If you get down to the technical side of things, the # of posts in your profile is the number of total posts you have entered to this current version of the forum, not how many of the total posts currently are by you. The top 20 members in terms of # of posts on the forum currently will come to about 50-55%... and the other 45-50% are made by a very large group... so I don't consider this a private conversation by any means, or anywhere near that.
<font color=blue>Muhammad, as long as we are going to have titles, I urge you to make them consistent...</font color=blue>
Out of 1339 members, less than a dozen have titles that do not correspond with the number of posts they have entered. That includes me.
<font color=blue>We now have people with the same number of posts with different titles, and vice versa.</font color=blue>
Yes, I know... sometimes this will happen. Currently there are a few that I will change soon that are titled based on the old system that required fewer posts to earn a higher title.
<font color=blue>No one "earned" these titles; they are just a device you are using, by arbitrary fiat, to denote post-count contribution, and you should change them and adjust the titles accordingly.</font color=blue>
While the majority of members earn their titles based on the number of posts they enter, other titles, higher or lower than the total number of posts that they have, can in fact be earned for various reasons.
I agree that those who earned a title based on the old title system should be adjusted to be consistent. But like I said above… there are very few members in this category… it is not like half of our members are incorrectly titled. It is probably 5 or 6 that would be changed.
<font color=blue> I also think you MUST have a special title for 1000 posts</font color=blue>
We could make Veteran Member a 1000 post title, and raise the bar for the others as well, but I really don’t think adding more titles is something we want to do, especially since we just removed two from the ‘earn by posting’ system.
<font color=blue> Perhaps you could use Star Member to designate 1000. 2000 could be a Two Star Member, etc.--like army generals.</font color=blue>
Not a bad idea – but those would be titles that are awarded like star member is currently – on an individual bases… since I really don’t think a user should be able to post that many messages without getting enough of my attention for me to award them with ‘Star Member’.
<font color=blue> Finally, I think we should have searchable profiles</font color=blue>
That is something I will look into…
<font color=blue>Muhammad, as long as we are going to have titles, I urge you to make them consistent...</font color=blue>
Out of 1339 members, less than a dozen have titles that do not correspond with the number of posts they have entered. That includes me.
<font color=blue>We now have people with the same number of posts with different titles, and vice versa.</font color=blue>
Yes, I know... sometimes this will happen. Currently there are a few that I will change soon that are titled based on the old system that required fewer posts to earn a higher title.
<font color=blue>No one "earned" these titles; they are just a device you are using, by arbitrary fiat, to denote post-count contribution, and you should change them and adjust the titles accordingly.</font color=blue>
While the majority of members earn their titles based on the number of posts they enter, other titles, higher or lower than the total number of posts that they have, can in fact be earned for various reasons.
I agree that those who earned a title based on the old title system should be adjusted to be consistent. But like I said above… there are very few members in this category… it is not like half of our members are incorrectly titled. It is probably 5 or 6 that would be changed.
<font color=blue> I also think you MUST have a special title for 1000 posts</font color=blue>
We could make Veteran Member a 1000 post title, and raise the bar for the others as well, but I really don’t think adding more titles is something we want to do, especially since we just removed two from the ‘earn by posting’ system.
<font color=blue> Perhaps you could use Star Member to designate 1000. 2000 could be a Two Star Member, etc.--like army generals.</font color=blue>
Not a bad idea – but those would be titles that are awarded like star member is currently – on an individual bases… since I really don’t think a user should be able to post that many messages without getting enough of my attention for me to award them with ‘Star Member’.
<font color=blue> Finally, I think we should have searchable profiles</font color=blue>
That is something I will look into…
