David mentioned that they may be inclined to change the rank names if we can come up with something a little more interesting. I am not that creative(in my opinion) but I did come up with a couple of ideas to try and get things started. Let’s see what you think.
First list:
Snap-Together/Snap-Tite (not sure about copyrights etc. on that one)
Box-Stock
After-Market
Multi-Media
Scratch-Built
Second list:
Plastic
Resin
Photo-etched
Machined
Multi-media or maybe Scratch-built again
Just a couple of ideas I thought I’d toss out there. Let’s get the creative juices flowing and make this community our own.
no star: Novice
one star: Beginner
two stars: Beginner getting there
three stars: Master [;)]
four stars: Beginner nearly there
five stars: Just about master
Okay, the only (really minor) problem with the first list is that there are rank names for only 5 levels, when there is actually 6. So if we were to go with this list, we need either one more rank name at the beginning or one at the end.
Level 0
Rank Name: ???
Post Count: 0-9
Level 1
Rank Name: Snap-Together/Snap-Tite
Post Count: 10-99
Level 2
Rank Name: Box-Stock
Post Count: 100-499
Level 3
Rank Name: After-Market
Post Count: 500-999
Level 4
Rank Name: Multi-Media
Post Count: 1000-1999
Level 5
Rank Name: Scratch-Built
Post Count: 2000+
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Would level 0 be “Diecast” or “Pre-Assembled”? [:p][;)]
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Did I ever mention that my views do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the magazine? [;)]
LEGO is a registered trademark. Speaking of which, they have a cool site! It’s located at http://www.lego.com/ of course. [:)]
Instead of LEGO, maybe we could use “Wood Block”. [;)]
Or, I could change Level 0 to be for only Post Count 0, adjusting Level 1 for Post Counts of 1-99. Then for Level 0, the rank name could be “Unwrapped”, “Shrinkwrapped” or “Still In Box”. [;)]
Uh-oh, now you mentioned LEGO. Check out mlCAD (Mike,s LEGO CAD) Yes it,s a fullfeature CAD and you make things with LEGO. Sorry way OT.
I like “shrinkwrapped” BTW.
For what it’s worth I don’t think that the ranking should have a relationship to the quality of an individuals work. It should be related to their contribution. That’s why I suggested “contributing member” after “junior member”. How about one called “Sage”? [:)]
Now we’re getting somewhere. There are some great suggestions here. I like both the shrink-wrapped and the kit-bashed suggestions. That’s a tough call there.
davidwaples, please don’t get me wrong. I’m not trying to suggest that the ranks are in relationship to the quality of someone’s work. As a person gets involved in the hobby the length of time they have spent in the hobby tends to be proportional to the time, effort, and difficulty of the work attempted. I was merely trying to suggest that as a person spends more time in the hobby they will be more inclined to attempt more and more difficult kits and/or scenarios. Thus the relationship to the number of posts(spending more time in the forums and thus contributing more). If anyone is offended I sincerely apologize. These lists were presented in a light-hearted manner and are intended simply to be a fun and slightly irreverent reflection of our hobby in general. Something to make this community uniquely ours. As a couple of other members pointed out, these aren’t “serious”, we’re here to have fun.
Having been mulling it over while typing this, I think I am starting to lean toward kit-bashed. IMHO, it seems to fit in a little better with the flow of the rest of the ranks.
So it would look like this:
Snap-Together/Snap-Tite (not sure about copyrights etc. on that one)