New Usertitle System?

[Oblivion Knight]

Some people need to calm down a little.. It was a simple suggestion and was unlikely to ever be implemented, there's no need for some of the dramatical and somewhat aggressive replies that have been posted.

[bashy]

Hi peeps

Just my 2 pennies, I like the way the titles are atm, it gives me an idea as to how competant a coder is, or how much experience he/she may have (with regards to here anyway)

Thats all i have to say really lol...

[ronoxQ]

Originally Posted by Darat

I'd just add that I'm totally and utterly uninterested in what my "title" is, on my own forum we use the Staff title hack to add a functional role title because it's useful for the members of the forum. (My title on my forum is "Lackey" because that is what I am! A lackey for the owners of the forum and for the members.)

However I appreciate that some people like titles because they are proud of what they have contributed and like to display that. But if you want titles for that reason why not use the Awards hack? That way they can be more meaningful, so someone who has had one of their hacks win "Mod of the Month" gets a badge for that, if they have released say 10 mods and had a hundred installs they get a gold coding award and so on?

In fact it could be a way to foster more community feel - what about if there was a vote for "best supported mod?" every so often, that way people would get a reward for not only releasing hacks but for the effort they've put in to really help people use their hacks?

I like this idea a lot.

[DirectPixel]

Originally Posted by Revan

No, but it means you are not a coder in this community.
But if all your hacks sucked balls and killed whatever server they were put on, you never would have gotten that amount of install clicks would you. Unless of course you released 1000 hacks, which so far I have not seen anyone do.
IMO that's a load of crap. This forum is not a place where customers can come and find downloads that appeared right out of the blue. Someone coded them.

I wish people would stop with this "ohs teh noes, coders shouldn't be distinguished from the other customers because equality is the key" schite. Wtf, this isn't the Soviet Union.
I can say that I think coders are more valuable to this community because we provide the reason as to why customers come here in the first place. Everybody who thinks that if a coder and a non-coder (in the sense of contributor to this site) both leave, that that's an equal shame, is pretty ignorant. A contributor is valuable to this community. Someone who clicks install on a couple of hacks isn't.

Im not saying that coders are more worth as people. Im just saying that we are more worth in this community site.

I didn't say they should be treated as crap. I didn't say they shouldn't be recognized. I found some time to put together a perfectly legitimate and professional suggestions thread and I get flamed? Coming from an "Advanced Coder", nonetheless. What does this say about the community?

There should be another way of recognizing contributors that doesn't divide the entire community into normal members and coders. The awards hack idea sounds like a great idea.

[smacklan]

I'm sure I will get blasted for what I'm about to say, but I'm going to say it anyway. One of the biggest problems with this site today is this hugh elitist, high horse attitude eminating from the "coder" community. There are hugh sites using vbulletin that have not been hacked to pieces with mods from here so the notion that vbulletin would "die" if this site went away because of a coder exodus is a mighty bold assumption imho. Visit some of these sites like WHT, Sitepoint, etc. and read the comments in the threads about vb vs some other forum software and the pro's offerered for vb generally never mention the "hugh mod's available rather the strength of the core product itself. I, for one, could give 2 ****'s about the user ranking system here, but I'm also beginning to feel the same way about the coding community. I've learned what I know about vb not by loading up on hacks from here, but experimenting with my own sites, breaking and fixing things and making them the way I want them...all without the help of the "almighty coder" (except for the awesome stuff I've picked up at The Geek's site...which were definately worth paying for) thank you very much. I come here mainly to see what ideas are being kicked around and how the industry is changing, some friendships and so on...not to be embroiled in juvenile spats and testosterone contests.

okay...rant over...let the flaming begin :banana:

[zappsan]

Originally Posted by bashy

Hi peeps

Just my 2 pennies, I like the way the titles are atm, it gives me an idea as to how competant a coder is, or how much experience he/she may have (with regards to here anyway)

Thats all i have to say really lol...

I agree with you.
I've never seen the user titles as something to make the coders look "superior" to the others.
It's always given me the information on a coder's experience with vBulletin which might be useful in some cases^^

I don't think they should be removed/changed, I like them the way they are.

[Mr Chad]

Mabe add more coder levels. And if the person is a coder and designer some how make a custom title for those usertitles

[Roms]

I agree with Revan, if you want a title (you must or you wouldn't have complained...) then contribute to the site and YOU can be a CODER/DESIGNER HERE. You may be else where but you are not here, face it..... Like it or not it's the truth.

For example, I myself am the s#it on more than on board... but here, I'm a Master Designer... Why, that's what I've contributed so that's my title.... I can code but I haven't here. Are their members benefiting from my codes? NO

[peterska2]

Originally Posted by Mr Chad

Mabe add more coder levels. And if the person is a coder and designer some how make a custom title for those usertitles

If someone is both a coder (any level) and a designer (any level) then maybe set it so that they get both titles. It makes sense when you see the PM's I get about coding issues although I'm not much of a coder, but they just see the Master bit of my designer title and think I must be able to code php as well.

[Roms]

Originally Posted by peterska2

If someone is both a coder (any level) and a designer (any level) then maybe set it so that they get both titles. It makes sense when you see the PM's I get about coding issues although I'm not much of a coder, but they just see the Master bit of my designer title and think I must be able to code php as well.

While Agree with you, this post was based off the fact that DP doesn't think that it's fair he doesn't have a title even though he can code/design.. (granted he did create the style here, cheers to that).

So lets see it, contribute and earn it. Fair enough.