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Re: Post count ranks

Postby HC Eredivisie » Mon May 25, 2009 6:53 am

How many of us still know when that was first posted?
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Reploid Productions » Mon May 25, 2009 11:05 am

Back on our really old forums before Jolt, once I was made forum admin, I started a weekly raffle for a one of a kind forum rank. (Not a custom one, just one of a kind.) If someone wanted that rank, they would let me know they wanted to be in the contest; and at the end of each week I put all the names into a random selector script and that would randomly choose that week's winner.

For the most part the contest ranks were along NS-like lines aside from the occasional webcomics-inspired rogue like the Shirt Ninja or Cardboard Tube Samurai among the Psychotic Dictator, Faithful Atheist, Overclocked Technocrat, and so on.
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Crazy girl » Mon May 25, 2009 11:28 am

I really wanted to win the puppet master one...and it went to someone who didn't have any puppets. It did have a sort of irony there.
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Somewhereistonia » Mon May 25, 2009 11:41 am

I like the sound of that one of a kind raffle Reppy.

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Re: Post count ranks

Postby HC Eredivisie » Tue May 26, 2009 10:05 am

Question: Are these the rankingnames of the old forum? If not, do we want those back?
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Valipac » Tue May 26, 2009 3:00 pm

HC Eredivisie wrote:Question: Are these the rankingnames of the old forum? If not, do we want those back?


No, but I like these better. Although the ability to create a custom title would be nice.
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Unibot » Tue May 26, 2009 3:18 pm

No, but I like these better. Although the ability to create a custom title would be nice.


I think he/she means the pre-jolt forums...
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Reploid Productions » Tue May 26, 2009 8:24 pm

They are in fact based on the really old pre-Jolt post rankings, but some new additions and tweaks spacing as to when you get them =p
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Newmanistan » Tue May 26, 2009 11:43 pm

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Peisandros wrote:I think custom after something like 5,000 or 10,000 is a pretty good idea.. Something to strive to!
Exactly why we don't intend to do it. We get enough spam as is without rewarding it.


I'm probably one of the few users who's gonna say.... thank you for that.

I've never cared about my post count personally. I think its about 1500 on jolt or so. About all I know.
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Peisandros » Wed May 27, 2009 12:08 am

The Most Glorious Hack wrote:
Peisandros wrote:I think custom after something like 5,000 or 10,000 is a pretty good idea.. Something to strive to!
Exactly why we don't intend to do it. We get enough spam as is without rewarding it.

Well surely there are rules regarding how many times one can be disciplined for spamming before they are removed? I mean I think you would be able to stop a serial spammer reaching 10k posts... Atleast I would hope so.
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Postby Filbertiana » Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:40 pm

Reploid Productions wrote:At the moment, there's nothing planned for enabling users to set their own rank titles, however since I can edit the ranks, I'm very seriously considering reviving the old weekly "one of a kind" rank title raffles we did on the pre-Jolt forums. 8-)


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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Sirocco » Wed Jul 01, 2009 1:07 pm

One idea I came up with was that instead of a raffle we'd hold weekly creativity challenges (MSPaint your national animal, 150-word essay on why you like NationStates, etc.). We never quite agreed on how to judge them without incurring some kind of wrangle over bias or whatever though... a random selection of posters in the thread to act as a judge panel might work. I'm open to suggestions.
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Re: Post count ranks

Postby West-Flanders » Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:49 pm

Sirocco wrote:One idea I came up with was that instead of a raffle we'd hold weekly creativity challenges (MSPaint your national animal, 150-word essay on why you like NationStates, etc.). We never quite agreed on how to judge them without incurring some kind of wrangle over bias or whatever though... a random selection of posters in the thread to act as a judge panel might work. I'm open to suggestions.


Just make an issue out of it.. ;)

Your nation's popular TV-show "Who wants to get a custom title" has reached its season's final, and a tele-vote will decide who will win:

[option] "The first candidate is @@CANDIDATE1@@," says show host @@RANDOMNAME@@, "and I'ld bet my money on them. A smart choice."

[option] "We want @@CANDIDATE2@@! We want @@CANDIDATE2@@!" yells a crowd of screaming teenage girls enthusiastic.

[option] "Pssst, hey you, you like @@CANDIDATE3@@?" says a guy with dark sunglasses, in a raincoat, hidden behind a big newspaper, from behind a corner. "If you have the dough, I can make swing the vote in their favour."

[option] "Why do we need tele-votes anyway" says General @@RANDOMNAME@@, who also happens to be your brother. We know what's best, and that's @@CANDIDATE4@@

[option] "Think of the children" says religious wacko @@RANDOMNAME@@. The only moral choice is to support @@CANDIDATE5@@

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Re: Post count ranks

Postby Sirocco » Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:50 pm

That made me smile, thank you. :lol:
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