelevant post: For instance, say the thread is about any given Movie, and you post with, "My cousin's sister's mother's brother's father's friend's aunt had a friend in said movie."
4. The double-post: Posting twice in a row, without good reason.
5. The double-topic: Posting a thread on something that already has a thread. For instance, the whole "favorite baby names" and "what would you name your kids".
6. The impatient post: For those of you who have ants in your pants, and can't wait for your requests to be finished, and so you decide to post in the design thread with "IS MY BANNER DONE YET?!?!? HOW LONG WILL IT BE?!?!"
7. The reviewless review: "I loved the movie!" - This is NOT a review, people.
8. The questionless questions: When you post in Meet the Staff forum- you need to post questions, NOT things like "Hey you're from Virginia like me, that's so cool!"
9. The caps lock posts: IT'S ACTUALLY CONSIDERED TO BE SHOUTING WHEN YOU TYPE IN ALL CAPS, AND IT'S PRETTY RUDE TO SHOUT AT PEOPLE, DON'T YOU THINK?
10. The I-Know-I'm-Not-Supposed-To-Reply post: This happens especially in the polls for schemes and such - I even TELL you guys NOT to post in them, unless you chose "other" as an option, and therefore you have to reply. But a lot of times, people reply anyway.
iago:
--- Quote from: Donna on May 28, 2006, 04:02:21 AM ---You may prefer keeping it at 100 posts = wizard, then nothing special for more posts. Just my two cents.
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That's what I'm thinking. I was originally gonna launch without any post-count classifications at all. :)
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