Re^3: How about coloured names based on xp's?

The truth is, you have to stay around for a while to get to know the people personally. Looking at user levels is worthless for all but one questions: whether you’re dealing with a troll.

While I'm not yet fully convinced about the truth of your claim, especially because I have been on forums where the rank was publicly shown¹ and it didn't seem to me to have such a disruptive effect, I completely agree with your observation that "you have to stay around for a while to get to know the people personally". I learned to do so in newsgroups where it is even more important, and some orders of magnitude more important, to do so.

¹But not that many so I admit that my judgement may be biased.

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Re^4: How about coloured names based on xp's? by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Nov 07, 2005 at 14:52 UTC
I concede that my experiences may not be representative. And I know the overall maturity level at those forums was lower than it is at PM. But I’ve seen it happen three times – and in all three times, the ranking was not initially displayed openly, then was, then it was turned off again –, so all my experience so far suggests that such open display degrades the quality of interaction on a forum. PM might be better able to carry that weight, and maybe even a lot better – but I’m certain that it will lead to some amount of degradation, if only mild. The question I’d ask is: why should we do this? Is there anything to be gained from it? Are there any real benefits which need to be weighed against the expectable drawbacks? Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^5: How about coloured names based on xp's? by kiat (Vicar) on Nov 08, 2005 at 01:57 UTC
The question I’d ask is: why should we do this? Is there anything to be gained from it? Are there any real benefits which need to be weighed against the expectable drawbacks? To answer those questions, it's important to first answer the question why ranks are there in the first place.	[reply]


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