How do you become a Preferred Member?

[Jesse_Smith]

Here's a newbie question, how do you become a Preferred Member?

[jeremy goodrich]

# of posts.

I forget the current threshold...but, posts in the Local category don't increase the total...

[Go60Guy]

I think its 250.

[Jesse_Smith]

251

[jdMorgan]

It was a trick question!

Congrats on the bump, Jesse_Smith! :)

Jim

[Jesse_Smith]

I always thought that was the title for paid members. I joined today and noticed that every one on the Supporters Forum had diffterent titles. That's why I asked!!!!! I just asked a little too soon!!!!!!!!!!!

[takagi]

Another small detail about the 'joined date' is that if you change the time zone (System Preferences [webmasterworld.com] > Time Zone Offset) to -12 or +12, the 'joined date' will change. So if you check all 24 options, you can even close in at what time a member joined WW.

BTW, not every post counts. For example posts in the Foo forum won't increase the number of posts.

[Jesse_Smith]

Here's another little join date trick. Notice some members have a ':' after Joined and others have '-'?

joined:Dec
joined-Feb

Paid members have the -

[Sinner_G]

Paid members have the -

Not sure about that theory, I guess the first poster in this thread [webmasterworld.com] must at least have the status of a paid member. :)

[Shak]

Jesse,

very good observation indeed, this has been discussed a # of times before.

I wonder if there are any other hidden gems at Webmasterworld :)

Shak

[Jesse_Smith]

Moderators and admins don't have the - . I found out about the - right on the Support board, from some one else there pointing that out.

[takagi]

Another small detail about the 'joined date' is ...

The reason I started my posting on msg 7 this way, was that in a previous message the '-' in the 'joined date' was mentioned. But that message was removed within an hour or so.