How does this forum ranking system work?

Abraham · 08-28-05, 03:01 AM

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Abraham

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:26 am
Post subject: How does this forum ranking system work?

NEAL, I don't understand why I - and others - get different ranks and positions all the time.
I started on Dec. 31st. '04 as a Bilge Rat, allright, but since then I've been deckswabbie, gunner, sailor man, helmsman, OD, amoung others and now I'm suddenly a Machinist's Mate.
Furthermore my looks keeps changing all the time and not always for the better..... (though this time as a Machinist Mate I have no complaints).
Is there any system in all this and if so, how does it work? Are we promoted/degraded at (your) will?

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Hitman

And the worst is still to come....you will soon be medic, and then frogman

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Abraham

O.K., posts count, that's one thing. But howmany? And the positions? Are we just thrown up and down in ranks and positions all over the boat? I remember that Vonotto suddenly turned into a Chinese Red Navy sailor after I don't know how many contributions!
Is there any Justice in the system?????

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Scion

... This is a Dictatorship... Run by Neal himself. (From here refered to as "the Captain") The Rules, are set as follows:

1. The Captain is always right in everything he says and does, and you are to follow any orders given at once.
2. If The Captain is ever wrong, refer to Rule #1

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Abraham

Frogman is O.K. Must be something like SCUBA diving, which I love.

But Medic..... I remember 'Das Boot'... with that medic checking everybody's private parts for veneral diseases.....

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Hitman

The one here is way worser. It looks like a homosexual nurse or...well, wait and you will see it. Keep posting!

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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

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JJ

"Subsim High Intensity Tallying-method"

Indeed... :rotfl:

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Scion

Neal, as JJ has quite rightly pointed out. That is the biggest load of sh*t I have ever seen on these forums

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Abraham
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:09 pm

Dear NEAL,

I am both honored with and impressed by your comprehensive explanation of the S.H.I.T. method that you use. Thank you for sharing with us that special and very personal moment when this S.H.I.T. was brought to your attention on that fine Saturday morning eight years ago.
You're too modest a man; I think you really should have mentionned your S.H.I.T. method as one of the A.W.C.'s (American World Contributions) because that's exactly what it is!
All my questions have been answered and all my doubts about you as our Captain and our Leader have gone.
I'm happy to have joined a Site and a Forum where with the help of modern technology old time values such as decency, intellectuality, dedication and freedom of word and mind are actually rewarded with promotion!
I only wished the reality of life was the same.....

Yours Sincerely,

Abraham
(Machinist's Mate)

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Bertgang
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:15 pm
Strange comments from JJ and Scion, on my point of wiew.

Maybe I missed the point, but the avatar system looks funny and, even being cityziens of a "dictatorial" virtual country, we have lot of speech's freedom here.

The only bad news sounds like: No donations? No party!

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Jesper
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:21 pm
Wait a sec...
hahah
I have to stop laughing...
hahah
damnit i cant stop
heheh
...
Neal that is too goddarn funny

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Fish
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:12 pm

and not to forget the gaybiker.

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Driftwood
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:03 pm
PRICELESS!!!!
Captain, Sir! You have far to much time on your hands! I love it!

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Abraham
No, Neal just gives serious answers to serious questions.....

At least I got a promotion immediately from Machinist's Mate to Electrician's Mate (although I've got a stupid Colgate smile now, but I'll send Neal a p.m.).

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Abraham Eternal Patrol Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,572 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	How does this forum ranking system work? Original post in the archives http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_archive1...ic.php?t=27353 Abraham Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:26 am Post subject: How does this forum ranking system work? NEAL, I don't understand why I - and others - get different ranks and positions all the time. I started on Dec. 31st. '04 as a Bilge Rat, allright, but since then I've been deckswabbie, gunner, sailor man, helmsman, OD, amoung others and now I'm suddenly a Machinist's Mate. Furthermore my looks keeps changing all the time and not always for the better..... (though this time as a Machinist Mate I have no complaints). Is there any system in all this and if so, how does it work? Are we promoted/degraded at (your) will? ______________________________________ Hitman And the worst is still to come....you will soon be medic, and then frogman ______________________________________ Abraham O.K., posts count, that's one thing. But howmany? And the positions? Are we just thrown up and down in ranks and positions all over the boat? I remember that Vonotto suddenly turned into a Chinese Red Navy sailor after I don't know how many contributions! Is there any Justice in the system????? ______________________________________ Scion ... This is a Dictatorship... Run by Neal himself. (From here refered to as "the Captain") The Rules, are set as follows: 1. The Captain is always right in everything he says and does, and you are to follow any orders given at once. 2. If The Captain is ever wrong, refer to Rule #1 ______________________________________ Abraham Frogman is O.K. Must be something like SCUBA diving, which I love. But Medic..... I remember 'Das Boot'... with that medic checking everybody's private parts for veneral diseases..... ______________________________________ Hitman The one here is way worser. It looks like a homosexual nurse or...well, wait and you will see it. Keep posting! ______________________________________ 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 ______________________________________ JJ "Subsim High Intensity Tallying-method" Indeed... :rotfl: ______________________________________ Scion Neal, as JJ has quite rightly pointed out. That is the biggest load of sht I have ever seen on these forums ______________________________________ Abraham Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:09 pm Dear NEAL, I am both honored with and impressed by your comprehensive explanation of the S.H.I.T. method that you use. Thank you for sharing with us that special and very personal moment when this S.H.I.T. was brought to your attention on that fine Saturday morning eight years ago. You're too modest a man; I think you really should have mentionned your S.H.I.T. method as one of the A.W.C.'s (American World Contributions) because that's exactly what it is! All my questions have been answered and all my doubts about you as our Captain and our Leader have gone. I'm happy to have joined a Site and a Forum where with the help of modern technology old time values such as decency, intellectuality, dedication and freedom of word and mind are actually rewarded with promotion! I only wished the reality of life was the same..... Yours Sincerely, Abraham (Machinist's Mate) ______________________________________ Bertgang Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:15 pm Strange comments from JJ and Scion, on my point of wiew. Maybe I missed the point, but the avatar system looks funny and, even being cityziens of a "dictatorial" virtual country, we have lot of speech's freedom here. The only bad news sounds like: No donations? No party! ______________________________________ Jesper Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 1:21 pm Wait a sec... hahah I have to stop laughing... hahah damnit i cant stop heheh ... Neal that is too goddarn funny ______________________________________ Fish Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:12 pm and not to forget the gaybiker. ______________________________________ Driftwood Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:03 pm PRICELESS!!!! Captain, Sir! You have far to much time on your hands! I love it! ______________________________________ Abraham No, Neal just gives serious answers to serious questions..... At least I got a promotion immediately from Machinist's Mate to Electrician's Mate (although I've got a stupid Colgate smile now, but I'll send Neal a p.m.). ______________________________________ the original thread here http://www.subsim.com/phpBB_archive1...r=asc&start=15 __________________ RIP Abraham Last edited by Onkel Neal; 11-05-12 at 05:55 PM.