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Re: Military cutback

Thu, 21 November 2002 22:45

Ron

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UAF commander wrote on Thu, 21 November 2002 18:22

Is someone with 134 posts and civillian rank, and one with 43 and is High level Crewman?
To my understanding, the person with more posts would (currently) have the higher rank.

In the original rank system, rank was directly tied to the number of posts. In the new system, rank is tied to points I assign based on the quality of the post. Therefore, users who are more helpful, insightful, etc get more points. Totally irrelevant posts get zero points.

If someone posted 20 messages, they were on topic, but not very helpful or insightful, they would get 1 point for each message. This would give them 20/20 or 1.00 ratio.

Say another user posted 20 messages, 5 were off-topic or rude/flame etc, and the rest were fine (1 point each), would get 15 points, or 0.75 ratio.

Along comes another user who is well known in the Stars! community, posts 20 messages, 12 are insightful and helpful (2 or 3 points), 8 are normal 1 point posts. Total: 32 or 40 points which gives a positive 1.6 or 2.0 ratio.

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Also, I am not talking about pics in the signiture area, I'm talking about having the avatars where the rank is currently shown. (You looked at that forum I mentioned?)

Actually, if avatars were displayed, they would be under the rank image, and would be limited to 64x64 pixels. But, as I already posted in another thread (with a poll), they would slow down the page display speed and could distract from the Stars!/space theme. Avatars range in size from 1k to about 3k, and if there are 20 messages displayed on the screen, would add 20 to 60k of data to transfer (assuming all 20 were different avatars).

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To sum it all: it's not the rank system I'm againt, it's the nice (small!) avatars I'm in favor. And right now the rank system just seem useless to me. If I want to know how many posts someone made, I'll look at the # of posts field, not the rank.

The FAQ shows the number of rank points that go with each rank (for those interested)(may need to be adjusted in the future). I'm not sure I want the actual rank points to be displayed, but I could display the ratio (signal to noise ratio?). Would that be helpful?

Ron Miller
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		Military cutback By: BlueTurbit on Sun, 10 November 2002 11:16
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Sun, 10 November 2002 11:33
		Re: Military cutback By: JamesWD on Mon, 11 November 2002 09:29
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Mon, 11 November 2002 09:41
		Re: Military cutback By: EDog on Tue, 12 November 2002 02:45
		Re: Military cutback By: JamesWD on Tue, 12 November 2002 05:41
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Tue, 12 November 2002 09:35
		Re: Military cutback By: JamesWD on Tue, 12 November 2002 11:05
		Re: Military cutback By: ccmaster on Wed, 13 November 2002 20:13
		Re: Military cutback By: UAF commander on Fri, 15 November 2002 12:48
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Fri, 15 November 2002 17:58
		Re: Military cutback By: FurFuznel on Fri, 15 November 2002 18:24
		Re: Military cutback By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 15 November 2002 18:19
		Re: Military cutback By: Stalwart on Thu, 21 November 2002 14:25
		Re: Military cutback By: UAF commander on Fri, 15 November 2002 21:02
		Re: Military cutback By: ccmaster on Fri, 15 November 2002 23:50
		Re: Military cutback By: BlueTurbit on Sat, 16 November 2002 02:36
		Re: Military cutback By: Caracan on Sun, 17 November 2002 13:03
		Re: Military cutback By: ccmaster on Mon, 18 November 2002 20:53
		Re: Military cutback By: JamesWD on Tue, 19 November 2002 05:17
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Tue, 19 November 2002 13:07
		Re: Military cutback By: UAF commander on Thu, 21 November 2002 18:22
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Thu, 21 November 2002 22:45
		Re: Military cutback By: gary d on Sun, 24 November 2002 12:50
		Re: Military cutback By: tech25 on Thu, 21 November 2002 19:23
		Re: Military cutback By: McKulz on Sat, 07 December 2002 19:38
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Sat, 07 December 2002 23:46
		Re: Military cutback By: gible on Sun, 08 December 2002 03:27
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Sun, 08 December 2002 12:48
		Re: Military cutback By: jeffimix on Sun, 08 December 2002 20:02
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Sun, 08 December 2002 20:37
		Re: Military cutback By: jeffimix on Mon, 09 December 2002 06:49
		Re: Military cutback By: UAF commander on Fri, 22 November 2002 05:39
		Re: Military cutback By: Peptis on Mon, 09 December 2002 17:58
		Re: Military cutback By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 09 December 2002 18:09
		Re: Military cutback By: gible on Mon, 09 December 2002 20:04
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Mon, 09 December 2002 22:34
		Re: Military cutback By: BlueTurbit on Mon, 09 December 2002 22:42
		Re: Military cutback By: Ron on Mon, 09 December 2002 22:56
		Re: Military cutback By: freakyboy on Sun, 15 December 2002 06:51

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