New Ranking System - Will the l33tness Stop?

[shagrat]

Over at this thread people have been voting wether the "l33t" rank should be replaced or not. Atm 77% (100 votes) wants this l33tness to stop and the rest (22 votes) wants it to stay. As you can see from the topic, many users wanted the whole ranking system changed and quite a few came with their own ideas. Seeing that this thread has not lead to any changes, I thought I would take the iniative and create this poll. Some of the options have more ranks than other, but you'll get the general idea. Also, feel free to come up with you own ideas and oppinions.

I'm just trying to get the snowball running here, since I myself and a majority of the other users want's a change (atleast the users who have been voting in the original poll). I'll make this poll run for a weak and see how it ends. But it isn't certain that the winner will be swapped with the existing rankings. Thats up to the moderators and admins. But the more people who post and vote in favor of a change, the more likely a new rankings system will be made.

Alternative 1 (Current):

• n00b
  
• Tux's lil' helper
  
• Apprentice
  
• Guru
  
• l33t
  
• Veteran
  

Alternative 2 (Posted by masseya):

• Adelie
  
• Magellanic
  
• Royal
  
• King
  
• Emporer
  
• Gentoo
  

Alternative 3 (Posted by masseya):

• Egg
  
• Chick
  
• Juvenile
  
• Adult
  
• Moulting
  
• Gentoo
  

Alternative 4 (Posted by far):

• General
  
• Colonel
  
• Major
  
• Captain
  
• Lieutenant
  
• Sergeant
  
• Corporal
  
• Private
  

Alternative 5 (Posted by bzugda):

• Initiate
  
• Apprentice
  
• Jedi
  
• Jedi Knight
  
• Master
  

Alternative 6 (Posted by bsolar):

• New Guy
  
• Occasional
  
• Insistent
  
• Regular
  
• Addicted
  
• Veteran
  

Alternative 7 (Posted by haarbi):

• Beginner
  
• Novice
  
• User
  
• Knowledgeable User
  
• Expert
  
• Hacker
  
• Guru
  
• Wizard
  

Alternative 8 (Posted by DarkRyder):

• Newbie
  
• Regular
  
• Veteran
  
• Guru
  
• Tux's Little Helper
  

[bazik]

Alternative 9:

n00b

Equality.

[krusty_ar]

I remember seeing a proposition of a rank based on the free time of the poster, I thought that was the best but I don't see it here
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[elzbal]

I really like #2 - ranking based on types of penguins.

[hensan]

I thought

n00b
tux's lil' helper
apprentice
l33t
guru
veteran

was the current.

The only thing that is bothering me is that guru comes before veteran. I think it should be the other way around.

[kosamae]

I like #7, because it actually has some meaningful value as to the experience of the user. I would also like there to be some point that you can make your own tag, maybe once you've got 500 posts or something. The ut2003 board I used to post on had something like that.
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[bsolar]

New Guy is for males only, a better alternative is maybe advisable?
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[nikai]

Bumping a dead thread every minute doesn't necessarily reflect experience.
2 is my favorite

[jsleeper]

I like number 6, it has more to do with how many posts there are in the forum instead of how good they are in Linux, which the two don't always go hand in hand...

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[Mnemia]

I say either leave it the way it is or go for number 2. Most of the other suggestions seem way too bland to me. Or inappropriate to the content of these forums (like the star wars suggestion). The penguins one at least is suggestive of Linux. Plus it's fun, which is the only point of the rankings...

[Megaptera]

I like #3. It has a sense of respect without taking itself too seriously -- ascending ranks suggest that the user has probably learned a thing or two, but it still lets the post speak for itself. (That's my only real concern about the ranks, that they be confused for an easy way to judge the merits or a post or the knowledge of the user.)

#2 looks more popular, but I think just picking species names is too arbitrary. There's a couple different ways that list might be ordered, and I'm just not sure how a newcomer would interpret that.

As for the rest... eh, I like penguins :)

[geek] My only quibble with #3 is that Moulting should technically be before Adult -- penguins don't have their adult plumage until after their first molt. [/geek]
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[mxskweeb]

I voted for number three just because it would mean I would get to be a chick for 100 or so posts.

[Vanquirius]

I'm with Megaptera on this poll. #3 seems to be the best and more "original" alternative, #2 in second.

Things like Novice and Hacker are too cliche, and do not necessarily reflect the reality. This is not a Star Wars or weaponry forum either, and as much as I like Star Wars and guns, I think #4 and #5 are pushing it too far.
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[odegard]

Or, we could *gasp* just skip the tags alltogether. Postcount is silly IMHO.

[amne]

i like the idea to base the "ranks" on names of penguins.
still, i think one could make them a bit funnier, why not start as an egg to finally become a grown up gentoo?

edit: damn, i'm too stupid to read, there's already an option starting with egg

[taskara]

does it really matter? I mean it's not a serious thing anyways... I dunno.. just seems silly to worry about it.. when we could be worrying about finding bugs in gentoo or something
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