Ranking System?

[Anthony W.]

Can someone please explain the post count ranking system thing?

Right now, my rank appears to be something in Japanese... And I have no idea what it means...

Thanks

[Stealhead]

Your avatar(and name above it) is based on your number of posts the number required to advance to the next one differs each time and I do believe that it is a secret.Ha ha wait until you get Wild night in Bangkok.

It says that you are a gajin..... just kidding it says that you are a sailor form the The Chugoku region region of Japan Hiroshima is in Chugoku. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABgoku_region

Oh I guess it is Chinese if you put ---20013;---22269;---27700;---20853;(the stuff under your name there) in as Chinese in Google translate you get Chinese Sailor. In Japanese you get what I posted above.He does have a red star so I guess your a commie.I missed the red star.

[Freiwillige]

Its just a post count thing that changes as your post numbers climb. Wait for "one night in Bangkok" that will make you

[Raptor1]

It means "Chinese Sailor", or something like that, in Chinese at least.

[Bakkels]

Neal has explained it in as much detail as is possible:

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Neal Stevens
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:21 pm

Ok, fair question, Abraham. Ostensibly, it would appear that the ranking system is based on a plain post count, and I allow some to believe that because if they knew the true method it would make their heads explode. Let me give you the bare outlines of the actual Subsim High Intensity Tallying method to determine the Captain Ranking System (CRS).

As you may have heard, I live in Texas and I work for the petrochemical (oil) business. One of the other substantial industries in the Lone Star State is the aerospace industry. Now it happened that one fine Saturday morning about eight years ago I was playing a round of golf with a couple of NASA engineers (rocket scientists) who are buddies of mine, Bob and Jack. I had just started the Radio Room forums online and apparently one of the engineers noticed my mind was elsewhere (I was two over par on the eighth hole).

"Neal," Bob asked me, "what's got you so worried this fine Saturday morning?"

I explained how Subsim Review had this new communications medium called an online forum, and how it was pretty clear to me that we would soon have over 20 users and there was no way to tell the wise old salts from the scrubs. Jack, the other engineer, chuckled and exchanged a glance with Bob. "That's easy," he said.

"Maybe for you," I replied. "You're a rocket scientist".

"No, really. We can help you out here," said. Jack. "How much of your college relational physics do you remember?"

I scratched my head.

"It can be done this way," said Bob. "All you need to do is develop some IP-based cache triggers that use floating algorithms to determine the naval and submarine material content of each user. Simply add this to the user registration process; it will be transparent to the end user. When he signs up, your server will run an antecedent probe of the user's system, establish his browsing and buying patterns. This will gauge how many historical and naval websites he visits, how many subsim games he buys from your store, when he made the last donation to Subsim.com, how often he posts in the Radio Room, stuff like that."

"Yeah," said Jack. "And the application will take this information and run it through a linear matrix, you could call it a marine matrix--" both guys snickered, some private joke or scientist humor, I guessed "--and this will give you a sound basis with which to rank the members of your forum. You can give these ranks traditional naval names and terms, such as lieutenant, petty officer, captain, etc."

"And if the matrix senses paradoxical flux from a particular user, you know, when he is talking out his a**, it will assign a temporary degradation in rank, such as a punishment or probationary rank, like a shore leave, the brig, or getting stuck in an Aussie cathouse and missing the tide."

So, Abraham, that's pretty much how it worked out. There was more to the discussion but I'll skip the technical details. Hope that helps!

Neal

[Stealhead]

If you donate $5,000.00 to subsim you get to have your own avatar.

You do if you get to use your own for certain things though.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Ha ha wait until you get Wild night in Bangkok.

He's already past that. I think it comes at post 179.

If you donate $5,000.00 to subsim you get to have your own avatar.

I only paid $5 for mine! I guess inflation is everywhere.

[August]

Then there is "Navy Dude"

[FIREWALL]

That avatar is somewhat new. Never had that one. The first time I saw it I thought it was a pay for it one.

[JSLTIGER]

I had that one once upon a time...in like '05 I think, lol!

[Ria]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

If you donate $5,000.00 to subsim you get to have your own avatar.

You do if you get to use your own for certain things though.

Sounds good to me!

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

I assumed that those algorithms take into account also naval content of posts/threads you write into Radio Room forums. Am I correct?

[Anthony W.]

Then what am I next?

[Matador.es]

Kak, i just tured to PLAN target....

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

I assumed that those algorithms take into account also naval content of posts/threads you write into Radio Room forums. Am I correct?

Nope. Just the number of posts.