How does your status increase.  I saw someone with only 78 posts and they were an elite member. Anyone able to explain?

to put it simple its quality over quantity

hmmm, the is a page that explains it someplace. Someone will dig it up for ya.

See my post below for the answer

Originally posted by Knived11

to put it simple its quality over quantity

I'm curious how the website can deem whether your post is quality or not... ?

As defined by the all seeing all knowing all caring.

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It'll probably cost me half a star to tell you this, but this topic just cost you two stars.

I'm at -9/100, and I don't think it will move for anything, lmao.

It has to do with the amount you log in (not successively, I believe it counts days), the amount you post, and the amount of words in your posts, or something like that.

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

It'll probably cost me half a star to tell you this, but this topic just cost you two stars.

Hahah oh man, wiping coke off my monitor from that comment.

To put it simply, your post count and the relevance of your posts create something of a score.

So if you have 100 posts and out of all those posts most of them were short answers, or simple questions like: "I agree with OP." or "But how do you do X/Y?" then your score gets held back.

Something along those lines.

Originally posted by UserNoName

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

It'll probably cost me half a star to tell you this, but this topic just cost you two stars.

 

Hahah oh man, wiping coke off my monitor from that comment.

To put it simply, your post count and the relevance of your posts create something of a score.

So if you have 100 posts and out of all those posts most of them were short answers, or simple questions like: "I agree with OP." or "But how do you do X/Y?" then your score gets held back.

Something along those lines.

So if you want to raise your score easily, quoting people with a nice long, relevant posts is a good idea.

Originally posted by cichy1012

How does your status increase.  I saw someone with only 78 posts and they were an elite member. Anyone able to explain?

Activity is a big thing.  If you leave the site for a while, your rating will drop to zero.  I've gone from 4 or 5 starts to 1 several times.

Originally posted by Kurush

Originally posted by cichy1012

How does your status increase.  I saw someone with only 78 posts and they were an elite member. Anyone able to explain?

 

Activity is a big thing.  If you leave the site for a while, your rating will drop to zero.  I've gone from 4 or 5 starts to 1 several times.

I stayed at 4 stars for the longest time, about 3 months.  Then, mystically, it jumped to 5.

When I was banned it went from 5 to 3, then within 3 days it was back to 5... after vacation (where I still came to the site to check things) it went to 4 and stayed there till it recently went back to 5.

It has to do with the actual amount you post in each post, combined with # of site visits daily, combined with if you have gotten banned recently, combined with a Mod happening to see your thread.

It probably should have bearing if you start a thread that's good, and not waste a thread... but then the Mods would have to take time from deleting threads without warning over in Darkfall's section.

Originally posted by CaesarsGhost

Originally posted by Kurush

Originally posted by cichy1012

How does your status increase.  I saw someone with only 78 posts and they were an elite member. Anyone able to explain?

 

Activity is a big thing.  If you leave the site for a while, your rating will drop to zero.  I've gone from 4 or 5 starts to 1 several times.

 

I stayed at 4 stars for the longest time, about 3 months.  Then, mystically, it jumped to 5.

When I was banned it went from 5 to 3, then within 3 days it was back to 5... after vacation (where I still came to the site to check things) it went to 4 and stayed there till it recently went back to 5.

It has to do with the actual amount you post in each post, combined with # of site visits daily, combined with if you have gotten banned recently, combined with a Mod happening to see your thread.

It probably should have bearing if you start a thread that's good, and not waste a thread... but then the Mods would have to take time from deleting threads without warning over in Darkfall's section.

That's what I meant by activity.  I wasn't referring to forum activity as much as site activity: how much you log on, what you do on the site, etc.

I think the people who have like 70 posts and elite member status are the people who start lots of threads with huge walls of text because i have seen these people about. As a general rule though keep it relevant and try to avoid simple posts that dont contribute to the topic and it should go up IMO. Also getting posts deleted witll make it go down, i was reading a post on this recently and i think there was a few people who lost all 5 stars or something like that.

Don't forget the secret "Star Boosting" system. You automatically gain a star every time you...

1. Rank EVE as the greatest game human civilisation can and will ever produce
2. Make 10 posts stating how much you hate WoW
3. Subsequently make 25 posts on how much you love LOTRO
4. Debate vehemently whether Guild Wars is a MMO or not
5. Back up any tenuous argument with the fact you play Counterstrike
6. State that <Insert newly announced MMO name here> will be the ultimate MMO of all time
7. Vent Spleen at SOE and how they ruined your childhood
8. Having made statements 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, state that UO was infact the greatest game of all time
9. After making statements 1, 7, and 8 start a new topic on how SWG was the greatest game of all time.
10. Flame anyone with less stars than you mercilessly for having an opinion you don't agree with

< -- Please refer to my avatar for my opinion on the member ratings system.

Just ignore those stars, they don't mean anything.

I actually have 9 stars, everything I touch turns into gold and when I throw up I spit out diamonds.

Originally posted by Abrahmm

Originally posted by Knived11

to put it simple its quality over quantity

 

I'm curious how the website can deem whether your post is quality or not... ?

I think knived11 means, " Quantity over quality" as in the more posts you do per week or day,( whatever it is) the more stars you get and you don't get judged on how well writen or worded your post is for stars.

Its a mystery to me.  During the holidays my posting levels went down some, and then I received a "warning" from a mod (didn't get banned, or even have my post deleted) and I fell down to 4 stars where I've remained ever since.

My site activity has been back at full steam since early January, but I guess I'm permanently a member of the 4 star club now. 

I did forget to praise LotRO 25 times though, perhaps thats the problem? 

Originally posted by UserNoName

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

It'll probably cost me half a star to tell you this, but this topic just cost you two stars.

 

Hahah oh man, wiping coke off my monitor from that comment.

To put it simply, your post count and the relevance of your posts create something of a score.

So if you have 100 posts and out of all those posts most of them were short answers, or simple questions like: "I agree with OP." or "But how do you do X/Y?" then your score gets held back.

Something along those lines.

If you've been banned a few times its alot harder to hit elite rank.

I've had about 120 posts since my seven day ban and havent moved up a star since.

Doesn't really matter anymore I've been so busy playing Eve that I couldn't care less

Come on, its an MMO website, how else you gonna get stars?

Gotta grind!

Talking down to users with less stars in their profile? Showing off your high ranking and low post count? Do you seriously lose time thinking over how many stars you have in MMORPG.com and how to get them up?

A place to check out new MMOs, discuss them, help other people and express your own unique opinion; that's MMORPG.

Now go and hang out with some RL friends, and come back here at the end of the day :)