The Calendar

**Blu (Ontario)** · 24th February 07, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by RockyR

... Thoughts?

Couldn't agree more! Personally, I don't bother looking at it.

To be blunt... I find it a bit childish.

If the calendar became a useful information resource, it would be great!

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**neo71665** · 24th February 07, 01:29 PM

Boy are we a needy bunch, but I agreed with everything. I often got tired of looking through a page of b-days to find events.

**McMurdo** · 24th February 07, 02:10 PM

Wow

that was fast, nice work Mike. Why is there nothing on the new one yet come on Rocky, where are the events?

**RockyR** · 24th February 07, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Wow

that was fast, nice work Mike. Why is there nothing on the new one yet come on Rocky, where are the events?

You didn't look into the future enough... check out April 6th and May 12th.

**McMurdo** · 24th February 07, 02:18 PM

Ah ok i will check it out.

**neo71665** · 24th February 07, 02:19 PM

I had an event entered on april 22

**RockyR** · 24th February 07, 02:21 PM

Thoughts about the post counter...

While I agree that it is stupid to pad your posts to win some imaginary undetermined prize, it is useful to see who contributes and to what extent...

I like to know how active the person is who is giving me their thoughts and / or advice. If John Doe is professing to be an expert and offers his opinion on everything but only has 3 or 4 posts under his belt, those comments might not weigh as heavily as someone like Graham or Hamish with thousands of posts telling me their opinions. Just my $.02.

**RockyR** · 24th February 07, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by McMurdo

Ah ok i will check it out.

That's also the whole point of why I started this thread... the calendar was useless as a tool to get people together with b-days clogging it up. Now that it's freed up, maybe people will start posting events and making it useful!

**McMurdo** · 24th February 07, 02:32 PM

It is a good idea, thanks for bringing it up.

**turpin** · 24th February 07, 02:44 PM

I agree with Mike1 that the post count has gotten too competitive, just in the short time I've been a member. I like the idea of ranking, however, but it really should be based on substantive contributions to the kilt-wearing knowledge base or services provided to the community. This would move the competition-minded to share more useful ahoughts and ideas, such as AlanH and the X-Kilt contributions, Nick's kilt-wearing tutorial, concrete assistance theat benefits all members. It might even rduce the number of one-liner "I like it too" posts.

I don't know how rankings and promotions would be determined. Possibly the Mods would consider nominations on a monthly basis, those nominations being provided by members (not themselves, of course) with a short write-up of the reasons for the nomination. Not to pile more work on the Mods, but if the total post counts is substantially reduced and the value of individual posts enhanced, they might have more time to do this sort of thing.

We could keep track of total posts, but if the rankings are based on substantive contributions then people would still get an idea of the knowledge base from which an individual is posting.