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| Mar-26-14 | | Mating Net: <chessgames.com:> First of all, keep up the great work. I have a suggestion for your consideration: 1. Long term members, kibitzers, should be recognized and distinguished from others. If someone has been a member for 1 year, or 5, or 10 it should be readily apparent by glancing at their avatar. You could adopt the bronze, silver, gold platinum, diamond methodology or something similar. Thanks for your consideration. |
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Mar-26-14
 | | chessgames.com: <Mating Net> Thanks for your kind words, and that's a very interesting suggestion. A few years ago it wasn't as much of an issue but now we have users now who have been here for 10+ years! Perhaps a kind of border around the avatar or something like that? |
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| Mar-26-14 | | Mating Net: I realized this morning while I was renewing that I am due to hit the 10 year mark in December which I still can't believe. I figured that universities have the tenure system to recognize longevity you might consider something. A border or other distinguishing mark sounds great. |
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Mar-26-14
 | | Annie K.: I'm not greatly in favor of such social segregation systems. Besides, registration dates are not exactly points of great merit... some of the earliest members may have taken a few years off the site along the way, and overall contributed less than others who registered later, but stayed here and know the site much better. |
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| Mar-26-14 | | dakgootje: Yup, and you can't base on post-count either - because there are always posters who choose to kibitz.. let's say short and less-than-useful posts in great numbers. So you'd go towards Quality of Posts - but I won't even have to start why that's extremely problematic :) But longevity seems a strange substance to base anything such on. Some early-adopter might return after a dozen years and finds he's all of a sudden Well-Respected or some similar silliness. <IF> you'd really want such a system based on longevity, I suppose it's much better to base it on actual active days. So for instance one comment, or one game played through would count as an Activity for that day. And after 365 days, you'll effectively be around for one year [even if it took 5 years to achieve that activity]. Think it's still flawed, but less so :P Random Fact: Longetivity isn't actually a word. Who knew?! |
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Mar-26-14
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: I second what <Annie> and <dakkie> said... even though, counted together with my alter-ego, I've been here for more than fifteen years :) |
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Mar-26-14
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
I third the honorable members from Finland and environs. Anyone who wants to see a member's initial registration date can just look at the top of their profile. This information is already public. |
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Mar-26-14
| | chessgames.com: <Mating Net: I realized this morning while I was renewing that I am due to hit the 10 year mark in December which I still can't believe.> That's a great story. We sincerely thank you for your patronage and will try to make the next 10 even better! About honors on Chessgames, other than the avatar for being premium it's always been a matter of policy to never give special recognition for things that you do on the site. No special star by your name if you make so-many posts, or upload so-many games, or play so-many Guess the Move games, or anything that might encourage people to sacrifice quality for quantity. The number of years you've been with us though, that seems a harmless enough indicator. It's not rife for abuse like other metrics. Perhaps it could be an honor that you can flip on in your preferences page, if you want to. |
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Mar-27-14
| | Annie K.: <cg: <The number of years you've been with us though, that seems a harmless enough indicator.>> As long as you focus on those who can have it if they want it. But with these considerations, the ones to keep in mind are the people who can't have it, and might feel excluded. Newbies are already self-conscious enough, in such a long-standing community, without giving older members extras, that some will probably not resist trying to use as some kind of superior status symbol. :) |
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| Mar-27-14 | | TheFocus: Who is the oldest active member? Top 20? |
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| Mar-27-14 | | TheFocus: Or you could list them on the Database Statistics page. |
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Mar-27-14
| | Annie K.: <TheFocus> The oldest active member would be <Sneaky> (User: Sneaky), I think. <Or you could list them on the Database Statistics page.> Now that's a good idea - it would satisfy the curiosity of those who want to know, without rubbing people's noses into "site seniority" issues all the time with visual frills. :) |
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| Mar-27-14 | | crawfb5: <The number of years you've been with us though, that seems a harmless enough indicator. It's not rife for abuse like other metrics. Perhaps it could be an honor that you can flip on in your preferences page, if you want to.> Not that I have any particular objection to this but profile bios already have one of two versions: <Member since Dec-27-07> or <Member since Oct-21-04 ยท Last seen Mar-27-14> People can't do the math? |
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| Mar-27-14 | | LIFE Master AJ: ChessBookie Game
I played the game ... the bookie is not settling on Topalov-Karjakin, any reason why this might be? (The settlement date has already passed.) I may have to call my cousin, ("Big Ernie") and have him lean on your guy ... |
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Mar-27-14
 | | OhioChessFan: If you do this, and I am opposed, it for sure must be something a person flips on. Otherwise, all the User: phantom User: Blue User: Link User: kibitzer will eventually get their recognition for having been here 10 years or whatever, with zero posts. |
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| Mar-27-14 | | Benzol: User: Doctor Who might be the oldest active member. As for game uploads I hope I have given both quality as well as quantity. Hope that any newbies aren't put off by the older hands. After all we were all newbies at the start. New kibitzers should always feel and be welcome. It's the trolls that are a pain. |
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Mar-27-14
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Benzol: User: Doctor Who might be the oldest active member.> Although <Sneaky>'s profile says <Member since Jan-19-02>, his first kibitzes date to December 2001. |
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Mar-27-14
| | chessgames.com: Sneaky rarely admits it, but he's a longtime friend of Daniel Freeman, so that's why and how he started using the site before Google had even indexed it. It's possible he might have been here so long that he was victimized by bugs in the beta-testing days, when concepts like "member since" were first being worked out. A list of the earliest 100 members would be a list of names you've never heard (like User: Ham4ME) with the exception of Sneaky and maybe another. The earliest 100 members with some sort of minimum post-count would be more fun. |
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Mar-27-14
 | | Domdaniel: I agree with the Heavy Gang (Annie, Switch, Ohio, Jess, etc) - even if they don't agree with each other. You may recall a time when the Database Statistics page featured a section on 'Most Popular Forums', which was abandoned when it got too competitive. I agree that years of membership is a less controversial metric, but I still don't see the point. |
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Mar-27-14
 | | WannaBe: You mean I don't get a gold watch for my 10th anniversary? Whadaa gip! |
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| Mar-27-14 | | TheFocus: Wow! I have been a member for almost 5 years now.
Cool. |
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Mar-27-14
| | WannaBe: <TheFocus> You get nuttin', newbie, you! |
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| Mar-27-14 | | valiant: <A list of the earliest 100 members would be a list of names you've never heard (like User: Ham4ME) with the exception of Sneaky and maybe another. The earliest 100 members with some sort of minimum post-count would be more fun.> Caissa's Web had such a feature on their main page - when one clicked on the icon 'Most-Senior-Members', a list of 200 handle-names of paying members was shown - the handle-name disappeared from the list if one didn't renew the membership. |
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| Mar-27-14 | | TheFocus: <Wannabe> I shall persevere until I reach 10 years. |
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Mar-27-14
| | OhioChessFan: <cg.c: Sneaky rarely admits it, but he's a longtime friend of Daniel Freeman> I'm surprised Daniel Freeman admits it. |
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