Post Count

They can spam and get the member status, but you can get the member status just as quickly without spamming. Remember, activity only counts the first 4 posts each day. The senior member status is and has always been based on longevity. You do have to already be a member to get senior member, however. This prevents leachers from getting senior member status.

Many times have I denounced the myth that spamming the hell out of the forums will get you senior member status, but apparently you are too new to have caught the last time.

There is also a member reputation thingy that isn't used. Depending on your position with the forum, your rating level varies, and the higher up, the more your rate can do good or harm someone compared to regular members. I wish that would be incorporated into the space below our avatar. That could help out new members with who to trust, and who to stay away from.

Actually, it's in the templates, but not enabled. Before the switchover, I and some other members did some playing arround with it and I decided that it's mostly worthless, just like the old gold system was. It looks good on paper, but I don't think it can work in practice. Originally, I was hoping on reputation to replace postcount when I first heard it would be in vB3...

Many times have I denounced the myth that spamming the hell out of the forums will get you senior member status, but apparently you are too new to have caught the last time.

Probably. I haven't hit 1 year yet. It has been mentioned that you get 'Senior Member' at 6 months before, I just forgot.

As far as the Reliability thingy goes, would there be a way for Staff to award members "points" per se, to show reliabilty? It may be a bit of work or such, but if a member makes contributions to the forums and such, they should be given some sort of rating or title to designate them as being helpful and reliable members.

I don't know how possible it would be, but it may cut down on the post-mongering.

I think that has there goods and bads. Honesty if a forum member and a staff member have some kind of beef, then that would be a disadvange for that member, and vise-versa. If a Staff member liked a forum member, then they would be in advantage, to other members acually trying.

To clear it up, I meant kind of a "score" from like 1-10. Like a Poll, staff would be able to vote once, and edit their vote at any point. That way, if there's beef between a staff member and a member, it really doesn't affect their rating, unless it was a problem with multiple staff members.

To make it reasonable, it would only apply to Senior Members, or something. That way, the entire staff wouldn't need to vote on all 4000+ members.

All this complicated shit... Just leave it be.

If something comes along that's revolutionaryly (is that a word?) better than post count, I'm positive WW will let us know untill then I'd like to see this thread die, I'm over the post count debate it's taken place well too much.

"Revolutionarily" would be the correct spelling of that word, Chrome. And yes, it is a word.

When post count starts endangering Zelaron, then we should do something about it. Right now it just annoys a few people who seem to have problems with everything.