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Post by andrewlee on Jun 17, 2009 17:55:51 GMT -6
Being this situation would often prove to be difficult, but not always.
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Post by Dataholic on Aug 17, 2009 15:13:28 GMT -6
I'm sure this won't be popular with some people, but I've decided to adjust the forum ranks a little. The first post is updated to reflect the changes. Apologies to those who were knocked down a rank. I still feel that it's pretty reasonable.
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Post by Dax123 on Aug 17, 2009 15:16:06 GMT -6
I dont understand completly. What has beenchanged?
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Post by Dataholic on Aug 17, 2009 15:22:37 GMT -6
Basically I made it a little tougher to increase your rank. I looked at the ranks today and thought it looked too easy to move up to higher ranks, so I increased the amount of posts needed to move up.
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Post by Dax123 on Aug 17, 2009 15:23:56 GMT -6
Oh I get it! Good idea! Now we have to work harder!
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Post by j on Aug 17, 2009 15:24:59 GMT -6
For example, you used to only need 20 posts to get the ensign rank, now it takes 50 posts.
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Post by trelane on Aug 17, 2009 16:31:21 GMT -6
That's unfortunate. Even though I'm not one of those members to do this, keep in mind that people could just post-post-post (almost one word, or non-sensical things) continuously to "make up" the extra post requirements for quicker rank, so the quality of postings could go down substantially as I've seen in other forums where rank post requirements were raised, and thus, the "intelligent discussion" I read about in Matt's "Everyone Please Read" post today decreases and may become more of a serious issue for those who Matt mentions have complained about it.
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Post by macawol on Aug 17, 2009 16:37:52 GMT -6
Well, rank to me isn't really that important, but it is nice to see who is actually active on a forum.
But should you make rank really interesting, you should let status/karma affect it too, but from what I know that isn't possible.
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Post by Dataholic on Aug 17, 2009 17:09:31 GMT -6
Well, rank to me isn't really that important, but it is nice to see who is actually active on a forum. But should you make rank really interesting, you should let status/karma affect it too, but from what I know that isn't possible. We actually used to do something like that Mac, but IIRC we had some issues with the system. I don't remember much more off the top of my head. I think it was tough to fully implement.
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Post by Dataholic on Aug 17, 2009 17:11:44 GMT -6
That's unfortunate. Even though I'm not one of those members to do this, keep in mind that people could just post-post-post (almost one word, or non-sensical things) continuously to "make up" the extra post requirements for quicker rank, so the quality of postings could go down substantially as I've seen in other forums where rank post requirements were raised, and thus, the "intelligent discussion" I read about in Matt's "Everyone Please Read" post today decreases and may become more of a serious issue for those who Matt mentions have complained about it. Well, I'm hoping that with that post fresh in people's minds, they don't go crazy trying to increase rank. I don't think rank is really that big of a deal. I barely even look at my own post count these days. I just happened to look at post requirements today and thought they looked a little too easy to attain.
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Post by andrewlee on Aug 17, 2009 18:27:13 GMT -6
I understand to a point for your making it harder to earn ranks, needing more posts to attain them. I'm not grumbling, but am a bit disappointed that my rank was reduced because of this since I worked so hard to get there. Some people who are negative may not agree with my last statement , but it is their problem not mine!
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Post by Apollo on Aug 18, 2009 15:54:46 GMT -6
Well i've gone down a little, and feel like Harry Kim, not getting that promotion i worked so hard for
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Post by Dataholic on Aug 18, 2009 16:03:50 GMT -6
Don't worry guys, you'll get back to where you were soon enough. I'm not gonna raise the post counts again when you get to the next rank.
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Post by Dax123 on Aug 18, 2009 16:05:19 GMT -6
I dont mind having a black pip! Besides its not the rank that matters!
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Post by Luke on Aug 19, 2009 9:54:00 GMT -6
I'm not so sure about changing the ranks because its a little unfair to those of us who cant log on every day like some people I could mention.
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