Member Rankings/Titles

[Colin]

There are much better ways of determining a member's standing than an automatic rank granted after a number of posts. Take a look at he post count and Join date in the top right of each post. How long they have been a member and the number of posts gives you an indication of their level of activity.

Brian, well put, but I am going to have to disagree with looking at the post count. I know several with high post counts that have added very little knowledge, input, or anything past "Way to go!" or "good on ya!" I don't care about the rankings or the titles, except the ones that were voted on by the moderators (as is the "new" policy) and given to the people we felt really added to the forum and lead by example. It's never hard to know who the blowhards are, and who the knowledgeable people are.

I still say too much emphasis is put on the number of posts and the number of kilts one owns. Neither dictates your knowledge or what one brings to the table. If the titles, the rewarded titles are to be removed than you guys really do need to get rid of the "number of kilts" and post count. Otherwise you have only taken out one aspect, but not gotten rid of the problem