[Setekh]

Indeed, that was me Mik. I take pride in giving valuable titles to those who deserve them. You do something which deserves merit, I give you a title. It's not something you can do yourself; too easy. This is something you can take pride in. That's what I liked about the old system, and dislike about the new one.

(I'm just showing this smiley to my friends; ignore that. )

PS. Agree just about completely, Shrike. There's a glimmer of hope but it's not much use if everyone just keeps complaining. Get Kier over here and get our US160 back, dude.

[Ulala]

Anything is fine with me!

[Vertigo1]

Ok folks, I posted this because I figured it would add to the forums a bit.  If all you're going to do is piss and moan about rank titles then do it somewhere else.  Its getting old.

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by MD-2389
Ok folks, I posted this because I figured it would add to the forums a bit.  If all you're going to do is piss and moan about rank titles then do it somewhere else.  Its getting old.

That whole train of discussion would have been my fault, sorry about that...

[WMCoolmon]

Erm, sorry

So, what should the various ranks be, and their respective post counts?

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by mikhael
One of the things I really liked about the old forum system was that Most people didn't have 'specials'. I thought it was really cool when I logged in one day and I found that someone (presumably Setekh) had changed my title to "*404error*". I didn't request it, I didn't put it there myself and no one ever mentioned to me that it had been done. Because it just appeared there one day, I figured that I'd passed the test of merit. It 'meant' more to me that way. Custom titles and avatars should rest entirely in the hands of the admins.

[Setekh]

At this stage: most probably standard - nothing special, unless staff make an exception (as we did in the old UBB system).

[Ryx]

Originally posted by mikhael
One of the things I really liked about the old forum system was that Most people didn't have 'specials'. I thought it was really cool when I logged in one day and I found that someone (presumably Setekh) had changed my title to "*404error*". I didn't request it, I didn't put it there myself and no one ever mentioned to me that it had been done. Because it just appeared there one day, I figured that I'd passed the test of merit. It 'meant' more to me that way. Custom titles and avatars should rest entirely in the hands of the admins.

I agree.

[Kitsune]

Bah, leave it like it is.
If we could change things to fit how we the individual users like, then the servers would get crowded with extra images and whatnot.
If you want to stand out, do it in your sig, that's why they're not limited isn't it?

[Setekh]

Heh. Another reason we won't have special post rankings is that it encourages spam. Spam = bad. HLP's rockin' signal:noise ratio = good.

[Fineus]

Well we don't want massive sigs (or images for preference) but yeah, I suppose they're not there for nothing.

At this stage it's looking very much like we'll be reverting to the old ways - all custom titles will be awarded by admin only for doing something for the community and so on - asking for them will reduce your chance of getting them. Avatars will also be removed and the only ones to have them will be hosted site people and admin. Overall (although I liked the avatars) I can see that it's a better way than this.

[Setekh]

What T said.

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by Thunder
Overall (although I liked the avatars) I can see that it's a better way than this.

To be perfectly honest I can't, but if thats the way you want to run your board then I'm not going to argue.

[Vortex]

Personally I think having fs2 related titles is kewl (based on post count) and spamming wouldn't really be a problem because u guys do moderate this forum. I constantly visit the civfanatics forum (for those of you who don't know the game civilization, shame on you) and the people there have civ based titles based on post counts (chieftan, warlord, prince, etc). So far I haven't seen any spamming there or if there is it's been purged. I think HLP could handle a simliar thing here.

[Fineus]

We've reached a decision, avatars and custom titles shall be removed. Hosted people get their hosted icons and people who contribute amongst the community will recieve custom titles as we decide to award them.

Since it's over - thread un-stuck.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Thunder
We've reached a decision, avatars and custom titles shall be removed. Hosted people get their hosted icons and people who contribute amongst the community will recieve custom titles as we decide to award them.

Since it's over - thread un-stuck.

cool I think I'll just put my title back to senior member

[Blue Lion]

Is it back to the way it was with names or start from scratch?

[Nico]

well, seems someone gave me my old title back

[Blue Lion]

Mine too, Thanks

[WMCoolmon]

*points to poll*