Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I'm only interested if I can be a Sardine.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

We sure are getting carried away with this. I recall in the 60's we used to joke that an expert programmer was the one assigned and a guru was programmer that did it once before. These various lables seem to have a similar level of useful meaning.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I know it's not as much fun, but I vote to ditch the titles completely. I come from the school of "Keep It Simple, Stupid." (No, it's not actually a school. More like distance ed.)

Hey, while you're at it, limit the signatures, clean up the interface, etc.

Right now each posting shows the avatar, name, time/date, post#, a "report" button (I've never noticed that before!), join date, location, # of posts, # of thanks, # of thankeds, thread title, signature, quote button, thanks button... Oh, and the actual content. Seems a little... unbalanced.

Clean that up and I promise that I'll have more fun. :)

If not, put me down for Sardine...

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I like titles because it atleast gives me a sense of how involved the individual is on the forums. I know that does not indicate his worth to the community, but it could be an indication.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Right now, titles are completely useless. Any system based on post count is stupid, because, hey look: I can see exactly how many posts you have without looking at the title!

I think that after people get a few hundred posts or whatever, they can pick a name from a list of pre-approved ones (So we don't get names that are 100 words long).

Or just remove them. In communist maemo, everyone is a comrade!

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I'm not suggesting the "use" of maemo.org karma to select a description alongside a name; just that since ITT accounts and maemo.org accounts can be linked that - for some users - additional information from the maemo.org account will be able to be shown on the talk.maemo.org posts.

Karma is an obvious one. A link in (from their tmo profile page) back to the maemo.org profile page is another. Perhaps "company" too.

ITT is becoming tmo, everything under *.maemo.org should strive to show user contributions in as consistent manner as possible, and the current proposal for is: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Improving...Member_profile

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

But you don't know the range. So in meaningful terms, you want to split the RANGE of 0 to top poster and rank accordingly.

X = # of posts of GA
0 - X/5 lurker
X/5 - 2X/5 casual typer
2X/5 - 3X/5 strong poster
3X/5 - 4X/5 message factory
4X/5 - 6X/5 GA lookalike
6X/5 - 10X/5 GA on steroids
20X/5 - 50X/5 carpal tunnel syndrome
50X+/5 man machine interface

adjust as necessary

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

I like the idea of karma being used to rate the person, assuming we even need ratings and assuming it can be fed in somehow.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Sure, I understand all that. My point is using maemo.org karma on the forum will rank people according to criteria that is not limited to their activity on the forum. I understand karma has good purpose on maemo.org where people are doing things instead of just talking, but importing a ranking system into the forum is a bad idea.

Re: Improving Member Levels: Less Threatening, More Fun
 

Why is showing more info about them a bad idea, when that info will be available by clicking through to their profile page, anyway?