Activity requirements?

[Darkfinn]

Okay... I'll be the first to say it.

I'm not a big fan of the whole having to post every 7 days in order to maintain status as a regular or VIP.

Things happen out here in the real world... and there are going to be times where posting once a week just won't work for people.

I realise it is to emphasize activity... but could we maybe get it pushed to once a month or something? Once a week just seems too much.

[Moo]

To get promoted from newbie to regular, you have to have posted in the last week.
To get demoted from regular to newbie, you have to have not posted for the last two months.
I diddn't put that in the announcement, because I was trying to keep things simple.

To get promoted from regular to VIP, you have to have posted in the last week.
To get demoted from VIP to regular, you have to have not posted in the last week.

So: if you don't post for a month, you'll slip to regular but no further than that.
All you'll have to do to get VIP back is post once.
That shouldn't be hard for you to do. You're averaging almost 10 posts a day.
Even if you went away on holiday for two weeks, you'd only have to post once and wait 0-60minutes to get VIP back.

[Darkfinn]

Ah... I see Moo.

It's really not a problem for me... as you have pointed out... or any of the rest of the VIPs.

I am merely speaking up for others.

But if it takes 2 months to lose regular status... that's cool. I can see that working.

Thanks for the info.

[Thallis]

Originally Posted by Moo

To get promoted from newbie to regular, you have to have posted in the last week.
To get demoted from regular to newbie, you have to have not posted for the last two months.
I diddn't put that in the announcement, because I was trying to keep things simple.

To get promoted from regular to VIP, you have to have posted in the last week.
To get demoted from VIP to regular, you have to have not posted in the last week.

So: if you don't post for a month, you'll slip to regular but no further than that.
All you'll have to do to get VIP back is post once.
That shouldn't be hard for you to do. You're averaging almost 10 posts a day.
Even if you went away on holiday for two weeks, you'd only have to post once and wait 0-60minutes to get VIP back.

Wait... that doesn't make sense, because I have posted within the last week, yet I was still stripped.

[Pojo]

Originally Posted by Thallis

Wait... that doesn't make sense, because I have posted within the last week, yet I was still stripped.

There are also secret requirements as said in Moo's thread about this...

[Thallis]

Originally Posted by Pojo

There are also secret requirements as said in Moo's thread about this...

Yup, your right. Now, I'm really hoping this "secret" requirement is constant for all members, as opposed to varying differently. The latter way would be very bad, because Moo could just keep people he doesn't like from being VIPs on a whim.

[James]

Originally Posted by Thallis

Yup, your right. Now, I'm really hoping this "secret" requirement is constant for all members, as opposed to varying differently. The latter way would be very bad, because Moo could just keep people he doesn't like from being VIPs on a whim.

Actually no, doesnt it automatically promote you to the vip usergroup when you meet the requirements?

[Pojo]

Originally Posted by James

Actually no, doesnt it automatically promote you to the vip usergroup when you meet the requirements?

Well we don't know what the secret requirement is...So it could be something that Moo has to evaluate himself...

[Thallis]

Originally Posted by James

Actually no, doesnt it automatically promote you to the vip usergroup when you meet the requirements?

It doesn't. An admin has to validate it to make sure you didn't cheat or anything.

[mm3]

Whatever that secret requirement is, I guess Pojo didn't meet it =S