Ranks, Thanks and Titles
Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 18:52
So, in my message regarding the latest update, we introduced a new thanks system and I alluded to a new ranks/titles/privileges system. I'm going to expand a little more on my intentions for that now.
Currently, we have a system of 6 ranks: Dungeoneer, Level 1 Dungeoneer, Level 2 Dungeoneer, Level 3 Dungeoneer, Knight and Fright Knight.
You progress through these ranks after making a certain number of posts, and no privileges are consigned to each rank.
Old as this system is, I'm not overly fond of it. I don't think that the ranks have any real meaning or purpose. More posts doesn't necessarily make a better poster or community member and it's worth commenting that none of the admins or moderators have high post counts, i.e. it's even hard to say that the admin team accord the ranks much respect.
My plan is to give ranks based on the 'thanks' system. I think this is a better way to measure things, because it's more indicative of whether the community actually like the contributions of a particular member. So how would such a system work?
In an ideal system, I would base ranks on PageRank (which is what google uses). Essentially:
- Each person receives a rank, which represents how popular their posts are.
- The higher your rank, the more you raise the rank of other people when you 'thank' their posts.
- The more posts you thank, the less you raise the rank of people when you 'thank' their posts.
- Thanking posts has no direct effect on your score (it indirectly raises it ever-so-slightly)
- Unpopular posts have no effect on anything.
The question, then, remains what privileges are given as a result of hitting each rank.
In the future, I intend to moderate all posts containing links. This allows us to lower other security measures that we have in place in order to prevent spam. A possible privilege at a low level would be to post links without moderation.
Other privileges, I have no idea at present. But I'm thinking about it.
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?
Currently, we have a system of 6 ranks: Dungeoneer, Level 1 Dungeoneer, Level 2 Dungeoneer, Level 3 Dungeoneer, Knight and Fright Knight.
You progress through these ranks after making a certain number of posts, and no privileges are consigned to each rank.
Old as this system is, I'm not overly fond of it. I don't think that the ranks have any real meaning or purpose. More posts doesn't necessarily make a better poster or community member and it's worth commenting that none of the admins or moderators have high post counts, i.e. it's even hard to say that the admin team accord the ranks much respect.
My plan is to give ranks based on the 'thanks' system. I think this is a better way to measure things, because it's more indicative of whether the community actually like the contributions of a particular member. So how would such a system work?
In an ideal system, I would base ranks on PageRank (which is what google uses). Essentially:
- Each person receives a rank, which represents how popular their posts are.
- The higher your rank, the more you raise the rank of other people when you 'thank' their posts.
- The more posts you thank, the less you raise the rank of people when you 'thank' their posts.
- Thanking posts has no direct effect on your score (it indirectly raises it ever-so-slightly)
- Unpopular posts have no effect on anything.
The question, then, remains what privileges are given as a result of hitting each rank.
In the future, I intend to moderate all posts containing links. This allows us to lower other security measures that we have in place in order to prevent spam. A possible privilege at a low level would be to post links without moderation.
Other privileges, I have no idea at present. But I'm thinking about it.
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?