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Tmetcalf5-Regular Member
5-Regular Member
June 28, 2017
Question

Learn About Ranks

  • June 28, 2017
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Good day everyone,

As communicated in this post we have updated the rank names to numerical levels ranging from 1 to 20.  Your rank is an indication of your involvement within PTC Community and you will rise through the rank ladder by visiting, participating, and interacting with fellow community members. 

 

Ways to rank up:

  • Posting questions
  • Responding to questions
  • Giving and receiving Kudos
  • Creating and uploading content 

 

The goal of ranks is to reward you for your valuable visits and participation.

Cheers,

Toby

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    -MFra-21-Topaz II
    21-Topaz II
    July 3, 2017

    ...They look like scout stuff....

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    MartinHanak24-Ruby III
    24-Ruby III
    July 4, 2017

    Instead of rank name it would be better to display number of Posts & Kudos & Solutions.

     

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      ppal_25568718-Opal
      18-Opal
      July 4, 2017

      Hmm. - Bit confusing all the ranks. Does not add any value to have them.

       

      Why dont you just have a point system (based on votes?) and then place them over a normal distribution curve.

       

      Then rank them  from -3 standart deviations to + 3 Standard deviations.  and  then  give "badges" to +2SD onwards.

       

       

       

       

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      kjain-21-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      July 5, 2017

      As per my oninion, rather then giving Rank previous Point System was much much better and very easy to identify user based on her/his points and even more user friendly....

       

      Regards,

      Kapil

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        Werner_E25-Diamond I
        25-Diamond I
        July 5, 2017

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        MartinHanak
        MartinHanak
        Promoter
        ‎2017-07-04 07:42 AM
         
         

        > Instead of rank name it would be better to display number of Posts & Kudos & Solutions.

        Can't quote a comment 😞

         

        I would consider this much too much unneccessary information. The design is horrible anyway as is now with too large fonts, a lot of white space, using not the full space (horizontally) available, etc. So any additional information does more hram than it would help. The information you demand can be seen in your profile anyway if someone would really be interested in.

        But does it help in any way? Is the answer of someone who posted already quite alot and is a long term member really more valuable and reliable? Do we need that discrimination? And concerning the "likes" or "kudos" - I guess these are given mainly by persons with some affinity to social networks which are used to quickly press a thumbs-up button and run away. Normal people would rather take the time to write a comment and say "Thank you" or "Well done" if they really want to show and communicate that they appreciated a speicific post. So whats left are the number of solutions but as we know from the past some members tend to continually mark an answer of their own as "solution" so thats not a reliable variable as well.

        Lets the quality of the posts speak for themselves, independent from whom the post is from.

         

        I already stated that I could happily do without any ranking as I see no reason or benefit here other than being able to say "hey look, we have a cool ranking, too, like all the others!".

         

        But if we really are in such an urgent need for a ranking, please use something, which is not offending (degrading adult users to teenies by using "funny" names) and which is easily comparable without having to look at a translation list to see who is "higher". Use points, number of stars, badges, ... whatever makes the childs happy.

         

         

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          RichardJ19-Tanzanite
          19-Tanzanite
          July 6, 2017

          I don't find the names offensive, but I do find them arbitrary. It looks like someone created more than one ranking list, each with no connection to the other(s), and then merged them. Why should a "Colonist" be higher than a "Heavy hitter"? Or the other way round? And where should a "Promoter" logically fall relative to either of them? There is no answer to that, because there is no conceivable logic behind the list.

           

          I don't know if it's possible, but the names must be assigned based on some calculated number, so it would be better to just display the number.

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            Werner_E25-Diamond I
            25-Diamond I
            July 6, 2017

            > I don't find the names offensive

            It is not the names in themselves, but the process of naming us with such "funny" names as a reward for the good participation in the forum.
            I find that childish and am already a little too old to like to be treated as a child.

            Maybe this changes as I get even older, but then, I guess, I won't be able to be around here anymore.

             

            From what I see here there seems to be a wide consens to keep a ranking but replace the names by numbers.

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            SYNDAKIT15-Moonstone
            15-Moonstone
            July 7, 2017

            I agree that these ranks are ridiculous, but I would like to add demeaning as well.

            If this were a game forum or something like that, then I could see how someone might find that being called a "Mover & Shaker" would be apt; but not here.
            There are so many more intuitive ranks than using terms like: "Colonist", "Pioneer", and "Crusader". 

             

            So how about bronze, silver, gold, diamond, with each having a 1-10 rank; level 3 silver, level 9 gold, I don't know, just not “Colonist” and the like.

             

            But hey that's just the opinion of this "Pathfinder". 

             

             

            EDIT: Yes I realize that I have Mega Man as my icon. 

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              kjain-21-Visitor
              1-Visitor
              July 7, 2017

              I hope this interface is going through Testing Phase but as per my opinion if we''ll get our previous community as it is i'll be more happy. But it's just my personal opinion what about others ?

               

               

              Regards,

              Kapil

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              davehaigh13-Aquamarine
              13-Aquamarine
              July 7, 2017
              Hummm, I just came to the new site today to post a question, and couldn't find the group I used to use all the time. (I know where that stuff is now). I have to agree with a lot that Martin Hanak had to say above. But personally, I never paid attention to the ranking in the old system. Not even sure where it was. What I paid attention to where the user names. You get to know who the heck knows what there talking about and who doesn't. Honestly, since we transitioned from the mail exploder to a community, I finally ended up only looking at and responding to the System Administration group, because there were a lot less post there and the level of the post were generally high quality.
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