Forum Rank Structure

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 2/5/2010, 11:59

what's this all about
just went back to page one, so now I know. jocolor

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This is the very reason why i disagree with ranking systems ..

Quote :: like the idea, but I've only posted this so I can get the 1 more post I need for promotion.

From experience on other sites,i found that a lot of posts are created just to move up the pecking order.I hope this will not happen here.

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 2/5/2010, 23:30

NO WAY [roll on major]

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 3/5/2010, 11:58

Gordon. wrote:

This is the very reason why i disagree with ranking systems ..

Quote :: like the idea, but I've only posted this so I can get the 1 more post I need for promotion.

From experience on other sites,i found that a lot of posts are created just to move up the pecking order.I hope this will not happen here.

Not me, I'm happy at WO1 and will be slowing down my posts to stay here LoL

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 3/5/2010, 17:21

jerry wrote:: what's this all about
just went back to page one, so now I know.

This is my Rank and I'm happy with it. Very Happy

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 4/5/2010, 17:01

What a coincedence my Forum Rank is what my service rank was!

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 4/5/2010, 17:42

Mikey wrote:: What a coincedence my Forum Rank is what my service rank was!

AND REME as well!

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 5/5/2010, 07:14

Like this...so, if I understand the system correctly, the 'rank' is based on frequency of posts to the forum? Hmmmm....interesting idea.

Some of us would end up being Brigadier-Generals, I should think! Smile

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 5/5/2010, 07:15

Oh dear....I was kidding!!! And, lo and behold, after I post my comment, there I am...a bloody Brigadier!!

Dad would be so proud.....

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 5/5/2010, 09:02

Stephen Lock wrote:: Oh dear....I was kidding!!! And, lo and behold, after I post my comment, there I am...a bloody Brigadier!!

Dad would be so proud.....

Or a three star general as a yank once described ours. Very Happy

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 5/5/2010, 15:02

Interesting, to say the least.

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 6/5/2010, 06:44

3-star general....LOL....I sometimes wonder about my American cousins.....

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 7/5/2010, 18:34

Gordon. wrote:

This is the very reason why i disagree with ranking systems ..

Quote :: like the idea, but I've only posted this so I can get the 1 more post I need for promotion.

From experience on other sites,i found that a lot of posts are created just to move up the pecking order.I hope this will not happen here.

It was purely coincidental that the way the ranking structure was done meant that 1 more post would "promote" me. Why would anyone be so shallow as to post just for the sake of some virtual rank? Very Happy

I see no reason to object to this "ranking system", it is after all only a bit of fun and the number of posts by each member was always visible anyway.

Mike

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 7/5/2010, 20:09

It's all very well, all this accelerated promotion.
What I want to know is what happens when the mess bills start rolling in, eh, eh?

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 7/5/2010, 21:06

If you don't sort your mess bill out Brum, you'll have WO1 Teabag on your case!!

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Quote :: Why would anyone be so shallow as to post just for the sake of some virtual rank?

Believe me, it happens... santa

That`s one closer to WO1 Very Happy

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 09:40

ChrisP wrote:: If you don't sort your mess bill out Brum, you'll have WO1 Teabag on your case!!

Mess meeting is being chaired by Brum this month due to my hospitalisation. RAMC plot I think.................. Very Happy

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 09:55

What's this? Hospitalisation? You haven't been in that Flaybrick cemetery without a Gurkha escort have you?
It's no good blaming STARLIGHT mate!

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 12:15

brum wrote:: What's this? Hospitalisation? You haven't been in that Flaybrick cemetery without a Gurkha escort have you?
It's no good blaming STARLIGHT mate!

Nah, ballcocks, my bowel blocked up again. Can't blame Flaybrick this time.

Could do with som Gurkha's up there though. It is like a jungle in parts.

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 13:41

RAMC plot!!! I've got a very good set of brushes that will solve your problem! Now...deep breath..!!

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 14:12

Blockage Teabag?

"Magazine off, Cock, Hook and Look."

I was allways told.

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 14:16

ChrisP wrote:: RAMC plot!!! I've got a very good set of brushes that will solve your problem! Now...deep breath..!!

What was the old saying about being pulled through with a christmas tree?

Can't really fault the RAMC because grandfather was in them during the war. Actually he never went anywhere and was posted to our town hall which was a hospital. Not fit for overseas due to heart condition.

I always thought if you had two legs and at least one other limb they took anyone in the first world war!

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 18:07

Very sad - but true. Don't know why they had medicals for the soldiers when enlisting. Unless something serious showed up - you were in!

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 20:00

It never ceases to amaze me. In my travels I have found gravestones to a 16 year old with the rank of "Boy" and a 63 year old.
Surely there can't have been anyone older or younger than that, even by WW1 standards!

Subject: Re: Forum Rank Structure 8/5/2010, 20:05

I've a 63 year old in one of my photo's. South Lancs Regt but only a private. Love to know the story about that one?

You have to laugh, the following from my grandads record.

Got 14 days CB in 1919 for "Irregular conduct by allowing women in the Medical Hut at 17.00".

& 2. "Not complying with an order".

You can see who I take after then!

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