'nickname'

[deacondave]

Tim, why does it say 'acolyte' under my user name ? that was a looooong time ago...dave

[Tim Killmeyer]

Hi Dave...

Good question!

One of the "features" of the board is that we can "rank" members according to the number of messages they post. It's just kind of a fun thing here, though on some other boards I am a member of, you have to reach a certain number of posts in order to post things for sale or other "privleges" so that people don't just join to promote their product or whatever.

Each rank is achieved by posting a certain number of times on the forum. I can set the number of posts required to achieve each rank, the name of each rank, choose how many stars will be displayed along with that rank, and choose what color will be used as the star for the rank.

Right now it is set up so that 0 to 24 posts is a "new member," 25 to 199 posts is an "acolyte," 200 to 499 posts is a "lector," 500 to 999 posts is a "deacon," and 1000 posts or more is an "Archdeacon." ;D

I tried to use some levels that were Catholic and I guess I had grandiose ideas when I first set it up that the board would be used so much that we would have various levels appearing all at the same time.

Actually, I hadn't looked at the ranking page for a while and I see that we can even add 5 more levels to those (Apostle? Pharisee? Prophet? ) so that they "could" change a little more often.

But right now, get in your 200 posts and become a lector!

Tim

PS You didn't do anything wrong by posting where you did, I just thought it might be more appropriate here (AND I don't get to move things very often!)

[deacondave]

thanks Tim
....i thought that might be the nicknam process...well, since i might get kicked out of the deacon-l list, maybe i will be getting a few more posts in here.

...being an acolyte wasn't so bad, and i did learn a lot

...glad i was able to help keep your administrator skills up

peace