Forum Rank?

Dear Team SuperCHeats,

How about a ranking system for the forums? I know what your thinking, "spam". Just hear me out. I was hanging out on the AS mb and I came across this:

Adult Swim Message Board Chart of Minimuns

Newbie: Initial rank

Shady: Registration date older than 2 days. (48 hours)

Punk: 54 posts; 100 minutes online; registration date older than 7 days (1 week)

Voyeur: 150 posts; 500 minutes online; 23,000 messages read; 2,000 Page Views; registration date older than 7 days (1 week)

Scenester: 253 posts; 1500 minutes online; 50,000 Messages Read; 3,800 Page Views�?? registration date older than 30 days (approx. 1 month)

Fan: 518 posts; 5000 minutes online; 93,000 Messages Read; 8,998 Page Views; registration date older than 90 days (approx. 3 months)

VIP: 1011 posts; 6000 minutes online; 109,000 Messages Read; 15,000 Page Views; registration date older than 180 days (approx. 6 months)

Star: 2016 posts; 9700 minutes online; 200,000 Messages Read; 20,000 Page Views; registration date older than 270 days (approx. 9 months)

SuperStar: 6749 posts; 30385 minutes online; ? Messages Read; 61145 Pages Views; registration date older than 365 days (exactly 1 year!)

As you can see, it does not solely rest upon number of posts. Since SC is a gaming site that has it's members submit cheats, you could make subs a prerequisite to ranking up. Of course you would change the rank names and requirements, but you could use this as a blueprint to build a rank chart for SC.

If you still believe that spamming will be a problem, you could add a send spam button next to the send bad post button. Or recruit members to be spam moderators, whose job is to seek and destroy spam.

Another way to deter spam would be to ban spammers. Not permanently of course, but maybe ban by infraction. Kind of like; 1st infraction - 2 day ban, 2nd infraction - 1 week ban, 3rd infraction - 1 month ban, and so on and so forth. You could, in theory, apply this same kind of punishment to other aspects, such as swearing and flameing.

I believe I've covered the angles and delivered a solid suggestion. So I close with one thing left for you to ponder:
"If SC forums were a game, wouldn't it be nice to level up?"

Haha - Yes - It would be nice to level up!

Great post and thanks for the in-depth suggestion.

One of the things we are considering adding is a ranking system silmilar to the one you outlined above, but solely based on submissions on the main site.

I was actually trying to come up with a few rankings only yesterday... I only came up with 4 :(.

Anyway tying it in with the message board is not something I had perviously thought of... Due to the spam factor... But your suggestions are helpful to help us work around this... And it's relatively easy to remove post scores from certain forums - like the Spam Fest etc...

Thanks again,

Rich

Here are my suggestions for a submission hierarchy, and this does not apply to the forums:

OVERALL
New Member: 0-10
Contributor: 11-50
Component: 51-100
Regular: 101-200
VIP: 201-400
Star: 401-700
God: 701 and up

CHEATERS AND HINTERS (separately)
Worker: 0-10
Rulebender: 11-50
Regular Cheater: 51-100
System Master: 101-300
Hacker: 301 and up

ANSWERERS
Helpers: 0-20
Handlenders: 21-50
Regular Source: 51-100
Reliable Source: 101-300
Reference: 301-500
Know-it-all: 501 and up

REVIEWERS
Sighters: 0-15
Knowers: 16-50
Watchdogs: 51 and up

But some things in Spam Fest are relevant!

If something in spamfest was relevant, it wouldn't be in spamfest.

That's a very good point liquidbutter. I like the whole "level-up" idea. It could be interesting!

forums:
0-25 posts:newbie
26-50:replyer
56-150:small chatter
156-300:regular chatter
301-500:good chatter
501-700:highly recomended(where i am now)
701-999:1st class
1000-2000:king
2000+:supercheats god(under rich)

There are some good rankings there.

I'll be trying to implement something in the future - at least for the main site.

Or how about:

0-25 posts; Noobimus Maximus
26-50 posts: Noobimus Minimus
51-100 posts: Chatterbox
101-250 posts: Talkative
251-500 posts: Super Cheater

Any more can be added as well.

How come I'm the only one who can't come up with good ideas?

ur not the only one i can't either

Because you don't think enough. And because my ideas rule.

On 12-Nov-2004 Team SuperCheats said:

There are some good rankings there.

I'll be trying to implement something in the future - at least for the main site.

thank you

On 12-Nov-2004 Cez said:

Or how about:

0-25 posts; Noobimus Maximus
26-50 posts: Noobimus Minimus
51-100 posts: Chatterbox
101-250 posts: Talkative
251-500 posts: Super Cheater

Any more can be added as well.

Blue Eyes Black Dragon and I have more than 500 submissions. What are our ranks, then?

hey SC gotta suggestion
do you know how teamartail runs they're's something like leveling up but not exactly. it's more so a respect thing. oh wait i got it...just for the level up idea you guys could do something like on pokemon. you know like you have a meter that tells you how close to a level up you are. do you get what i'm talking about?

good idea

A meter sounds good - In fact we have one already (Kudos Rankings) :P

I want to stay on 10 kudos

ok what in gods name are kudos

look on the stats page.......scroll down....u'll c..