I'm still in favour of altering the number of posts for membergroups, purely because the forum has grown and I think the targets for these should grow with it. Membergroups are just an indication of post counts and are not an indication of the quality of posts - they were never intended to be. That's what Karma is for. We all tend to overlook Karma, but it is a potentially valuable resource to the information seeker. If we make a point of awarding points when they are due, the Karma system will become quite valuable - but that's down to us.
Perhaps we can see if something can be done with the template to make the Karma stand out better (and perhaps also depreciate the visual importance of the membergroups). I'm looking into that at the moment.
We could also start something like a "post of the week" competition and award Karma points to the owner of the winning post. This should allow members who don't post often, but make valuable contributions to the forum to gain Karma.
Gearhead wrote:
I submitted 16 33 45 .. which took him two weeks to give up on.
Classic! ? No 78? Most people would miss the 16 RPM though - I've only ever seen that on a gramophone once (to quote the old Python sketch: "A gramophone grandad?" ?). Actually shouldn't it be 16-2/3, 33-1/3 and 45? ?
chris77 wrote:
Go for it. Maybe even set up higher levels to accomodate the needs in another 3 years, eg 5000 = Mage and 10000 = Oracle or something...
I thought about that too. Quite possibly, as needed...
