New User titles based on number of posts, Something to shoot for

[Lex]

Some of you may have noticed some new user titles. Senior member of course is a fairly low total and has always been here. At 1000 posts now, you become a Super Senior Member. At 3000 posts, I think it is, you become an Ultra Senior Member. I haven't went further than that yet, but we might. :-)

Enjoy your new monikors big posters, you earned them!

I have only come across one Ultra Senior Member so far, but I am sure there are others out there. Super Senior is pretty common.

Just something I decided to do while in the admin panel the other day. :-)

Doug

[JonMarsh]

How come I'm still just just a plain ole "Moderator"? :W I haven't been very good at that, but posting... that's something else! :yeah:

[Lex]

Actually, I was thinking about that too, I may have to consult our resident tech expert on changing moderator titles, (wicked grin)

[Kevin P]

I ran the user title maintenance which updates existing user titles based on the new hierarchy. So there should be some ultra/super seniors out there now.

Presently there's no way to set up a hierarchy of titles for moderators. There's only one "ladder" and it applies to usergroups without a custom title. They could be done manually though.

I was thinking we could be more creative with the titles though, like some other sites do. Have them be HT or audio related. For example, the hierarchy could be "480i", "480p", "720p", "1080i", "1080p", "4K", etc.

[Hdale85]

Agreed on the creative thing.

[Lex]

ok, I am a little confused, I think we should take this discussion to the mod area about moderator titles. I am a little confused, because I thought titles were working for the super senior and the ultra senior members I had created. Are you saying my change wasn't working?

I saw some titles that were.

I did change Jon's actual usertitle to something trying to get it to take effect, but as you said, I couldn't get it to show up. I tried the same thing with my own user title, same result, didn't show up.

Well, the creative thing is an idea, I'm not sure it will have that much meaning, but I will listen to reason. However, soon 480i won't mean much, 480p even. I like the even 500, 1000, 2000, 3000 5000 approach just fine though.

It would be nice to be able to change mod titles and admin titles.

[Kevin P]

They work but they don't immediately take effect for everyone. It may update for a user after they post, but the maintenance job I ran updated the titles for everyone based on their current post counts.

In other words, when you added the new titles, someone who qualified for ultra whatever would still have had "senior member" until they made a post and the software rechecked their post count and updated their title.

There is a way to set a custom user title for a user, I'll PM you the details on how.

[Lex]

that makes sense. I get it... about the first part of that, the posting caused it to show up, I only checked people that had posted recently. :-)

the other, I'll be waiting...

Doug