New User Rank System

[Hecktix]

I'd imagine that reps for a certain numbers of posts would have to be done manually, I'm not a technical expert by any stretch but I haven't seen any system automatically give rep for anything before. If that's the case, I can see it being a lot of work for not much gain - it'd be nice to have as a little extra reward, but little really is the key word there as giving too large an amount would be deemed unfairly in favour of spammers and so it doesn't seem like something that particularly needs doing if it can't be automated. Doing it manually would also require a full record of who's been given what reward for what achievement too in order to not have it abused, which would be even more work.

We did have one system that actually worked, but then figured out that everytime the system gave out the rep, if you had over the required number of posts it'd give you the rep - even if you've had it before so we've had to get a bit more complex and start playing with more difficult things - Jamesy is confident he will find a way though.

[FlyingJesus]

tbh from the sounds of things the kid can do anything, so wouldn't put it past him I guess

[AaronOnlineKid]

It looks Cool

[Stephen]

it looks weird @ above 7 posts and gold

[Hecktix]

it looks weird @ above 7 posts and gold

It looks weird that what were higher ranks are now lower, I guess this is just something to get used to though, of course things look weird when they have just been changed.

[Tintinnabulate]

If no one is using the feature in the first place whats the point in limiting who can use it by introducing a 1000+ post count criteria??? :S surely you want to give more people access to this feature in order to possibly make it more popular??

I think the changes are fine, but obviously you are going to get some who wish to pick at anything. Trial these changes and see how things turn out, but give it a chance...

Not really. If I don't like something I say it. Out of so many changes over the last few weeks and months, this is the first I have critised. I don't "pick at anything". I have said how some of their decisions are great before so please stop presuming things.
The only reason groups failed is because you needed like 5k+ or something posts before creating them and not many current users had that high post count - not even the FM has it...

[hah]

was 2.5k

[Tintinnabulate]

was 2.5k

You are correct.

Ruby
To move to this usergroup you will need to have been registered for 90 days and have 2500 posts. For each extra star you need 500 posts.

Another problem with the system before was that you had to be registered for x days too, glad that's been scrapped.

[Black_Apalachi]

The only difference that has affected me is that I've essentially swapped seeing who repped me for invisibility, which I'm not exactly a fan of but still, I think the new system is beneficial for the forum overall.

[Tintinnabulate]

The only difference that has affected me is that I've essentially swapped seeing who repped me for invisibility, which I'm not exactly a fan of but still, I think the new system is beneficial for the forum overall.

Overall it is yep. The larger avatars is definitely good.