He is titled "Member" !

Good catch Anisha; I missed that one too.

Thanks and now show your patience by explaining me the Post 66 of the *other sister* thread.

Your user title is not directly correlated to the group you're in (although I agree that the one naming overlap is unfortunate and was at the time an oversight). I've explained this in a detail a couple times, so if you're interested in the particulars a quick search should pull it up.

--jeremy

LOL!! I would if I could Anisha

Kind regards,

Eric

You are an English speaker, Eric, I expected a lot from you !

I speak English but am not a native English speaker Anisha. Sorry if I disappointed you

All I can do now is to request Jeremy to use some low level English considering the non-English speaker members here, but I fear my request may fall on deaf ears

I'm quite sure that Jeremy is not deaf.

Kind regards,

Eric

Of course not and I hope he doesn't use any filters too !

I think the thanks system worked very well for this. The member level, and post counts are nice, but when I was reading posts by members that I wasn't familiar with I would check the thanks count. As others stated, I also used my own thanks count to keep myself in line. It definitely provided a tangible incentive to be helpful......and not just THINK I was being helpful.

What's a "distinguished road"? :}

And what's with the little scales? :}

Well it appears everyone else has had a crack at this at some point (sorry for duplicating this thread) so here is M2C.

After reading everyone else's posts I came to understand how the Thanks and even 'Did you find this post helpful?' options as maybe not as helpful as they first
appeared. When I was relatively new here I do admit that I looked at all the included data under the person's alias and used this as a guideline as to how much merit
I should perhaps give the information being presented. At this time I was not aware that someone became a Senior Member or Guru simply by posting X amount of times
(was frankly a little disappointed when I found out).

I do however think it is valuable to have some understanding as to how a person is rated. In my opinion this should be a peer rating as to not be perceived as bias
or simply from attaining a particular level / number.

To this end I would like to see some form of perhaps reputation system that can be influenced in both directions, ie you should also be able to state / vote that the
individual has no clue or is misleading.

As a personal example, it has been because of this forum that I started to learn the power of awk and specific thanks would go to ghostdog74 for what I have learnt
from his posts. Hence should I see a sed / grep / awk related question and see he has posted on it I will always look to see his solution.

So for this example my suggestion would be the ability to assign him guru status for awk. Then based on his average of votes at each differing level he can be assigned
a representative title to indicate his overall level of competency. Maybe even have their title as a link that takes you to a page to indicate what their range of skills
are.

Maybe not a completely fleshed out solution but I figured it would be something to think about.

I need to know the same. And I want to opt out of ratings. How do I do that?