Importance of ranking

[Skanky Burns]

Banned. PCRs are reserved for those who are nearing Ming's post count.

[Rasbelin]

On the actual topic stated in the first message in this thread...

I usually value registered members in 5 different ways nowadays.

1. DLs, whiners, trolls
- not much of any interest for me as they don't tend to post anything good, except for good signature material.

2. posters with statuses like Settler-Warlord
- I pay attention to their posts and value them too, but I'm abit sceptic about their knowledge regarding Apolyton.

3. posters with higher statuses like Prince
- they get attention too, but you also know that they most likely know more about Apolyton than newer members, plus you might more about them, based on all their previous posts. So indeed they have a little bit of a special status for me too.

4. moderators and staff members
- not related to their post counts, but those nasty custom titles. However they have the highest or second highest status for me on Apolyton as many of their posts are informative.

5. posters that I have other contacts too (mainly SPDT members)
- they have a high value in my opinion and have a special status as reliable persons. However not directly related to their post count rankings.

As the conclusion I could say that I look more at the registration date than the post count. It says more as you know how long the person has been around here. E.g. Frozzy has King status, but I give more value to Spikey's posts as he has been around here for longer. However my personal knowledge and chats with Frozzy has an effect too, so in this case it counts less. However the ones with the "1970 bug" are of course a little bit special as they've been around for so long.

Me and my post count

I'm not that interested in it, but indeed I'm abit upset as I've lost ~230 posts. However I'm although waiting to reach Emperor, despite I'm not trying to post more because of that.

[Frozzy]

Registration dates can be decieving...

There could be an Emporer who registered in '99.. yet I could still know more Poly OTF history than them.

Personally, ranking means jack**** since OTF posts stopped counting back in Spring 2001.

Just my 2 cents, but I'm a n00b so ignore me.

[alva]

Don't worry, we will

[Dis]

I ignore all settlers.

there I said it

well maybe not ignore. But I suspect them as a DL

[The Pioneer]

Where can one find post count rankings on Poly? I see the top 20 but is there a way to see a larger list?

So long...

[alva]

Originally posted by The Pioneer
Where can one find post count rankings on Poly? I see the top 20 but is there a way to see a larger list?

So long...

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[ixnay]

http://apolyton.net/forums/memberlist.php?s=&what=topposters&perpage=140

Just replace the 140 with whatever number to see the top 20/50/100/1000

[DrSpike]

There are lots of funky searches you can do as well. For instance you can find your position, then search for people with more posts that have posted in the last 6 weeks say.

[alva]

How do you do that?

[DrSpike]

Go to members. Then do an advanced search, where you can specify joining dates and post counts as variables.

[alva]

ahh, misread your previous post. I thought you said , posted more then you in say the last 6 weeks...

[DrSpike]

That would be a cool feature......but I have never seen anyone mention a way to retrieve post counts over a truncated period. Might be an interesting addition..........

[spartak]

Its easy.

230 eh Rasbelin, that must ahve been a 10% PCR. What did you get that for?

[The Pioneer]

Originally posted by alva


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I can now say to myself !

Although, I swear that I did try that before posting!