Senior Membership Criteria

[Garthy]

I would rather see 25 quality posts than 100 fluff posts. There are a few folks out there eho risk a lot personally and otherwise to report solid info for the mongering community. These people should be rewarded PRIOR to the people who only reply to posts with things like "great post" or "thanks for the info."

So, a set number, albeit easier, may not be better.

Hand picked senior members by Jackson is a lot more work, but a lot more worth.

Hi Garthy,

You're right. Hand picking would be more accurate and more valuable, but that requires that I make hundreds of subjective, time-consuming decisions, and I just didn't have the time.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Darkmax99]

25 posts and 6 months sounds realistic. A rough average of about 5 posts per month. Which is sort of like a post a week. Sounds good to me.

[Jimmy]

I would tend to want someone that posts good information as a member. I feel that 100 posts in 6 months would encourage junk posts or fake posting. 25 good informative posts with the bad posts not counting would be a realistic goal.

Hi Jimmy,

I was planning on re-writing the Posting Guidelines to define and prohibit junk posts. Actually this is relatively easy because these "Thank You", "Great Post" and "Please send me her number" posts would simply be deleted without comment.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Musicman52]

Hey Jackson, I"ve been a regualr here for quite sometime, and have been given a Sr. Memebership by you on the World site, I was wondering why I havent been upgraded here yet, from your post I should have been upgraded?

Let Me Know,

Musicman52

Greetings Everyone,

For the first four years of this Forum, Senior Membership was awarded to those Forum Members who demonstrated their willingness to adhere to the Forum's Posting Guidelines (standard capitalization & punctuation, no chat room style writing, etc.) However, I eventually came to the realization that this proved to be ineffective as an inducement and time-consuming to manage. Thus several months ago I quietly suspended Senior Member Upgrades as I searched for an alternate method of achieving the same goal of both recognizing the Forum's most prolific contributors and maintaining a minimum level of writing quality.

The conclusion I reached was that Senior Membership would become strictly a recognition for the Forum's most active contributors. This would mean that I could use the Forum's built-in functions to automatically upgrade Regular Members to Senior Membership based on criteria that are easily quantified, such as number of reports and length of membership, which brings me to the subject of this survey:

What should be the requirements for Senior Membership?

The two basic criteria are number of reports in combination with a minimum length of time as a Forum Member. The purpose of this poll and the accompanying thread is to obtain some feedback from the Forum Members as to what exactly they believe the criteria should be.

Of course, I anticipate the possibility that the Forum's Regular Members may stack the results of this poll, so I'm advising everyone that I will be giving much greater weight to the votes of the current Senior Members, and in fact it's quite probable that I will filter the poll results to only count Senior Members votes, but we'll see.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Admin]

Greetings Everyone,

For the first four years of this Forum, Senior Membership was awarded to those Forum Members who demonstrated their willingness to adhere to the Forum's Posting Guidelines (standard capitalization & punctuation, no chat room style writing, etc.) However, I eventually came to the realization that this proved to be ineffective as an inducement and time-consuming to manage. Thus several months ago I quietly suspended Senior Member Upgrades as I searched for an alternate method of achieving the same goal of both recognizing the Forum's most prolific contributors and maintaining a minimum level of writing quality.

The conclusion I reached was that Senior Membership would become strictly a recognition for the Forum's most active contributors. This would allow me to use the Forum's built-in functions to automatically upgrade Regular Members to Senior Membership based on criteria that are easily quantified, such as number of reports and length of membership, which brings me to the subject of this survey:

What should be the requirements for Senior Membership?

The two basic criteria are number of reports in combination with a minimum length of time as a Forum Member. The purpose of this poll and the accompanying thread is to obtain some feedback from the Forum Members as to what they believe the exact criteria should be.

Of course, I anticipate the possibility that the Forum's Regular Members may stack the results of this poll, so I'm advising everyone that I will be giving much greater weight to the votes of the current Senior Members, and in fact it's quite probable that I will filter the poll results to display only the Senior Member's votes, but we'll see.

Thanks,

Jackson