Ranking and Filing Noobs

[Nanohedron]

Question: don't our joining dates rank us already for noobosity?

[pipersgrip]

Question: don't our joining dates rank us already for noobosity?

not on the whole, that is a good assumption, but i wasnt a beginner when i joined, i just thought it would be cool to finally join and be part of the community, i have never met any other whistlers before until recently. but just because you are new, doesnt mean that you are a noob. unless you mean noob to this site.

[Nanohedron]

Question: don't our joining dates rank us already for noobosity?

not on the whole, that is a good assumption, but i wasnt a beginner when i joined, i just thought it would be cool to finally join and be part of the community, i have never met any other whistlers before until recently. but just because you are new, doesnt mean that you are a noob. unless you mean noob to this site.

Oh. Somehow I missed the whistle part. I think I just looked at the thread title and poll options and left it at that. My bad.

This looks like a futile ploy on Talasiga's part to appear original, then. It's no different than ranking experts - really - and that subject's already on the table. Hmph.

[BigDavy]

Easy enough to rank my abilities.

Whistle - abysmally bad

Flute - what abilities?

Pipes - good at collecting chanters , minging at playing them .

David

[pipersgrip]

Question: don't our joining dates rank us already for noobosity?

not on the whole, that is a good assumption, but i wasnt a beginner when i joined, i just thought it would be cool to finally join and be part of the community, i have never met any other whistlers before until recently. but just because you are new, doesnt mean that you are a noob. unless you mean noob to this site.

Oh. Somehow I missed the whistle part. I think I just looked at the thread title and poll options and left it at that. My bad.

This looks like a futile ploy on Talasiga's part to appear original, then. It's no different than ranking experts - really - and that subject's already on the table. Hmph.

i miss the parts too sometimes, and people look at my comments and probably think "what is that guy drinking?". but yea, Tal pretty much making the same suggestion as Doc, except he wants everyone to have a rank instead of just guru or mentor. i have a reptile forum i go to, and you are ranked on how many posts you have, like hatchling or juvenile or adult etc..... i think that it would just cause more people to post more useless posts just to get out of the "noob" title.

[rh]

i have a reptile forum i go to, and you are ranked on how many posts you have, like hatchling or juvenile or adult etc..... i think that it would just cause more people to post more useless posts just to get out of the "noob" title.

what was that thing gonzo came up with a couple of years ago... the NIMROD score or something like that?

[talasiga]

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This looks like a futile ploy on Talasiga's part to appear original, then. It's no different than ranking experts - really - and that subject's already on the table. Hmph.

If you were to sharpen your eyesight as much as your tongue you may have noticed my first post which provides a link to the rank expert topic including a quote from that topic. This topic clearly springs from that one and that is patent from my initiating post so I cannot see the justification of your usage of "ploy".

That topic turns on experts and this one on newbies. Two sides of the same coin.

No one in their right mind would say that the side of the coin they saw first is more original than the side they saw second. I speculate of course ......

[Cynth]

Question: don't our joining dates rank us already for noobosity?

not on the whole, that is a good assumption, but i wasnt a beginner when i joined, i just thought it would be cool to finally join and be part of the community, i have never met any other whistlers before until recently. but just because you are new, doesnt mean that you are a noob. unless you mean noob to this site.

Oh. Somehow I missed the whistle part. I think I just looked at the thread title and poll options and left it at that. My bad......

You mean you thought the question was if new people should be ranked according to how long they had been members? Yes, I guess the join date would be just as good an indicator as any and it would rank all of us. So consider ourselves ranked and that's it.

Or, we could have everyone take that personality test---what was it, you ended up with four letters like JTKD. That could warn you how to deal with someone.

Right now Member status comes at 50 posts. I'm just experimenting a bit with the possibilities of using this. So, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Dale

I think you should set it so it calculates the ratio between your posts in the Pub/Controversy forums and your posts in the other forums that actually have something to do with whistles or pipes or Irish music or something related to either a chiff or a fipple. For those who care, that would be --

P = Posts in Pub
C = Posts in Controversial forum
T = Total Posts
X = Non-Irish Music Related, Off-topic Discussion coefficient (your NIMROD rating).

Then X = (P + C)/T

Then assign labels based on the NIMROD rating, which can never exceed 1.

• NIMROD of 0 to .1 >>>>>>> IRTRAD Obsessed
  NIMROD of .1 to .25 >>>>>> Serious Musician
  NIMROD of .25 to .75 >>>>> Average Joe Whistler
  NIMROD of .75 to .9 >>>>>> Babbler
  NIMROD of .9 to 1>>>>>>> Out and Out Waste of Bandwidth

For example, at the time of this writing, I had 1050 total posts, with 226 in the controversial forum and 558 in the pub. Therefore, my NIMROD rating is (558 + 228)/1050 = 0.748571428571429, placing me just shy of Babbler.

Post your own NIMROD here.

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php ... od&start=0
Boy, I didn't remember this at all. I don't see how you can easily find how many posts you've made in particular areas. I didn't have time right now to read the thread though, and I'm sure people had questions so someone might have explained it there. It looks like a funny thread.

[pipersgrip]

gonzo put a lot of though in that, very good. i like that idea.

[TonyHiggins]

I was thinking of getting a new username with a new post count and post, "Hey, I just got my first feadog. How long is Pat O'Riordan's waiting list? Should I buy a Copeland or a Generation? What's a jig anyhow? I just posted a reel at session speed. Couldn't figure out where to breathe, so I did the whole tune on one breath. Constructive feedback welcomed"

Just kidding, no offense to any nOObs out there. If any old-timers are put off, that's cool.
Tony
(What can I say? I'm on vacation, sitting here with a Dos Equis. Just finished watching a really weird vampire move, The Hunger. Then I went outside and got bit by mosquitoes. Is that ironic?)

[gonzo914]

gonzo put a lot of though in that, very good. i like that idea.

You should be very wary of anything that gonzo put a lot of thought into.

But I do kind of like the idea of requiring a Myers-Briggs test of all members. Dale could create a sticky thread where everyone could post the results, and we could determine whether we really do have a higher percentage of those artsy SJs than the general population.

By the by, the NIMROD score has to be modified because of the eliminationof the Polititocosonol forum. It is now as follows --

P = Posts in Pub
T = Total Posts
X = Non-Irish Music Related, Off-topic Discussion coefficient (your NIMROD rating).

Then X = P/T

Assign labels based on the NIMROD rating, which can never exceed 1.

NIMROD of 0 to .1 >>>>>>> IRTRAD Obsessed
NIMROD of .1 to .25 >>>>>> Serious Musician
NIMROD of .25 to .75 >>>>> Average Joe Whistler
NIMROD of .75 to .9 >>>>>> Babbler
NIMROD of .9 to 1>>>>>>> Out and Out Waste of Bandwidth

Mine is currently .659172.

gonzo -- ENTP, same as Lord Peter Wimsey, Wile E. Coyote, Q., Bugs Bunny, Mercutio, and General J.E.B. Stuart -- 914

[Denny]

0.58 ...don't play no whistle

[Jack]

0.58 ...don't play no whistle

Nor do I.

[mutepointe]

I was thinking of getting a new username with a new post count and post, "Hey, I just got my first feadog. How long is Pat O'Riordan's waiting list? Should I buy a Copeland or a Generation? What's a jig anyhow? I just posted a reel at session speed. Couldn't figure out where to breathe, so I did the whole tune on one breath. Constructive feedback welcomed"

Just kidding, no offense to any nOObs out there. If any old-timers are put off, that's cool.
Tony
(What can I say? I'm on vacation, sitting here with a Dos Equis. Just finished watching a really weird vampire move, The Hunger. Then I went outside and got bit by mosquitoes. Is that ironic?)

no, but it would have been ironic if a vampire met you outside and said, "Hey, I just got my first feadog. How long is Pat O'Riordan's waiting list? Should I buy a Copeland or a Generation? What's a jig anyhow? I just posted a reel at session speed. Couldn't figure out where to breathe, so I did the whole tune on one breath. Constructive feedback welcomed"