User Ranks with Internet Speed Names
Less then 50 Posts - Dial Up
51 to 250 - ISDN
251 to 500 - DSL
501 to 750 - Cable
751 to 1000 - Fios

User Ranks other idea
Less then 50 Posts - Newbie
51 to 250 - Average User
251 to 500 - IT Worker
501 to 750 - Network Admin
751 to 1000 - Linux Guru
1500+ - That guy in office that fixes your computer.

Ok I know give me more time I'll make up better ones.

I propose something base on the addition of ascii value of each char of the nick divided by 42.

Of course do not forget to click on the button "THANKS" on this really usefull post.



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Do you think this is really important to show that you are an important people in the community in the forum, or does what you say is more ?
Really you need this ? to rate people ? I don't think this is really necessary. But it s my point of view

I think that after 1500 or so you should allow people to set there own title.

or maybe we could do images like 5 boxes and you get another shaded for each 250 posts.

New member and member are pretty good, even if there are exceptions where new member would be inaccurate. For more fun could name after the Maemo OS names, Freakish Fremantler et cetera. Should be an opportunity for a bit of education about the seemingly random OS names, or could tie it in with qwerty12's top five profanities. So elitism is a must and this could be achieved by using post levels of 3^n; 1, 3, 27, 81, 243 and so on. There could be also be random ones such as 19 could be antidisestablishmentarianism and 100 for beer and pizza! Anyway, my point clearly is that if it were up to me the levels would be named after food. Since I suspect there are a significant amount of users here who were poor starving students at one point in their life, I'd recommend using the names of international recipes for instant noodles

Or another option is also not have post counts displayed

An option, I supposed, but as they're used for karma, it'd be rather difficult to make sense of that number if you didn't know what was used to calculate it.

That too. If you are interested or suspicious about a user you could always click the profile link.

1. newborn pea
2. toddling menace
3. teen-aged gangsta'
4. working-class hero
5. oldie goldie junkie

plus further bonus levels: "senile smiley", "talking corpse", and "undead tablet firmware ghost"

Hope that terms have no profane/offensive meanings in English...

I second the comment that the more important thing is the Thanked count, not Posts count. Why not just move the Thanked number to a more prominent position, rather than have named ranks?