Improve Forum Experience---recalibrate those little, green bars!

They are a little confusing. Both yours, Doog, and mine say we're Top 10 contributors, which I would assume means were in the Top 10 percentage wise in posts. 

tigerman

They are a little confusing. Both yours, Doog, and mine say we're Top 10 contributors, which I would assume means were in the Top 10 percentage wise in posts. 

Stop cyber bullying.   

FSM has lost control of the playground.  This vile pollution is spreading across the whole of their site.  Its time that they step in and reassert themselves.   Establish and enforce rules of behavior, swift and effective!.   FSM's reputation is being further diminished  with each of these bully attacks.

EdGrune

Stop cyber bullying.   

FSM has lost control of the playground.  This vile pollution is spreading across the whole of their site.  Its time that they step in and reassert themselves.   Establish and enforce rules of behavior, swift and effective!.   FSM's reputation is being further diminished  with each of these bully attacks.

I have to agree with Manny here. He hasn't attacked anyone. This thread doesn't appear pointed to anyone either and sure seems non-threatning.

i dont even know what those little bars are for. I finally got one to light up about 6 or so months ago, but they havent changed even though Ive passed 1000 posts since then.

jdice1980

The longer the bar, the longer the male reproductive organ? I like it.

by that reasoning, I have a bigger one than you do and Im a girl!

EdGrune

Stop cyber bullying.   

FSM has lost control of the playground.  This vile pollution is spreading across the whole of their site.  Its time that they step in and reassert themselves.   Establish and enforce rules of behavior, swift and effective!.   FSM's reputation is being further diminished  with each of these bully attacks.

Ed, you're in viloation of forum's Terms of Use... Cross-posting in different threads and forums with duplicate posts...

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Post only once (No Crossposting). Don't post identical questions on several threads or in more than one forum.

Practice what ya preach...

CallSignOWL

i dont even know what those little bars are for. I finally got one lit up, but they havent changed even though Ive passed 1000 posts.

If you highlight the bar Owl, it's says you are a top 500 contributor. out of some 55,000 members, you are in the top 500 in actual posts. Each bar doesn't represent a 1000 posts per say.

jdice1980

The longer the bar, the longer the male reproductive organ? I like it.

Why thank you.

tigerman

 

CallSignOWL:

 

i dont even know what those little bars are for. I finally got one lit up, but they havent changed even though Ive passed 1000 posts.

 

 

If you highlight the bar Owl, it's says you are a top 500 contributor. out of some 55,000 members, you are in the top 500 in actual posts. Each bar doesn't represent a 1000 posts per say.

so its a percentage of total posts?

CallSignOWL

 

tigerman:

 

 

CallSignOWL:

 

i dont even know what those little bars are for. I finally got one lit up, but they havent changed even though Ive passed 1000 posts.

 

 

If you highlight the bar Owl, it's says you are a top 500 contributor. out of some 55,000 members, you are in the top 500 in actual posts. Each bar doesn't represent a 1000 posts per say.

 

 

 

so its a percentage of total posts?

I guess that is one way to look at it. The more posts, the more bars, because you become a higher contributor.

jdice1980

The longer the bar, the longer the male reproductive organ? I like it.

"Apparently, on this planet, size matters..." -Di ck Solomon- 3rd Rock from the Sun

I just posted until my "little bars" were all filled and even... I HATE when my gear ain't dress-right-dress...

I think they ought to reflect signal to noise ratio instead.

Ummm...why not stop the bars being related to the number of posts.  Why not have them signify the number of years as a member?  Just throwing that out there.  Not even sure why tracking number of posts is important anyway.  That's just me.

Hutch

hutchdh

Ummm...why not stop the bars being related to the number of posts.  Why not have them signify the number of years as a member?  Just throwing that out there. 

Hutch

Yeah.. That whole "Joined: XX-XX-20XX" under the post-count is so confusing, Hutch...

It's been my experience that those who care about such things are the ones most vested in having a high count.

I suspect that it's an option in the forum based on set limits and not easy to change. Let's give Aaron a break; he's going to be tired enough after whacking threads Monday morning.

Tracy White

It's been my experience that those who care about such things are the ones most vested in having a high count.

You know, if you don't like the question/suggestion, why don't you stay out of the thread and stop trolling in it.  I didn't see so much concern coming from you in the other thread regarding post count.  Oh yeah, that's right; you didn't care because I didn't inititiate it.  Your comments in here are simple reflection of your dislike for me.  Man up and admit so much.

This is a legitimate thread and obviously others have wondered about the bars as well...

Hans von Hammer

 

hutchdh:

 

Ummm...why not stop the bars being related to the number of posts.  Why not have them signify the number of years as a member?  Just throwing that out there. 

Hutch

 

 

Yeah.. That whole "Joined: XX-XX-20XX" under the post-count is so confusing, Hutch...

LoL

Manstein's revenge

Man up

Don't insult me.

Tracy White

Manstein's revenge:

Man up

Don't insult me.

Why do those bars even matter?  I mean, if someone has a lot of posts but most of their points are nonsense, who cares if they are in the top 10 percent? (And, no, I'm not referring to anyone in particular.)  

What we really need is a "quality of posts" bar.  But that couldn't happen.

usmc1371

What we really need is a "quality of posts" bar.  But that couldn't happen.

What we really need is a "quality of posts" bar. 

Who's gonna decide THAT little detail?

You?

Me?

The boss?

Some nugget with busted Snap-Tite parts?

Indeed, what if every post had to submitted, read, and judged for "quality content", then approved by the staff before it was available to the membership?

That what you're advocatin'?

There ARE forums out there with such requirements...  Dead ones...

Right, that I why I said it couldn't happen.  It's one of those "In a perfect world" things....

While we're at it:

Let's nix the custom avatars, since not everyone is equal in time, talent, or even inclination to make one..

86 the GB Badges.. Not everyone is on the same level there, some have more than others.

Circular-file the custom siggys... No quotes, no nothin'...

Might as well, while we're all gettin' on an equal footin', get rid of the WIP and Finished build pics.. No need for that, since not every modeler is of equal ability or skill-level..

And last, make sure that there are only a set number of characters per post, so no one gets to say more than anyone else does..

Oh boy.....

Seems things are getting nasty. Aaron will most likely lock this thred. All this bull S786 about post counts seems rediculous. Manny and Hans, if you look at your post counts, how many of them have any real content? When you euphemistically refer to yourselves as having the most "contributions" and any question of your status being  classified as bullying. Way too much *%#+#  envy between you.

Manny and Hans, if you look at your post counts, how many of them have any real content?

Frankly, I'd say that, at the risk of blowin' my own horn, I've contributed thousands of posts with "real" content...  Not to mention countless hours looking up references for many of the members here and helping others with modeling tips, hints, and techniques...

I've also put up a bunch of my own builds, hosted and been part of several Group Buiilds, each of which have hundreds of posts...  I'm hosting not one, but two Group Builds even as we speak..

Sure, I've written hundreds of what some may call "pointless" posts, but that's part of the socializing that any forum you care to name...

If you think that I have 12,000 posts with one or two words in 'em, then you ain't been following me around these forums...

Here's another point y'all might consider... I'm retired... I got a job that I don't have to leave the house to perform, and I've got a sleep pattern that has me awake about 20 hours a day...  So I am free to post pretty much whenever I damn-well please.. I've got friends in this forum that I communicate with via this forum, Skippy..

You got a lot of damn gall to be thinkin' I just write in here for the sake of my own post-count, AT-6.. I never even paid attention to thoses numbers, and I defy you to find any more than maybe a few hundred "pointless" posts that I wrote... 

That said, and by the same token, why don't YOU guys, with the low post-counts, and the membership dates older than mine, have any MORE posts than you do?  If you aren't making any "real" contributions to the forum, why are you still hangin' around?

I'll keep my own counsel on what kind of posts I make in here and how many of them there are, thankya ver' much...

Do you idiots (yeah, I said it) that're whinin' about high post counts and green bars think that anyone, ESPECIALLY me, will contribute LESS if there where no post counts or little green bars?  

Sorry for the rant, but that REALLY burned my butt, AT-6... You got a lotta nerve callin' ME out about that crap, man... 

 Maybe y'all should reconsider your OWN "usefulness" around here...