Coder/Designer Release Levels
 

I stumbled upon these the other day and was curious to know how one goes about progressing through these release levels? What factors account towards it?

Or is it ultra-secretive? :D

I'm not sure the exact calculations but I believe the biggest factors are Number of Releases AND Number of Installs. You can have a few releases and a lot of installs, or a few installs and a lot of releases and be at the same level.

Paul hinted there were other factors too- I'm not sure what they'd be... maybe registration date? Not sure.

Ah, I see, sounds alright. Thanks for that BOP!

Registration date is not a factor.

vB version, ratings, MOTM are a few other factors taken into account.

... like how much Dr Pepper you can drink in a day of coding... i don't drink, so i'll always be below Paul.. rofl

Ah, I got it now. Thanks for that guys :D

Yesterday I was Contributor, 4am today I noticed I was Designer, then back to Contributor by late morning :)
What's going on guys?

No biggie, just wondered.

Thanks

You must be right on the edge of Designer, and someone installed then uninstalled one of your releases.

Aha, makes sence
Thanks KH99

Logician was level 8 yesterday. Today he is level 4. :confused:

That is because there was a recalculation of the stats.

A HUGE recalculation. One level 8 and one level 7 coder fell off the list completely!

Paul should make a new one called helper would like a title like that and name yellow

Yes it was, but it was for the best. :)

I'm all for updated information.

That was pretty much the idea, there were some calculations that were being taken into account that should not have been. :)

Correct, the system was updated to take into account the archiving of 3.5 earlier in the year.
Plus some other setting adjustments, since it was also still including some 3.0 and even 2.x mods.

There is still a minor bug in it that needs a code fix, that will occur sometime in the next three weeks.

It was basically getting a bit out of date, and has been bought back in line.

I cannot quite figure out if this was intended to be serious, since yellow would be an awful colour.

Depends on the skin colour yes yellow might not suit this skin maybe red :D