A Process of Appeal for Official memberdom |
 Jun 16 2005, 07:58 AM
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 Another ditch in the road... you keep moving  Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152  |
In the thread about the sex forum, Fallen_fairy brought up the point of some members, because they went for a long period before beginning to post after they joined, being unable to achieve they requisit 5ppd to become an official member
these people can become very active and dedicated members, but because they have a backlog of Zero post days, they cannot get their' ppd up, even if they do post up to 10 a day, and would clearly have a ppd which meets standars were it not for the long period of inactivity therefore,i think it should be possible for members with over 500 posts who want to become official members, but are unable to due to a low ppd should be able to launch an appeal by PMing an admin with there situation. if they prove themselves a positive part of the site by gaining the endorsement of two members and a moderator, then the yshould have their status changed to Official Member. = ) |
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Jun 16 2005, 08:25 AM
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 This bitch better work! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,681 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,095 |
QUOTE if they prove themselves a positive part of the site by gaining the endorsement of two members and a moderator that sounds like alot of work just to become an official member!?  they could always just make a new account. 
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| *Weird addiction* |
Jun 16 2005, 08:49 AM
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I don't really think that's a good idea. Like Frankie said, they could always make a new account. If your ppd drops lower than 5.0 (which means that you can't be an official member) all you have to do is post some more. It's hard work becoming an official member
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Jun 16 2005, 11:34 AM
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 i've never wanted anything rationale. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,449 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 19,045 |
QUOTE(Frankie @ Jun 16 2005, 6:25 AM) that sounds like alot of work just to become an official member!? they could always just make a new account.  Why should they be punished for not posting right away. If they really want to be an official member, then they wouldn't mind getting the endorsements. I am sure if you went away and your PPD went down and you couldn't get it back up, you wouldn't want to make a new account. |
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Jun 16 2005, 03:35 PM
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 ich heisse Meli. Group: Member Posts: 909 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 122,016 |
I had the same problem after lurking around for quite a while before I had the time to become an active poster... and I think if someone really wants to be an official member, they'll get the endorsements. It's easier than posting their butt off, which obviously leads to spamming, or signing up for a new account and losing all of the 500 or whatever posts they had. I think it's a great idea.
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Jun 16 2005, 03:51 PM
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Another ditch in the road... you keep moving Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152 |
i dont see why its hassle
pm the admin with your endosemnets. they read. they change status. that to me seems easier than having to look through the application thread and check up on xangas to make sure they've joined the blogring and linked... |
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| *mzkandi* |
Jun 16 2005, 03:53 PM
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I suppose the idea wouldnt be a bad idea if a member and two moderators could vouch for that person activeness to become an offical member and once they get their post count back up again it would be their responsiblity to keep it up. The only problem I can forsee is it would probably cause alot people who just want to use xtracker or something to bombard to people with request to endorse them. Of course a mod would be able to determine right away whether they are really active or not.
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Jun 16 2005, 03:58 PM
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 hi, my name is brianna! =] Group: Official Member Posts: 5,764 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 22,114 |
It seems like too much trouble.
Especially if it's mostly just for a simple sex forum. |
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Jun 16 2005, 04:17 PM
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i've never wanted anything rationale. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,449 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 19,045 |
It is not just for the sex forum idiot.
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Jun 16 2005, 04:23 PM
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Another ditch in the road... you keep moving Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152 |
no, it isnt.
its for the visitor tracker too, plus any added benefits which official members may become entitled to. kiera... i dont think it woul dbe THAT much of a problem... one look at their joining date tells you if they have been at the site long enough to have had the problem, and i think we can trust people to endorse only those who they know are positive members of the site |
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| *xcaitlinx* |
Jun 16 2005, 04:24 PM
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i don't think that the whole "endorsement" thing is necessary, since it's just trying to become an official member, not staff member. i think it'd be better if they changed it so that when you join, your ppd is simply at 0, and doesn't go negative or change until you begin to post.
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| *mzkandi* |
Jun 16 2005, 04:29 PM
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QUOTE(MarchHare2UrAlice @ Jun 16 2005, 5:23 PM) kiera... i dont think it woul dbe THAT much of a problem... one look at their joining date tells you if they have been at the site long enough to have had the problem, and i think we can trust people to endorse only those who they know are positive members of the site I agree. I have confidence in our staff to make good judgements on who should be an offical member or not. I wasnt agruing against that. I was only stating that there will be those members that will bombard people for endorsements when they arent really qualified...they will be disappointed because a staff member will be able to determine their activeness. Note: I dont mean endorsements in like a paragraph (like applying for a staff postion), simply someone who can vouch for that member in question activeness. This post has been edited by mzkandi: Jun 16 2005, 04:34 PM |
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Jun 16 2005, 04:31 PM
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Another ditch in the road... you keep moving Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152 |
i didnt mean endorsement as in having to write out a paragraph in the manner of why they should be a member or not, just simply a list of three names. it jus thelps to verify that someone has seen them active... because its a big site, and the individual admin may never have noticed them particularl, and therefore not feel they deserve it
*shrug* your other idea is god in theory, but if one person posts once or twice before they stop returning, theproblem is still as real as ever... nic ein theory, wouldnt work in practice |
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| *basick* |
Jun 16 2005, 04:33 PM
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this is a BRILLIANT idea...
i registered in the june of 2004 and didnt post until october of 2004 which meant i had 4 months of posts to catch up with... i had about 2000 posts when FINALY my post per day ratio was above 5... i had to psot in 7 pages of introductions forums to get my PPD above 5... lol... if this rule was enforced ack when i was a regular member... it would have been much easier to be an official member... |
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Jun 16 2005, 04:35 PM
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 Lil JC Group: Member Posts: 868 Joined: May 2005 Member No: 145,741 |
i didnt start posting for 2 weeks after my account was made and i've only been posting for about a week and i already meet the requirements and have applied
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Jun 16 2005, 04:37 PM
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Another ditch in the road... you keep moving Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152 |
well, yes.
this applies to people who have MONTHS of inactivity. such as steven or fallen_fairy. |
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Jun 16 2005, 05:11 PM
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 when we speak, we breathe Group: Member Posts: 1,635 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 91,760 |
QUOTE(mzkandi @ Jun 16 2005, 4:53 PM) I suppose the idea wouldnt be a bad idea if a member and two moderators could vouch for that person activeness View user profile > search user's posts > skim to look at date's of posts, etc. It's not that hard. |
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| *xcaitlinx* |
Jun 16 2005, 06:18 PM
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QUOTE(MarchHare2UrAlice @ Jun 16 2005, 4:31 PM) i didnt mean endorsement as in having to write out a paragraph in the manner of why they should be a member or not, just simply a list of three names. it jus thelps to verify that someone has seen them active... because its a big site, and the individual admin may never have noticed them particularl, and therefore not feel they deserve it *shrug* your other idea is god in theory, but if one person posts once or twice before they stop returning, theproblem is still as real as ever... nic ein theory, wouldnt work in practice are you referring to mine? yeah that's what i was thinking about too. maybe if...hmm...after a couple of weeks without posting, the PPD count just stops where it is. then when they resume their posting, it would start up again? |
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| *mzkandi* |
Jun 16 2005, 07:45 PM
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QUOTE(jordanriane @ Jun 16 2005, 6:11 PM) View user profile > search user's posts > skim to look at date's of posts, etc. It's not that hard. Uhhh..yeah duh. Your not telling me anything new That wasnt even the point I was getting at. I already know admins check the post of those who want to become offical members.
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| *autumn.* |
Jun 16 2005, 07:58 PM
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QUOTE(caytexo @ Jun 16 2005, 7:18 PM) are you referring to mine? yeah that's what i was thinking about too. maybe if...hmm...after a couple of weeks without posting, the PPD count just stops where it is. then when they resume their posting, it would start up again? no, i don't agree with that. one could technically post 100 posts in one day and not come back for 2 weeks and still be an official member. i only agree to this when you first sign up and are inactive for a bit. edit: i don't think we can really change how ppd are counted. it's just going to up to mods/admins to look at the posts and the member activity amount. |
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Jun 17 2005, 01:12 AM
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 creepy heather Group: Official Member Posts: 4,208 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 41,580 |
i agree with the first post. i never had the problem but it seems like alot of people do.
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Jun 17 2005, 05:39 AM
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Another ditch in the road... you keep moving Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152 |
yeah cayte, i was talking about yours
again, your revised idea is nice, but im not sure it woul dbe possible, and even so, it would be complicated to se tup... this way is just smpler |
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Jun 17 2005, 03:15 PM
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QUOTE(autumn. @ Jun 16 2005, 7:58 PM) no, i don't agree with that. one could technically post 100 posts in one day and not come back for 2 weeks and still be an official member. i only agree to this when you first sign up and are inactive for a bit. edit: i don't think we can really change how ppd are counted. it's just going to up to mods/admins to look at the posts and the member activity amount. oh, you're right. never thought about that... 
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Jun 17 2005, 04:19 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Posts: 8,274 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,001 |
That means, we will have less people interested in cB. -__- .. i dun like the idea.
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Jun 17 2005, 06:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,575 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 93,957 |
^why would we have less people interested? that makes no sense to me.. please explain further.
this is one of the main reasons i made a new account... except then i stopped doing xanga so i had no use for the tools. i like this idea. edit: hmm.. one thing i thought of is won't it be a lot harder for the staff to take away our status? i mean, with the official members now they can just look at their ppd and take away the status if their ppd isn't high enough, but it seems like it would be a pain for them to check these exceptions if this proposition did go into effect. |
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Jun 17 2005, 09:56 PM
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when we speak, we breathe Group: Member Posts: 1,635 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 91,760 |
QUOTE(mzkandi @ Jun 16 2005, 8:45 PM) Uhhh..yeah duh. Your not telling me anything new That wasnt even the point I was getting at. I already know admins check the post of those who want to become offical members.You said " if a member and two moderators could vouch for that person activeness." There would be no need to "vouch" for activeness, because all that has to be done, is to just view their searched posts, to just see if they've been active. Also, it should be "you're not telling me anything new."
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Jun 17 2005, 10:05 PM
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 WWMD?! - i am from the age of BM 2 Group: Member Posts: 5,308 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,848 |
mzkandi, go to english class.
 (i'm just joking around, don't take this wrongly) |
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Jun 30 2005, 03:11 PM
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Sorry about bringing the thread back to life, I must've skipped over it before.
 But anyway.QUOTE(xxcrazyjewxx @ Jun 16 2005, 9:34 AM) Why should they be punished for not posting right away. If they really want to be an official member, then they wouldn't mind getting the endorsements. I am sure if you went away and your PPD went down and you couldn't get it back up, you wouldn't want to make a new account. Hon, I know you're a camp right now, but you can read this when you get back - I joined in January of '04 and I lurked around until June of '04. I liked my username too damn much to make a new one, so what'd I do? I stayed with it. Sure it took me six months, but I got my ppd up. Seven and it's still going up. If people want the official member status so badly and want to keep their username, then they will work for it.QUOTE(basick @ Jun 16 2005, 2:33 PM) this is a BRILLIANT idea... How ironic that you've already lost your status and you're a regular member again. Seven pages of introductions - sounds like spamming. /offtopici registered in the june of 2004 and didnt post until october of 2004 which meant i had 4 months of posts to catch up with... i had about 2000 posts when FINALY my post per day ratio was above 5... i had to psot in 7 pages of introductions forums to get my PPD above 5... lol... if this rule was enforced ack when i was a regular member... it would have been much easier to be an official member... QUOTE(MarchHare2UrAlice @ Jun 16 2005, 2:37 PM) well, yes. Refer to what I said to Rachel. ;xthis applies to people who have MONTHS of inactivity. such as steven or fallen_fairy. QUOTE(aznxboredxperson @ Jun 17 2005, 2:19 PM) That means, we will have less people interested in cB. -__- .. i dun like the idea. So you think we will have less members interested in cB if the official member is easier to obtain? Hm, some logic you have there.Anyway, I'm not big on the idea of endorsements for the official member status. However, if the minimum post count for the official member status were raised, it'd be great since I'm starting to see too many people trying to get fifty posts in one day for the mere service of the xtracker and then leaving after they get the status (which, they usually don't so they keep spamming). |
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Jun 30 2005, 04:03 PM
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 t3h koolest guy in cB Group: Member Posts: 2,194 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 513 |
QUOTE(Azarel @ Jun 30 2005, 3:11 PM) How ironic that you've already lost your status and you're a regular member again. Seven pages of introductions - sounds like spamming. /offtopic eeveryone does it look in introductions yourself... and i didnt mean at one time hahaha and 7 pages was an exaggeration... maybe 2 pages |
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Jun 30 2005, 06:38 PM
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WWMD?! - i am from the age of BM 2 Group: Member Posts: 5,308 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,848 |
^ i don't.
 i don't think i've even equalled up to seven pages of posts in introductions. on occasion..like..once a half a year (o_O) i'll go post in a couple threads in there. but i don't like posting in there cause it seems like spamming and then i fell guilty..
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Jun 30 2005, 06:46 PM
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This bitch better work! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,681 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 28,095 |
^ me. actually, whenever i post in introductions, it always feels like spam.
welcome to createblog. my name is frankie. read the community guidelines & happy posting. ...
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Jun 30 2005, 08:55 PM
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QUOTE(jordanriane @ Jun 17 2005, 10:56 PM) Also, it should be "you're not telling me anything new." Grrr...thanks for making me look bad!! And Frankie , posting in the introductions feel like spam to you? lol. I dont think so I actually try to be welcoming and helpful *shrug* |
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