MartyMcFly,

Mine changed as well. Those, along with the rep power, are virtually useless.

For example, 1,000 unhelpful posts. No better than the Junior Poster with 1 good one. And rep power? Seriously, come on. This is a free website, not Experts Exchange. We're not fighting for points here and most people asking questions don't even know it's there. Their problem is fixed and then they are gone.

J_

Hello folks,

When I redesigned the site, I admit I also did make changes to user titles. I made it so that it is required to have more posts to get to the next stage ... I figured that since we're growing, and more and more people have higher posts, it should be harder to achieve the highest rank. I did't touch rep power though.

Yeah, I don't have any problems with the rep power, only my rank had changed, to a lower rank than those with equal post counts.

I only thought others may have a similar problem, hence this post, but as I'm the only case, I'm sure it will sort itself when I reach the next milestone.

For regular members, user titles are directly associated with postcount. The fact that yours is different than someone else with the same postcount is probably reflective upon the database just not updating everyone yet. It's a bit server intensive to manually force a User title refresh on all 50,000 members at once.

For moderators or for subscribers (there is a $5/month donation) you can come up with your own User title among other benefits.

Hi everyone,

Actually this question is more for dani than for anyone else. My rank used to be a guru poster and now i'm a junior poster. I mean seriously i feel like a loser. Please tell me this a mistake and not the new ranking system.

Richard West

Ranks are solely based on postcount. As more and more people visit DaniWeb and post more, it became pretty silly to top off the highest rank at only 500 posts. Therefore, I decided to up the requirements 10-fold. So it now takes 5000 posts to be a guru poster, etc.

Don't sweat it. In all honesty, it means NOTHING.

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Then one day, she counted up her money,
Her sequins, her gaint stones, and all her honey.

It summed past a million, and so cscgal cheered,
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But the time of her enlightenment ever so neared.
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"We use the sum towards which dollars are geared!"

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And cried and cried, and nearly died,
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That her money was not lost to someone unkind,
That it was still hers and it was still the same,
That silly titles and words could not alter her fame.

And so she decided, to stand derided.
She stood presided, while others deprided.
And so she had rearranged the rankology,
So others learnt her newfound philosophology.

Hi everyone,

True but i think this rule should only apply to new memberships and not all around.

The place where i work when i wanted to apply for a position there in the 80s you had to have 1 year experience and at least a associate degree to qualify. In 2005 the same presequites only helps you become an intern where i work.

To apply the same position i did in the 80s in 2005 you would require 8-10 years of programming experience plus at least a masters

By your logic should my boss demote me to an intern as well
because of the new rules. Should the ceo of my company also be demoted to a junior programmer as well.

When your site was coming up alot of your old members supported you by filling up your main programming threads by answering questions.

You are quite well known and some of the people that prowl the internet and your site are actually gnu members, ceos and could even your future interviewers and for them is always loyalty comes first. If you don't value the members that help put your site on the map on the internet they will already have doubts as to whether you could have loyalty to their organisations. This really reflects badly on you

End of the day its your site and its your decision but please do the right thing.

Richard West

I really don't see this as a big issue. It is that reason why it says "Junior POSTER" and not "Junior Member" ... "Junior Techie" ... it's a simple reflection on your post count! It has absolutely no validation as far as your helpfulness, your intellect, your knowledge, etc. It is something really to be taken with a grain of salt.

It should not be looked at as a "demotion" ... there are no loss of membership privileges, etc. Should you really feel strongly about this, we do offer a sponsorship plan for $5/month where you can have your own custom usertitle in addition to a bunch of other benefits including access to a behind the scenes forum where you can help influence DaniWeb changes such as this.