Recognition for long-serving forum members?

Roalith

Roalith

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Am sure I'll get mocked for this, but I'm going to make the suggestion anyway - but how about some form of nice 'fluff' (such as a different avatar pic or custom rank?) for old forum members? Those of us with age-old accounts but less than 1000 posts can't even access the member's market any more, for example!

Not tied in to post count, solely based on the age of the account. I've seen a few accounts under a year old with 10k+ posts (what that says for the quality of those posts is of course open to interpretation), but old lurkers like my good self who have been around on these boards for an absolute donkey's age get little recognition - we might not be the most verbose of posters, but we have certainly been loyal. These flash-in-the-pan youngsters might not be here this time next year, but us old timers...!

I'm not sure when the boards were set out in their current iteration, but I believe it was around the end of 2002? Oldest account will probably be Spie's, for eg?
 
Roalith said:
old lurkers like my good self
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Why should you be recognised for not contributing anything?

The MoH exists to recognise valuable contributions to the forum, having an account for a long time is not an achievement.
 
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Is it not the case with most people that they visit the forum for personal gain?

If I'm still on here in 10 years time it will be because I enjoy it and therefore won't expect some kind of reward for 'loyalty'.

Just my opinion.
 
Why does a long term member with few posts deserve the same benefits as active members? You are hardly contributing to the forums in the same way surely? And 'loyalty' lol. Congrats on discovering the forum before me I hope you receive many pats on the back
 
Well, just as an example - being a member of these forums and this 'club' if you will, for 10 years (a significant proportion of anyone's life) certainly shows commitment, which is a contribution in its own right.

Yes, I and other people in a similar situation to me have not posted anywhere near as much, but neither have we posted anywhere near as much drivel as some people may have done. Which will also mean we've wasted less of OCUK's - and other people's - bandwidth.

A low posting, long term loyal forum member Vs a newer, high-post-rate member should be just as valuable to the community. Am sure people will be happy to discuss that :D
 
Roalith said:
Well, just as an example - being a member of these forums and this 'club' if you will, for 10 years (a significant proportion of anyone's life) certainly shows commitment, which is a contribution in its own right.
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No it doesn't. You're saying if I signed up in 02, posted once or twice over the decade then became active last week that shows as much commitment than actively posting for a year or 2?

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Roalith said:
Well, just as an example - being a member of these forums and this 'club' if you will, for 10 years (a significant proportion of anyone's life) certainly shows commitment, which is a contribution in its own right.
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You could be in a job for 10 years, contribute nothing and stay at the same rank and pay grade.

Same principle as you, but on this forum.

It shows you have been here for so long and just cant be assed to contribute.
 
Surely if you're a lurker with a very low post count then you tend to take more from the "community" than you give. Why should you be rewarded for that?!

I would consider myself to be very infrequent poster and have been around since the very early days, but I've still racked up over 3k posts.
 
Surely having been here since 2003 and with less than 300 posts, you haven't contributed much to the forum, certainly not enough to warrant 'recognition'. Silly, self-entitled suggestion.


And lol at wanting recognition for not wasting bandwidth. *sigh*
 
majnu said:
some avatars of non white gangsters would be nice.
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gangstap.jpg


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Roalith said:
old lurkers like my good self who have been around on these boards for an absolute donkey's age get little recognition
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join date is irrelevant - if some uber technical guy joined tomorrow and spent the next month making 300 quality posts/advice in the tech sections then he'd have arguably contributed more than you
 
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