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View Poll Results: What rank system would you like DaemonForums to use? | |||
Kienja's System | 5 | 14.71% | |
BSDForums' Ranks | 1 | 2.94% | |
Unix Hierarchy | 11 | 32.35% | |
Custom Titles (Users choose their own) | 17 | 50.00% | |
Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll |
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When I have a serious question, I usually figure it out myself or find it in a manual page some where. If not, it usually hits an IRC channel or a newsgroup if I need more brains.
My problem is I tend to visit forums that are important to me, at least once each day and read every thread, replying whenever I see a reason to do so or a chance to help out. And _big_ mouths run in my family on _both_ sides !
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Unix Hierarchy for me...
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http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/unix/wizard.html
Lovin' it! :°D |
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Naw, this is a new forum, so what you have to do is make up your own ranks without telling everybody what they are so that they have to post a lot to find out
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Aye, post quality is whats important.
But it takes a human to figure that one out unless you're a good AI Hacker I guess.
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By the way, "Custom titles" can be combined with assigned ranks based on post count, reputation, whatever, for example my rank is "Administrator" and my custom title is "Nexus-6", so the "Custom ranks" option makes no sense.
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Actually, what is named here as Kienja's system, is a ranking system that I proposed as alternative to Kienja's original system, which I found lacking in playfulness and humor.
The ranking is not important at all. It is just tied to the number of posts, hence a quantative indicator and no indication of the quality of the posts. I think we better do some efforts to get daemonforums.org listed on the major BSD websites, then waste our time discussing a ranking system that just means nothing BTW the adminstrator of bsdforums.org probably has copyright on his ranking system.
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Hello,
I do see the value of the reputation system, as it allows the community to deem who is more knowledgeable among them.
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I have a very bad taste for any rep system from another board--devshed, I believe. For example, a number of people hung out there for the socialization more than anything else and had 'guru' type status but you'd never find them in any of the technical forums. Plus, you'd have some with a certain amount of "reps" to give and might give someone 100 rep points cause they talked nice about them.
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So, what were the ranks on BSDForums?
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Does it matter?
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Hello,
I might make a slight modification on the Unix Hierarchy system. And if going by number of posts - which should be incremented by a factor of 2 (hey, this is a computer forum!) starting with 128, so that you don't get the highest level after a handful of posts, I would set it up this way: * beginner - 0-127 posts o insecure with the concept of a terminal* novice - 128-255 posts o knows tha "ls" will produce a directory* user - 256-511 posts o uses vi and nroff, but inexpertly* knowlegable user - 512-1023 posts o uses nroff with no trouble, and is beginning to learn tbl and eqn* expert - 1024-2047 posts o uses sed when necessary* hacker - 2048-4095 posts o uses sed and awk with comfort* guru - 4096-8191 posts o uses m4 and lex with comfort* *** - 8192 and up posts <- this one should be allowed to be user defined or selected from a lists of potential titles -> o writes device drivers with "cat >"
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There is no possible way your number of posts can correlate to your knowledge of BSD. Using the number of 'thanks' as a gauge would be more accurate, but even then still not wholly accurate.
Maybe some kind of 'exam' might be fun. Perhaps 10 or so questions per level to gauge your knowledge and assign your rank? Just an idea. |
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I voted for Kienja's System.
WRT users being able to customize their own titles, there was a forum I used to frequent where this was possible once you reached a post count of 1,000. (In other words, there were titles assigned at various intervals, but once you hit 1,000 you had the option to change your title).
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Well my real opinion is that I think titles and post counts are kind of silly. It makes the forum kind of like a video game or something. I can't imagine how these features could help promote thought or anything.
Last edited by matt; 21st May 2008 at 09:48 PM. |
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