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Reinsnitz
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
3545 Posts |
 Posted - 13 March 2003 : 15:07:17
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Everyone vote in the poll to give your feedback on weather or not we should change the numbers tied to stars and ranks here in the forums!!!
Proposal:
1st = 100
2nd = 500
3rd = 1,000
4th = 5,000
5th = 10,000
Poll Results:
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PeeWee.Inc
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1893 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2003 : 15:14:20
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nooooo! i only just got 4 stars  |
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Steve D.
Average Member
USA
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GauravBhabu
Advanced Member
4288 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2003 : 15:28:52
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Is is because too many members are getting 4/5 stars or some other reason?
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TestMagic
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 13 March 2003 : 15:51:50
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As Snitz matures, there are naturally going to be many more people who pass the 1,000-, 2,000-, 5,000-, and 10,000-post mark. I assume, Mike, that you had this idea because of the number of people who are now venturing into this territory that was once reserved for the Admins and founders. Of course, it's a great thing that more people are "joining the ranks," but I assume you're looking for a way to differentiate the really high posters (you know who you are) from the others. It all makes sense.
That said, I also think that the current Snitz Star Levels are actually pretty demanding. How many members does Snitz have? Should be 20,000 or more (I believe Richard deleted some inactive users some time back), and how many of those have even made it past 100? I just checked the members.asp page, and there were 717 pages of members. I went to the 7th page, just to get a rough approximation of the top 1% of posters and see at the end of that page is a member with 147 posts. So, from this admittedly hasty assessment, we could say that only 1% of all Snitzers make more than approximately 150 posts. In other words, the range in the top 1% is enormous--from 150 to 15,000.
Okay, I'm realizing that I'm spending more time on this than I should, so what I want to say is this--it's good to have a system that would encourage new posters to participate, but a system that could show some recognition for the high posters--the best of both worlds. Not sure if there's an easy solution to this, though!  |
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Reinsnitz
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
3545 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2003 : 18:23:46
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| ah test :) but that is why the first two stars are very atainable... at 100... most people can get there with ANY amount of partisipation... 500 if you stick arround a little while... and 1000 is actualy not that hard if your helping out regularly... now the rest is for the finatics :) |
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spyordie007
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 13 March 2003 : 18:32:40
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I would agree with TestMagic, considering that 99% (based upon his observations) of the forums' members dont have their second star it is quite safe where it is. Besides I dont have any  |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 13 March 2003 : 21:02:22
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Under the proposed plan then, there'd be about 3 5 star member and 4 4 star members with everyone else being 3 or less. That's a pretty small fraction of the community.
Look at the top ten posters: Richard, Ruirib, HuwR, Davio, Frutzle, Nathan, Gor, Doug G, Gremlin, GauravBhabu. Anyone who visits Snitz regularly will know who these people are because of their contributions to the forum. They're all over the place.
Changing the star allocation is not going to make them any more appreciated than they already are, but it might make someone starting out feel unappreciated.
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Bookie
Average Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 13 March 2003 : 23:24:58
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I say leave them where they are.
<edit>Sorry, just saw the poll link. Disregard this message... I voted. |
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Edited by - Bookie on 13 March 2003 23:26:01 |
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Posted - 13 March 2003 : 23:26:22
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What are these stars used for anyway?  |
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
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Steve D.
Average Member
USA
640 Posts |
Posted - 14 March 2003 : 00:06:06
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| Personally I think that Custom Titles encourage more participation. Once someone reaches 5 stars or beyond that entitles them to some distinction and that could be a custom title. |
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 14 March 2003 : 00:09:09
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Originally posted by Steve D.
Polling capabilities? Is something that will be built in functionality? Or continue to be a mod
this is just something I put together, originally for a "Forum of the Year" award, but modified it to work with this. It's not very configurable, but serves the purpose for which it was designed. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
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Posted - 14 March 2003 : 00:15:36
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| *see's an opportunity to promote his poll mod to be included in the base code* |
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Steve D.
Average Member
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Nathan
Help Moderator
USA
7664 Posts |
Posted - 14 March 2003 : 01:04:40
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| *doesn't see an opertunity, but reguardless, promotes Active Usere to be included in the base code* |
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