View Full Version : How do I stop being a junior member?
SSJVegetaTrunks
12-04-2006, 02:23
Is it a certain ammount of posts, or certain ammount of time being part of the org? I'm pretty sure I've seen other people with less posts than me that are members...
CrossLOPER
12-04-2006, 02:32
Why don't you make a post about it?
jk
Just contact the administrator. You were probably just overlooked.
That, or you spam too much.
Junior members are made full members in spurts. One day you'll just have heaps upgraded, :juggle2:
andrewmuir
12-04-2006, 13:20
Is it a certain ammount of posts, or certain ammount of time being part of the org? I'm pretty sure I've seen other people with less posts than me that are members...
Junior Members are in fact a very special class and include both the youngest member at 13 years young and the oldest member at 79 years old. So stop beefing and think how lucky you are to be part of such a select group-:2thumbsup:
Lorenzo_H
12-04-2006, 13:29
since you joined when the org is getting a lot of new members, you will have to wait a bit more.
SSJVegetaTrunks: If you've been posting regularly and have been a good netizen (no bashing or spamming, etc.), then you should be made a full member pretty soon. Junior members generally get promoted in batches every few weeks or so.
If you do feel you've been overlooked, feel free to take CrossLOPER's advice and PM one of the admins (Tosa, barocca, or Ser Clegane). Given how busy the Org is right now, however (due to Medieval 2 having just been released), promotions are probably just taking a little longer than usual. I know it's hard to be patient sometimes, but I honestly don't think you'll have very long to wait before you find yourself a full member. :yes:
Oh, and welcome to the Org, btw! ~:wave:
IrishArmenian
12-05-2006, 00:38
Say something really profound/deep/insightful.
Get instagibbed... :laugh4:
Just kidding :bounce:
Patience my friend, you'll be member soon enough.
Btw, in my days Junior members were restricted to the Entrance Hall only. So what are you complaining about? Those spoiled Junior Members nowadays :no: . Gah. They never experienced the real suffering when we were forced to obey the Camel Lord and only the Camel Lord.
Bah, camels.
Oh, I'm forgetting something: Welcome SSJVegetaTrunks ~:wave: Enjoy your stay.~:cheers:
Mithrandir
12-05-2006, 18:51
Gah. They never experienced the real suffering when we were forced to obey the Camel Lord and only the Camel Lord.
Not only the camel lord.
Also the Master of my stables.
Anyway, you have only been a member for a month.
Patience Grasshopper.
Warluster
12-06-2006, 07:08
It doesnt matter wheteher your a full member or not (Maybe it does) but at least your part of the Guild!:yes:
The Foolish Horseman
12-07-2006, 20:10
Junior Members are in fact a very special class and include both the youngest member at 13 years young and the oldest member at 79 years old. So stop beefing and think how lucky you are to be part of such a select group-:2thumbsup:
Good Point Andrew as I am probably the youngest member!!:help::help:
Lord Condormanius
12-07-2006, 20:37
All I know is that yesterday I was a Junior Member and today I am a Member. I don't know how it happened; it just did. The perks are unreal.
Is it a certain ammount of posts, or certain ammount of time being part of the org? I'm pretty sure I've seen other people with less posts than me that are members...
Now you are a member.
Congrats!
It doesnt matter wheteher your a full member or not (Maybe it does) but at least your part of the Guild!:yes:
Quite the contrary! I wouldn't mind if Junior Member was just an honorific, but the fact that basic forum tools like editing your own posts are denied to Junior Members can make using the forum awkward and frustrating. That and the massive forced-delay between posting times. I understand this is to stop new members spamming, but for people like myself who only have time to check the forum for a few minutes a day and can't wait for exorbitant periods of time to reply to maybe two or three threads it can be an incredible turn-off. The amount of times I've had helpful info to a question or an interesting point to make but have just neglected replying because I literally don't have "300 seconds" to wait before I'm allowed the post is pretty high.
Really it's the incredibly restrictive posting options that irritate me and induce the impatience you might see amongst other people stuck in this membergroup. Even if the post-delay was brought down to something manageable like 30-60 seconds and the edit function was enabled, navigating the forums would became leaps and bounds more enjoyable and fluid. Perhaps it might be a good idea to make some changes to the system now, with a massive influx of new members changing the dynamics and environment of the Guild considerably from what was the status quo.
Mithrandir
12-12-2006, 19:02
Perhaps it might be a good idea to make some changes to the system now, with a massive influx of new members changing the dynamics and environment of the Guild considerably from what was the status quo.
We've already let go of the main restriction, junior members can now post in all the game forums.
A massive influx is all the more reason to keep restrictions, it'll be a lot harder to keep track of all the new members.
a good idea is talking about camels ~D
Be nice.Dont :spammer: , and respect the other orgah's and mods.(And the God TosaInu too.)
Gregoshi
12-14-2006, 03:13
Quite the contrary! I wouldn't mind if Junior Member was just an honorific, but the fact that basic forum tools like editing your own posts are denied to Junior Members can make using the forum awkward and frustrating.
You've got it backwards Wizzie (welcome to the Org BTW ~:wave:). Junior Members don't have edit tools because we assume you are perfect and competent. Those who prove they need such crutches as editing are demoted to Member. Alas, from the tone of you post, you will require demoting to Member to join the vast majority of patrons. I am too embarassed to tell you how pathetic one must be to be a Senior Member. :shame:
Sorry for clowning around.:clown: I couldn't resist - I have this knack for looking at things from a different perspective. Fortunately, this time it didn't result is an awful pun. :balloon2:
Mithrandir
12-14-2006, 22:43
Fortunately, this time it didn't result is an awful pun. :balloon2:
:no:
I only read this thread hoping for a pun from you Greg.
How dissapointing.
Well, I was going to drop in here and offer some great advice about some well-intended and friendly mod abuse and derogatory comments aimed at dromedary critters, but I've long since been beaten to the punch. :shame: Some help I am.
Samurai Waki
12-15-2006, 01:58
In order for a Junior member to become a Member one must have the ability to grow hair on their chest and/or have enough facial hair to shave every other day. Whereas to become a senior member you must grow hair in the canals of your ears, enjoy being liver spotted, and forget the reason why you came here in the first place.
Of course this doesn't apply to our female patrons.
FactionHeir
12-15-2006, 02:18
Following your articulation I must then ask why I am still a Junior Member? :p
Surely there must be a flaw in your argument! hehe
:gah2: you all beat me to it!!! I can still beat you to this*:
junior member: :indian_chief:
member::stupido2:
senior member::wacky:
*according to Grgoshi's sarcasm
senior member::wacky:
I think this smiley is in order: :mad:
Let's not forget Assistant Moderator: :dizzy2:
(thought question: if SSJ knew what would eventually happen to this thread, would he have started it? ~:) )
Let's not forget Assistant Moderator: :dizzy2:
The amount of brainwashing needed to get to this status is amazing, let's not confuse and scare our poor newest members with this just yet.
(thought question: if SSJ knew what would eventually happen to this thread, would he have started it? ~:) )
Uh oh, philosophy time! :grin: Confucius say; "If a bear craps in the woods, do camels still stink?" Discuss.
Uh oh, philosophy time! :grin: Confucius say; "If a bear craps in the woods, do camels still stink?" Discuss.
Camels always stink.
:yes:
Severous
12-15-2006, 20:31
Hi
Ive introduced good members of other RTW forums to this forum. They were respected members on other forums, at least equals to most here. Yet were restricted to junior membership. They drifted away. The membership division had a negative effect.
Personally I dont like any distinction between members except post count, date joined, and reputation.
ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88
12-15-2006, 20:46
when I first joined, I was told you only needed to post 10-20 posts,no more then 25 to be a member.. after 35 posts I was a member. Just have to make good quatily posts, then after at least 1-2 weeks, you be a members :) :)
Camels always stink.
:yes:
Indeed.
Always!
They scare poor horses. Horses stink too though, but not as bad as camels.
Gah! Camels.
:grin:
FactionHeir
12-16-2006, 02:13
when I first joined, I was told you only needed to post 10-20 posts,no more then 25 to be a member.. after 35 posts I was a member. Just have to make good quatily posts, then after at least 1-2 weeks, you be a members :) :)
So over 200 helpful posts in the citadel are not enough? :)
Hi
Ive introduced good members of other RTW forums to this forum. They were respected members on other forums, at least equals to most here. Yet were restricted to junior membership. They drifted away. The membership division had a negative effect.
Personally I dont like any distinction between members except post count, date joined, and reputation.
I understand the sentiment, but we've found through experience that the current membership system is a necessary evil. Econ just posted the following in another thread about this very subject:
To expand slightly on what Rythmic said, we used to restrict junior members to post just the Entrance Hall, but over time this was gradually liberalised. Then, just before M2TW came out, we had a really big liberalisation, allowing juniors to post in any game-related forums. However, we also started to get hit by very frequent "spambot" type posts, often for porn, and one or two geniune junior members started going off the rails.
Increasing flood control was a counter-vailing measure to the liberalisation. It gives us more time to "insta-gib" the spambots before they can flood the forums. It also means that newcomers have to think more before posting, discouraging the risk of spam and of repetitive one line "How do I crusade?" type threads that tend to annoy older members. When I go to some other forums, I get discouraged by the number of vacuous one line posts I have to wade through before I get to the good stuff. Here at the Org I really value the longer, more substantive contributions which presumably take several minutes to think out and send. (This post took me several minutes to draft.)
But I can see that the level of flood control we have can be an annoyance for junior members. However, it is only short term - if juniors are active here, promotion usually does not take too long.
When econ said that we've been having major issues with spambots, I can promise he wasn't exaggerating. Ever since the Org opened up all game-related forums to junior members (approximately 2 months ago), we've had a pretty massive influx of spam threads.
I can also confirm that we have had junior members go bad on us--not often, thankfully, but it does happen. Given that, it's far better to catch their behavior when they're only in the game forums....as opposed to the more serious discussion forums, such as the Monastary and Backroom.
Is it a perfect system? No, of course not. In the Org's collective experience, however, it is the lesser of two evils.
Don't want to start a new thread, so I dug up this one to drop it in:
Just been promoted to member and wanted to say thanks~:).
Sure i've probably done everything necessery to deserve it, (I wonder if it was because i order M2TW and RTW today~;p), but it was still a nice pleasent suprise when I noticed it, and I though it would be nice for the people upstairs to know I appreciate it.
Thanks Again.
Cangrande
12-29-2006, 22:54
I'll have to wait but I agree with the system. I post on a football board and the idiots that we're plagued with can spoil it for everyone. No, I'll wait for promotion, thanks!
Molinaargh
01-03-2007, 01:11
I'll have to wait but I agree with the system. I post on a football board and the idiots that we're plagued with can spoil it for everyone. No, I'll wait for promotion, thanks!
Guess you got it!
I never cared about it, and I got my membership with about 20 posts and a few weeks. After that I realized I could edit my posts - what a happy day.
baron_Leo
01-03-2007, 21:16
Hi there!
I didn't know that there is such a depth in this member-system. Although I am only a junior member, I really don't care, I am not on the forums to show off "look at me I am a member, and have a cool signature" and stuff. The only thing that bothers me is that I cannot edit my posts. I hope I get my membership soon, but I also want to try doing everything for it.
EDIT: Thank you for the membership! I appreciate it! Finally I can begin my Hungary AAR...okay first the exams. But after that!:-)
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