What is rank and what is it's purpose? I noticed a new rank "civilian" just popped up and many crewmen are now civilians. Is that some sort of demotion/promotion?

I resent being booted out of the galactic service without a proper defense. I don't have any civilian expertise and prefer to remain in the service.

Where's da manual? FAQ is very limited?

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BlueTurbit wrote on Sun, 10 November 2002 11:16

What is rank and what is it's purpose? I noticed a new rank "civilian" just popped up and many crewmen are now civilians. Is that some sort of demotion/promotion? I resent being booted out of the galactic service without a proper defense. I don't have any civilian expertise and prefer to remain in the service. Where's da manual? FAQ is very limited?

'Rank' is simply a measure of how many messages you have posted. Unfortunetly, in its current incarnation, it can easily be abused by people posting frivilous short annoying messages just to gain rank.

I inserted 'civilian' rank at the very bottom of the rank structure so that people 'just passing through' wouldn't have enough rank points to make 'crewman recruit'.

Currently, it is as follows:

Civilian            0 posts
Crewman Recruit     4 posts
Crewman Apprentice 10 posts
Crewman            20 posts 
and so on

In the future, if we get a good user base and have some good trusted moderators, I want to implement a rank system where moderators/admin will assign rank points based on the *quality* of a person's post. Thus, frivilous posts would not add to rank.

[EDITED: This ranking info is now obsolete.]

[Updated on: Fri, 22 November 2002 09:48]

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BlueTurbit wrote on Sun, 10 November 2002 16:16

What is rank and what is it's purpose? I noticed a new rank "civilian" just popped up and many crewmen are now civilians. Is that some sort of demotion/promotion? I resent being booted out of the galactic service without a proper defense. I don't have any civilian expertise and prefer to remain in the service. Where's da manual? FAQ is very limited?

Work hard trooper, and one day you'll be considered a part of the finest fighting force in the galaxy soldier!

Guess that qulifies as an irrelevant post yeah?
I would have thought that flooding would be more applicable for denying process towards promotion rather than irrelevant posts. Otherwise you might as well disregard the Bar & grill topics altogether.

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Bathe less, and your rank increases.

--EDog

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Ron wrote on Tue, 12 November 2002 14:35

Yes, users can be banned by IP address or login name. Hopefully I won't ever have to do that, or demote people.

I'd suggest a warning first, then banning for a period of time depending on the nature of it. Might also be worth having a forum for notifications on rules etc...

Not that I know too much about forums and spend all day in them when I should be working

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[Updated on: Wed, 13 November 2002 21:08]

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I must ask, WHY should rank be important??

A typical civilian attitude. But kind of a peculiar statement coming from one who calls himself: "UAF commander" wouldn't you say?

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Fast Forum or Fancy Avatars?[ 17 votes ]
1.	Fast Forum	12 / 71%
2.	Fancy Avatars	3 / 18%
3.	Do not really care!	2 / 12%

Ron wrote on Fri, 15 November 2002 17:58

Correct, at the moment that is what rank means. However, it is still a 'cool' thing, at least *I* think it is.

Even if other people abuse it, I like occassionally being surprised by my "promotions" since (as was posted elsewhere) I am not the most observant person.

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I think avatars would slow down page views, and I'd rather not have HWF get as slow as Star Base Delta seems to be, which is why avatars are disabled.

I really appreciate the speed of this forum. As well, Avatars often cause a topic to become quite long even though most people only respond with one or two lines. If this was put to a poll... hey wait a second, why don't I just put it to a poll... I wonder how many people would prefer to have avatars?

FurFuznel

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Fast forum is what i want , and information trad , if you need something like this make a picture and put it in front of your tastertur .

Greetings, welcome to Earth! Do you come in peace?
What is "tastertur"? Is it better with salt or without? It's kind of like tartar sauce,isn't it?

Fast forum is nice, yes! But it is sad indeed that in an age of mega and giga-speed computing systems with super graphics capabilities that we must sacrifice the beauty of color and art in expression, and be reduced to slightly more than 26 symbols for communication on the net? A picture used to be worth a thousand words. And now, a picture is worth a thousand miliseconds. How sad indeed... I think I will have another helping of Draknoid spud-chips dipped in tastertur sauce...

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I don't mind nice graphics etc, especially when I'm sat on the work connection

But while I may have a giga-speed computing system at home, I am sadly due to circumstances out of my control stuck on a 56k modem..... No broadband here..

So once they get ADSL or the like sorted I wouldn't mind Avatars, but right now its a pain to keep downloading Massive Sig files etc in other forums (Although the net cache gets round this somewhat)

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@ BlueTurbit

The Traders always comes to trade not to atack , yes we come in peace .

Tastertur is german (sorry ) keyboard was the word i mean .
You can try to eat it with or without salat


ccmaster
King of the Traders

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Greetings all,

UAF Commander: There are many reasons why Ron has done what he has done. If you think back Ron has done nothing but Helped improve the quality and reputation of the Stars! Cosmos. What Ron is trying to do with this forum is just the same. Rather than having extravagant Avatars and people who strictly use # of posts as a way of rank you get a forum that takes forever to download just to get a list of jiberish.

What Ron is doing here is trying to improve the qualities of posts by promoting detailed on topic information on the forums and does so by using the rank system. For example take a person who has over 132 posts, only thing is this person is still a Civilian. Then you look at another with 43 posts and is already a High level Crewman. You start to realize that the person with 132 posts just goes from post to post mentioning: *bump* on each post, you then can go into the options and check "Ignore all posts by this user". Thus in turn shortening your download time and also freeing up the time reading absolute jiberish.

There is a lot to see what Ron has done here and it is EXTREMELY thought out. It proves to let people who are new to the forum to look for posts by any high ranked users to find USEFULL information that help their lifes in the Stars! Cosmos.

Ron: Keep up the good work, what you are doing is well thought out and works to help teach new people who in this forum are helpfull and who is just their for the pings, while at the same time still providing tools to help eliminate such long download times for those trying to find help and in turn promoting them to add their thoughts, not flames, to the forum and the Stars! Community. Kudos!

Thanks always and best wishes,
Stalwart

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[Updated on: Thu, 21 November 2002 19:25]

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Oh, you changed the rank system, I didn't know about that

Well, then ignore what I said before and keep up the good work

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