EHM The Blue Line

Well, I was expecting to see a ranking of "Almost as cool as B. Stinson" for having the most posts... but I guess Gretzky's a decent substitute.

E5150_ca wrote:Is it your life mission to respond to every one of my posts trying to start an argument?

Get off my pucks already.

I wasn't trying to start an argument... I was simply stating a response to your post.

You are reading to much into it I think...

I agree - I'll look into toning down the rankings a little. However, I'm not going to make it too easy to achieve the rating of Gretzky as it would cheapen the whole system. Maybe if we added a couple of new rankings somewhere in there. Then we could have a ranking change every 100 posts to 1000 and then every 250 after that. I still want the top ranking to be around 2500 posts, though. It'll recognise those that have been around with us for years, etc.

I need to discuss this with the other Admins and see their point of view on the subject. However I'm open to suggestions.

I totally agree with inSTAALed on this point,and would have post the same answer if i answered before him...

But i can assure you my life mission is not to argue with you!

Shadd666 wrote:I totally agree with inSTAALed on this point,and would have post the same answer if i answered before him...

But i can assure you my life mission is not to argue with you!

I don't mind disagreement, but when sarcastic posts from one user are constantly following mine, I can't help but get fed up with it.

I think the idea you have come up with archibalduk. Havinf one for every 100 then maybe every 250 after that is an alright idea.

mark_htfc wrote:I think the idea you have come up with archibalduk. Havinf one for every 100 then maybe every 250 after that is an alright idea.

Yeah,it sounds good for me too!

E5150_ca wrote:I don't mind disagreement, but when sarcastic posts from one user are constantly following mine, I can't help but get fed up with it.

I don't see on which point inSTAALed's post was specifically sarcastic... He just answered you and gave his point of you...but no sarcasm at all on this one... Maybe there has been some sarcasms on previous posts from him,but surely not in this one...

Sarcasm is always tough because as I always say things "read" differently in flat text on a screen than in a regular conversation where you can ascertain tone and facial gestures etc. So just keep that in mind. And Tom it would prolly be better to drop someone a quick PM asking them why they're stalking you instead of posting it to a thread, just for future ref. I think the two of you have always kind of gone back and forth with each other so it's probably not a big deal just a misunderstanding.

Anyhow.... that public service announcement aside we'll be restructuring these but the compromise of moving up more quickly which I agree would be a welcome thing will probalby be for the final steps past say All-Star to be very difficult to achieve.

Does anyone have any suggestions for some extra rank titles? You can see the current titles in the first post of this thread.

Maybe a bit long but how about one 'Being scouted by NHL' as in NHL teams. Then one after that saying you are in the NHL.

Maybe some things like "first 50 goals sesaon / 100 points season / etc" should be fun,no?

Sigh - I have a looooong way to go.....

BruceM wrote:Sigh - I have a looooong way to go.....

Dont worry!!!

We all started with 0 posts

I've tweaked the post rankings a little. Rather than having 250 jumps between 500 and 1000, there are now ranks every 100 posts. I've kept a rank at 50, 100 and 150 in order to reward our new users and to encourage them to continue posting.

When you reach 1000 posts (ranked "All-Star"), things get a little tougher with jumps of 250 posts. This continues upto 3000 posts where you reach the ultimate rank of "Great One". I've chosen to set a 3000 post target because it recognises those users that have supported our site for a very long period of time. I estimate it would take about three or four years of regular posting to reach the rank of Great One. The idea is to make good ranks attainable but users with the best ranks few and far between (what would be the fun if there were a bunch of Great Ones in the Forum having only been with us a year?).

I hope this makes sense and appears fair. I'm open to suggestions for further changes either now or any time in the future

I think the Rankins are fine now. As for a few years to get to 3000 I reckon if this forum was quite active would only take around a year maybe. As on one of the forums I go on I got around 1,500-2,000 in around 4 month maybe less. With me allready having 100+ in about 11 days I think it wouldn't take too long to become the great one.

Maybe allow users who deserve to be classed as the Great one are able to become one?? Having 3,000 posts and deemed right by the TBL team?? (hope that made sence)

I think if you get to 3000 posts then you do deserve to be ranked The Great One. However, we always have the option of granting a secondary rank to those that we deem fit to have one, e.g. E5150_ca's secondary rank of "Patron Saint of Newbies" for his wisdom in answering EHM questions.

Yeah that sounds good. Keep up the good work with the site.

Yeah that's good. keep up the good work.

TBL Never Dies!

Perfect.

The image isn't loading for me

I'll try to get it back up, it's from September 2006 which was before we moved servers is why it's not working I'd guess

Here's how the current Post Rankings are set:



Thanks for pointing out that the previous image wasn't working Noah

So now I'm fighting for a spot on the 2nd line.

Ah thanks for pointing that out! As Minty said, it was lost when we moved servers

I think perhaps our post rankings need to be updated a little. We have quite a few people with high post counts and so it makes sense to expand the ranks up to something like 5000 posts. I'd also like to add some additional ranks in the middle too.

I think the "General Manager" rank is in the wrong place (do we even need that rank at all?). Getting into the Hall of Fame, for example, is more of an accolade than being a GM. Also, is having your jersey number retired more of an accolade than being in the Hall of Fame?!

Therefore does anybody have any suggestions for new rank names? I will then update the threshold posts for each rank depending upon how many good ideas we can come up with.

Here's the current list:

[table][tr][td]The Great One[/td][td]3000[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Super Mario[/td][td]2500[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]General Manager[/td][td]2250[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Had Jersey Number Retired[/td][td]2000[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Hall of Fame[/td][td]1750[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]MVP[/td][td]1500[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Stanley Cup Winner[/td][td]1250[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]All-Star[/td][td]1000[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Team Captain[/td][td]900[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Leading Scorer[/td][td]800[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]First Line[/td][td]700[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Second Line[/td][td]600[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Checking Line[/td][td]500[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Fourth Line[/td][td]400[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Fringe Player[/td][td]300[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Minor League[/td][td]200[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Drafted[/td][td]150[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Top Prospect[/td][td]100[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Prospect[/td][td]50[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Junior League[/td][td]5[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Learning to skate[/td][td]0[/td][/tr][/table]