Importance of ranking

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by vovansim
The ranking matters to me when I look at other people's posts. If I see a person with the rank of Emperor or above, who is not a mod, my spam alert goes off instanteneously.

Given that some of those Emperors have been around for over four years that is a bit prejudiced. For example my 2.15 posts a day is less than a lot of Kings and Princes out there.

[Dinner]

No matter how hard I I never seem to get over 2.5 posts a day. I guess I'll just be a king forever.

[Solver]

You know, the best way is to play the civ games . That can make you able to post like 50 times a day without much spam .

[MrWhereItsAt]

Once you have been here a while (say 6 months plus) you recognise the spam Emperors for the veteran Emperors for the Emperors who post on topic and meaningfully more often than they say (just as an example - bears no relevance to any real poster) "have a nice bloody day".

[Caesar the Great]

well there really is no way of measuring the quality of posts

of course people with a greater frequency of higher quality posts will be more respected by others on the boards

[Dinner]

If quality and not quantity matters then surely the rankings are meaningless. If that's true then why do I see everyone (including myslef) pushing hard to get the next rank? I guess we're all a bit shallow when it comes to titles.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Oerdin
No matter how hard I I never seem to get over 2.5 posts a day. I guess I'll just be a king forever.

Funny, according to your profile you have over 2.5 posts a day.

[loinburger]

When you reach Emperor, you get a free cookie.

And I'm talking about a real cookie, not one of oatmeal raisin cookies you get when you reach King. Bleach.

[Method]

the best way to increase your postcount is through demo games, for sure. especially unmodded ones

Originally posted by Dissident

or through posts like this one

[Solver]

Originally posted by loinburger
When you reach Emperor, you get a free cookie.

And I'm talking about a real cookie, not one of oatmeal raisin cookies you get when you reach King. Bleach.

I didn't get one...

[spartak]

Did you deserve one?

[DrSpike]

Hehe not all emperors are spammers.......some have just been around a long time as SD suggested. If someone is an emperor after 6 months then maybe, but certainly not always even then.

[Solver]

Uhh, am I a spammer ?

[DrSpike]

You set up PBEM stuff for SMAC didn't you? A necessary and useful function, that no doubt generated a few posts. And you have been posting for a long period, so high numbers are natural without spam.

[spartak]

Originally posted by Solver
Uhh, am I a spammer ?

Not noticably. (at least you post in sentances)