New ranking system on forums- tell me how its workin?

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How does the Ranking system work? I saw someone that is coppertop with only 2 posts... I have 4, and I'm still blue..... Im so confused!!!

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Chuui

As best I can work out the ranking system is based both on number of posts and your overall rating for posts that you make (this last part is affected by other forum posters and wide open to abuse).

The ranks I know of so far are as follows:

Redpill - still not sure what this is given for.
Bluepill - seems to be average rating and low to medium post count
Coppertop - seems to be good rating and low post count
Controller - seems to be high rating, possibly higher post count
Awakened - low rating with a higher post count
Admin - Red in colour like redpills, but bold. Obviously only admins have this
TSR - orange in color and bold. Only for SOE tech support

This is only based on what I've seen and may or may not be accurate.

HTH

Globin

I havent seen anyone with a redpill rank yet, but i guess it's there.. In my opinion, the way these ranks work are really stupid

Chuui

Yeah I've only seen two redpills, and both were before the forum reset. And as you can see, although I was "Controller" rank earlier, someone decided to go through my posting history and one star pretty much everything. The rating system is far too abusable at this time for it to mean anything.

Globin

That's exactly why they dropped it from the SWG forum's. People were
just abusing it, then they added a forum ranking system which
incorporated Time Subscribed to the Game and Posts. I'll post details
on how they did it with swg later, it's very interesting and something
that the board master should look into.

Mr.Wido

Globin wrote:
That's exactly why they dropped it from the SWG forum's. People were just abusing it, then they added a forum ranking system which incorporated Time Subscribed to the Game and Posts. I'll post details on how they did it with swg later, it's very interesting and something that the board master should look into.

/agreed.. just too much abuse potential..

And everyone has a different opinion about what a 5 star post should be vs a 1 star post.

Mrs.Wido

Mr.Wido wrote:

/agreed.. just too much abuse potential..

And everyone has a different opinion about what a 5 star post should be vs a 1 star post.

And the old popularity thing comes into play as well..

five stars for the hubby...

Mr.Wido

Mrs.Wido wrote:

And the old popularity thing comes into play as well..

five stars for the hubby...

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Guess we'll have to settle for those in the GAT.. but this forum is more like.. the GOF - General Off Topic forum..

Globin

Hmm, just got an Operative rank, dont have a clue what the requirements for it are though..

Mr.Wido

Maybe a 50 post count?

**RemagDiv**

If this works like the SWG ranking system, it's based on registration
date, total post count, and message ratings people give to you.

Globin

Doubt it, haven't seen it before and there are plenty of people with 50+ posts

Chuui

Can't be post count as Globin and I have the same count. It must still be too do with rating, although our profiles both show an average of 3 stars... The rating system not only needs to be controlled better, but it needs a proper explanation.

As for people having a different idea as to what a 5 star post is, this could be solved by two means, the first (if possible) would be to restrict everyone to the "basic" rating system. A helpful post would thus be 5 and non-helpful one, 1. Still open to abuse though. The other alternative (again, if possible) is to have messages sent to a moderator, via a reccomendation system. Similar to the basic rating, but instead of applying the ranking right off the bat, the post is flagged for a moderator to read and then decide if it's either non-helpful, or helpful or neither. This cuts down on abuse and solves the problem of differing ideas of what is a 5 star post and what isn't.

As to whether either system can be done, still remains to be seen.

Globin

SWG's Ranking system::

Forum Ranking System

All users under 1 month "New Member"

There are 30 ranks after new member 6 of those are star ranks. Posters will get the normal rank -or- if their star rating is high enough they will get the star rank,
star ranks will override any normal ranks. The only benefit of the star
ranks is that you get them sooner than the normal community rank. All
ranks above crewman have a "officer" insignia, gold for star ranks,
Silver for regular ranks.

The colors that the line is written in below will be the "name" color for each rank

Required for rank 1 (Member same as current) 1 month minimum
Required for rank 2 (Community Member same as current) 1 month minimum 50 post (Edit Granted)
Required for rank 3 (Sr. Member) 2 month minimum (Edit Granted)
Required for rank 4 (Sr. Community Member) 2 month minimum 75 post
Required for rank 5 (Contributor) 4 month minimum
Required for rank 6 (Community Contributor) 4 month minimum 100 post ----New Icons Granted-----
Required for rank 7 (Veteran) 6 month minimum
Required for rank 8 (Community Veteran same as current) 6 month minimum 125 post
Required for rank 9 (Guide) 8 month minimum
Required for rank 10 (Community Guide) 8 month minimum 175 post

----New Icons Granted-----
Required for rank 11 (Elder same as current) 9 month minimum
Required for rank 12 (Community Elder same as current) 9 month minimum 250 post
Required for rank 13 (Advisor) 10 month minimum
Required for rank 14 (Community Advisor) 10 month minimum 300 post

----New Icons Granted-----
Required for rank 15 (Leader) 12 month minimum
Required for rank 16 (Community Leader same as current) 12 month minimum 325 post
Required for rank 17 (Advocate) 14 month minimum
Required for rank 18 (Community Advocate) 12 month minimum 350 post
Required for rank 19 SWG Crewman 16 month minimum (Officer insignia appears)
Required for rank 20 SWG Petty Officer 18 month minimum
Required for rank 21 (Pilot) 12 month minimum 400 post

----New Icons Granted----- (planned)
Required for rank 22 SWG Chief Petty Officer 24 month minimum
Required for rank 23 SWG Ensign 28 month minimum
Required for rank 24 (Squadron Leader) 16 month minimum 425 post
Required for rank 25 SWG Second Lieutenant 30 month minimum

----New Icons Granted----- (planned)
Required for rank 26 SWG Lieutenant 36 month minimum
Required for rank 27 (Wing Commander) 20 month minimum 450 post
Required for rank 28 SWG Commander 40 month minimum
Required for rank 29 (Jedi) 32 month minimum 500 post

----New Icons Granted----- (planned)

Required for rank 30 SWG Captain 48 month minimum

----New Icons Granted----- (planned)
Required for rank 31 (Master Jedi) 48 month minimum 1000 post

If we had something like this it would all be so much easier to understand..