[peterska2]

Originally Posted by Zachery

So what about the people who provide endless ammounts of support and help, why can't they have a title too? You don't need to know how to code in order to troulbe shoot a issue.

How do you measure who provides lots of support? There will be a few names who crop up, but unless the person provided mountains of support every single day and so it picks up on.

I previously suggested changing titles such as senior member to senior contributing member & member to contributing member. I would be tempted to ensure that there is an entry level one just as member for something like < 150 posts. IMO when you get to 150 posts you are becoming established in the community here and as such are contributing to the site even if it is just by pointing other people in the right direction.

The other option would be using something like the thanks hack where users can be rted as helpful or not by the number of thanks that they have recieved. This could then possibly trigger promotions in the same way that installs does for coders/designers.