Extended Ranks Proposal

[FatFork]

Current ending Legendary rank - is a dead end

It doesn't have to be a dead end. You can continue to make progress on the forum (if that is your goal).
You can, for example, continue to help the community and thus earn merit, or you can do some other skillful deeds.

Even altcointalks has more ranks

What are the purpose and significance of these ranks?

[Fivestar4everMVP]

I honestly don't see any need for rank extension here, cus it probably not going to benefit any one, even if it was going to benefit someone, it might just be few persons, then the question we should ask ourselves is "is it worth the stress?".

There several other important things to improve on if actually we want to make the forum better, and one that I've been thinking about is how to bring scam rate on this forum to the barest minimum, most especially in the altcoin section,  and my suggestion is those in charge can develop or create a criteria which every altcoin wanting to list on this forum must meet before they can allowed to create an Announcement thread here as well as launch a campaign, this will really help bring the amount of scam altcoins that starts from this forum down, and also reduce the many abandoned projects here as well as give bitcointalk more credibility out there.

[SFR10]

Legendary:	Activity: between 775 and 1030
Mega Legendary:	Activity: 1000

There's a flaw in your proposal that allows users to become a "Mega Legendary" prior to acquiring the Legendary rank.

But now Legendary rank means nothing. Some farmers pump this rank in a short time. This rank has turned into something like a Newbie

If you're referring to those who already have the activity points while suddenly receiving ridiculous amounts of merits for questionable posts, then there are certain users that leave negative ratings for that and even if they try to cover their tracks, we still have a few ways of viewing them...

This is a Bitcoin forum. I think it would be useful to know how many members actually believe in Bitcoin. Maybe a badge for all members who hold more than a certain level of Bitcoin. Perhaps 0.1 would be useful at its current value.

Are you implying that the amounts in their addresses are directly related to how much they actually believe in BTCitcoin?

Maybe there could be a badge for the longest BTC holder in signature campaigns - someone who hasn’t spent a satoshi in years - I know for sure there are such members

Nope, that *user* is the only one and I'm a fan of his/her listing website

[Quickseller]

Since the Merit System was set in motion(*), 182 Legendary members (48 from scratch) have ranked-up needing Merits in the process, and 173 Heroes (71 from scratch). Not that many considering (besides all those pre-Merit System ranked members also existing).

There could be room for additional ranks, although I wouldn’t say that there is any seemingly good reason for it beyond elevating the ego of those that would meet the requirement, at most. Currently:

There is an argument for adding additional ranks below Legendary and not grandfathering people into the resulting higher ranks.

1000 merit isn’t easy to achieve and not many will get there. 400-500 is much easier and more will earn this much merit. There could be some criteria to adjust the initial airdropped merit downwards and some working towards getting legendary status could need to get less merit, while those with a lot of merit could have a higher rank.

[Smartvirus]

Anyway, I really hope that we there won't be any new ranks as I don't see who would benefit from it. Maybe only people that are taking this forum way too seriously and wanna separate from others more than it is possible now.

I am with you on this one. Of what use will it be adding more ranks to the forum and how does it applies to helping cryptocurrency in the real word? It virtually means nothing and even if it were to be considered, it doesn't mean it would stop there (addition of new ranks) and one of two occasions might happen along the way.

* Either it would become boring along the way of accumulation of the necessity or
* You find out it made no difference from the legendary we now have.

The names attached doesn't mean much but the contributions coming off users beating it do. There have been newbies in the past that have been said to know so much to be a newbie or beginner where as, there are ranked up users that doesn't know much for the ranks there bare.

Should we view these ranks like the institutions of learning, we might clip to the idea that, we don't need any other ranks to make a user feel special or separate from the others. Professionalism through high schools just defines what you've been exposed to and is expected to have known. Some will represent it in every way, others won't and the best way to see that isn't the names you carry about as a professional but what is produced through you, the problems you solve in the field. Your content as a user defines your ranks the more better than your the name tag.

[Bitcoin SV]

Of what use will it be adding more ranks to the forum

I'm under the impression that you don't want to introduce new ranks as too many scripts and statistic tables depend on the current number of ranks

[KingsDen]

If Theymos wants to add another rank, I think it will be cool, but it should be added one and not three at a time. The activity should be that people that joined the forum 9 - 10yrs ago will automatically qualify and then merit should be 10,000 merits.

Reason
This will be an honour to users that have been here for long and still working hard till date.

For your suggestions about Jr staff and Jr moderator, I do not think it is necessary, maybe unless you want to place them on a different salary scale.

[Lucius]

Nope, that *user* is the only one and I'm a fan of his/her listing website

Busted
 
I was just hoping to enter the largest holders Hall of Fame, but who knows, they may recognize me in the years to come