Note: Please do not spam, or otherwise inflate your postcount.
Postcount does not reflect knowledge in any way. It merely reflects how often a user posts to the forums--with the exception of Off The Wall, where posts do not increase postcount.
User ranks:
- n00b: 0 - 74 posts
- Tux's little helper: 75 - 149 posts
- Apprentice: 150 - 299 posts
- Guru: 300 - 599 posts
- l33t: 600 - 999 posts
- Veteran: 1000 - 1999 posts
- Advocate: 2000 - 4999 posts
- Watchman: 5000+ posts
- Moderators are the ones that try and keep the forums on topic, friendly and helpful.
- Site Admins perform the duties of moderators as well as keep the user accounts and forum boards up and running.
- Bodhisattva are essentially retired moderators. You can read more here.
- Developers are actual Gentoo Linux Developers posting on the boards.
- Retired Devs are former Gentoo Linux Developers.
- Arch/Herd Testers are people helping architecture teams and herds to test packages.
2007-02-28: Added more special ranks. --kallamej
2008-09-12: Removed obsolete special rank. --timeBandit
2009-12-28: Added two new ranks above Veteran. --timeBandit