Suggestions for new Forum Ranking System?

[sgloer]

Shoto brings up a good point, and besides, I'd like to see a ranking structure that's a little more fun.

The one with sage, academic, scholar, etc. has potential, but there needs to be more distinction between the ranks I think.

My dictionary says that a sage is someone that's profoundly wise, so to me, it would make sense for that to be the highest level--unless maybe you have a "Buddha" rank above that.

The lowest rank needs to be really low--like a "Greenhorn", a "Tenderfoot", a "Neophyte", or a "Fledgeling" to pull some words out of my thesaurus.

[Farmerboy]

One idea for low on the totem pole would be Pledge. These are people who have yet to qualify for their fraternity on campus.

[bat21]

I think your right, the different levels should have some levity to them and not be too serious.

[sgloer]

Here we go for my proposal. Feel free to tweak it, shoot it down, or contribute a completely different set of ranks:
Newbie - 0 posts
Greenhorn - 10 posts
Contributor - 50 posts
Scholar - 100 posts
Brain - 200 posts
Sage - 400 posts
Buddha - 1000 posts

[ShotoJuku]

Please no-no-no-no - I certainly don't want to even be thought of as a buddha; besides - isn't that a religious figure?

Keep what have now.

[COLOR="Blue"]-or-

How military officer ranks?

Lieutenant
Captain
Major
Lt. Colonel
Colonel
General

-or-

Ensign
Lieutenant JG
Lieutenant
LT. Commander
Commander
Captain
Admiral[/COLOR]

[a4tunatemom]

Here we go for my proposal. Feel free to tweak it, shoot it down, or contribute a completely different set of ranks:
Newbie - 0 posts
Greenhorn - 10 posts
Contributor - 50 posts
Scholar - 100 posts
Brain - 200 posts
Sage - 400 posts
Buddha - 1000 posts

I like Newbie, Contributor, Scholar, and Sage. Brain and Grenhorn I can live with but please, please no Buddha.

[barcotta]

This is a tough one. I hope we don't go to a new method too soon so I can be a Lord for a little longer (!)...but I basically like the direction. I just can't come up with a complete list I like. I think all of Steve's suggestions for the first one or two levels are great and I could live with any of them ("Greenhorn", a "Tenderfoot", a "Neophyte", or a "Fledgeling") and I like Farmerboy's "Pledge" and the "Newbie" suggestion is great too. I also like "Scholar" as one of the levels. I think the top level should be "Guru." Everything in the middle is where I'm stuck. I don't like "Brain" or "Contributor." For me, that kind of stretches the concept from fun to too literal. Although I was being completely tongue-in-cheek when I wrote my post about becoming a Lord--it was kinda cool and I thought THAT was fun. I couldn't have done that if I had just become a "Brain" or a "Contributor."

I guess I like the overblown, outlandish kind of fun--along the lines of "Most Highly Exalted Grand Puba" and things like that, but we are, after all, very serious academics--one and all. Also, maybe we could find some fun pics/icons to go along with the titles.

So, I'll keep thinking about it but here's what I have so far:

Pledge - 10-29 posts
Greenhorn - 30-59 posts
Student - 60-149 posts
Scholar - 150-349 posts
Academic - 350-499
Professor - 500-999
Guru - 1000+

You might be able to reverse Scholar and Academic--I'm not sure which sounds more "advanced." If it's possible, it would be good to only count posts with 25 or more new characters. I also like the concept that Jennifer suggested of assigning minimum membership periods to qualify for one or more of the higher rankings. What say ye?

[Katterina]

Pledge - 10-29 posts
Greenhorn - 30-59 posts
Student - 60-149 posts
Scholar - 150-349 posts
Academic - 350-499
Professor - 500-999
Guru - 1000+

What say ye?

I like it, except I would substitute Neophyte for Greenhorn. Just my $0.02.

[QuotableKali1918]

I also don't like the idea of Buddha. Military ranks sound cool, or the less-intense education-related ones. I don't like the idea of only counting posts with 25 or more characters, or minimum memebership periods for higher ranks.
Sorry, it just makes it seem to complicated and competitive.

[cookderosa]

I'm going to sound like the dork here, but most new people ask what the titles mean under their names....so I vote that it be a little more intuitive than it is presently.
I'll confess I was probably here 6 months before I ever even noticed I had a rank of some kind, let alone what it meant.
Also, once I noticed it- there was no where that I could find out what it meant....so maybe "the list" should appear somewhere in a FAQ.

Whatever you decide is fine by me, I'm just here for the free food.