Upon Crymsonliynn's recommendation, I have moved this to a blog. It was an idea from the HelpDesk that I figured would be an interesting addition to the site. This is a direct copy/paste of the original. The HelpDesk question was only resolved because it was sitting there for so long. I turned it into a blog to keep the discussion active. Click Here to see the original:
I was thinking of ways to make the site a little more fun, and I thought about user titles.
If you have ever been on forums, you know that they have user titles based upon certain attributes. I figured it might be fun to have user titles based on:
-Bulletin Board posts
-Profile comments posted
-Messages sent
-Blogs created
-Adminship
All of these would factor into the member status. Of course admins would have a unique user title, or at least something added to the user title, to signify that they are an admin.
I was thinking it would be unique if the member statuses for the site were based around "Paint". The statuses would be: N00B, Doodler, Sketcher, Inker, Designer, Painter, Sculptor, and Da Vinci. Admin titles would be Curator.
This is an example of how the member status would work:
N00B - Basic member status.
Doodler - Requires at least:
10 BB posts
10 Profile comments
5 Messages sent
1 Blog Created
Sketcher - Requires at least:
25 BB posts
25 Profile comments
15 Messages sent
3 Blogs Created
Inker - Requires at least:
50 BB posts
50 Profile comments
50 Messages sent
5 blogs created
Designer - Requires at least:
100 BB posts
100 Profile comments
150 Messages sent
10 Blogs created and at least 1 featured
And so on...
In case you are wondering why the requirements for messages sent has gone up, it is because most new member do not have people to mail, so the mailing requirement would be more difficult to achieve. As a member becomes more accustom to the site, they will most likely have more friends and more people to mail.
Where would user titles be displayed?
User titles would be displayed in the following locations:
-Profile, directly above profile quote.
-In Chat. When you click someone's name and that pop-up comes up, it will be somewhere in that pop-up
-Bulletin Boards, next to user name.
This really is not a feature that we need, but it would be a nice one to have. If special privileges are incorporated into the ranking system, it would motivate members to be active. I've always been fond of user title systems; they made me feel a sense of accomplishment as I ascended ranks.
Please tell me what you guys think of this idea. I know it isn't original, but I do like the concept.
For some reason, this does not seem like a good idea to me. I think you should change the titles of them, because not everyone will want to do those things, and should not have to put up with 'n00B' rank.
Will probably encourage message, BB and comment spam though.
TacoRocco
04 Feb 2013 14:22
In reply to EpicArtifex
If people want the badges, they will sometimes spam for it. People know the consequences of spamming: They get banned and they lose all their spam work. If they continue to spam, they run the risk of getting perma'd. This is also why blogs require to be featured for higher user titles. One cannot just spam featured blogs.
TacoRocco
04 Feb 2013 13:32
In reply to EpicArtifex