Titles

[jstarkey]

Ok, we need a system for titles. Any suggestions? We've gotta have a no-life title after like 2,000 posts, for starters.

[teddyjas]

what you mean by system for titles???

[jstarkey]

Under your user name, in your posts, you'll see "Junior Member". The titles change after a certain amount of posts. We can edit those and make them a little more PHP specific. Like instead of Junior Member we could have Junior Coder. Then maybe, after 100 posts it'd be Senior Coder.

[JimF]

Why don't you have it follow the PHP release version numbers.

Hello, I'm Jim. I'm a 4.0.6. :)

-jim

[kriek]

I suggest this system:

* Newbie: 0 - 24 posts
* Scripter: 25 - 49 posts
* Developer: 50 - 99 posts
* Programmer: 100 - 249 posts
* Professional: 250 - 499 posts
* Master: 500 - 999 posts
* Guru: 1000+ posts
* Site Admin - Duh!

[tomhath]

The current labels seem okay to me; they probably only have meaning to occasional visitors anyway, since those who haunt this forum regularly get to know the knowlegable posters.

I suppose there's no way to know it, but there should be a title like "posted hundreds of times but most of them are wrong". Seriously I kinda don't like the implication that a lot of posts makes someone a professional or guru. I gave up on usenet because of the trolls who posted dozens of times a day.

Here's a non-linear suggestion, you might try a feedback system like ebay. Instead of number of posts, have a "Rate This Post".

[TheSoko]

Could do uhh... all sorts of crazy things that happen to have some sort of rank, like...

Bit
Byte
Kilobyte
Megabyte
Gigabyte
Terrabyte

Orr uhhh...

Hmm, I dunno, is there something fairly orderly in PHP that could be a funny inside/geeky joke? :)

[JimF]

Likewise to tomhath, I don't think that a title implying that someone is a newbie based on number of posts is appropriate, either.

I do like the title 'Zend Master' though :).

-jim

[dar-k]

0 - 24 posts: PHP Beginner
25 - 49 posts: PHP Junior
50 - 99 posts: PHP Geek
100 - 249 posts: PHP Veteran
250 - 499 posts: PHP Expert
500 - 999 posts: PHP God
1000+ posts: Rasmus Lerdorf

:D

[stuartc1]

what about:

0-200 post in 6 moths - PHP person
0-200 post in 2 months - PHP Developer
0-200 post in 1 week - PHP Maniac
o-200 post in 1 day - PHP Ninja

but to be serious, I think a voting system would be the best idea too.

[Weedpacket]

Quantity and rate of posting probably don't signify all that much - someone could either be very knowledgable and have lots of good advice, or they might just not have anything better to do :). Me? I'm not suggesting anything....No, I don't think 16 posts per day is a lot. A single thread might run on interminably simply because of the need to isolate just what the problem is becomes so involved it turns into a case of "debugging by remote control"; that can really bloat post rates.

The varying titles would be more useful if they could reflect the credibility and understanding of the member - that would probably require some sort of rating system - either "rate this post" or "rate this member" (sorry, self-rating and multiple votes are not allowed :)). But for that to yield signficant results, then significant numbers of votes have to be collected. Does anyone actually rate threads at present?

[mykg4orce]

can my title be changed to:

mykg4orce
"a monkey can shoot better"

[largo]

Would it be possible to include a "was this response helpful to you" question on posted replies? Then we can count helpful replies as true posts.

[dannys]

Thing is - as has been said above - people generally don't bother rating things.

People need only browse the forums for a little while to work out who's who. Who cares what a member's rating is just so long as they answer your question? :)

[largo]

true, true....

Junior Member # 399281 signing off :rolleyes:

[gsfgf]

vB has a rate member feature. Could you force that to be on?
Also, an admin can change titles. If someone's worthless, you can give them a custom title saying so.

[brøken]

Newbie = Parse Error

i dunno, im tired :)