Number of posts

[AngelaG]

Just as a fun exercise I have fiddled with the site so that according to the number of posts you do you get a rank (at the moment most people are Unranked which means less than 50 posts). At the moment I have based this on the Karate Belt system, but as I think this may cause some confusion, with people thinking that it is people's actual grades. I am thinking about changing it.

Does anyone have any ideas about what to change it to?

Angela

[dojo]

Well .. I don't know. When I was usinfg YABB (this script) and afterwards the phpbb for my forums I thought about putting a rank system. After that I just stopped. I've noticed it's not that important and your members could live without it. Of course it looks cool, but then you'll have people who'll post crap just to get to a higher rank. And then, to keep your forum clean and nice you'll have to delete and delete and so on, so I think it's not worth the effort.
My opinion

[Aefibird]

I think it could work on KR. The members on here seem to be folks who wouldn't just post for the sake of it - we all seem sane enough to know that a high rank on a message board ain't one of lifes big deals.

However, if the forum got more 'populated' and eejits started using it then there may be some who would post just to get a bigger post count. The mods on here are all good folks and would soon sort out any trouble, but it may not be worth the effort.

[AngelaG]

Aefibird said:

I think it could work on KR. The members on here seem to be folks who wouldn't just post for the sake of it - we all seem sane enough to know that a high rank on a message board ain't one of lifes big deals.

However, if the forum got more 'populated' and eejits started using it then there may be some who would post just to get a bigger post count. The mods on here are all good folks and would soon sort out any trouble, but it may not be worth the effort.

If I did implement it what sort of 'fun' rank system do you think I could use? Like I said I worry that if I do it as a martial art belt system people will think that's the grade of the people on here... other ideas?

[Aefibird]

How about martial arts weapons??
Y'know you could start out a new user with a bo staff and then have them progress up to a katana (via nunchaku, sai, kama etc etc) when they've made enough posts! ;D

Or... a picture of a white karate gi that turns greyer and greyer the more they use the site - like white gi do in real life...

Sorry, I'm in a bit of a silly mood today... ;D

[dojo]

The idea is quite cute Or just a belt that's turning greyer as post pass by (so that we give credit to the myth that the white belt turns into black from all the dirt, sweat and blood. ;D

If I'm allowed to be obnoxious I'd have something against the big header and buttons above They kinda fill the page in such a way the page itself becomes huge and has an horizontal scroll (maybe it's better for greater resolutions). Please don't hate me Angela I know how much work you have put into everything and I'm here to help whenever you need me That would be my problem, although it's not a problem. I'm just impossible

[AngelaG]

dojo said:

The idea is quite cute Or just a belt that's turning greyer as post pass by (so that we give credit to the myth that the white belt turns into black from all the dirt, sweat and blood. ;D

If I'm allowed to be obnoxious I'd have something against the big header and buttons above They kinda fill the page in such a way the page itself becomes huge and has an horizontal scroll (maybe it's better for greater resolutions). Please don't hate me Angela I know how much work you have put into everything and I'm here to help whenever you need me That would be my problem, although it's not a problem. I'm just impossible

RIGHT! That's it get off my forum.

I do agree with you about the buttons. There will be new, improved buttons soon!

Thanks for your imput.
Angela