Reputation Medals

[chaos master]

Maybe we could get some reputation medals to spruce up the user profiles. Some of you may know what I mean from other forums. Here is an example from the EmuTalk Forums. (http://www.emutalk.net/memberlist.php?&order=ASC&sort=username&pp=30) We can make it so that you get more from certain criteria. Also, when you hover the mouse over the icon, it displays text showing how great the person is, and we will need to set criteria for those, as well. It is compatible with vBulletin, as you can see. Maybe allocate a medal for every 500 posts? Or maybe increase their value with them coming only for every 1,000 posts. Of course this may spawn spam, but I don't think spammers will stick around for 500 or 1,000 posts for a medal. They will be stopped long before then, anyhow. Or maybe make the criteria based on something else. But I digressed.... I understand that upkeeping eChang Net is time consuming and hard work, so take your time. Of course it is your decision as admin if this is to happen at all. Just throwing this out there.

[DarthBrady]

Wow, that thing is pretty cool; thats for sure.

But it looks like hard work. But then again what the heck I dont know about that stuff so what do I know? :)

[ridley]

yes i agree with this we could get them for completing certain requirements or by being the first to do something or by being the best at something
for example chaos master was the first to get over 1000 posts and the first to get to the ranks of coolrom addict and coolrom legend. i was the first to emulation guru and i posted the 1000th post
we could get them for each forum we are mods in.
chaos master you would get a medal for having the mosts posts

[Iconoclast]

Maybe we could get some reputation medals to spruce up the user profiles. Some of you may know what I mean from other forums. Here is an example from the EmuTalk Forums. (http://www.emutalk.net/memberlist.php?&order=ASC&sort=username&pp=30) We can make it so that you get more from certain criteria. Also, when you hover the mouse over the icon, it displays text showing how great the person is, and we will need to set criteria for those, as well. It is compatible with vBulletin, as you can see. Maybe allocate a medal for every 500 posts? Or maybe increase their value with them coming only for every 1,000 posts. Of course this may spawn spam, but I don't think spammers will stick around for 500 or 1,000 posts for a medal. They will be stopped long before then, anyhow. Or maybe make the criteria based on something else. But I digressed.... I understand that upkeeping eChang Net is time consuming and hard work, so take your time. Of course it is your decision as admin if this is to happen at all. Just throwing this out there....I have no idea what you just said, but may I point that as a little bit of an obvious form of persuasion? It sounds like your saying we should have medals. You mean in real life, sent to us as an image, or what?

Uh, the way you post, I'm going to have to disagree with the number of posts medal. We already have a post count system for that kind of thing. Nobody on these forums knows how to post. But if you mean like a medal, whatever that means, for being an emulation helper, like me, or a socialist or something, like you, medals for imaging, artwork, cool GIF animation maker, silly stuff. That I could agree with. But don't drag posting into this.

[DarthBrady]

What if we had like medal for being known for different stuff like you said above stuff like best of each category like best of PC support, Best of Rom support and so on, and we could nominate each other for them and all that jazz. Like an award show, and do it over again every so often to mix it up. it might be fun.

[Iconoclast]

Well, it's hard to state someone as the best at something. There are a lot of users here; you never know. I think just being good or great at something is enough. For example, I'm not the only expert at Nintendo 64 emulation. FD knows quite a bit, too. We should both get a 'medal' for it. But not a medal for Console Gaming/Emulation. I'm just good with Nintendo 64. It's hard to find someone who's an expert at emulating ALL consoles. But you're on the right c...track, DarthBrady. And I replied to your Top Gear Overdrive thread.

[DarthBrady]

I see your point, and I have to agree. I didnt think of it that way.
It would be cool if it wasnt the "best of" then, and maybe just some kind of medal that you can get if someone nominates you for it that has a higher rank than most users users or something like that.

Kinda like a CoolROM Doctorate or medal you can recieve for being knowledgable or just good at doing something about the different stuff this site stands for or something. Like get a "Doctorate" in N64 Emulation, or Rom support, PC support, ect. How does that sound? any better or worse?

Also, thanx about the top gear overdrive, I tried it on 1964 too and added the updates for PJ64 as well. But it still does it, guess its just gonna be like excitebike 64 and not work on either correctly, oh well sorry to gone off subject, as you were saying...

[Iconoclast]

Sounds good. Do you mean Doctorate as in college? But yes, different 'ranks' of a title we would have, like an emulation doctor or something.
*Edited: It may not have worked because you added Project64's updates. 1964 says it should work fine when emulating using the default GFX plugin it comes with, not Jabo's Direct3D.

[chaos master]

Okay. What do you mean no one knows how to post? That is not right. Maybe you mean nobody here knows how to post properly, but that is your opinion. And a valued opinion it is.... I don't see how we post any different than other forums. Can you tell me why not posting? It can be a major award (like the ones you described.) If someone is spamming enough to shoot for that reward, it would be obvious enough to notice, even before they reach the 100 post mark. So spammers wouldn't be there. Being an active member is good. We take time out of our schedules to do stuff here (although you might not do it in post form all the time) and help make the forums a cool place, so why not an award for being all like that? I feel a lecture coming on... o_o;

HEY YO!! Maybe we can make different colors (and if vBulletin permits, different tiny graphics) that stand for each reward. We could put them on our user headers on our posts. Pretty insignia, good! And then we would award them with an award show like DarthBrady said. We would make an award for every major (and maybe minor) aspect of the forum.

[DarthBrady]

Yeah.. this is starting to sound cool.:)

But would it work? I mean what would it take to get something like this off the ground and going?

And yeah I mean like a college doctorate or something, really I guess It would be like a "honorary" doctorate or something. Just something I threw out there.. sounded cool to me. But I'm open to any other idea you got! so far they all sound like the beginning to the internets Best Emu forum ever. Even though it already is.

[chaos master]

Well maybe we can make a list of possible awards:

Admin- awarded for being an administrator
Mod- awarded for being a moderator
Top Contributor- has done the most work and support for the forum other than admin
Top Poster- awarded for having the most posts (maybe)
Ancient- awarded for being (active) on the forums for 1 year or more
Veteran- awarded for being (active) on the forums for 6 months or more
New Guy- awarded to the current newest user
Happy Birthday- awarded to users on their birthdays


And then we can have some others whic people are nominated to have.

[ridley]

most sucessful post- a.k.a snr
mod of most forums- between me and kameo
social event medal- like my vote-off or snr

[Kristaps513]

Well maybe we can make a list of possible awards:

Admin- awarded for being an administrator
Mod- awarded for being a moderator
Top Contributor- has done the most work and support for the forum other than admin
Top Poster- awarded for having the most posts (maybe)
Ancient- awarded for being (active) on the forums for 1 year or more
Veteran- awarded for being (active) on the forums for 6 months or more
New Guy- awarded to the current newest user
Happy Birthday- awarded to users on their birthdays


And then we can have some others whic people are nominated to have.

There could be::)
Popular- awarded for being most helpful and popular in user vote.
Max Voter- for voteing at most polls. (maybe)
New user bringer- for the most users that he told to join. (a bit stupid becouse one can make new users with name of he that telled him to join):D

[Iconoclast]

CM, a medal for the most posts is...not smart because you post SO many times. You have the statement where you've posted the most already in your signature. Along with your post count, that should be enough of a 'medal', especially for someone who made a spam thread like SNR. No other user of CoolROM made a spam thread! THEY don't have a rapid chance to boost their post count like you do! It's unfair. If you deleted that thread, your post count would drop by exactly 1,315 posts. Your posting is all dependent on a SPAM thread, OK? For the last time, let's not bring posting into this kind of idea.

I'm getting a little tired of this. I'd rather let you guys and admin finish the idea.

[Kurt]

We DEFINITELY don't need a medal for "most posts". That being said, this is a great idea if it can be executed properly.
:)

[Fierce Deity]

No medals that would require you to have to vote for polls or post in topics. That would just create spam hell. Maybe medals for being helpful though? Or medals that people know you are good at emulating that system. Like an N64 medal for Iconoclast, and maybe myself, so people would know to ask us about N64 problems, or know that our advice should be taken seriously.

[ridley]

or for posting something helpful like mjshl2's many emuator guides or kameo anime downloads or my emulator list and goodcodes

[Fierce Deity]

Yes, you could get helpful medals for things liek that.

[Kurt]

Ridley, it was not *your* goodcode list.

[chaos master]

CM, a medal for the most posts is...not smart because you post SO many times. You have the statement where you've posted the most already in your signature. Along with your post count, that should be enough of a 'medal', especially for someone who made a spam thread like SNR. No other user of CoolROM made a spam thread! THEY don't have a rapid chance to boost their post count like you do! It's unfair. If you deleted that thread, your post count would drop by exactly 1,315 posts. Your posting is all dependent on a SPAM thread, OK? For the last time, let's not bring posting into this kind of idea.

I'm getting a little tired of this. I'd rather let you guys and admin finish the idea.
Okay, but have you noticed that I barely post in SNR anymore and when I do, it is to respond to someone or bring something relatively important up. So, no mo' cheating. And, if I deleted SNR, my post count would still be highest, so the position is not dependent on SNR. That said, SNR is more akin to a chat thread.

[Kurt]

I don't mind SNR but a "highest poster" medal is, at best, useless when people can just take a look at your damn post count instead.

[Fierce Deity]

I would have to agree with Kurt. In the biz, we call that an "Oh snap!". Your rebuttal?

[Kurt]

BTW, ridley, you shouldn't get a medal for posting someone else's list here, because it takes no skill or effort whatsoever. Sorry if I seem harsh, but it's true.

[DarthBrady]

I agree, an award for most posts may not be neccesary. But it wouldnt be unfair either. It takes a LOT of devotion to post that many times, good or bad.

Also, I like CM's Idea for a "veteran" and "anchient" (i hope i spelled that ok)
award for being a member for a certain amount of time. Truly, a great Idea! only we should change anchient to something more distinguished sounding in my opinion. Like maybe "Sage" or "elder", somthing that still points to being a long time member, but doesnt sound as harsh, and sound more like an actual game character title or something. But "Anchient" is still good I think.

I would be happy with just doing something like this alone.
What do you think?

[ridley]

kurt i didnt write the goodcodes but i did write the emulator list i went far and wide to get those names

[Kurt]

Looks to me like you just copied off Coolrom's (and maybe a couple of other site's) emulator list, then went to a couple of clone sites for all the different MAME clients. I'm glad you took the time to do that, it's helpful and all, but it's not really your work as much as it would have been if you'd listed the details of each emulator.

EDIT: Plus, you should have cited your sources. :)

[ridley]

oh ffs i wrote that list and im posting downloads fo them so until you post something better shut the **** up

[Kurt]

I see you've been using admin's emulator section. You can use emulator-zone.com to get more emulators for some of the consoles.
emulator-zone.com has nearly EVERY SINGLE emulator you listed on your post...

EDIT: No need to be blatantly rude. Plagiarism ticks me the **** off in any shape or form, unintentional or not.

[ridley]

i dont care kurt this aint about where the **** i got the names is about medals im the first one to actually get these emulators and bring them together and now ill go to every site i can find and compile the ultimate list [lightening flash]

p.s that may have sounded extreme im sorry

[Kurt]

and now ill go to every site i can find and compile the ultimate list That would be excellent. But until then, I don't think you should get a medal. Afterwards, though, I'll personally nominate you for one.

PS: I'm writing a guide.

[Iconoclast]

emulator-zone.com has nearly EVERY SINGLE emulator you listed on your post...

EDIT: No need to be blatantly rude. Plagiarism ticks me the **** off in any shape or form, unintentional or not.Plagiarism, in the shape of...Kurt!

http://www.coolrom.com/forums/image.php?u=763&dateline=1150323520

[Kurt]

Excuse me while I laugh so hard my keyboard is short-circuited by drool.

[DarthBrady]

I am nominating you guys for most argumentative. LOL!:)

you guys are missing the point, its not about taking credit or the glory, if thats all we care about than we are just letting the man and his coporate world bring us down. ;)

[Iconoclast]

I am nominating you guys for most argumentative. LOL!:)

you guys are missing the point, its not about taking credit or the glory, if thats all we care about than we are just letting the man and his coporate world bring us down. ;)Yeah, GIVE me that award!

I wasn't trying to seem greedy about credit or glory.

[chaos master]

Best Couple- chaos master and Iconoclast

!!!!!!!!ROFLMFAO!!!!!!

[ridley]

what kind of guide are you writing kurt
did you know if not for my p.c crashing i would have been the first to write the monster and enemy guides for the tales of phantasia gba ?

[Kurt]

I don't even know (read: care) what that is. The guide I'm writing is a secret so evildoers like yourself can't steal it and make a shoddy guide before I can finish mine.

Sorry, but security is security.

[ridley]

it had better not be an emulator guide

[Kurt]

:rolleyes: Because...?