I love that idea!
Ditto.
Is there anyway to just display the post count without any kind of title?
What about not displaying the post count at all, just displaying it in the profile instead?
What about “just got here,” “been here a while,” “been here a long time,” and “has always been here.”
As far me, I try avoidin the use of b-english, hence, it wouldn’t go down well for me. In fact, that prolly wouldn’t work well for many of use here.
hmm. you have hit on something there, Tara. I would e-prime it as Airique mentioned, but …
still even at that, someone could have either lurked for a long time or even had an account and never posted and still have “just got here” with their first post.
maybe for something more accurate we could say “just starated talking here”
in the end, though, i’d rather have something catchy even if it doesn’t accurately portray anything. the post count merely indicates how much you post, nothing else. but since it represents the only way that the program tracks activity, then i would rather have it work as a fun joke – like anthropik’s “domesticated” spectrum, but with more achievable milestones.
does that make any sense?
Perhaps we could use animals.
Like,
“mewing kitten”
to
“Canary in the coal mine”
roflmao!!! ;D
woot! i’ll second that!
So I put together a list of the various options that we have all suggested and discussed. Feel free to make some more recommendations or to suggest some changes to these lists. After a little more input, I will set up a poll, and let everyone vote on the new system they would like for us to use.
We could go with an upside down version of Tylor’s stages (ala Anthropik’s forum):
- civilized
- domesticated
- rewilder
- barbarian
- savage
Or ages within the tribe:
- infant
- child
- adolescent
- adult
- elder
- ancient
Or degree of interaction:
- Stranger
- Acquaintance
- Friend
Or length of interaction:
- Just started posting
- Posting for a while
- Regular poster
- Senior poster
- Veteran poster
Some of the lists have more levels than others. Our current system has 5 levels that break down this way:
[table][tr][td]
[table][tr][td]Level[/td][td]Number of posts[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Newbie[/td][td]0[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Jr. Member[/td][td]50[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Full Member[/td][td]100[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Sr. Member[/td][td]250[/td][/tr]
[tr][td]Hero Member[/td][td]500[/td][/tr]
[/table]
If we chose a system with more than 5 options, we can just add new levels like at 1000 or 2500 posts. If we go with something with less than 5 options, we will probably change the breaks to happen farther apart like 0, 200, 500 for a 3 option list.
Perhaps we should make them verbs, illuding to e-primitive.
For example:
Civilizing
Domesticating
Rewilding
Feralizing
Savaging
Infanting
Childing
Adolescenting
Adulting (haha)
etc. etc.
Just an idea.
How about something totally unhierarchical, like
tree
rock
crow
deer
ant
cloud
whale
mud
(maybe that’s too many)
OR
eats
dreams
sleeps
hunts
walks
Still thinking on this one. . . I remember reading somewhere how a member of a “band” (this may have referred to chimps or gorillas? is this from ishmael?) identifies him/her self more as part of the hand than as one of the fingers. It seems that individual identity (vs. member of a group) makes a big part of “civ” mentality–also the idea of the individual’s needs having more importance than those of the group, or that they are even, in fact, separate from those of the group.
So, what about parts of a whole, like parts of the community of living bits that make up a tree:
leaf
root
stick/branch
sap
flower
or parts of an ecosystem:
water
wind
flora
fauna
mineral
i think i really like these totally unhierarchical lists. i thought about doing something like that when Scout proposed his kitten and canary suggestions, but i had already finished writing my ideas and didn’t want to add to them just yet.
i like these suggestions. keep them coming.
Man, I’d just put it something like this:
Rarely speaks
Conversive
Talks a lot
Won’t shut up
I don’t know. I like a lot of the ideas so far, especially the unhierarchical ones, though, I have some:
noob
interested
open
regular
rewilder
possibly rewilded
Well I’ve changed my profile name several times so far and to do so one must start a new profile which starts you over on the title names. In fact, if I never changed my profile name like three times or something like that I would probably have “hero†title status by now. To bad I couldn’t keep my post count and change my profile name at the same time. So how do we deal with this, if at all? I don’t see my self as a “newbie†to the site but if I make a new profile name I will have the title of one. I mean I’ve visited the site since it first started and chimed in as the tenth member last time I checked and know my way around the site like I know my way around the back of my hand so I wouldn’t call myself a newbie, I’d only call my new profiles “newbies†not me. See what I mean?
[quote=“Andrew Jensen, post:20, topic:307”]Won’t shut up[/quote] 
Yeah, I notice that you do a lot of after-the-fact editing and name changing. Unfortunately, the board platform doesn’t give you the option to keep the same account and slap a different name on it.
Your example, though, indicates yet another way as to how the post count doesn’t really indicate anything significant. Thus, I would rather go with something humorous (like the upside-down Tylor stages) or something ethereal (like yarrow dreamer’s suggestions.)
Keep a few more ideas coming, though, and I’ll take them all and start the poll next week.
[quote=“yarrow dreamer, post:23, topic:307”][quote author=Andrew Jensen link=topic=320.msg4614#msg4614 date=1190236414]
Won’t shut up
[/quote] :D[/quote]
And after that we could have “seriously, why the hell won’t this person shut up?” Followed by “okay, who has the duct tape?”
??? Hmmm…Not sure what’cha mean by after-the-fact editing. Hey but thanks for noticing me at all. 
Hmmm....Not sure what'cha mean by after-the-fact editing. Hey but thanks for noticing me at all.
I just mean that I noticed that you tend to go back and edit your posts after you have posted them. I don’t mean it to sound like a criticism, just an observation.