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Sorry but uhm, what are OGs, WCs, and ECs exactly?
I believe I speak for the entire Wiki Admin team when I vehemently oppose any sort of recognition for number of wiki edits, but the others sound good and I definitely think we need more of these milestone-based awards.I find it appropriate to bump this thread.
I definitely endorse the idea of longevity awards but a three year membership shouldn't be the end of the line in that department.
Other possible suggestions for major milestones deserving awards:
- 10000 forum post count
- 10000 Wiki edits
- Site Staff for 2 years (these drop like flies; they needed to be awarded)
- 10 articles published for the ZD Main Site
Often times, newer members look up to the more established ones and this could be a means through which to "share the wealth" and encourage our forum veterans to emit that positive vibe for a longer period of time.
I believe I speak for the entire Wiki Admin team when I vehemently oppose any sort of recognition for number of wiki edits, but the others sound good and I definitely think we need more of these milestone-based awards.
I can confirm this. I've personally witnessed this very thing happen before. It was a total disaster. People were so concerned with hitting that edit count that they made a huge number of poor quality edits. Often with intentional and obvious mistakes just so they could make another edit to fix it. They'd do things like fix one typo per edit, even though another one was plainly visible near that typo, even in the next word. There was one person that was extremely bad. He would literally make dozens of such edits per minute. Yes, per minute. He'd make them faster than we could check them and he swamped all the logs and lists with his edits and completely destroyed the management efforts of the staff. He'd amounted 20,000 edits in a month and a half. A count that took me over two years to reach. It was a total nightmare. One which I never want to relive. We are never doing anything recognizing edit count beyond the small requirement for being autoconfirmed (50 edits, strictly a protection against things like vandalism and NOT a reward for editing). Beyond that, no edit count recognition. It'd be an invitation to disaster.I believe I speak for the entire Wiki Admin team when I vehemently oppose any sort of recognition for number of wiki edits, but the others sound good and I definitely think we need more of these milestone-based awards.
Wiki edits aren't like forum posts. One could go through each section of an article and improve them one at a time, or one could edit the entire article at once and achieve the same result. Whether it took one or ten edits as counted by the software, all I care about is that the article was improved, and I can't put a number on that. This is also why there's no edit count requirement for the wiki forum ranks.
Regarding username changes: Username changes should be handed over to members with a button available on their pages for them to type in a new username. Would this lead to some people attempting to change their username too often? Possibly. The solution I propose for combating people who frequently desire a name change is setting a quota of one name change per period of time. One name change every year seems like a reasonable compromise. Most won't get tired of a new username that soon especially if they chose wisely and this will prevent confusion regarding who's who.
Regarding username changes: Username changes should be handed over to members with a button available on their pages for them to type in a new username. Would this lead to some people attempting to change their username too often? Possibly. The solution I propose for combating people who frequently desire a name change is setting a quota of one name change per period of time. One name change every year seems like a reasonable compromise. Most won't get tired of a new username that soon especially if they chose wisely and this will prevent confusion regarding who's who.
See the thing with that is that I'm fairly sure there is no feature available that can allow users to do that themselves without the help of an admin. We have to remember that the administration can't just install anything on the forum; it has to be an available plugin or vBulletin feature. The only debatable point here is the idea of multiple name changes. I personally don't like the idea of allowing multiple name changes, but I think it would be good to poll the forum community and do whatever the majority wants.
Also, regarding the 10000 forum post count award idea... no one has ever made that many posts in the history of ZD. That's like... a very outlandish number. A few thousand I can understand, but 10,000 is unprecedented. I'm not sure that it's a good idea to award people for having large post counts is a good idea, either. I personally wouldn't support it, but again, whatever the majority wants is fine.
TMS said:Now imagine if everyone changes their name twice a month, at different intervals.
A Link In Time said:One name change every year seems like a reasonable compromise.