Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Rezwan]

Alex Pollard wrote: Can we have some change to this classification system?

What titles do you suggest?

Like Brian says, this is a strictly volume based feature of the forums. It counts posts, without evaluating their quality. Machines are simple that way.

But I don’t have to use the word “newbie”. And I can make the cut off anywhere. For example, most people who join don’t even post once. We could have under 5 posts be “newbie” and then go to other designations. Like call everyone “esteemed colleague”. And then anyone with more than 100 posts “verbose colleague”. Just for fun, we could make multiple cut off points and have people’s titles change randomly, with a “silly babbler” title that pops up between 112-114 posts. We can cut it pretty fine.

Also, some people skip all that, like me, with “admin”. So, once the site gets more organized and we figure out a good way to delegate moderation and authorship and editing, people will have new titles.

As to changing titles based on quality of posts…that would require integrating a ranking system into the forums. I know of a ranking system for articles, which I have downloaded, but not integrated, since the code has to be – well, it’s a low priority, I’ll figure it out down the road. I don’t know if I can use this with the forums, too. That’s advanced.

But it’s a useful feature, so it’s on the list of things to look into.

So…standing by for title suggestions.