2 questions...

1) What is a flame war?

2) What are the user rating levels, where it says junior member, member and senior member? Can anyone specify the bands?


Thanx.

1) When people start insulting eachother.

2) less the 30 post: junior member
between 30 and 100 posts: member
100 posts or more: senior member

Flame (http://www.insane.com/jargon/html/entry/flame.html)

flame wars are threads wher people make 5 word posts to inflit maximum damage on oppants ego and BBS space and admin patience. not good thing

I was wondering and thought that it would be kewl if you introduced more rankings, to make people post more, seeing as the tend to stop as soon as they become a senior member or simply just a member.

I am thinking of some possibilities for ranks, and I will post them on the boards a bit later, when I get home.


Ionsurge.

Three ranks are just not enough when it comes to those who have made something like 800 posts, or even more. A rank of senior member is just not enough, they need something a little bit more than that.


Ionsurge.

Additional user rankings will be added at some point. All that's needed is some free time on my part to think these things through.

Wohoo, I got a reply from the admin!

I got some floating around my head. I will post them later.

Ionsurge.

seeing as all big BBS try to get as many features as the others i suppose that VB has custom user levels according to post number? that would be great but dont have boring things like mega-ultra-very old-senior member. maybe we could have titles like "elder" "apprectice", but then people would think its a sect ;)

Godlike or inhuman?


hrmm.... that sounds good - it can go into my list.



Ionsurge.

just to have thrown my two cents in where it's not needed, a rank based on the number of posts, will always be sort of silly. do we even really need the ranks at all? they're of little to no importance/use, aside from knowing who's a mod, and who's not, and that's posted in every forum, anyway.

we're all members, no matter how many posts we've made, and as far as being a senior member is concerned, a senior member is someone who's been around long enough to start answering more questions than they ask, has been in a few good discussions, and has had the good sense to stay out of a few bad ones.

just my opinion

i think the rankings are pretty cool.
although i dont pay much attention to them
i dont think they should be removed, and adding a few more ranks would be a good idea

the other thing is imagine a really talented web designer just joins and only has a few posts, does that mean that his post count refelcts his level? no!

Originally posted by whackaxe
the other thing is imagine a really talented web designer just joins and only has a few posts, does that mean that his post count refelcts his level? no!

A high post count doesn't reflect the level of talent but it does indicate a likelihood that the responder will be around for followup questions. The converse isn't true though, a low post count doesn't mean the responder won't be around for long as everyone with a high post count had to start with a low count.

It doesn't but when I joined I didn't like the fact that I was a junior memeber, I worked all day and night for a week to get 30 posts which. (This didn't include posts to up the count they were proper..)