- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: SketchFactor
I know exactly what you mean and this is something we've been kicking around for a while... how do we "reward" our longstanding members who contribute positively to our site? Avatars could be one way of doing that. This idea is one thing on our long list of stuff we'd love to do someday. Unfortunately it's not quite that easy...anything I dream up, Achronos has to figure out how to actually implement. =) What other stuff do you think would be cool?
For example - a "private" forum, only accessible by members who achieve a certain rank? The ability to use color signatures? Special avatars? Special titles?
The tricky part is also creating and managing the system that decides who is what "rank." While being a member for X days, months or years is certainly part of it, it's not the whole picture. We want people who are contributing - making worthwhile forum posts, helping people out, submitting news and are just active in general on the site - making our overall community a better place.
I think that idea is pretty cool, the only thing is, a lot of members change their accounts and it says theyve been a member for like three weeks, when they were a member 6 months prior? (Myself Included)
I mean, I was a member just 2 days after H2 was released on a previous account, "WaitingforHalo3" and If you hand out cool avatars for longstanding members how will I get one? It would kinda suck to be penalized for making a new account...