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DarkRyder
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| ebrostig wrote: | I liek the latest list, except for one:
New Guy
Since we do have females here, yes.. yes... yes... I know, not many of them, but they do exist, maybe rather use the neutral:
New Geek |
Don't worry -- "guy" is actually gender-neutral. (Slang for dock worker, look it up!)
Personally, I'd like so see a ranking system like this:- Newbie
- Regular
- Veteran
- Guru
- Tux's Little Helper
Seems to fit pretty well with how people value the different titles, anyway. 
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ebrostig
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Joined: 20 Jul 2002
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Location: Orlando, Fl
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| Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2003 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Bloody Bastard wrote: | Even "newbie" could be used here IMO, not as a measurement of knowledge but only as how much time he/she/it is posting in the forums; for the rest of it, , I like the titles.
| ebrostig wrote: | I liek the latest list, except for one:
New Guy
Since we do have females here, yes.. yes... yes... I know, not many of them, but they do exist, maybe rather use the neutral:
New Geek
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I don't like the newbie word as it sounds like the person is totally devoid any knowledge in the area and that may noe be the case. Whereas i feel 'New Geek' implies some previous knowledge. Just my 0.02 of course!
Erik
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razamatan
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Posts: 160
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:21 am Post subject: |
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since # of posts is an indicator of forum use, why don't we assign labels of *nix commands and their frequency of use (converse/negative relationship)...
since there's tons of "n00bs", they could be `ls -al` (benign, very ubiquitous)
and whatever is the highest would be some obscure, seldom used command that could mess someone's setup up (if we're so inclined)  ... ok. ok... maybe temporarily mess up... nah...
you guys get my drift...
just thought i'd throw something else in the pot.
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masseya
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Joined: 17 Apr 2002
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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Well...
If we're going to do that, we might as well make the names be the answers to some of the most common questions. For example, the lowest rank could be something like: "Are you in the wheel group?"
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idl
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Joined: 24 Dec 2002
Posts: 1728
Location: Nottingham, UK
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| masseya wrote: | Well...
If we're going to do that, we might as well make the names be the answers to some of the most common questions. For example, the lowest rank could be something like: "Are you in the wheel group?" |
I think we'd end up with a "The answer is XYZ, but what is the question?" type scenario  |
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razamatan
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Joined: 28 Feb 2003
Posts: 160
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| masseya wrote: | Well...
If we're going to do that, we might as well make the names be the answers to some of the most common questions. For example, the lowest rank could be something like: "Are you in the wheel group?" |
and if we keep it as commands, they'll at least figure out to `man` or `info` the thing... hehe...
hey...
n00b would be better as `man`
then like `apropos`
then info...
then maybe zcat...
cat foo | grep bar
find . -type f -name foo -exec grep bar {} /dev/null \;
u get what i mean...
the things can get ugly...
heheh
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Perhaps n00b could be rm -rf / |
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masseya
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Posts: 2602
Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe we should just change everyone's title into a link that goes to the forums search regardless of what it says. We could then change the title for a veteran to link to bugs.gentoo.org.
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idl
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Location: Nottingham, UK
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| pjp wrote: | | Perhaps n00b could be rm -rf / |
I'm gonna vote for RTFM |
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shagrat
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Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Posts: 219
Location: Norway
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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I really liked the egg idea. Sounds funny. But I'm happy as long as it's changed to something else.
EDIT: What about making a poll at one of the more trafficated forums with some of the exsamples as choices? Then "the winner" will be used after a certain preset voting time. |
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masseya
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| shagrat wrote: | | EDIT: What about making a poll at one of the more trafficated forums with some of the exsamples as choices? Then "the winner" will be used after a certain preset voting time. |
This has been discussed before. If there was a poll, it would be here. This is the proper forum for something like that. However, it would be more than possible to make an announcement in News & Announcements if we wanted to make sure that we got a lot of feedback.
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shagrat
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Location: Norway
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| Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| masseya wrote: | | shagrat wrote: | | EDIT: What about making a poll at one of the more trafficated forums with some of the exsamples as choices? Then "the winner" will be used after a certain preset voting time. |
This has been discussed before. If there was a poll, it would be here. This is the proper forum for something like that. However, it would be more than possible to make an announcement in News & Announcements if we wanted to make sure that we got a lot of feedback. |
Ooops, I already made a poll in the "Off The Wall" section. Well, you could always delete it... |
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masseya
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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Please follow up to New Ranking System - Will the l33tness Stop? This thread has moved beyond simply replacing the l33t rank.
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