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Title: Posting Ranks
Post by: Nintendoobsessed on September 27, 2008, 07:17:07 PM
What if TMK featured Posting Ranks? I haven't seen many forums that don't have posting ranks.

It could be simple as:

At least 0: Goomba
At least 70: Koopa Troopa
At least 150: Regular Toad
At least 2000: Superstar

etc, etc. The only current ranking system we somewhat have are nicknames...perhaps we could take it a step further?
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Luigison on September 27, 2008, 07:27:31 PM
If ranks are based on post count then they would encourage spam which is not good no matter what some Hawaiians say.  A karma system like Slashdot has would be nice, but I don't think this board is large enough for such a scheme to be effective. 
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: MaxVance on September 27, 2008, 07:55:52 PM
"Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools, because they have to say something."
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: BP on September 27, 2008, 09:58:41 PM
I've always though post-based ranking systems were ridiculous. Quality is better than quantity.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Glorb on September 28, 2008, 09:56:07 AM
Exactly. Besides, I'd feel inadequate if anyone's post count was bigger than mine and would feel compelled to purchase some form of Natural Post Count Enhancement.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Luigalaxy on September 28, 2008, 10:48:03 AM
I've seen this before. I've also seen it abused. Not a good idea.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on September 28, 2008, 03:10:49 PM
Posting ranks are ridiculous. I think the mod-lent CTs we have right now aren't the greatest thing in the world, but their better than most of the alternative(s).
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: BP on September 28, 2008, 03:39:10 PM
Custom titles you can't customize are the best!

Edit: No, MushroomJunkie, I am not being sarcastic.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: MaxVance on September 28, 2008, 03:44:14 PM
So, by your logic, your custom title sucks.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: BP on September 28, 2008, 04:08:19 PM
I didn't give mine to myself. I wouldn't.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: nensondubois on September 28, 2008, 04:20:17 PM
What about custom titles?
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: The Chef on September 28, 2008, 06:42:39 PM
^Proof that nenson never reads threads.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on September 28, 2008, 06:50:18 PM
Well, now we know what his next CT will... well, I guess the current one is appropriate.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: nensondubois on September 28, 2008, 07:31:43 PM
Yeah didn't read. It's not that important anyway to have Custom titles.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Kuromatsu on September 28, 2008, 08:14:29 PM
I must be pretty darn special then, being the only person in this thread without a custom title.

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm just as unimportant of the rest of you now.

Hahahaha, my plan WORKED!
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Luigalaxy on September 29, 2008, 01:02:50 PM
What I don't get is why I'm failure.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: MushroomJunkie on September 29, 2008, 01:56:26 PM
Bring on the posting ranks!
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: nensondubois on September 29, 2008, 03:46:07 PM
"Not that important anyway"?!? Please change it.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: BP on September 29, 2008, 05:00:28 PM
Quit your complainin' or you'll get a worse one.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Turtlekid1 on September 29, 2008, 05:39:15 PM
On the KHU forums you could edit your custom title if you spent some of the currency from their built-in RPG system on it.  Then they took out the RPG, so then the requirement was 1000 posts.  But I had edited mine before they changed the site, so I had my own CT without all the posting.  I swear, the CTs were the only good part of that site.  I'm glad I left.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on September 29, 2008, 10:03:48 PM
What's KHU? (I know it's probably really obvious)

Well, I know this technically isn't the Custom Titles thread (or whatever--no one's really posted there in a while), but that seems to be direction things have gone, so... where did mine come from, anyway? I figured it was from PL's farewell post, but he never explicitly referred to me as such.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Glorb on September 29, 2008, 10:45:52 PM
It's actually an elaborate satire. You're really just garden-variety, generically charming.

Speaking of which, I grow tired of my dusty old current CT. Need some more material.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Captain Jim on September 29, 2008, 10:53:09 PM
The First Rule of Custom Titles: You never talk about Custom Titles.

...I may have just broken the first rule of custom titles. PARADOX.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Luigalaxy on September 30, 2008, 07:15:55 AM
Captain Jim's new CT: PARADOX.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on September 30, 2008, 07:26:47 AM
I would've suggested that, but I don't cope well with triple paradoxes.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Nintendoobsessed on October 01, 2008, 04:10:48 PM
Ha ha, very funny.

Fun Fact: This is the first time my title has changed!
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Glitchy on December 03, 2008, 07:29:48 PM
What I don't get is why I'm failure.

ITS FALL NOT FAIL!!!
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on December 03, 2008, 08:55:34 PM
Well, right now it's "Fail"... (it was worth bumping for that?)
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Lizard Dude on December 05, 2008, 04:33:06 AM
You're crying bump, but this thread was previously sitting smack in the middle of the first page of Site Discussion.

Not a bump.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on December 05, 2008, 07:55:36 AM
Oh... that's the criteria for a bump? It was over two months since a post here and Site Discussion doesn't get as many threads as other boards, is all I figured.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Glorb on December 06, 2008, 01:31:14 PM
The criteria for a bump is:

Does it contribute to the thread? (I this case...debatable)
Has it been a long time? (two months is pretty long)
Is the thread itself worth reviving? (again, debatable)
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Lizard Dude on December 06, 2008, 01:53:20 PM
No, the criterion of a bump is:

Does it move the thread to the top of the thread list?


Yes, all posts are technically bumps. People usually only get mad when the bump causes a thread to rise from great depths and age back to the top and for no good reason.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Glorb on December 06, 2008, 11:22:59 PM
More like all bumps are technically posts.
And all topics are justs posts without anything before them.
Or how you can't ever be inside, since all buildings are shells built on top of the ground.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on December 07, 2008, 08:43:52 AM
Yes, that's often occured to me...
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Chupperson Weird on December 07, 2008, 10:09:37 AM
But not all buildings are shells on top of the ground. Some are inside the ground. What do you think of that?
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: Glitchy on December 07, 2008, 08:16:02 PM
Well, right now it's "Fail"... (it was worth bumping for that?)

It looks like it says fall.
Title: Re: Posting Ranks
Post by: ShadowBrain on December 08, 2008, 08:32:32 AM
It's fail, trust me.