Activity & new membergroup limits

[Vlad2Vlad]

How about Veteran ?

It kinda describes what that user really is: A veteran bitcoin user, sticking in this forum for 3 years!

I still think "legendary" (your original idea) is the best so far.   Maybe "Supreme Member"?

I too think veteran gives the wrong impression and doesn't sound right for what it really is.

But grandmaster and Supreme Member sounds a bit off as well.  Like I need to join a lodge or something.  lol.

[DannyElfman]

Power Member like the ebay power seller

[freedomno1]

Power Member like the ebay power seller

Hmm that one does sound a bit amusing actually but I guess we need to think of a rank name that doesn't make it sound like a bunch of obnoxious pricks ^_^.

I forgot to ask but what is the letter/word length limit for the title
Also does the rank have to end with member

Since a newbie is just a newbie (not a newbie member)
Might open up a few more suggestions.

[tspacepilot]

Look like "legendary member" was just implemented.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=24314

Thanks god they didn't use my earlier suggestion of "ledengary"!

[theymos]

I added a new Legendary membergroup with a yellow coin. I am completely open to the possibility of changing both the name and the coin color if people don't like them. In particular, if people find that threads are now too "glittery" with all of the yellow coins, I will remove the color or make it more subtle. If you think that some other color would work better, download the legendary.gif image, modify it with your color, and post your modified GIF image. Don't change anything but the color of that one region in the image, though. (I make these images by opening the image in GIMP, selecting the colored region, and then using the Colorize tool.)

To make things more fun, the Legendary membergroup has no universal activity requirement. You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity, but the exact point in this range at which you become Legendary is random per user.

[williamj2543]

I added a new Legendary membergroup with a yellow coin. I am completely open to the possibility of changing both the name and the coin color if people don't like them. In particular, if people find that threads are now too "glittery" with all of the yellow coins, I will remove the color or make it more subtle. If you think that some other color would work better, download the legendary.gif image, modify it with your color, and post your modified GIF image. Don't change anything but the color of that one region in the image, though. (I make these images by opening the image in GIMP, selecting the colored region, and then using the Colorize tool.)

To make things more fun, the Legendary membergroup has no universal activity requirement. You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity, but the exact point in this range where you become Legendary is random per user.

Theymos are legendaries gonna have any more benefits than heroes? Bigger signatures?

[OgNasty]

Theymos are legendaries gonna have...Bigger signatures?

I sure hope not.  If anything, I'd rather everyone else got smaller signatures.

[theymos]

Theymos are legendaries gonna have any more benefits than heroes? Bigger signatures?

Nope.

[tspacepilot]

Theymos are legendaries gonna have...Bigger signatures?

I sure hope not.  If anything, I'd rather everyone else got smaller signatures.

Yours definitely seems like a primedice ripoff.  If you wanted people to have smaller sigs, how come you don't put a small one out yourself?

[gweedo]

I added a new Legendary membergroup with a yellow coin. I am completely open to the possibility of changing both the name and the coin color if people don't like them. In particular, if people find that threads are now too "glittery" with all of the yellow coins, I will remove the color or make it more subtle. If you think that some other color would work better, download the legendary.gif image, modify it with your color, and post your modified GIF image. Don't change anything but the color of that one region in the image, though. (I make these images by opening the image in GIMP, selecting the colored region, and then using the Colorize tool.)

To make things more fun, the Legendary membergroup has no universal activity requirement. You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity, but the exact point in this range at which you become Legendary is random per user.

Rolling! LEGENDARY! GET

Can you make getting legendary provability fair? So we know if you don't like us that we get it anyway

[OgNasty]

Theymos are legendaries gonna have...Bigger signatures?

I sure hope not.  If anything, I'd rather everyone else got smaller signatures.

Yours definitely seems like a primedice ripoff.  If you wanted people to have smaller sigs, how come you don't put a small one out yourself?

I had a small signature out for many years.  I recently made this one at the request of a fan who wanted a signature that was more similar to the many ad campaigns out there.  I actually think the large signatures are ugly and take away from the forum's paid advertising slots, but they are very popular here and an opportunity that I have been encouraged to take advantage of despite my personal thoughts on the subject.  Thanks for asking.

[tspacepilot]

Theymos are legendaries gonna have...Bigger signatures?

I sure hope not.  If anything, I'd rather everyone else got smaller signatures.

Yours definitely seems like a primedice ripoff.  If you wanted people to have smaller sigs, how come you don't put a small one out yourself?

I had a small signature out for many years.  I recently made this one at the request of a fan who wanted a signature that was more similar to the many ad campaigns out there.  I actually think the large signatures are ugly and take away from the forum's paid advertising slots, but they are very popular here and an opportunity that I have been encouraged to take advantage of despite my personal thoughts on the subject.  Thanks for asking.

A fair and reasonable defense.  Thanks for replying

[keithers]

I added a new Legendary membergroup with a yellow coin. I am completely open to the possibility of changing both the name and the coin color if people don't like them. In particular, if people find that threads are now too "glittery" with all of the yellow coins, I will remove the color or make it more subtle. If you think that some other color would work better, download the legendary.gif image, modify it with your color, and post your modified GIF image. Don't change anything but the color of that one region in the image, though. (I make these images by opening the image in GIMP, selecting the colored region, and then using the Colorize tool.)

To make things more fun, the Legendary membergroup has no universal activity requirement. You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity, but the exact point in this range at which you become Legendary is random per user.

Thats cool . I like the idea for the randomness too

[counter]

+1 I like the new membergroup and random upgrade system.

Can you make getting legendary provability fair? So we know if you don't like us that we get it anyway

I like this idea mainly because I can imagine people will be betting on when they will become Legendary.  i swear so of you guys will bet on anything heh.

[shorena]

I tend to think that "ledendary" is not too far above "hero" but I also think that "elite" is a pretty good one.  Are there going to be further benefits for the new rank?   If, for example, these guys have even larger sig-spaces then they'll probably be able to earn more on sig-ad campaigns.  Would that be the case?  What other benefits would be offered?

I like "ledengary"

Ledengary Mmeber
 people will be making new accounts just to avoid that rank

Geez, I guess you never make a typo.  Good luck asshole, the karma police are watching you now.

Sorry for making fun of it. It cracks me up that the new rank actually is "Legendary". I just though it would be funny if the new rank would be something awful. Your typo was the inspiration to that. If you think thats offending, oh well, I guess Ill argue with the karma police then

I added a new Legendary membergroup with a yellow coin. I am completely open to the possibility of changing both the name and the coin color if people don't like them. In particular, if people find that threads are now too "glittery" with all of the yellow coins, I will remove the color or make it more subtle. If you think that some other color would work better, download the legendary.gif image, modify it with your color, and post your modified GIF image. Don't change anything but the color of that one region in the image, though. (I make these images by opening the image in GIMP, selecting the colored region, and then using the Colorize tool.)

To make things more fun, the Legendary membergroup has no universal activity requirement. You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity, but the exact point in this range at which you become Legendary is random per user.

I like it, its legen... wait for it. Yeah we will be seeing lots of those now

Anyway, I dont think yellow on... uh looks greyish (the background) is a good idea. I can hardly see the yellow part of the coin.

[freedomno1]

+1 I like the new membergroup and random upgrade system.

Can you make getting legendary provability fair? So we know if you don't like us that we get it anyway

I like this idea mainly because I can imagine people will be betting on when they will become Legendary.  i swear so of you guys will bet on anything heh.

I can see that type of bet being fun
Counter versus freedom since were actually pretty close in terms of activity only one period difference although that result won't be known for another 8.5-9 months at minimum ^^.

As an aside I'm curious if there is a way to see how many legends there are but when I sort by group it only shows Sr.Members and lower in the position tab after VIP and Staff ranks any quick way to check that up.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=mlist;sort=ID_GROUP;desc;start=60

[Muhammed Zakir]

I added a new Legendary membergroup with a yellow coin. I am completely open to the possibility of changing both the name and the coin color if people don't like them. In particular, if people find that threads are now too "glittery" with all of the yellow coins, I will remove the color or make it more subtle. If you think that some other color would work better, download the legendary.gif image, modify it with your color, and post your modified GIF image. Don't change anything but the color of that one region in the image, though. (I make these images by opening the image in GIMP, selecting the colored region, and then using the Colorize tool.)

To make things more fun, the Legendary membergroup has no universal activity requirement. You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity, but the exact point in this range at which you become Legendary is random per user.

Yellow isn't visible in this forum theme. Either you will have to change the theme in new forum(which isn't good, IMO ) or please change the color which is visible and catchy till someone make better one than that.

Kindly,
       MZ

[theymos]

Can you make getting legendary provability fair? So we know if you don't like us that we get it anyway

Nah, that'd significantly complicate things. Currently this randomness is done with a single SQL query, which is very convenient.

Code:

update smf_members set ID_POST_GROUP=21 where ID_POST_GROUP=8 and
activity>=775 and activity>=775+conv(substr(sha1(concat(ID_MEMBER,
secretSeed)), 1, 2), 16, 10);

The required activity level per user is suitably random for betting, but anyone who can read my code (there are a few such people) will be able to exactly predict when someone will become Legendary, so I don't really recommend it.

[JimboToronto]

You are guaranteed to become Legendary somewhere between 775 and 1030 activity

LOL

I'm less than a month from becoming heroic and you introduce Legendary status which is another year away for me.

By the time I'm legendary will there be "Immortal" status to make us all wait another year?

LOL 

[tspacepilot]

I tend to think that "ledendary" is not too far above "hero" but I also think that "elite" is a pretty good one.  Are there going to be further benefits for the new rank?   If, for example, these guys have even larger sig-spaces then they'll probably be able to earn more on sig-ad campaigns.  Would that be the case?  What other benefits would be offered?

I like "ledengary"

Ledengary Mmeber
 people will be making new accounts just to avoid that rank

Geez, I guess you never make a typo.  Good luck asshole, the karma police are watching you now.

Sorry for making fun of it. It cracks me up that the new rank actually is "Legendary". I just though it would be funny if the new rank would be something awful. Your typo was the inspiration to that. If you think thats offending, oh well, I guess Ill argue with the karma police then

No problem.  I think I was extra snippy yesterday.

I like it, its legen... wait for it. Yeah we will be seeing lots of those now

Anyway, I dont think yellow on... uh looks greyish (the background) is a good idea. I can hardly see the yellow part of the coin.

Same for me, the yellow part barely shows up.