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The Site => Site Suggestions & Support => Topic started by: lahodges on May 27, 2006, 06:31:04 PM
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Fred,
Does that classification, like apprentice, mortal, etc. come with the Avatar? I couldn't find where that came from.
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That appears to be based on how many posts you have. For example, I changed from mortal to apprentice at 10 posts.
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Fred,
Does that classification, like apprentice, mortal, etc. come with the Avatar? I couldn't find where that came from.
Right now the classifications are:
Mortal - New Member (0 posts)
Apprentice - Posting Member (10 posts)
Wizard - Frequent Poster (100 posts)
Warden - Specific board moderator
White Council - Global Moderator
The Merlin - Site Administrator
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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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Thanks, Fred for clearing that up for me! I thought I was just retarded and couldn't find it. I am forum-challenged, I don't belong to any, so I am just clueless. :'(
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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.
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
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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.
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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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.
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.
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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.
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You may prefer keeping it at 100 posts = wizard, then nothing special for more posts. Just my two cents.
That's what I'm thinking. I was originally gonna launch without any post-count classifications at all. :)
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You're so wise, Fred. No wonder you're The Merlin. :)
ADWOFF (http://adwoff.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi) got pretty unbearable when people started posting just to increase their post totals. I'm glad to see that won't happen here.
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I think it is cool, but it is not why I post here.
Besides, I'm thinking that the Merlin in the DF books is not necessarily 100% on the up-and-up, so I'm not sure if I'd want to be the Merlin.
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Still, you could go to Senior counsel member at 500 posts or something.
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Yeah. I wasn't saying there was anything wrong with not having postcount categories that go up to ridiculous levels, the way OCR does. And, in fact, there are postwhores on OCR, that post random crap just for the postcount increase, which does tend to get annoying. I was just stating my amusement that, pretty soon, everyone who bothers coming here ever will be a wizard.
There's definitely something to be said for forums with no postcounts visible, as much fun as it is to brag about how much you've posted, sometimes.
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Well, yeah, If there is a top post thing thats way above everyone else, some noobs will want to go for it. But still, It would be nice to have some sort of distinction.
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Thanks, Fred for clearing that up for me! I thought I was just retarded and couldn't find it. I am forum-challenged, I don't belong to any, so I am just clueless. :'(
We all gotta start somewhere. :) You're among friends, don't sweat it. If you never ask, you'll never know.
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how do you become a warden
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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.
1) Does "we share a brain" posts count as spam?
3) What does that make him to me? Absolutely NOTHING!
4) almost always accidental
9) ARCHIE! ARCHIE! HEY, ARCHIE! (sorry it made me think of Edith)
You forgot people like me who are between books, between classes, out of Tivo to watch and don't want to go to bed because their fiancee is sleeping already and snores something fierce so they have to be in a near coma before approaching bed.
I think it is cool, but it is not why I post here.
Besides, I'm thinking that the Merlin in the DF books is not necessarily 100% on the up-and-up, so I'm not sure if I'd want to be the Merlin.
Yeah, I think you need to leave that one as Site Administrator. If someone told me I resembled that guy I'd be grumpy.
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Well you can always turn off the post count in some off topic areas if you worry about people posting rubbish to increase post count, or set a minimum word/character limit, or stick to the default post limits set by this software.
But some people do pay a lot of attention to their post count, and any of the above measures might be unpopular. On some other boards it really is encouraged to post more even if you have nothing to say lol Some boards even start up clubs for postwhores, but really why would you bother? Nobody really wants to scroll through pages of meaningless posts to get to the good stuff lol
btw Senior council sounds very cool :)
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Why is the count a distinction. If a person uses SPAM and coy tricks to up their count, what kind of distinction is that? I would much rather see interesting, topical discussion without the distraction of obsessive post counters.
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Just to make a point, there are currently two users who have attainted Wizard status. Both today.
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Just to make a point, there are currently two users who have attainted Wizard status. Both today.
Holy cow! One of them is me! Uh, I kind of need to shut up a bit, yes? :D Which I'm not doing by posting this message. Gah! *falls over*
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Just to make a point, there are currently two users who have attainted Wizard status. Both today.
Holy cow! One of them is me! Uh, I kind of need to shut up a bit, yes? :D Which I'm not doing by posting this message. Gah! *falls over*
The other one being, obviously, me. Oh, and just because I can, I was first. Ha!
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Just to make a point, there are currently two users who have attainted Wizard status. Both today.
Holy cow! One of them is me! Uh, I kind of need to shut up a bit, yes? :D Which I'm not doing by posting this message. Gah! *falls over*
The other one being, obviously, me. Oh, and just because I can, I was first. Ha!
I clearly don't post enough. Then again, I have over 10,000 posts at OCR, I clearly spend enough time on the internet already :D.
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Do either of you feel any wiser than you did 24 hours ago? :)
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Do eother of you feel any wiser than you did 24 hours ago? :)
Sorry, but I can't answer that. Union rules.
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I just noticed I'm there also. Ironic. ::)
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Just my 2c, but I agree with not making any sort of 'l33t' ranks above Wizard. I don't really get the point of it, and think the mindset that there must be 'ranks' to attain is a bit strange. :)
We're here to post about Jim's books, not have some sort of posting contest or attain some strange forum cred.
My 2c...
-Belmonte
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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.
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.
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?
HTH HAND
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You forgot people like me who are between books, between classes, out of Tivo to watch and don't want to go to bed because their fiancee is sleeping already and snores something fierce so they have to be in a near coma before approaching bed.
Cpap machines are your friend....
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I SURE don't go anywhere without mine! ;D
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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To follow up on one of the points in Dapper Dan's SPAM guidelines (which I thought were helpful):
4. The double-post: Posting twice in a row, without good reason.
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.
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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)
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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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Yeah it is a loonie idea thanx for pointing that out ;D
Some of my Ideas are good, some are bad it's hard to be perfect all the time :'(
Maybe someone should create a poll so the admin can see if this is really a big issue or not (personally I do not see why it matters if your a mortal, apprentice or wizard it just shows how new or active a person is on the board)
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Maybe someone should create a poll so the admin can see if this is really a big issue or not
Considering no one had posted to this thread in six weeks before today, I'd say it is a dead issue. ;)
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For me Dead issues are the best issues ;)
(I don't check the dates I just post) :D
I feel everyone is entitled to my ideas - no matter what the circumstances are ;D
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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.
Bah! You're too picky. Would you prefer people only write mini novel length posts and create threads that go on until the world ends and the bozo aliens from planet What's-It come to see our remains?
People come to boards to have fun. Sure, there are many who aren't very mature, are desperate for any attention/contact, and generally are annoying. But to burn them for it is very Darth Vadar of you.
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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.
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.
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?
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.
Off topic: Actually, it depends on the board software. Some keep track of each post, so something like your example would affect post count, but some just add 1 to the count of posts each time a post is made, so it doesn't matter if an old post is deleted or not.
IE, for the math inclined, there are two ways to keep track of post counts:
post count = sum(posts)
(which adds up all the posts in the database at a given time, and can be affected by post deletions)
vs.
post count = last_post_count + 1
(which adds 1 to the count each time you make a new post, and is not affected by post deletions because it is not counting all the posts in the database, but is instead adding the number "1" to the old post count number each time you make a new post).
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People come to boards to have fun. Sure, there are many who aren't very mature, are desperate for any attention/contact, and generally are annoying. But to burn them for it is very Darth Vadar of you.
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"You're NOT my FATHER!"
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We should make Priscellie some honory title, I mean come on she deserves something for her greek time on the boards.
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We should make Priscellie some honory title, I mean come on she deserves something for her greek time on the boards.
Efkaristo*, CovoRoth, but it's not necessary. I feel conspicuous enough. XD
* "Thank you" in Greek. See quoted text. I've never met an amusing typo I haven't exploited.
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Well what would you say to Gate Keeper... You're their but people are just "OOOooo the gate keeper"?
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There should be something in between the white council and wizard, that third star is just beging the to be used. It could be like... wizaed teacher?
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Oh, I can tell I've been looking at a screen of one kind or another for way too much of my day...I could've sworn you said "that third star is just begging to be "THE USED"." In which case I would applaud you. I do think the third star should be 'The Used.'
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Maybe we could use staff colors. However, since there is only once blackstaff, we should use different colors. Perhaps we could be taupestaff, plaidstaff, or fuciastaff... hmm...
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"taupestaff" that goes well with beigestaff, tanstaff, offwhitestaff, etc.
There should definitely be an eggplantstaff, goldenrodstaff, burntsiennastaff.
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Can I be ecrustaff?
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Sure, as long as you 'be all you can be' while you're at it.
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Ok so, when you reach a certain amount of posts... let's say 250, you can make your own "______"-staff.
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*shrugs* I'm just having fun coming up with rediculous colours for them.
Ooh! tinfoilstaff!
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aluminimstaff!
but the way the british say it (al-u-min-iam)?
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Nope. It's gotta be tinfoil. Like Jim's tinfoil hat.
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"We would now like the newest member of the council to step forward, ah, yes tinfoilstaff, how go's it?"
"It goes shiny merlin."
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*giggles insanely*
Now imagine it said in latin.
*falls over*
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" nos would iam amo newest member of concilium ut step porro , proh , etiam tinfoilstaff , quam go's is? "
" is vado crus merlin. "
Just threw that in a translator. ;D
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Waaay too much time on your hands there Covo. And I mean that in a good way.
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less than a minute: type in latin translator in google, find one,
open tab of this topic, copy previous post, tranlate, in other tab reply and then copy. done
Not too much, just now how to use it. now the fact that i have done over 200 posts in 10 days... that's too much time, but I like it. ;D
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In honor of the most recent Alera book, I tried to get names changed to things like "Knights Pices," but no dice.
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THAT would have been the most friggin' awesomemost thing in the world! :D :D AAARRRGGGHHH!! I want to be a Knight Terra! NOOOOOOO!!! >:( >:( >:( >:( Please :'( Can we try to make it happen?
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That would be cool. For inbetween Apprentice and Wizard.
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But we still need to make something for the three stars.... :P
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Well, if you put Knights Pisces between Apprentice and Wizard...then Wizard becomes the three stars.
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But I'm already a wizard... I want to be some thing new... :'(
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But I'm already a wizard... I want to be some thing new... :'(
This is *why* they only have a classification system below 100 posts. So people won't postspam ridiculously in order to reach the next level. :D
If you want to, you can change your Personal Text to the "rank" of your choice. For example, Fred called me an "industrious little gnome" in one of the podcasts, and I decided to make that my unofficial title. *grins*
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Not a bad suggestion but it still would like something official. :(
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And I seem to have become the Queen of Transcripts, so I made mine "Transcripts R Us". (Now I wonder if the board supports the code for me to mirror that 'R'?)
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And I seem to have become the Queen of Transcripts, so I made mine "Transcripts R Us". (Now I wonder if the board supports the code for me to mirror that 'R'?)
Like "Transcripts Я Us", you mean?
Depending upon what fonts readers have installed, this might or might not display properly :) That's a Cyrillic letter, a Capital Ya (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya_%28Cyrillic%29). (You could go overboard and try "Trдиscripts Я Цs" ;D)
HTH HAND
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Yay! Thanks. When you find it already done, I can just copy and paste the letter in. But I do know there is html coding out there to mirror your text and whatever you type in your code, will appear 'backwards' onscreen. So glad I didn't have to try to remember that coding. (and it probably wouldn't have worked or fit in the little text box provided.