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Subject: Member Number?
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What is the member number based on here? My 7th Column ID is 33804, but here it is 870. What is this based on?

  • 04.21.2004 3:27 PM PDT
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click on your name, then it should say memberID=

  • 04.21.2004 3:39 PM PDT
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Seeing members number made me think about some thing. How about eliminating the Members: ### from the front page of chapters, adn there for you would only be able to see it if you actualy go to the memebrs section. I think this would eliminate the amount of emphasis on how many members you have in a chapter, and would not be much of an influence on whether or not you should join it as it usualy does to the newer group of members. I think this would be a pretty good idea, dn would truly bring out the good in a chapter, rather then how big it is.

  • 04.21.2004 4:31 PM PDT
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Uhmmm, i think that you are that you are thinking about different numbers. He means, your id number. But a good point though. Size is nothing, and the display of total members might give a wrong impression.

  • 04.21.2004 4:35 PM PDT
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I know hes talking about the ID#, but just the name of the topic made me think about the chapter member number, so i figured I would say some thing about it. But really think about it, the post counter was eliminated because even though some one could have a lot of posts, it could be spam, but yet those that have a smaller number, might have more quality to them. Now with chapters with larger numbers, it could be because of spam, and the smaller ones might actually be better. This doesn't go for all members/chapters, but it does usually influence some of the members as to whether they join or not, and I think that would eliminate it if we got rid of it, just like the post counter.

  • 04.21.2004 4:56 PM PDT
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oh ok, sorry, my bad. And once again, you have a VERY good point. A chapter's quality means more than it's size.

  • 04.21.2004 5:00 PM PDT
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Pardon my ignorance, but how do we check our member number?

  • 04.21.2004 8:23 PM PDT
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Well, IF they would make it possible to eliminate the member count on the chapter front page, they should make it optionable. Personally, I like it the way it is. While I'll definitely agree with you that the count can be misleading, it isn't always that way. Assuming you know nothing else about the chapter, would you rather join a chapter with 3 members, or 300? No really. What I'd rather join could be different from what you'd rather join. With a 3 member chapter, you'll most likely have a more close-knit group; but the 300 member chapter will most likely have more content. Sure, it'll probably have a lot of junk too, but if you want to be kept busy, the 300 member chapter has a better chance of doing so.

Just my thoughts,
Poocho :)

  • 04.21.2004 9:17 PM PDT
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to Baerdog7: to check someone's id number is very simple. When you're browsing trough a thread, you can click on someone's name to send him a message. Now check the box where you usually type www.whatever.com, ther it says: memberID=, the number behind it is your id number. Your ID is 24719.

To poocho: Sure, all true, the problem with that is however, that the smaller chapters might not stand a chance against the bigger ones since everyone wants to be part of the bigger active chapters.

Those were my thoughts.

  • 04.22.2004 3:45 AM PDT

Just so the original question doesn't go unanswered :), the ID number is the number that you joined: mine is 76, so 75 members joined before I did. Now, the Seventh Column ID numbers are higher, because they are the number you had on the old b.net. Since the new new b.net came online, all the profiles that were "No-blam!-portXXXX" have been deleted, since these are obviously of people who haven't been active at all since the changeover to the dot-net -blam!-port integration system. As a result, my seventh column ID is 733, almost an order of magnitude larger than my new one. That is an indication of the number of old members who haven't been here for a long time.

I'm guessing they were mostly Mythers, since the Mythers I was talking to on marius the other day didn't even know that there was a new new b.net; they had obviously joined the old new b.net when b.net was mostly a Myth site, and had little interest in Bungie itself. :S

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  • 04.22.2004 4:54 AM PDT
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To just another fan: thanks!

Baerdog7

  • 04.22.2004 6:30 AM PDT
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You stayed on topic and answer my question. Everyone else started talking about other unrelated crap (Just another fan, Live killa). Thank you mr. ko! Jeez!

  • 04.22.2004 10:24 AM PDT
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thing is about LK's point... what if the chapter was too members only, so you join, but find out theres is nothing there! but if you saw it had no mmebers, you might think, hey... perhaps this chapter isnt so great... see? maybe that will become optional when the new seventh coumn comes around later this year...

  • 04.22.2004 1:12 PM PDT