[SOLVED] User ranking groups, can we get a Lurker class?
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Back to the topic, it occurred to me that "Lurker" (or "Ghost') could be a label for a registered member with no posts.
My Doctor ghost/lurks here, Hellooo Dr Mark...
Yep, was chatting to him into his lunchbreak the other day and inspite of the windows environment he has worked in for the last 20 years he is keen to use linux but doesnt have enough time to go thru the distro's
I mentioned Iron to him and he mentioned puppy to me...
Then it clicked for me... Puppylive is my goto disk! and it is slackware based...
So we are both going to give Iron a go in the near future.
ZT, thank-you for the encougagement to help others...
Jeremy, may I suggest a ghost/lurker membership drive? There is that old metrics saying, for everyone that writes-in, there are 10 others that hav'nt. That may be 100 others or even 1000 others now-a-days...
a catchy phrase may assist...
something like
Lurkers Liberate, LQ is ready for you now!
or
Ghosters, now is the time to go for it, lq is ready for you now!
or
Lurkers and Ghosts, Ask and ye shall receive... We will give you a full range of answers from complex cli solutions to easy one-click GUI guides...
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
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Originally Posted by robertbas
Jeremy, may I suggest a ghost/lurker membership drive? There is that old metrics saying, for everyone that writes-in, there are 10 others that hav'nt. That may be 100 others or even 1000 others now-a-days...
We do as much as we can to foster participation here at LQ, but if you have any specific ideas on how we can improve let us know.
We do as much as we can to foster participation here at LQ, but if you have any specific ideas on how we can improve let us know.
My humble opinion is that while the lurkers can exist and they benefit by getting knowledge from LQ - note that I'm fine with that.
My other side is saying that you're not actively contributing, therefore what does it matter what you're called? You've chosen to not post, so what's in a title? You're an LQ Newbie. Why do you care now?
Since you, the OP, is not actively participating, once again you are not contributing. You and your doctor probably have extensive Linux knowledge where others can benefit. Therefore your passiveness adds nothing to the forum's intent. Sorry for saying that, I know it sounds like an unsavory attack. Realize that I'd not know you exist in the forum at all if I didn't see one of your 20 some-odd posts somewhere. Salted down to basics, this is like some child saying they don't want to play ball, but then arguing about the rules of the game they end up watching, which they didn't want to play.
My Doctor ghost/lurks here, Hellooo Dr Mark...
Yep, was chatting to him into his lunchbreak the other day and inspite of the windows environment he has worked in for the last 20 years he is keen to use linux but doesnt have enough time to go thru the distro's
I mentioned Iron to him and he mentioned puppy to me...
Then it clicked for me... Puppylive is my goto disk! and it is slackware based...
So we are both going to give Iron a go in the near future.
ZT, thank-you for the encougagement to help others...
Jeremy, may I suggest a ghost/lurker membership drive? There is that old metrics saying, for everyone that writes-in, there are 10 others that hav'nt. That may be 100 others or even 1000 others now-a-days...
a catchy phrase may assist...
something like
Lurkers Liberate, LQ is ready for you now!
or
Ghosters, now is the time to go for it, lq is ready for you now!
or
Lurkers and Ghosts, Ask and ye shall receive... We will give you a full range of answers from complex cli solutions to easy one-click GUI guides...
RT (please excuse my abbreviations) I consider purely visiting a site is actively participating and is a contribution to that site.
Content is king and clicks count, do they not?
I wrote most of my thoughts here and decided to look up the term Lurker, and without following any links, but instead just seeing the paragraph results shown via Google:
Quote:
In Internet culture, a lurker is typically a member of an online community or PLN who observes, but does not actively participate.
For my part, I'm not arguing that you're not using the site. I'm glad if you feel it's been a great benefit to you.
My points however are that I do think it's mildly, quirky/cool that you haven't posted much at all. So smiley face to that, , big grin even.
A major part of LQ is that members help members by way of actively responding and offering their feedback to help those other members.
Jeremy set this site up and chose to classify members into categories based on their post counts and also chose to put in a reputation system. There are those who don't agree with every detail of those choices, and there have been discussions regarding all that, however I think the site stands well for having been consistent and also effective to many members and non-members over the years.
To maybe restate it differently, someone can interpret what you're proposing instead is to change the assignment of titles to be based off of sign-up date versus post count, or perhaps to combine those two metrics to create a different way to classify member titles.
I'd be "on the fence" about that really. Jeremy made his statement, so I accept and support that.
What does sadden me is with your vast experience and statements which give the impression that you are very familiar with the LQ site and that you use it regularly, that you do not choose to participate where your knowledge could benefit those who have real, legitimate problems where you could give them assistance.
so RT are you disagreeing with my assertion that purely visiting a site is actively participating and is a contribution to that site?
I'm nowhere near the skill level you are assuming.
I think most of my posts would be/are purile. I made some this-morning, those posts are not really going to help
and as stated earlier in the thread I am gui because of an injury... gui is considered lamer, I get that, but we are coming out of the woodwork, or least trying...
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