Senior Member ?!?
 

Ok ... merely crossing the 100 post threshold ought not = seniority!

There ought to be a test! How about this - pass your CLP and have 200 thanks, then you qualify.

Therefore, my new signature, just to warn everyone.

Steve

Re: Senior Member ?!?
 

So that's why I'm still "junior", even after lurking here for over a year and a half. I'm going to start posting "me too" after every topic i see. :p

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I'm "senior member " yet I'm still not very good with Linux! I'm more of a Vista guy (for now) :)
I hope i don't get flamed for my OS orientation, if I do, is that segregation? lol

to come back to the topic, maybe we should have more "types of member" than just junior and senior ?
how about adding a couple more in between, you don't suddenly become a Linux guru when u pass from 99 posts to 100, it takes times, patience, hours spent messing around on a tablet, and A LOT of ITT reading :D

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i wholeheartedly agree with el amir except for vista......heck i have to look up in google half of what i read..well more like 3/4 we need a middle ground...maybe apprentice senior member...then journeyman senior member...etc...

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Senior member only means you have 100 post its really just to give you a bigger PM box. But Reggie could make some new titles for certin people that know what they are talking about.

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Well, we do have more than just Junior and Senior; there's just plain "Member", between about 25 (not sure on this end) and 100. Quite frankly, the whole thing seems pointless to me; I can look at the number of posts just fine by myself, and don't generally ascribe much assumption of experience or knowledge based on post counts. You can mostly tell by the post content anyway...


Edit: Ahh... missed your post, Andrew. That makes sense; I hadn't really used PMs to speak of before I was a senior, so I didn't notice that. Still, I don't think, even with more graduations, a post count is useful for as a measure of anything more than post quantity. (Once it gets above Junior status, anyway; it does help catch spammers.)

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I don't think we need more labels or hierarchy. We already have the ultimate label -- it's called the user name.

Re: Senior Member ?!?
 

I agree with geneven, which is why I created the user name RacerX, in honor of the Deeps Rerac tooncar.

O wait--

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And, btw, I don't think that the number of thanks is a good measure. Texrat, the inventor of the "sardonic Thanks", made that impossible. Moreover, we have had many threads in which thanks were traded like baseball cards.

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I was thinking more like Titles like Developer that Reggie could give to people who are know Developers or something like Helper that Reggie could give people who know knowledgeable about maemo and the tablets so the new people know they can trust them. Don't make it based on post count make it based on if they know what there talking about.

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well unfortunately that probably would require alot of work on reggies part...unless it was a peer based ratings system..

Re: Senior Member ?!?
 

To me Junior or Senior simply state for how long you've been posting on this forum.
Nothing more... for example Texrat, GA, Benson, Bundyo, Quim and many more they have written a lot, but still they know very little :D :D :D

(should I also have to say that I am kidding?) :)

Re: Senior Member ?!?
 

If someone can't establish their credentials by communicating clearly and appropriately, their label means little.

Peer review would encourage what I might call "pack rule," in which some group (say, communists) bands together and wholeheartedly approves any member of the pack.

I don't think that users have in general been mislead by know-nothing comments. In other places, I have seen instances of people with great credentials using them to imply that their opinions were gilt-edged even when they were talking about things not related to their credentials.

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He's just mad because nobody appreciates his sarcasm-"enhanced" hello-there-mr-bright-sunshine posts. :rolleyes:

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Gratuitous post to achieve 25 and "member" status.

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Nope, 25 is not the number.

Re: Senior Member ?!?
 

1. Why not let those who want to put a label on themselves do so through a sig.
2. If there's any organization who wants to have some sort of official label (maemo?) in the forum, let them discuss it with Reggie.
3. For those who need a 'label' to judge who they're talking to... well then, I think you need more help than an online forum label can provide.

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"He's just mad because nobody appreciates his sarcasm-"enhanced" hello-there-mr-bright-sunshine posts."

Actually, (a) I like Texrat's sardonic Thankses very much, but they can't be used as votes that so-and-so is credible, (b) "nobody appreciates" is of course literally false, or I would have 0 thanks.

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"Sardonic Thanks"?

Damn, and I thought they were genuine.

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Me too!!!!!!

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I have never given Thanks in sardonic fashion, and I resent the accusation.

Even though you have annoyed me mightily on many occasions with your own sarcasm, when I have given you thanks, I felt it was honestly deserved. And your post is my reward.

I'm tempted to employ my first sardonic "Thanks"... :(

Every single one I've dispensed has been.

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No no, I willfully admit to my obvious stupidity. It's my universal excuse and it has got me this far. :D

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Actually I have a wish. A Senior member should be allowed to write posts with less than 10 characters :D

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I was joking about Texrat, but pointing out at the same time that Thanks are not always dispensed in a heartfelt manner.

I was going by the following interchange:

"Texrat, I am absolutely in awe of your technique for turning the "Thanks" button into a way to make a covert snarky reply.
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Johnx

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Thanks John! I was wondering if anyone caught that. "

Sorry that I misunderstood.

Re: Senior Member ?!?
 

I was joking with JohnX, but as I pointed out to you in PM, that Thanks was not meant sardonically-- I really was sincere. It just had a bit of an edge to it.

EDIT: instead of "snarky" think "facetious". My middle name. :D

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Heh ...

These responses are great! LOL :D

(I had a rough day as a pointy-haired manager - really nice to log on to ITT and have a good laugh).

Tonight is Clone Night for me. :eek: If I don't make it out the other side of the discontinuity, tell my wife my last thoughts were of her.

Steve

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go to the light steve...follow the light...:)
good luck getting your clones straight,...

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Ah yes, we all remember our first Clone Night.

Every one of me.