CokeandTaco

What are the numbers of FT members with the posting titles (Evangelist and Legend)? Is this information available?

JDiver

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Cholula

I'm 99% sure that the answer to this is no.

Not that anybody is trying to hide anything but I don't think the software catches these stats.

SkiAdcock

I think you're confusing 2 separate issues.

One is whether there should be additional titles at different post points. That is certainly open for debate - and has been if you read the entire thread by multiple people & will be in a new thread that will be created.

The second is how to make it easier for newbies & even some long-term FTers to know that titles represent post count only and doesn't denote some higher level of wisdom or necessarily accurate information.

The fact that there are only 3-4 examples where it's mentioned in over a decade (one of which was created in response to this thread) says that FT hasn't done a good job of that. I'm a bit perplexed that you would think having it scattered is the best way to handle it & do a search is the best response. So yes I do think that most would say let's figure out a way to make it more visible/clear to minimize any confusion and/or misconception by FTers.

Cheers.

JDiver

Succinct and clearly elucidates my two concerns as a long-term member.

philemer

Add dilatory.

Hey, would you please stop using such BIG words! I'm tired of looking them up.

exbayern

I'm in agreement.

I don't come to this part of FT that often anymore, but I have very strong feelings on the subject. I think that there is general consensus that quantity doesn't always equate to quality, even if there isn't agreement on titles/no titles/types of titles. (I even pointed out the other day that while I generally trust a certain 'posting legend' who appears to be a subject matter expert, I still do my own research using official sources just to be certain)

However, not everyone may realise that equation of quantity vs quality, and may not know to do the research, or who to trust or not to trust when it comes to objective topics.

There are many active FTers who probably don't realise that this discussion has resurfaced, but who may have opinions on the subject.

(I am by the way in favour of only having titles for official company representatives, community director/moderators, and perhaps ambassadors)

TrojanHorse

If you guys go this totally ridiculous route then have an option for a member to opt out if they so choose.

If its some title that just sounds bad, funny, or completely idiotic.. then that poster should be able to opt out of any and all titles.

All you guys are doing are encouraging posting runs more so than is already being done

it must have been a slow day at the office when this topic was thought up and it must be another slow period if this is at the top of this forum. Hence why I made my omni comment about TB.

nsx

Yeah. Transmogrify them, already!

CMK10

Hey, there are some people here who are advocating for keeping things at the status quo. But apparently it's too hard for people to figure out what the titles mean so here we are.

MSPeconomist

It might be interesting to have a list of Legends and Evangelists just like one can find the list of all moderators.

PainCorp

While I have a feeling it's beyond what is easily possible for the site, it would be interesting to have the titles reflect where the user is most active. Something like 5,000 posts and the majority are in CC forums have a "Miles and Points Junkie" title. If they are in the Hotels category have "Mattress Connoisseur" if they are in Airlines maybe "Upgrade Champion." Just a thought, but I can already see the arguments against this.

GUWonder

I'm pretty sure that IB still has the possibility to query a database and find out how many (and which) FTers have 10k or more posts under their ID and how many have 40k posts or more under their ID. It would be somewhat manual to arrive at the final answer and it might not be entirely accurate for one or more reasons -- including because some titles could be manually suppressed or otherwise assigned.

Cholula

That makes sense and is certainly within the realm of possibility.

RichMSN

It's certainly possible. I help administer another vBulletin board and our board is set up so any member could do this math by bringing up the community list (Community --> Members List) and then ranking the members by number of posts and then counting up the number of people exceeding any threshold.

(BTW, on that board the most prolific poster is just over 24K posts and I'm 8th with just over 12K).