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"So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories." John Williams
We have trust ratings. If you're out of the loop, check out the most linked thread on bungie.net. Basically a trust rating is: you earn X amount of "trust points" based on your activity online. The exact parameters are only known by the bungie webteam. General factors that are known are logging in, posting daily, joining and participating in private groups and public forums as well as having a linked gamertag. Once you have X amount of points, or meet certain criteria, you unlock a title (or silly hat) for your profile.
What if private groups had a trust rating?
No, I don't mean that private groups would unlock a member title like users currently do. This trust rating for private groups would help determine some of the more active groups on bungie.net. Many times when you're searching for a new community to become a part of, you have no idea if the place you're entering still has an active founder or staff there!
This "trust rating" for private groups could have different levels depending on the criteria met for that group, such as:
Rare (Group is fairly new and pink at the center)
Medium Rare (slightly medium with a touch of pink)
Medium (a primarily warm group. It still has it's pink strip)
Medium-well (a veteran group, cooked well and has been around)
Well Done (Highest level of group, no pink and has added spice)
I probably just made you hungry for steak, I feel the same. Obviously these are just placeholder names for group levels. I think they're a lot less boring than having "heroic, legendary and mythix" group though.
So what factors help the title of your group?
Loads of factors! There are factors for our current titles that we don't even know exist! Anyway, here is a list of me just brainstorming for group titles:
General:
Creation date of group (IE - "Join date")
Number of homepage views
Number of entries linked to homepage
Number of outgoing links clicked from homepage
Being mentioned in the Bungie News Blog (link to your group)
Number of members in group (should have algorithm, more doesn't always mean "better")
Membership/News:
Average trust rating of all members
How often each member logs into bungie.net
Average PPD for group
Average PPD of users Averaged within the group
Number of new threads created daily (averaged over X amount of months)
Average number of news feed posts over X amount of months
Have a set algorithm to prevent maximum news feed spamming for points
What doesn't gain you trust points:
Having multiple accounts on the same IP address (alt accounts)
Having 0 linked gamertags
No new threads/posts (a "dead" group)
Spamming the group with threads/posts
Spamming the news feed with loads of submissions
Constantly banning your own members/includes kicking
Getting in trouble with the webteam
The bungie webteam could also give your "group" a warning/ban/lock to lower your group trust points
From this we can see that the "ideal" group would one one that has active members that login daily, create new threads within their group and are in good standing with the bungie community. They should remain active and might even get mentioned in the bungie blog.
What's the point? Look at this. You see, that page hasn't been updated in the longest time. Partially due to the fact that we're in the dark, and there really isn't a point, given that bungie.next will be out soon.
Members could use the group "trust rating" to sort groups into categories when they're looking for a new group or community. There can also be tags for private groups to filter even further, such as: Forge, Community, Interviews, Content, Off-Topic, "Game Specific - Search by Game", Recruitment, Bungie Community, etc. This would allow the most active groups to "rise to the top" so to speak, when creating groups. Heck even add an option to filter for "New Groups!" which could list brand new groups that were created in the past week.
As of right now, users don't really have a great way of finding groups. We all know to direct these new guys to the Classified forum. I feel that when a member goes there, it's a hit or miss. They are searching for a group based on that exact point in time. I feel that the way private groups are searched for, created, sorted, filtered and reviewed could be entirely different within bungie.next.
Feel free to bash, complain and exploit how my idea wouldn't work. This is brainstorming, this is what this forum is for! All I'm trying to figure out is a better way for new users (and old!) to find other communities and group that they have been seeking.
Now go enjoy your steak.