Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Dang! I like that. :)

Lieutenant Kernel would work too.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Really, when you have trolled these forms for long enough, you know who are the senior members.

What we need is some admins and mods to help out!

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Yes, that's exactly the point. :rolleyes: The labels aren't useful for anything but fun, that's why I'm proposing changing them.

Either way, the apathy line isn't behind the "Post Reply" button. . . .

Please see the Talk announcement.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Perhaps, since a high post count here likely indicates some dedication to miniature computing devices, we should turn the normal forum title progression style on its head. We could have people labeled with increasingly small/less significant titles as their post counts grow. It should be clear no one should take the veterans too seriously if they're all "dust motes", "pocket lint", or whatnot.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I like this idea. I also like the idea of foreign (to most) words to inject some humour, but Finnish words could help propagate the meme that Nokia is "taking over" ITT into the maemo.org behemoth.

Personally, I'm most siding with the ideas of dropping it altogether, and having the post headings based on the pervasive maemo.org user header.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I regard categories based on post count as being redundant of post count (we can easily see who has >100, etc).

I would rather have some useful descriptive information. Possibly, self-selection of a category reflective of the user's interest in Maemo - "app developer", "user", "just visiting", "tablet devotee", etc.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I say we track user agents an grant higher levels to those who post here via their tablets -- anyone who has the patience to do that should be rewarded. :p

Tim

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

This idea may be a good one, but it requires more effort than changing the labels and thresholds of the current categories; which is what Ryan's asking about.

What about 5 categories:

• Red
• Green
• Blue
• Yellow
• Orange

Thresholds to be assigned semi-randomly. They're abstract & meaningless, let's make them so :-)

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Using the user header from maemo.org could work.

I would have backed the "remove titles entirely" crowd except that I anticipate an influx of new users once that Maemo 5 lead device goes on sale. Furthermore, I expect quite a number of those new users will have frequented other Internet forums, and I can just see a "Here's an idea, let's add titles" thread taking off eight months from now.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Another reason I like it is that it better ensures that the web fora to the maemo-* mailing lists looks consistent with talk.maemo.org.

Hmm. Maybe. Happy to defend - in 8 months time - the right decision now. Well, at least once ;-)