Member Ranks Poll for all board users

[Webmonkey]

Hello, for many years, the member ranks for message board posts have been as follows:

- Member Ranks

Posts	Rank	Stars
0	Neonate	1
50	Ancilla	2
100	Elder	3
200	Justicar	4
500	Inner Circle	5
1000	Inconnu Monitor	6
2500	Antediluvian	7
5000	Clan Progenitor	8
10000	Masked Avenger	9
25000	Dark Father	10

It was brought to my attention that there are many games that play at EC, most of which with just as long a history as the Vampire game, therefore, the above vampire-centric titles should change or rotate from time to time.

An example of a change might be:

- Member Ranks

Posts	Rank	Stars
0	Cub	1
50	Cliath	2
100	Fostern	3
200	Adren	4
500	Athro	5
1000	Elder	6
2500	Legend	7
5000	Tribe Alpha	8
10000	Garou Council	9
25000	King of the Garou	10

Or similar 'ranks' for Changeling, Mage, etc.

Please make your prefrence known above if you think this is fair or not and feel free to discuss it in the thread below.

[Jane]

I think this is a great idea, to acknowledge and give some support to all the other spheres.

[Ross]

Or maybe there are some non-game-specific ranks that we could come up with? Maybe from "n00b" to "I Throw Chops Like Bruce Lee" ?



-Ross

[Audrey]

Too bad you can't set them up to display as different rank names in each section.. Back to the lurkery now.

[Webmonkey]

To Ross: Valid option to my mind, perhaps when this poll is concluded I'll create one to explore that.

To tpo Maren Smith: The board itself counts members over-all, just users. An option could be to create five or six seperate ENTIRE boards for each sphere. But then you'd need a log-in for each, and I'd need a straightjacket for all the work and maintainence that would entail. So I'm gonna say no for something as simple as board rankings which are mostly just for fun and only reflect the number of posts you've made.

[Webmonkey]

Three days till this poll is complete at the time of this posting. FYI, I'm not making any decisions based on this poll alone, I'll still want to see what people think of Ross' suggestion in a seperate poll. I think it might be fun to have ten wacky RPS based ranks that work across all spheres, but we'll see what you guys think.

[Audrey]

Hence the "too bad". WAY too much work, and I wouldn't even be doing it. Still, it'd be interesting if it were possible, but that's another discussion for another person. Really, whatever you do, it's irrelevant to me, as I'm unlikely to ever post enough to get past whatever the first tier is being called at any given point. ^.^

[Webmonkey]

Hey I asked for opinions so no worries. Thanks for participating.

[Ikon]

Jul 8, 2010 0:47:34 GMT -8 Jane said:

I think this is a great idea, to acknowledge and give some support to all the other spheres.

I think the problem with Ross's idea is summed up by 'Fly By's' post. After Years of Vampire recognition it would give acknowledgment to other spheres. Individual non-sphere titles would not give any fun focus to people who loyally love and play In games other than Vampire.

[satyavati]

It was only Vampire because that's what the Webmonkey was focused on at the time it was created. The only reason its now up for debate is because Chis is playing in another sphere now, and has other interests. It wasn't a "recognizing the vampire sphere more than the others" thing, it was just what the webmonkey set up cuz it was easy. It's not slight against anyone.

Its ultimately up to the webmonkey, but I always personally thought neutral would be better- but then it wasn't ever enough of a deal at all to say anything.

So what should we do- to keep things "fair" spend 5 years for each sphere ranking system?

That's silly. It's also equally silly that people are getting bent out of shape that the sphere they play in doesn't have the "recognition" because of vampire themed titles on the message board when it made sense because the guy that owned the website was the Vampire HST when he made this thing years ago and didn't think about changing it.

Find something else to be offended about please.

[Webmonkey]

Jul 19, 2010 11:12:43 GMT -8 @satyavati said:

It was only Vampire because that's what the Webmonkey was focused on at the time it was created. The only reason its now up for debate is because Chis is playing in another sphere now, and has other interests. It wasn't a "recognizing the vampire sphere more than the others" thing, it was just what the webmonkey set up cuz it was easy. It's not slight against anyone.

This is very true - the old message boards lacked some functionality we wanted, so I created the boards for the vamp players to try. When Corey stepped down as webmonkey due to 'real life' I adapted these boards for all the other spheres. It was definitely not meant as a slight - actually, the scope of the boards use was broadened to be more inclusive of all of the games. If I was predjidiced against any other games it was only because I was actively playing in the vampire one and knew the most about it. Since then I've played in all games at EC except Changeling and Sabbat for months at a go (though every so often I've done brief stints as NPCs for Sabbat).

Its ultimately up to the webmonkey, but I always personally thought neutral would be better- but then it wasn't ever enough of a deal at all to say anything.

Way back when I set up those ranks, it was along with a TON of other concerns/needs/customization. Since the ranks were 'pre-genned' for me in a system I was most familiar with (vampire), I never changed them, though I considered creating a general one back in the day, since it was all for fun, and I had an entire Vamp houserules site to create, laziness won the day.

So what should we do- to keep things "fair" spend 5 years for each sphere ranking system?

That's silly. It's also equally silly that people are getting bent out of shape that the sphere they play in doesn't have the "recognition" because of vampire themed titles on the message board when it made sense because the guy that owned the website was the Vampire HST when he made this thing years ago and didn't think about changing it.

Find something else to be offended about please.

I don't think anyone is bent out of shape. An interest in fairness isn't the same thing as being offended, and fairness is often a thing that is interpreted differently depending on where you are standing at the time. For example, now that I'm hanging around with the werewolves they feel freeer to mention nits like this to me, and as always I try to listen about website feedback, cuz hey, I'm hungry for it, and am a big nerd like that.

All these reasons and more are why, as I mentioned, I'm going to put up another poll asking folks what they think about the 'generic terms' option as opposed to just swapping around the terms.

As far as 'for how long', (if the majority likes the sphere swap option) I'd say that since we do a 'make the site look pretty!' contest thing once per year-ish, I'd say thats as good a time as any to swap out stuff. But we'll see what the majority thinks. View that poll by clicking here!

- Chrismonkey