5 stars

That_Guy

What does it take to fill the fifth star with colour? My OCD is kicking in.

5starpool

I'm pretty sure this has been said before, and there is no amount of posts that will grant ordinary users the 5th star. They are only for Admins and CMods in their respective colours. It may have changed recently, but that is my understanding anyhow.

Pawwed Rig

That_Guy wrote: »

What does it take to fill the fifth star with colour? My OCD is kicking in.

Have a word with Dav about openings in HQ

Spear

5starpool wrote: »

I'm pretty sure this has been said before, and there is no amount of posts that will grant ordinary users the 5th star. They are only for Admins and CMods in their respective colours. It may have changed recently, but that is my understanding anyhow.

And boards.ie employees with 5 blue stars.

Boards.ie: Rónán

1 Blue - User after 5th post
2 Blue - User after 100th post
3 Blue - User after 500th post
4 Blue - User after 10,000th post
3 White - Hmod
4 White - Mod
5 White - CMod
4 Red - Subs
5 Yellow - Admin
5 Light Blue - Employee

5starpool

Spear wrote: »

And boards.ie employees with 5 blue stars.

For the purposes of it suiting my previous post, I'm going to pretend I covered them under the admin bracket, and didn't forget about them

Dades

Ahh, I must be on emergency tax then. :pac:

/ uses wonga.com

Steve

Boards.ie: Rónán wrote: »

1 Blue - User after 5th post
2 Blue - User after 100th post
3 Blue - User after 500th post
4 Blue - User after 10,000th post
3 White - Hmod
4 White - Mod
5 White - CMod
4 Red - Subs
5 Yellow - Admin
5 Light Blue - Employee

You forgot 3 gold there...

Corkfeen

Boards.ie: Rónán wrote: »

1 Blue - User after 5th post
2 Blue - User after 100th post
3 Blue - User after 500th post
4 Blue - User after 10,000th post
3 White - Hmod
4 White - Mod
5 White - CMod
4 Red - Subs
5 Yellow - Admin
5 Light Blue - Employee

I have to wait 6.5k posts till I get a 4th star. :O Why did you have to set me this goal, curse you Ronan!

Pawwed Rig

Corkfeen wrote: »

I have to wait 6.5k posts till I get a 4th star. :O Why did you have to set me this goal, curse you Ronan!

You have managed 3515 posts in 9 years. Therefore you should be receiving your fourth star sometime in 2029.

I think it is a ruse to get more subscribers. It is all about having more stars:D

Rabies

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

You have managed 3515 posts in 9 years. Therefore you should be receiving your fourth star sometime in 2029.

I think it is a ruse to get more subscribers. It is all about having more stars:D

Why do I have a slot for another star that will never be achieved?

Spear

Rabies wrote: »

Why do I have a slot for another star that will be be achieved?

To give you false hope, of course.

Turtwig

Boards needs achievements.

Achievement Unlocked: "Welcome Newbie" signed up to site.Achievement Unlocked: "Feel the Gratitude" first thanks received.Achievement Unlocked: "I'm grateful" first thanks given.
Achievement Unlocked: "Posterholic" Obtain a poster average of 30 post per day or greater..
Achievement Unlocked: "Keeping things Private" First PM sent.
Achievement Unlocked: "Secretive" 50 PMs sent.
Acheivement Unlocked: "Censor's first steps." First post edited.
Achievement Unlocked: "Let there be discussion!" Quoted somebody's post in a reply.
Achievement Unlocked: "Now Y'er gaming." first post in the game category.
Achievement Unlocked: "That's the Biz" first post in Biz Category.
etc. etc.

Insect Overlord

That 5th grey star is being kept in reserve for Mike65...

Overheal

^ http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055771214 :P

Dades

I wonder if we're heading for another Y2K catastrophe* when Mike hits the six-figure mark?


* No actual catastrophe happened

MadsL

Dades wrote: »

I wonder if we're heading for another Y2K catastrophe* when Mike hits the six-figure mark?


* No actual catastrophe happened

How much could we donate to SSF to reset his counter to 0 when it happens?

LuckyLloyd

I think 100k posts is probably worthy of a fifth grey star. Particularly in the new era of closed accounts.

Dav

Jernal wrote: »

Boards needs achievements.

Achievement Unlocked: "Welcome Newbie" signed up to site.Achievement Unlocked: "Feel the Gratitude" first thanks received.Achievement Unlocked: "I'm grateful" first thanks given.
Achievement Unlocked: "Posterholic" Obtain a poster average of 30 post per day or greater..
Achievement Unlocked: "Keeping things Private" First PM sent.
Achievement Unlocked: "Secretive" 50 PMs sent.
Acheivement Unlocked: "Censor's first steps." First post edited.
Achievement Unlocked: "Let there be discussion!" Quoted somebody's post in a reply.
Achievement Unlocked: "Now Y'er gaming." first post in the game category.
Achievement Unlocked: "That's the Biz" first post in Biz Category.
etc. etc.

Would you believe I have a similar list written down here in my notebook? I was thinking about it on Friday. I still don't know if it's a good idea or not though.

Spear

Dav wrote: »

Would you believe I have a similar list written down here in my notebook? I was thinking about it on Friday. I still don't know if it's a good idea or not though.

Hmm, gamification then. I'm more than a little wary about what kind of behaviour this could prompt.

Dav

Yea, that's my biggest concern too - I remember the Karma Whoring that went on when we had that. I'm hesitant to try it without some serious consideration to the consequences and the last thing we'd need is people doing stuff just to get achievements and it ruining things.

MadsL

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

I think 100k posts is probably worthy of a fifth grey star. Particularly in the new era of closed accounts.

I love this idea. Can we? Pwease? Pwetty Pwease?

Turtwig

Dav wrote: »

Would you believe I have a similar list written down here in my notebook? I was thinking about it on Friday. I still don't know if it's a good idea or not though.

In my opinion it's a terrible idea. I intended it as satire, people should be posting/PM'ing/moddng because they're interested in doing so. NOT because they want to attain some virtual achievement marks. That'd be creating a faux community.

Spear

Jernal wrote: »

In my opinion it's a terrible idea. I intended it as satire, people should be posting/PM'ing/moddng because they're interested in doing so. NOT because they want to attain some virtual achievement marks. That'd be creating a faux community.

It'd depend heavily on the nature of the "achievements". Some could be useful to help introduce people to new parts of the site, i.e. the post in Biz/Games cats.

Turtwig

Spear wrote: »

It'd depend heavily on the nature of the "achievements". Some could be useful to help introduce people to new parts of the site, i.e. the post in Biz/Games cats.

Yeah but posting just to earn an achievement doesn't really seem a good way to get somebody involved in a discussion.

Dav

I was thinking about things like "successfully embedded an image" (it's amazing how many people don't seem to understand this) or "Post of the Day" - things like that that aren't necessarily open to "gaming" and are not necessarily the sort of thing you can "compete" to earn.

Turtwig

Dav wrote: »

I was thinking about things like "successfully embedded an image" (it's amazing how many people don't seem to understand this) or "Post of the Day" - things like that that aren't necessarily open to "gaming" and are not necessarily the sort of thing you can "compete" to earn.

That actually sounds a reasonable idea. Need one for [latex]\LaTeX[/latex];)

MadsL

Dav wrote: »

I was thinking about things like "successfully embedded an image" (it's amazing how many people don't seem to understand this) or "Post of the Day" - things like that that aren't necessarily open to "gaming" and are not necessarily the sort of thing you can "compete" to earn.

That better be retroactive, or I'll be grumpy.

Corkfeen

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

You have managed 3515 posts in 9 years. Therefore you should be receiving your fourth star sometime in 2029.

I think it is a ruse to get more subscribers. It is all about having more stars:D

Most of those posts were made in past 3 or 4 years. Rarely used the site up until then.

Posy

Corkfeen wrote: »

Most of those posts were made in past 3 or 4 years. Rarely used the site up until then.

I generally post from the touch site, which is just as well, because my OCD is going into overdrive with the missing 5th star.
A 5th grey for over 25,000 (or 100,000!) posts at least gives something to strive for!

(I'd suggest they're changed back but that's giving me "waah, I hate the new homepage" flashbacks.)

Rabies

Dav wrote: »

Yea, that's my biggest concern too - I remember the Karma Whoring that went on when we had that. I'm hesitant to try it without some serious consideration to the consequences and the last thing we'd need is people doing stuff just to get achievements and it ruining things.

thanks system is no different in the grand scheme of things

MadsL

Rabies wrote: »

thanks system is no different in the grand scheme of things

Ah, there was a lot of "I gave you karma" "thanks dude, I gave you karma too" shite that went on.

Rabies

thanks or karma system shouldn't effect posting style and attitude, but it does.
Get rid of it

MugMugs

Rabies wrote: »

thanks or karma system shouldn't effect posting style and attitude, but it does.
Get rid of it

Thanks exists to rule out thread responses with "Thanks dude"

It serves that function quite well.

The Hill Billy

Rabies wrote: »

thanks or karma system shouldn't effect posting style and attitude, but it does.
Get rid of it

* Thanks post * (Just to wind up Rabies. )

5starpool

Rabies wrote: »

thanks or karma system shouldn't effect posting style and attitude, but it does.
Get rid of it

Getting rid of thanks would overall be a very bad move I'd say.

Dades

5starpool wrote: »

Getting rid of thanks would overall be a very bad move I'd say.

I agree.

(See what I did there? )

hullaballoo

Dades wrote: »

I agree.

(See what I did there? )

Me too.

5starpool

Dades wrote: »

I agree.

(See what I did there? )

+1

.

^ This.

etc.

Turtwig

Dades wrote: »

I agree.

(See what I did there? )

This.

Insect Overlord

Jernal wrote: »

This.

Good post!

Dades

Thanks!

Amirani

Dades wrote: »

Thanks!

Welcome.

+1

The Hill Billy

+5

I don't know what is going on, but I'd like 6 stars.

Gordon

Like

Even Gordon likes my having 6 stars. Can I have them now, kthnx?

Rabies

5starpool wrote: »

Getting rid of thanks would overall be a very bad move I'd say.

Or keep it and don't show the user names that thanked the poster under the post. Only see it in user CP. Is that possible?

5starpool

Rabies wrote: »

Or keep it and don't show the user names that thanked the poster under the post. Only see it in user CP. Is that possible?

Why? It's unnecessary. If you hide people's names they may feel the need to publicly acknowledge a post which hasn't been fulfilled by simply thanking.

It's essentially a moot point anyhow as there seems to be no appetite to change it, but I read/post in a couple of places that have no thanks function and it really does add clutter.

If it was a case where thanks whoring/requesting or whatever was a big problem on boards there would be an argument for changing things, but I really don't see it as much of an issue. There are probably some cases of it, but at this point now it is just a feature that is widely and generally correctly used by most people, and removing it would cause a large amount of annoyance and grief for admins/mods, and I don't think moving it to an anonymous system, which would have obvious site development issues too, would provoke much less of an annoyed response by the user base.