Who's who

von Ryan · **Who's who -** 13-05-2005

I had an idea the other day, ya know... You know that thingie above the avatar, that shows your "position" @ BU (example: mine shows up "member", PMB's shows up "Council Member"...)?
Well, I think we should put something like: "Creator of [bot/plugin/utility name]/[position]", so new ppl here could figure out who's who. Let me give you an example.

Pierre-Marie Baty
Creator of RACC Bot/Council Member

In this case, the bot creation would have priority over the BotAim plugin or other utilities he may have created, unless he wants otherwise

We could also create a new "position", called "Waypointer"...

So, what do you think?

HangFire · **Re: Who's who -** 13-05-2005

Could be useful, but just make sure that it doesn't clutter things up.

TruB · **Re: Who's who -** 13-05-2005

me.. 3D artist/offtopic spammer

Pierre-Marie Baty · **Re: Who's who -** 13-05-2005

I like the idea.. and why not let people put the title they want in it ? (besides calling themselves "moderator" when they aren't...)

That would spice the forum up a bit for sure

von Ryan · **Re: Who's who -** 15-05-2005

So, how are we going to implement this?

Pierre-Marie Baty · **Re: Who's who -** 15-05-2005

I believe that needs a council vote first. I'll add a poll to your thread.

von Ryan · **Re: Who's who -** 15-05-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

[...] council vote [...]

Oops. Already voted

BTW, great idea to put a min. postcount limit. We have a lot of members that have, like, 1 or 2 posts...

KWo · **Re: Who's who -** 15-05-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

I like the idea.. and why not let people put the title they want in it ? (besides calling themselves "moderator" when they aren't...)
That would spice the forum up a bit for sure

Maybe it's a President or Councils should give all titles after ask for it by the people (to prevent this like described above)? Maybe some existing titles should be more clear for new people like "Moderator of podbot mm forum" instead "Moderator" only? Maybe President of BU should have a title "President" instead "Council Member" only? Etc..9_9

>BKA< T Wrecks · **Re: Who's who -** 16-05-2005

I like the basic idea because it actually has a practical use. However, I am against people being able to select anything they want. IMHO, it would be wise to keep any invitations for "forum whores" to the minimum. We have pretty small avatars and signatures, and that's good the way it is. There are enough forums full of brain-damaged kiddies who need 3 animated gifs in their sig (250 pixels high, of course), a huge avatar and a flashy custom title like "His royal 1337ness" or crap like that. It would only invite people to play around with that stuff instead of focusing on what's important.

So my 2 cents is: Some pre-defined functional titles (Bot creator/coder, President, Council Member, Super Mod, Mod for forum xyz, PHP maintainer, waypointer

etc.) yes - free choice (and worse, flashy text formatting) for anyone, no. I don't like the "minimum post count" idea, either - sounds like just another invitation for forum whores to me.

But do what you want (bleh, as if you wouldn't do that anyway

) - I guess I won't cry and leave if the outcome of this poll differs from my opinion. Maybe the community here is even good (mature) enough to prevent any unpleasant side aspects from happening. 9_9

$eu_crey$$on, your avatar is hideous. I had to say that.

TruB · **Re: Who's who -** 16-05-2005

i see a problem problem with custom.. altough i would like to have it for myself..

what if you set you own.. and someone or some have to confirm the choice of title before its used..

pre difened sounds nice.. however it requires alot of chioces.. how about a thread to suggest.. added if needed.. funny aswell as descibing.. like spammer..if you like me spends most of the time in offtopic..

i would like to have something along the lines "CG Artist"..

i kinda voted too..