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I did do a search on this aspect of life in WW, all I could gather was that posts in Foo do not count.
The relevancy doesn't matter :) Purely volume.
Neither in Foo nor in Community Center.
The cutoff points change over time, Brett attempts to keep the proportions in each group roughly constant over time.
Some time ago 500 posts were required to become a Senior Member :) . Shortly after I crossed that threshold and celebrated the bar was raised to 600. My self esteem crashed :( :(
But I'll try to resist the temptation, as I wouldn't like to get to many stickies or worse still get removed for posting to many 'me too's'
Apart from this one of course community ;), I'm guessing that banter is ok in some threads, all part of the community thing :)
Yay finally. They have to be the biggest and best "me too" threads around. The banter grinds me.........
not sure how many it takes to become a senior member - shed loads would be my approximation
Most likely the '+1' will also be needed for the other limits mentioned by limbo.
Not too long ago I posted like mad in foo because it didn't need any effort and I was really hacked off to find I was still a Junior Member after a trillian posts.
As previously posted, post counts gets you up the ladder. Foo and community get you zero points. If the Dance is on then you may get zero then.
Admin giveth and admin taketh away.
Me too:)
Not too long ago I posted like mad in foo...
Yeah, I noticed- I think the low point was when I saw you posting replies to your own comments- like you are doing right now. It certainly has the appearance that you are in a race to lift your post count...
Speaking generally, why do people do this? Is it to have their member profile spidered for a PR boost?
Speaking in general, others will know a poster by their contributions; and if a poster leaves behind 600 frothy and flippant posts, they reach a point where their contributions are merely white noise- what kind of reputation will that give them?
What if in the future a potential client stumbles onto your WW posts and they find you chasing your own tail with one sentence posts? I doubt it will establish that poster as much of an authority. It could happen, all they have to do is google your web site and up comes your WW profile, followed by some inane comment.
There are some folks at WW who hardly post but when they do, I pay close attention. There are some folks who haven't been at WW very long but it's immediately apparent that their contributions are valuable- their post count doesn't matter. What does matter is the quality of the post.
There are some around here who may not be as proficient at HTML, applications, or seo but who ask some very good questions. I think it's the ones who ask the good questions who end up being interesting members.
I think that the deeper answer to the question, "How are members classified?" relates less to Junior, Full, etc. and has more to do with the quality of their posts.
[edited by: martinibuster at 3:05 pm (utc) on July 10, 2003]
Read the ToS.
Scott :)
Yeah, I noticed- I think the low point was when I saw you posting replies to your own comments- like you are doing right now. It certainly has the appearance that you are in a race to lift your post count...good point:) the exception being that I am acutely aware it doesn't count...that was the irony of it. Humour that probably wasn't funny.
We can kill the post counts on those threads, too. It doesn't have to be in any specific forum. WebmasterWorld was started by a battle-scarred core of forum refugees, and many of us still actively participate in other forums as well --there isn't much that we haven't experienced. We've asked for defense mechanisms that other bbs apps just don't have.
Yeah, this place is different...
Battle-scarred! It _is_ tough out there, isn't it?
Which is I guess why this forum survives and is popular. You've got a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes!
Post count can be inflated. Joined date tells us how long you've avoided being caught out;)
The best measure of any members quality is in their posts, ie the content and the usefulness, and that indefinable "community spirit"
One thing that is entertaining is to look at very old threads and see totally clueless newb questions from someone who now has hundreds and hundreds of posts to his or her name. You don't see it much but it's startling when you do, until you look at the date. Ohhhhh.... right. :) There's hope for me yet!
That's why the board locks down the old threads. It's often aggravating to start a new thread (msgraph whines about it alllll the time, hhh!), but a time warp has a way of making a thread oddly disjointed --sort of an awkward disconnect in what was supposed to be contiguous thought/conversation.
>bother limiting the member status by whether the poster has subscribed or not
As M_G points out, it is important --when they first arrive. And, I guess it's important for those that are, ummmmm, challenged in the self-esteem department. But adding subscription to the mix would make for a have/havenot class system, imo. Since we're truly a global community, we already have trouble with the wide disparity in incomes being a segregation issue.
Also, I wish there is something better to do with the search ability of the old posts. If, given the nature of the forums, search is a tough thing to do, How about a Detailed FAQ on each Forum and an option to search it before posting a new thread?
Also, how about a little friendly remainder on the top of the Compose Reply Message page telling them to keep the post to the topic as well as a very small note on not to include specifics etc?
Since the knowledge level of people tend to portray with the duration of their membership, (as they read more here) something must be done to bring the new members to close to the same level.
Also, I wish there is an acronym page or a slang page for the newbies. (for e.g., it took a while for me know what "widgets" stand for, as well as SERPs, etc..etc.)
just my 2 paisa
[it is an another typical off-topic post..sheesh :( ]
