Hi Pete, how about haveing differant colored stars. when you reach each 1000... just an idea!!Thanks

Sounds like a good idea to me.  But, in the past different colored stars have ment an authority on the board (green for mods and red for pete).  So, maybe they could be filled in or something.

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Andrew Esselbach would have an entire fleet of aircraft! LOL

Dave  8)

How about we have stripes, then stars.  Finally we could have crowns or eagles depending on nationality.  We could force members to address more senior members as Sir or Maam.

Please note immense sarcasm involved in this post.

Will

I suppose somewhere in the image folder there must be a gold star - I'd have to chaneg that.....

Any volunteers to create alternatives?? 

In reality  - I know it's just you guys messing with ideas 

Now how about turning some of that creative energy towards FS!!!!!   8)

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LOLOLOL MORE LIKE ALOT ANDREW

Really nice work Ken!  Pete, what do you think?

Dave

Try this on for size...

1000 Posts - Gold



2500 Posts - Emerald



5000 Posts - Platinum



10,000 Posts - The 10,000 Club!



You can't see it, but it says '10,000 Posts Club!' under the last.  I'll have to change that... 8)  Ken, I like yours, but that is WAY to many categories!

I can't believe that you guys are taking this so seriously!  Did we change into a military unit last night whilst I was asleep?

We know who each other are and on whom we can rely for advice.  Every so often a new member comes along and sticks around, the vast majority who don't rarely get beyond two stars.  When they stick around we get to know them and either decide that they are worth responding to or not.  A "Valued Member" who is an annoying little brat does not evolve into a nice person after 51 posts of pure drivel.

The current system IMHO is perfect.  It takes a fair amount of effort to turn up here and post 500 reply's.  You don't know anyone and may not know that much about FS.  By the time you hit 501 posts you have developed a fairly good relationship with the regulars and chatting becomes more natural.

Leave things as they are, please!!!  There are certain members who feel that they have a right to talk down to and be abusive to new members on the grounds that they have hit the "post" button more often.  I do NOT wish to find myself in a situation where simply because I have a mere 1400 posts I have to swallow my tongue and be polite to an idiot who has 1800 posts.   These are just examples I'm not implying in anyway that this would happen, I'm just saying that a more complicated "rank" structure would encourage it.

The only person on here who automatically gets respect is Pete, the rest of us have to prove ourselves with the quality of posts we make, not by writing LOL as a reply on all 1208 threads on the Joke forum.

For those that are so concerned about their "Seniority" in the forum, add the date you registered to your signature....

Will

Will, if you know of some member who is being as ass simply because of the number of stars he/she has, then please let a mod know and it will be taken care of immediately... 

That was aimed at no-one in particular but I have noticed that on occasion people have been referred to in the manner "hey, newbie" when they disagree with a point of view.  If back in February I had been greeted with this attitude I would have left in seconds.

My major issue is that this is a public forum and each members opinion holds equal weight with each other members opinion.  Andrews thoughts don't carry 7 times more weight than mine and neither do Ozzy's carry five times more weight. 

Also by use of forum names we don't really know who anybody actually is.  Take Leonr in the CFS3 Forum, he has a grand total of 7 posts to his credit and is thus a "newbie" to the forum.  The fact that he is a member of the CFS development team adds a certain influence to his comments. 

Finally a militaristic ranking system puts me off, the stars are not ranks they are a guage of posting frequency.  You can post tons of spam messages and get stars quickly, or you can sit back and only open your mouth occasionaly and take your time.

IMHO by the time you have hit 500 the regulars know who you are and will have developed a certain relationship with you.  I don't need stars under my name to prove anything, all I need to know is that there are about thirty+ people out there who I can scream for help to and be guarenteed an answer within twelve hours.

Will

In my view the whole star ranking system is ridiculous & childish. I would do away with it completely. Unfortunately I understand we're stuck with it.

I think it would still boil down to a competition. 'I've been here longest' and such...

I don't understand why everyone thinks this thing has to be a competition.  It's NOT about who posts the most.  It's about recognition for people who care to contribute.  To be honest, I think I see more people bitching about people 'pulling rank' than I see people doing the offense.  More people complain about what it means than people who try to 'use' it.

Just relax and don't make such a big deal of it!

Just to play "Devil's Advocate", the number of stars displayed by someone responding to a particular subject, does hold weight(for me)on topics specific to SIMV. The reasons for this would be obvious. I don't think the system needs to be changed at all, but I wouldn't remove it altogether either Ken. Quote:
I wasn't suggesting you turn this place into GESTAPOVIATION, I just thought if you were going to make a change why not something inline with military insignia, just for nostalgia sake.
In retrospect, I can see how this could create a problem with "badge collectors".    I DO think it would be nice if the member had their basic credentials or strongpoints posted ie; software engineer, former United Captain, Active CFI, Aerospace Engineer, former floorsweeper at the Skunkworks etc. etc. etc........
Again, just my two cents    Pat 8)

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I'm not comparing the "star system" to someone's tenure or background OR intelligence, and you really don't have to be a rocket scientist to answer many of the questions on the forum.         But.........
Just take a look at some of the post history around here. Seems like a lot of "who are you?, where do you come from? what do you do?" My suggestion was not a intended as a replacement or enhancement of the current system, but as a "on a similar note...." idea. 

I think the current system is good although we do need more things for higher posters although i do not know what.  Some of the suggested ideas are great so far.

Since this seems to be missed as a simple point, let me say this....

.........all that the stars signify is whether the member is a long running contributor(whether garbage or not in value isn't of mention) or whether the member is more of a spectator, and reads to his hearts content........end of story.......
.......nowhere,  is anyone defined as being more valuable than anyone else, as in the end we all take what we want from the forums and we all submit what we want to contribute...........

personally, if I want more stars I will make my own avatar full of stars.......hmmmmmmmm

Pat. I wasn't criticising or trying to pull rank. I quoted part of your reply to make my own point. I didn't think it necessary to quote the complete thing or comment on it. It's always surprised me just how seriously some people take this rank business, that's all.

I'm an old misery guts & never saw the point of changing anything simply for the sake of it. I have better things to think about than the number of stars anyone has or what colour they might be. I'm sure Pete has far more important stuff to worry him too.
These are simply my opinions & I don't expect too many people to agree with me. LOL 

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   Hey guys if you shoot  peoples ideas down
   they won't want to contribute. "Young minds new
   ideas"

Why oh why is this such an issue?

My view - the server simply logs the number of posts, for some other daft/stupid/logical (delete as applicable) reason.

I could'nt give a hoot how many stars a poster may have, theres more than a few in here who simply post for the sake of it - "it" being the number of posts....

If somebody wants to give me green stars animated images etc for posting then thats fine by me.

If on the other hand, I did'nt know how many posts I'd ever made, I doubt the experience of these forums would change for me at all.

All I've done today is use my Battlefield1942 "name".

Otherwise, there'd be a truck reference in this post somewhere of other............

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Simple Pippin.

Some of us are not on-line at home etc etc and thus, may only get patchy internet access.

I'm in this camp. I only visit here when I'm at a friends house or using a pc at work.
I work away from home most of the time and some weekends I won't go near a PC and thus no where near the net or SimV for upto months at a time, depending where in the U.K. or europe I may be.... 

Thus, if I see a topic that interests me (and it may be months old) I'll add to it, ok, it may get bumped up the board temporarily, but, if indeed it's already old and petered out I'm sure it'll die down again. This thread is the biggest on the page at the moment (42 posts I think) - hardly surprising, somebody like me comes along after some period of absence and reads, then replys to the hottest thread! 

This forum to my knowledge has'nt got any rules on replying to old posts, and it would be rather sad if it did IMHO.

Or am I just wrong  ???

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Don't tempt me! 

My thats a large topic going there!!! - safe from my ugly mug though.....  8)

Hmm, mayby I could upload a pic of a cabbage though, for my alter ego.....

Paul. 

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tempt tempt tempt.....TEMPT TEMPT....

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oh oh I am found out.. hmmm whats a gal to do.....lol

I hope I am not being out of line here.  I know I am new to these forums and not very knowledgeable in it subtle ways.  I sometimes use the star system to judge the merits of a persons response in areas where my own expertise are very limited.  The longer I am tolerated here the more I learn, yet I would still find it helpful if there were some way to judge what imformation you can trust and what is little more than well intentioned guesswork.

              TIA  Fido

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Fido...
If you ask a question on this forum regardless od how many stars someone might have, you will get the answers you from the right person, anyone who does know the answer pretty much comes forward...