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Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 8:36 AM
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Quote from: channel Just replying in order to discover whether I am still a bright spark, as per the old PN forum days.
Did you do as requested?
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=394.msg3238#msg3238
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Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 9:30 AM
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Quote from: Walrus
I'd beg to differ, I cringe at some of the advice given by so called 'Bright Sparks', though granted you did say 'generally'.
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 1:22 PM
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Seeing as there seem to be more Bright Sparks than members, do away with the member title and make everyone a Bright Spark.
That way it keeps the existing Bright Sparks happy they still have their feeling of self importance, the wannabe's happy as they get their title, the majority of members that support the title are happy as they now become one, and minority who's opinions are a load of old tosh don't matter anyway.
Problem solved.
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 1:52 PM
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I dont agree with you at all about the bright sparks... but I did have to laugh, that was very funny.
Peace be with you Hobo
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 3:02 PM
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Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 3:22 PM
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We never had such things on our forum and for a long time never even had working moderators or staff members. In fact at one time it got so bad with the numbers of upset customers posting on the threads I did actually make a request on the Usergroup for staff members to please frequent the forum to answer some of the more aggressive requests and posts.
I do however agree with some of the points raised in this thread about is it necessary to have ‘titles’. I have in the past contributed to the F9 forum and helped a number of users as I have on a number of other forums on a wide range of subjects. What I have found in my ‘travels’ is that a ‘title’ other than that of ‘Staff member’ or ‘Moderator’ is mostly unnecessary as the number of posts under a name gives a useful idea as to the ‘prowess’ of the persons answers and a quick scan of the threads gives the quality of the replies.
I have also found users can be intimidated by titles and are reluctant to post an often correct and sometimes comprehensive reply to a question due to an unspoken belief that the ‘titled’ user is always correct or will always reply anyway. I have increasingly found a ‘titled’ user will often post a negative or surplus reply to a question purely to increase their ‘Posting Numbers’ and so increase their ‘rank’ in a forum. There is this irrational belief among some users (including myself when I first started posting), that you should have some ‘magic’ number of posts (and therefore a ‘title’) before anyone would take notice of your post and respond to what you had to say.
Like others on the forum I do actually spend quite some time reading but not always replying to a thread. This is often due to the fact in formulating a reply I have (due to a huge lack of grammar and spelling ability), to produce the text in word and then copy and paste the text into the ‘Post Reply’ box. By then the thread will have a reply posted by a faster typist (and yes more than likely one of the titled posters) so my post becomes a waste of time. Therefore many of us would make a contribution and could become these allusive ‘Bright Sparks’ but never will because those with faster fingers will always win out in the end. This can cause resentment among posters as although they have the knowledge that knowledge is not always forthcoming.
Sorry for the long post but in amongst the ramblings note my vote is for no titles other than staff and moderator, regards, P.
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 8:17 PM
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Forum administrator or Plusnet Staff is perfectly adequate.
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 8:31 PM
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Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 8:38 PM
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I don't recall there being any adverse negativity when it was discussed and implemented originally.
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 8:47 PM
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Quote from: jelv why has it taken the move from portal to community forums for people to express their views?
I've been wondering this myself, and also why there is so much discussion of something which really isn't worth debating, in my own opinion.
Back over on the old Portal forums, the Bright Spark ranks did help to highlight those people who helped out the most - then again, you get used to the usernames as well, so they weren't that important once you got used to them. Now we've moved over, it's not so clear cut. Some users have kept the same names and are easy to spot, others took advantage of the ability to have a different name. Some of the avatars remained the same so you can pick out the old Bright Sparks, other times you just have to look out for the rank.
Either way, I can't see that the whole thing requires several pages of discussion in several threads, surely it's not that much of an issue really?
Perhaps we should rely on the 'Silent majority' which often surrounds issues such as this. You get a few vocal supporters, you get a few vocal protesters, but on the whole, the remainder of the forum readers probably don't care one way or the other...
Personally, if you want to take the ranks away - fine, it doesn't take long to associate a username/avatar with a helpful community poster.
On the other hand, if you want to keep the ranks - fine, what difference does it make?
This is yet another one of those threads which seem to be popping up more and more frequently which just cannot be resolved or agreed upon - you just aren't going to please everybody.
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 9:06 PM
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Someone said recently that it was an unusual thing that they hadn't seen on forums before. Don't people see this as a good thing? People should get behind the hardworking people who are putting time into keeping these forums going.
Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 9:16 PM
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Perhaps we should have a poll for users to decide on whether the Bright Spark rank should be retained.
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03-09-2007 9:17 PM
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03-09-2007 9:24 PM
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Re: Community Site Ranks - and how to get one!
03-09-2007 9:38 PM
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