The Forum Ranking System

Nonsense. I'm carefully honing mine so that its long-term average is 33 1/3.

It certainly is bizarre Mike. I've just looked at my rating and I don't think it's changed even after a busy period of posting last weekend. It's pretty irrelevant anyway. I think that rep points alongside number of posts that they have on the Scottish forum is possibly more useful but even there can be friction between forum members with minus rep points being given. I guess we should be grateful that this forum is relatively polite.

Agreed,  but why bother with this kind of stuff,  we are not teenagers on the twittersphere collecting best friends kudos rankings.  We had the fiasco with the pink heart things & I think that message got thru as it seemed to have been dropped PDQ.  

So what is it with activity points & community ranks???  My guess is its tied up with encouraging forumites to be busy posting - I strongly suspect hopeless get traffic related payments from Naim. 

Obviously duration of membership doesn't count for anything. I've been a member of this forum since August 2000, yet I have a mere 4,121 activity points and a community rank of 790.

:-(

Mike,

I agree with you, its hopless. Even Richard claimed he has no idea whatsoever how this ranking system works. I have no Idea what its purpose is at all.

I have compiled a list of the top 30 or so ranked members. This illustrates the ludicrous nature of the ranking system.

Gale 401, (you remember ? just about as many aliases at Swarmi, George, wat and HH put together) moves up this year to rank 24. Hasn't posted for over a year. I can account for it, but I can't understand why Naim put up with this sort of drivel from Hopeless.

I get the distinct impression that Hopeless feel some of us are unwelcome. No doubt everybody who has posted to this thread has now been "Black-Balled" and as the OP, I guess my days are numbered.......

Cheers

Don   

Another anomily I noticed is Osprey.

60,000 points January 2013, 103,000 point January 2014 and now 106,000 points.

Very few other people accumulate points at that rate. Every couple of weeks he gets a "bonus" 1,000 points.

Paranoid ?, who said that ?

Cheers

Don

If you remember the new forum feedback thread that accompanied the transition, BigH was one of the most vocal and blunt critics of Hoopsadaisy. Yet he remained consistently at number 1. There's your key...

.....but he has now plummetted to #3 despite having more points than anybody else.................

He's been a good boy then, only bad boys get to number 1. Think Putin.

BigH is number one with activity points yet is "ranked" #3

#1 Kuma     139,551

#2 Lontano 122,294

#3 BigH47   154,620

PS:     whoops crossed in te post

I wont delete it though otherwise I will get demoted down the ranks 

He's only posted 10 times in 2014  !!!!

Paranoid ??  nah,  just obsessed with getting it dun right

Yep, Osprey gets an average 300 points per post, you get 3 points.

But its the quality that counts Mike.

Your posts are interesting and engaging, and Hoopless therefor want to see more and more of them, so for you to move up the rankings we want to see 100 of your posts as opposed to 1 of Osprey's.....

........hope that mekes you feel better   at least until that bunch of Hoopless pratts stop frigging around with the only decent Forum on the Internet.

Well I just looked to see how many points I would get with one post and it was only 3 points. I must be really out of favour.

2 more than you deserve though 

Perhaps you gain more for starting topics or being quoted - who knows  - who cares? (3 points )

Could be that Adam can call your posts total Char-bunk and score minus one per each.

ATB from George

PS: If this is the case I'd totally agree.

Posted 39 times from January 1-19.  Decided that was too much, so I took a break. Really don't want to be thought of as someone who posts carelessly or obsessively.

Don't care at all about the forum ranking system, but I do care about what others here think, and I do not want to wear out my welcome.

Hook

Hook,

Your posts are always welcome on here. Don't hold back.

Steve

I think we need to find the member who holds rank #666...

I'm not sure I'd want that one. I was 252 for a while, which had a nice ring to it.

Well I've been sulking ever since I lost my No 1 status.   

some of us are real careing old souls..................

Less of the old if you don't mind

- I can see any of you young bucks off any-time

I am renowned for my zimmer break dance at the afternoon tea dance. 

And how old are you young sir?

One of the best things about re-registering has been to loose my former ranking!

I prefer being in the thousands rather than the units!

ATB from George

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