The Ranking System....

Impaler · #1 11-22-2005, 04:27 AM

This will probably have been spoke about before but I haven't noticed it. Anyway, I just thot I'd get some opininons on whether the ranking system is a positive or a negative thing on the forum. As we know this forum, like any other, contains bitchyness and arguments but does the ranking system add to tension between member's? I mean certain members might think that because they have a higher rank there opinion matters more. Newbies are also easily identified and could be abused causing people to leave. Anyway just wondering wot people thot...

***Nate*** · #2 11-22-2005, 09:46 AM

1) We would recognise newbies anyway due to the fact that they are unfamiliar.
2) The people with the higher ranks are only bitchy to people who post spammy or stupid things.
3) The only people I've seen who act bitchy about their post count are those with less than 1000 posts. Any of the true veterans are past caring.

In any case, we're discussing this already in the "My Pondering of Posts" thread.

Impaler · #3 11-24-2005, 12:18 AM

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In any case, we're discussing this already in the "My Pondering of Posts" thread.

That means that thread went of topic, hence why I didn't notice it

Oddish · #4 11-24-2005, 04:00 AM

Title and ranks are only there just for fun, in more serous words not boring. It goes with the oddworld theme.

Also I like to note that Alcar promised us SW titles someday, and skin.

Havoc · #5 11-24-2005, 04:55 AM

SW Titles and skin! W00t

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But yea, the ranks are just for fun. It's not like anyone here can pull rank on anyone else. Well, I did that once. But that was a special case :P.

Rex Tirano · #6 11-24-2005, 08:03 AM

Every other forum has ranks, so it would e stupid for us not to. They're only ait of fun and I haven't seen any spammers spamming just to get their post ranks up in a very long time.

- Rexy

Rich · #7 11-24-2005, 08:09 AM

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Also I like to note that Alcar promised us SW titles someday, and skin.

I think they were due in May of... wait... this year?

***Wil*** · #8 11-24-2005, 10:48 AM

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Every other forum has ranks, so it would e stupid for us not to.

Why should we be limited to what other boards do? Surely we can judge the merits and drawbacks of ideas on our own without resorting to tu quoque arguments.

Although post counts and stars don't seem to be an issue right now (despite discussion of them having cropped up), I still think they're nothing but negative points. The number of posts someone has made should be incidental information, not like their join date and location which can prove valuable in responding to posts. The only thing that is fun are the ranks, which I'm not in favour of removing. The stars and post counts on the postbits, though.

EDIT: We did have a Stranger's Wrath template at one point. What happened to it?

Oddish · #9 11-24-2005, 10:55 AM

I remember Alcar saying that it'll change when SW is released worldwide, so we have to wait until about seven months ago.

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Every other forum has ranks, so it would e stupid for us not to.
- Rexy

Well not every forums, some which don't they usally have alot of members. I know one, but they are not so strict with spamming.

Salamander · #10 11-24-2005, 05:47 PM

we auctually did have a stranger skin, remeber? right after that dude hacked the forums.
besides stars and titles are just ways of acknowledging more frequent members

Havoc · #11 11-24-2005, 11:25 PM

I already forgot how that looked completely. Anyone have a screeny? And why isn't it around anymore?

Oddish · #12 11-25-2005, 07:11 AM

Actualy the skin that was used during our hacked forums was a defualt vBulletin skin, only the banner had a stranger theme. The SW skin wasn't finnished, and probably still isn't.

Rex Tirano · #13 11-25-2005, 08:37 AM

As much as I love him, this is Alcar we're talking about... He procrastinates with the best of them. So I think Oddish is right, it's prolly not even finished yet.

- Rexy

***Wil*** · #14 11-25-2005, 09:54 AM

No, there was one. It had the Grubb Graveyard from the opening movie of the game at the top of the screen, but it was repeated twice and looked rather tacky IMO. It used to show up as the Forum default when I wasn't signed in.

Rich · #15 11-27-2005, 03:08 AM

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No, there was one. It had the Grubb Graveyard from the opening movie of the game at the top of the screen, but it was repeated twice and looked rather tacky IMO. It used to show up as the Forum default when I wasn't signed in.

That's the one in the EL, right? It's never been on the actual forums as such.

***Wil*** · #16 11-27-2005, 06:46 AM

I thought the one in EL was different - it just had a brown colour scheme and a sepia OWF sign of cut-and-paste Western-style letters with D. Caste Raider standing next to them. In any case, it's not there now.

Rex Tirano · #17 11-27-2005, 06:50 AM

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I thought the one in EL was different - it just had a brown colour scheme and a sepia OWF sign of cut-and-paste Western-style letters with D. Caste Raider standing next to them. In any case, it's not there now.

Because you're not a mod. Only staff can see it. [I think...]

- Rexy

Rich · #18 11-27-2005, 07:01 AM

She's got it right.

And I think it's the one you mean Max, with the badly spliced graveyard image.

Mojo · #19 11-27-2005, 09:29 AM

Yeah, I remember that as well.
Thought it was fun though.