idea for member status

[NYreefNoob]

why not just make it as their years of experiance, only downside to it is some people will get called out on that as well, or the 10 years of stupidity :biglaugh: or could just have their join date,

 

[duke62]

how would you know how much expierence a member has.just because of a join date doesnt mean they havent been in the hobby for years?

 

[Anthony.Luciano710]

yea ive been in the hobby longer then ive had an mr account. i think i starte about 5 years before but i joined when i finally got my 125 which was my first real deal tank.

 

[James]

I think there should be designation for some members with respected and established tanks whose opinions have been proven to be trustworthy. This way would at least let a complete noob know who they are talking to. And perhaps those trusted members could refer people they know who also know what they are talking about... just a thought. good thread rick. oh yea, the opposite should also be true, members who give poor advice or have proven they don't have a clue should be designated with a "just learning" badge or something. at least until they prove they can keep a tank without killing everything or being horribly impatient...this is not done in a malicious way but a way to help out people who don't know what advice to take.

 

[fishman1069]

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I think there should be designation for some members with respected and established tanks whose opinions have been proven to be trustworthy. This way would at least let a complete noob know who they are talking to. And perhaps those trusted members could refer people they know who also know what they are talking about... just a thought. good thread rick. oh yea, the opposite should also be true, members who give poor advice or have proven they don't have a clue should be designated with a "just learning" badge or something. at least until they prove they can keep a tank without killing everything or being horribly impatient...this is not done in a malicious way but a way to help out people who don't know what advice to take.

I think thats a great idea!!!

 

[Jim]

I spend countless hours on this site yet I have a low post count, I do a lot of reading here and I've learned a lot. I've also learned that there are some people with good advice and some ok advice and then those who should not be giving advice yet. Like I said I'm probably on this site too much but I would never post just to post or try and give advice unless I really knew that I could help someone.

 

[jr973]

This hobby is not for toying around that's something we can all agree on and with that said advice also it seems like u have people like stated on previous post that shouldn't be giving advice yet for several reasons maybe lack of experience or probably haven't even experienced the issue at hand I myself carry a senior tag on here but don't consider myself one and certainly don't give advice like one I usually go on RC for serious issues much more serious over there on a much larger scale maybe uping the posts and going by number of years in hobby along with a tank thread to provide proof of success in hobby might help jus a thought

 

[NYC Joe]

what about a karma point system?
give good advice, get good karma from members

more karma, gets you more respect.

 

[guarda]

I think vbulletin has had a reputation system with comments since early versions of 3. I remember seeing a hack with a simple colored bar graph next to the users score so you could have, say, green for sps reps, blue for lps, red hardware, etc etc.

 

[jaa1456]

You can't even go by the years of experience either. Some people have had beautiful tanks and no problems only to have them crash while they were on vacation or other reasons that were out of the norm. My 265 crashed after running for 12 years with the same fish in it. All it took was one party and some Douche putting somethng in the tank and everything was dead the next morning. Did the tank crash from inexperience or bad husbandry? Nope it crashed from some moron and that was the last party I ever threw. There is no way to really rate any one member as being more knowledgable than any other. Yes we all know some guys defintely know more, but others know more in certain categories. Like specialist you might wanna say, Who know more about LEDs, or a guy that breeds clowns but can't keep any SPS for some reason. The guy who can keep SPS but not mushrooms. There are just way to many variables out there and unless you have the resources $$ to do everything right you might run into a problem.

 

[Anthony.Luciano710]

then im an led specialist lol i already have tons of people asking me for help and ive had a natural talent with electronics since i was like 3. im even willing to build them for people and charge for all the parts and 10% of the part charge for labor.

You can't even go by the years of experience either. Some people have had beautiful tanks and no problems only to have them crash while they were on vacation or other reasons that were out of the norm. My 265 crashed after running for 12 years with the same fish in it. All it took was one party and some Douche putting somethng in the tank and everything was dead the next morning. Did the tank crash from inexperience or bad husbandry? Nope it crashed from some moron and that was the last party I ever threw. There is no way to really rate any one member as being more knowledgable than any other. Yes we all know some guys defintely know more, but others know more in certain categories. Like specialist you might wanna say, Who know more about LEDs, or a guy that breeds clowns but can't keep any SPS for some reason. The guy who can keep SPS but not mushrooms. There are just way to many variables out there and unless you have the resources $$ to do everything right you might run into a problem.

 

[ryangrieder]

Most threads are made to start to ask questions. Whenever someone answers, and the person asking the questions feels it's the right answer, they should be able to simply click something under their avatar giving that person a check mark, and the tally keeps going showing they gave an accurate answer

 

[jaa1456]

Hey Nyreefnoob, I have a question for you. If someone were to study and breed the Blue Assessor and had the evidence and proof that it was a mouth brooder would that person be fine in saying that a Yellow assessor was a mouth brooder as well? I mean after all the guy never kept Yellow assessors and never had any experience breeding them. But since this guy has his name on everything out there and is a regular guest speaker around the world people believe him. But low and behold some novice that didn't even try to breed the fish has success breeding them and raising them to a sellable size finds out they are egg layers and not mouth brooders like the Blue. What do you do in this situation? Who is the "experienced guy" now? The guy with years of background in the hobby and a respected following or the guy who proved him wrong by mistake? I mean after all this "novice" was the first known person to breed the Yellows in captivity.

 

[prattreef]

What you do is acknowledge that the generally very knowledgeable person was wrong in this instance and that no one knows everything. The fact that you can generally expect this person to give good advice remains unchanged.

You also note the success of the less experienced hobbyist and give credit where credit is due.

 

[batt600]

I think there should be a test you take about reef keeping and have it estimate the years of experience you have .

 

[Jkedra]

Hey Nyreefnoob, I have a question for you. If someone were to study and breed the Blue Assessor and had the evidence and proof that it was a mouth brooder would that person be fine in saying that a Yellow assessor was a mouth brooder as well? I mean after all the guy never kept Yellow assessors and never had any experience breeding them. But since this guy has his name on everything out there and is a regular guest speaker around the world people believe him. But low and behold some novice that didn't even try to breed the fish has success breeding them and raising them to a sellable size finds out they are egg layers and not mouth brooders like the Blue. What do you do in this situation? Who is the "experienced guy" now? The guy with years of background in the hobby and a respected following or the guy who proved him wrong by mistake? I mean after all this "novice" was the first known person to breed the Yellows in captivity.

Oh dam...you really know your bio. Now thats the type of people we need here : ) I posted a simple chemistry question a while back, nobody bothered...oh well

 

[House of Laughter]

Bravo - if only others would heed the same advice.

House

I spend countless hours on this site yet I have a low post count, I do a lot of reading here and I've learned a lot. I've also learned that there are some people with good advice and some ok advice and then those who should not be giving advice yet. Like I said I'm probably on this site too much but I would never post just to post or try and give advice unless I really knew that I could help someone.

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

I agree there should be a way..what about the "good post" thing on the top right corner of each post? Maybe that could tally for the member who wrote it..kind of like a "like" on facebook type of thing?

Either way that instant senior member crap needs to go.

 

[Mattl22]

I try to limit my advice because I'm still really learning on the same note sometimes I ask questions and don't get any responses
People should have pics of there main display come up when they post


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[jaa1456]

What you do is acknowledge that the generally very knowledgeable person was wrong in this instance and that no one knows everything. The fact that you can generally expect this person to give good advice remains unchanged.

You also note the success of the less experienced hobbyist and give credit where credit is due.

Unfortunately Pratt the "expert/Experienced guy" did not admit to his mistake, They "novice" has been given credit as it is due to him. The "Expert" has messed up time and time again over the years and people still look up to him even though he has been wrong numerous times. The thing saving him is the fact his buddy owns the publishing company and as soon as there is a problem the pull all the books and magazines and rewrite his mistakes. It's a shame, I have mentioned his name on here before and people think I'm crazy.