Custom titles

Also many of you are saying you want quality posts. Then it could work like this:
[ I added steps to make it a little more clear to something that I suggested]
[1] Member writes a tutorial
[2] Sent to a Moderator[s], they read over it and add their suggestions on how to improve it and what not .....
[3] Moderator[s] send the tutorial to other members[ who is up to them??? ] who will read it and post their comments
[4] Member fixes whatever needs to be fixed and sends it once again to Moderator[s] they approve it
[5] Member posts his/her tutorial

Yes it might take longer for the tutorial to be posted and read by others but it will be of better quality. That's my opinion.

The time-based feature does sound like a good idea. 2 years seems like a good reasonable amount of time.

Yeah I was actually thinking along that line MsM.

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Maybe to expand on it those that post frequently and get positive APs in those areas?

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Yeah that would work great. But how many AP's would you suggest they receive before they get that ? 500 - 600 ? sounds decent ...

Erm, been trying to think of a way to say this all the way thru reading the thread, and the only thing I can come up with is....all the rules are a stupid idea. What's anymore special about having a custom title than having a custom avatar? You achieve that at like 10 posts, I think. I know on my forums, it's a matter of clicking a yes or no button and filling in a blank...can a member have a custom title, and if yes, at what point? You are talking about a lot of pain in the ass stuff for a pretty small feature. I think if you have a custom title, it should come at a higher place than 10 posts, or whatever it is to get a custom avatar, but suggesting AP's, posts, tuts, and whatever else has been suggested is pretty dumb to me. It's not like you're giving them mod status or some huge feature, it's simply a way to customize your account a little more, like an avatar or a siggy. I would like to have a custom title, it would be fun, and make my account more personal. However, it's still not much more than an avatar or siggy.

That's my take on it.

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Well, if the user_id is based on an auto_increment mySQL field (or the equivalent in whatever database server AntiOnline uses), I'm older than you because my userid is lower.

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dude, you crash the party! The bubble is broken! For me, you were still Aug 2001 like me! hehe! I wonder if more of the 2500 membres before me are still active!

Debs - my take on the custom avatar feature is that it would be like a site beefit for those who have been here a long time/contributed well.

As has been mentioned alot before the post status really means very little now as we have had people becoming addicts in like a couple of months so anyone can hit snr member quite quickly.

A custom rank would be a way of telling the good contributers from the post whores :)

v_Ln

I dunno, I guess I just don't really see it that way. If you want to come up with something really different or special or something, but a custom title, while it would be cool, doesn't really seem like something that's going to stand out and say "oh, here's a really good member". I mean honestly, half the time I don't even pay attention to the titles now, and I rarely read moods...like I said, it would be a cool way of customizing your account, and I think it would be cool to have, but I just really don't see it as something that should require umpteen different qualifications.

I don't care now.

lol

I'll let the mods do what they think should be done then hope intmon reads it :D

I wanna have a rank as DaMastaOgre

If wish people who have more that 500 posts in total and less that 100 in security forum have their title change to post whore! :)

That's not necessarily an accurate case if they are helping people with general OS questions (which do not appear in the security forums)

Thats very true MsMittens plus I know of many people who post say in Web Security a lot who deserve any site benefit that somebody similar for Misc. Security deserves.