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[FredFredrickson]

After 10000 Posts, You get"Life-less Member" In your title.

I hope so, those people deserve that.

Considering many of the people who have the highest post counts, like Ragarnak, are some of the most helpful people here, I don't think it would be a great idea to award them a title that berates them for all the work they've done here.

[BBGaming]

Besides, Ragarnak isn't a human. Ragarnak is a group of inter-linked computers that continually scans the forums for repeat questions and spits out the same answers over and over, never showing any emotion and always being right. A human just isn't capable of doing the work.

[Recreate]

Ha >_<

After 10000 Posts, You get"Life-less Member" In your title.

I hope so, those people deserve that.

Considering many of the people who have the highest post counts, like Ragarnak, are some of the most helpful people here, I don't think it would be a great idea to award them a title that berates them for all the work they've done here.

Well then, Make it 100000, That would truly be a lifeless member

[AdilFaQah]

Besides, Ragarnak isn't a human. Ragarnak is a group of inter-linked computers that continually scans the forums for repeat questions and spits out the same answers over and over, never showing any emotion and always being right. A human just isn't capable of doing the work.

I agree. There is no other plausible explanation. *shrugs*

(No offense intended of course, I have quite a high regard for Ragarnak)

[MitchGraham]

Agreed Adil, he is a very well designed robot.

Sadly he'll never see this post, the system of bots never scans outside the questions forums.

[ragarnak]

Sadly he'll never see this post, the system of bots never scans outside the questions forums.

Ahem ....

Well, I must say you're a bit right. I only visit other forums once-in-a-(long-)while ...

[Schreib]

ragarnak, have you passed the Turing Test?

[ragarnak]

ragarnak, have you passed the Turing Test?

Never tried it. I could imagine I could easily fail it, as I do not seem to have much of a memory for day-to-day stuff (including peoples names).

In one Turing experiment (the last one ?) some of the testers deemed humans as Automations just because they did not know/recognise the name of an "important" sportsman/politician/musician/other.

[AdilFaQah]

Although this is one of the rare instances (haha, geddit? INSTANCES? GM joke...Uh, sorry...) where GMC members are merrily having a light hearted conversation, I have hunch this topic is slowly nearing its demise.

[KC LC]

I have hunch this topic is slowly nearing its demise.

Oh... please. Don't do this. Don't discuss the topic itself, and speculate about when the moderators might closed it. The staff HATE that. It's a sure way to kill the conversation.

It you don't have anything to add to the discussion, then post somewhere else.

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Back on topic:

Speaking of post count, I must admit that displaying it hasn't caused the trouble I feared. So I'm happy about that. There's only been a few times when I had to intervene with members who were obviously trying to inflate their count. It's amazing how removing a few hundred counts from the post count will get someone's attention.

[AdilFaQah]

Back on topic:

Speaking of post count, I must admit that displaying it hasn't caused the trouble I feared. So I'm happy about that. There's only been a few times when I had to intervene with members who were obviously trying to inflate their count. It's amazing how removing a few hundred counts from the post count will get someone's attention.

Wasn't the actual 'topic' about custom user titles and not post counts?

Edited by AdilFaQah, 03 August 2009 - 11:24 PM.

[gmXpert2000]

Back on topic:

Speaking of post count, I must admit that displaying it hasn't caused the trouble I feared. So I'm happy about that. There's only been a few times when I had to intervene with members who were obviously trying to inflate their count. It's amazing how removing a few hundred counts from the post count will get someone's attention.

Wasn't the actual 'topic' about custom user titles and not post counts?

Nope:

I saw that different members have different ranks (e.g. like GMC Member... etc) so i wonder when and how do you advance in ranks and what ranks are there?

So originally, the OP was asking how one gets member ranks which are generally (when automated) tied to post count. For example, a forum might set 1-50 posts to display "new user," 50-100 posts to say "intermediate user," 200+ posts for "super user," etc. Stuff like that.

[AdilFaQah]

So originally, the OP was asking how one gets member ranks which are generally (when automated) tied to post count. For example, a forum might set 1-50 posts to display "new user," 50-100 posts to say "intermediate user," 200+ posts for "super user," etc. Stuff like that.

Well yes, I am aware of that. But I don't see how one could automatically assume that from the original post (considering he himself made no reference whatsoever to a post count based ranking system). And I can't see how the majority of people would either, considering it took till post #19 for anyone to even mention post count (and that too in a light hearted context).

Edited by AdilFaQah, 03 August 2009 - 11:36 PM.

[gmXpert2000]

So originally, the OP was asking how one gets member ranks which are generally (when automated) tied to post count. For example, a forum might set 1-50 posts to display "new user," 50-100 posts to say "intermediate user," 200+ posts for "super user," etc. Stuff like that.

Well yes, I am aware of that. But I don't see how one could automatically assume that from the original post (considering he himself made no reference whatsoever to a post count based ranking system). And I can't see how the majority of people would either, considering it took till post #19 for anyone to even mention post count.

The OP mentions "member ranks" and "advancement"; that implies that he was initially intending to discuss the sort of system I mentioned. That is, where you post (or do *something*) more and eventually advance in ranks (though he seemed to be referring to the user titles, thinking they were member ranks). And because many of these types of member rank systems usually use post count to determine advancement rates, post count is relevant. I think people just didn't seem to realize that he meant this kind of member rank because the first few posts were about usergroups, then they started discussing user titles (and then usernames...lol).

But that's okay, the topic of the thread certainly isn't debating what the topic is. XD

Anyways, there's no member ranking system of any kind, either user titles or actual member ranks; and I doubt there will ever be one. They imply that a higher post count is "better"; in e.g. ragarnak's case, this may be true. But with others, it just means they have too much free time to spend on the GMC.

EDIT: Rewritten, for clarity.

Edited by gmXpert2000, 03 August 2009 - 11:50 PM.

[c_raethke]

The GMC should get a ranking system where you rank up based on how many questions you answer successfully in the Novice Q&A forums... Anyways... I applied for a custom title thing a few months before Chronic decided to stop... wonder what happened to it... lol.

[~Dannyboy~]

Speaking of post count, I must admit that displaying it hasn't caused the trouble I feared. So I'm happy about that. There's only been a few times when I had to intervene with members who were obviously trying to inflate their count. It's amazing how removing a few hundred counts from the post count will get someone's attention.

Indeed. In fact the post count has the opposite effect on me to what you feared; the more posts I have, the more I feel that I have no life.

[AdilFaQah]

The GMC should get a ranking system where you rank up based on how many questions you answer successfully in the Novice Q&A forums.

Won't that be slightly unfair towards members who have some other aspect of game making as their primary forte?

[c_raethke]

Well, then they get the other benefits of that forte. You don't really get much from answering Noob questions. It was also kind of a joke, I don't expect the Admins to go and program something like that anytime soon.

[e_barroga]

The GMC should get a ranking system where you rank up based on how many questions you answer successfully in the Novice Q&A forums.

Won't that be slightly unfair towards members who have some other aspect of game making as their primary forte?

http://dreamincode.net has member ranks (badges): Contributor, Author, Expert, Alumni, etc.

I don't see much difference with it in this case.

[Ethelon]

^^ as well as Zelda fan game central... (zfgc.com). (yay advertisement)
I don't think it really matters, except to encourage users to be more active, but then some users would resort to spamming...