Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I'm only interested if I can be a Sardine.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

We sure are getting carried away with this. I recall in the 60's we used to joke that an expert programmer was the one assigned and a guru was programmer that did it once before. These various lables seem to have a similar level of useful meaning.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I know it's not as much fun, but I vote to ditch the titles completely. I come from the school of "Keep It Simple, Stupid." (No, it's not actually a school. More like distance ed.)

Hey, while you're at it, limit the signatures, clean up the interface, etc.

Right now each posting shows the avatar, name, time/date, post#, a "report" button (I've never noticed that before!), join date, location, # of posts, # of thanks, # of thankeds, thread title, signature, quote button, thanks button... Oh, and the actual content. Seems a little... unbalanced.

Clean that up and I promise that I'll have more fun. :)

If not, put me down for Sardine...

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I like titles because it atleast gives me a sense of how involved the individual is on the forums. I know that does not indicate his worth to the community, but it could be an indication.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Right now, titles are completely useless. Any system based on post count is stupid, because, hey look: I can see exactly how many posts you have without looking at the title!

I think that after people get a few hundred posts or whatever, they can pick a name from a list of pre-approved ones (So we don't get names that are 100 words long).

Or just remove them. In communist maemo, everyone is a comrade!

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I'm not suggesting the "use" of maemo.org karma to select a description alongside a name; just that since ITT accounts and maemo.org accounts can be linked that - for some users - additional information from the maemo.org account will be able to be shown on the talk.maemo.org posts.

Karma is an obvious one. A link in (from their tmo profile page) back to the maemo.org profile page is another. Perhaps "company" too.

ITT is becoming tmo, everything under *.maemo.org should strive to show user contributions in as consistent manner as possible, and the current proposal for is: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Improving...Member_profile

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

But you don't know the range. So in meaningful terms, you want to split the RANGE of 0 to top poster and rank accordingly.

X = # of posts of GA
0 - X/5 lurker
X/5 - 2X/5 casual typer
2X/5 - 3X/5 strong poster
3X/5 - 4X/5 message factory
4X/5 - 6X/5 GA lookalike
6X/5 - 10X/5 GA on steroids
20X/5 - 50X/5 carpal tunnel syndrome
50X+/5 man machine interface

adjust as necessary

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I like the idea of karma being used to rate the person, assuming we even need ratings and assuming it can be fed in somehow.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Sure, I understand all that. My point is using maemo.org karma on the forum will rank people according to criteria that is not limited to their activity on the forum. I understand karma has good purpose on maemo.org where people are doing things instead of just talking, but importing a ranking system into the forum is a bad idea.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Why is showing more info about them a bad idea, when that info will be available by clicking through to their profile page, anyway?

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Showing more info about a person's forum activity is a good idea. And Jaffa's proposal makes a lot of sense (from the perspective of maemo.org). But I think a person's karma or ranking on the forum should continue to be determined only by their contributions to the forum, and not by their contributions to maemo.org at large. Just my opinion.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

the forum *will* be on maemo.org at large.
so contributions to the planet and to the wiki and to the projects should all go in together.
but I feel it should not be displayed and used on the forum.

within a forum having a hierarchy feels wrong.
it doesnt matter how much good a person has done elsewhere if hes trolling in a particular thread, or if an utter newbie comes up with an utterly amazing comment.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

nah, that never happens. ;)

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

How about a member level system based upon the Beaufort Scale. The Maemo releases are named after winds. The Beaufort scale measures wind at sea.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

The levels on another board I frequent were based on humorous versions of winds. They were:

Fresh Breeze 0
Familiar Wind 100
Constant Storm 500
Stale Wind 1000
Historic Gale 2000
Crusty Puff 3000
Omnipotent Gust 4000
Wild Windshear 5000
Jehovah's Exhalation 6000
Unceasing Huff-n-Puff 7000
Old Fart 8000
Wafting Whiff 9000
Tiny Typhoon 10000+

Well, you said you wanted humour!

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Oooh! I like that! Just call me Mr. Crusty Puff!

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

EIPI+Red+maemo = good fit ! :-)

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

maybe some posts/thanks ratio? Like
0 - "flamer"
0.2 - "can help"
0.5 - "will be glad to help"
1 - "eagle-eye"
and so on.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Only valid if the Thanks had been present since the forum was opened, which they haven't been. Besides, I'm not looking for any sort of meaningful ranking metric (that's what the maemo.org karma is for), just something silly to replace the current scale we have now.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Hey, I am a senior member and I don't know squat. I just accidentally delete my clone boot getting confuse over these device names. "Sigh", I worked so hard on the clone boot.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

You're having a "senior moment" ;)

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I really like GeneralAntilles' proposal - I hope it gets integrated.

Now I just hope I can get to kaksi. :)

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I don't really think there's any need for action... But:

If it's gonna be changed... a good reason to use karma instead of anything else would be that in spite of the domain change, user accounts will not be merged.

Showing karma for those who have a maemo.org account and not showing karma ("-" rather than "0") for those who don't might make people ask what this karma-thing is all about... how to get karma... which may lead to people opening a maemo.org-account... which in turn is good for the community: The maemo.org account is the key to further participation beyond the forum.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Exactly^...

This forum site behaves as the general public expects a forum site to behave and low frustration = low transference to Maemo the brand.

However, if simple actions continue to frustrate new users at the maemo.org site, just the opposite may occur and this in turn is not good for the community.

If they are like me when the N800 first dropped they will retreat back to the comfort of this forum until they can figure out how to make that new purchase more useful.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Ha! Look at my header! I'm a Sardine!

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Now it's time to can you.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Wha? Well, then, how many posts do i have to have to be an opabinia? :D

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

...
Isn't there something fishy with this guy ? :confused: :D

Sorrrrrrrry, i'm already out ....

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I guess Reggie doesn't like Sardines.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

There should be a Rat status.