Before, most of us were junior grease monkey, senior grease monkey, or long lost magliozzi brother
I belonged to the latter category, as did a lot of the other regulars
Now I’m just “basic” . . . not even a regular member of the community yet
WTH . . . ?!
I loved the old website, and I also enjoy the new website
But as far as I’m concerned, most of the regulars who post a lot, such as myself, mountainbike, george, just to name a few, should have come in with a MUCH higher “ranking”
I think that if someone comes to this site for information, they would appreciate knowing if the person responding to their question has any experience on the site.
At least with the old badges, the person could tell that their question was being answered by a “Senior Grease Monkey”, or someone with only a “Duct Tape Badge”.
I also used those badges to consider weather a reply by that user was something I should consider.
Now unless we remember who were the regulars with sound advise, we have no way of knowing.
I, Myself paid a little more attention to those who had more badges and their replies.
There are no more ratings like in past as far as I can tell, former duct tape specialist. Sure somebody might look you up and guess at what kind of a poster you are,
You checked the new badges? And you were unhappy?
I suggest you ignore the badges. If they’re important to you, perhaps you need to refocus on the purpose of the website.
I don’t care what my badge is. I don’t even know what my badge is. I suppose it’s interesting for some, but not to me.
Click on those three horizontal lines to the left of your screen icon, on the top of the screen
Now click on “badges”
Now scroll all the way down to “trust level”
The “rankings” are basic, regular, member, and leader
I see I have a number within my basic box. I have no idea what it represents
Looking at some of the other stuff on the page, there’s a lot of new stuff, which the old website didn’t have. But there’s also some stuff which is perhaps meaningless and nobody will “achieve” it . . . for example “Grrea reply”
To earn that, you have to receive 50 likes on a reply. No offense, but I don’t think any of us ever managed that
Perhaps the “rankings” system is rather meaningless, as mountainbike said
I just noticed that everybody is rated for the week. And it’s clearly based on who received the most likes
mountainbike is on top, because he’s literally a well-liked individual
But even though I have the second most number of likes received, along with somebody else, I’m number 3, for unknown reasons. I gave out more likes than anybody else, visited this site more often than anybody else, read more stuff, etc.
While I don’t entirely agree with mountainbike on this, an don’t always agree with him, for that matter . . . I think I’ll just ignore the “rankings” and badges
Because as far as I can tell, it’s arbitrary and useless
I’ll say it again . . . I loved the old website, and really like this new one, as well
But that doesn’t change the fact there have some changes that are not to my liking
But I’ll continue to be active here, because nobody and nothing’s perfect
How unfortunate for those guests of this message board that relied on the activity badges as background guide. Most of the members with the highest post count were not experienced automotive technicians.
Cholesterol. I do not get it. eat real butter, an occasional egg, bacon, but my good cholesterol was so good Dr and friends were impressed, 86 comes to mind but not sure, I think 225 overalls, with thumbs tucked into armpits!
Unless your diet is really bad, most of the cholesterol is from your genetics.
I noticed that I am starting from scratch too. I have done that a few time over my life. I liked the rankings but also agree that just posting a lot doesn’t necessarily mean you have the right answer. It means you post a lot. Granted, most of our high ranking posters here (or in the old format) are very good technicians with a wealth of knowledge. We know who you are
I can’t remember what the screen name was but sometime ago someone posted that they did not like getting the Duct Tape Specialist badge because they felt it was demeaning to their ability ( they may have been joking but who can tell ).
I don’t care about ratings or badges but will admit I had 37 off topic flags and told Carolyn if I reached 50 I wanted an Off Topic badge. Of course 17 of those flags were from one person.
My diet includes no soda pop, no fried foods,for the most part, massive quantities of wine and lemonade, salads, and non prefab foods, Sure had tenderloin and salad potatoes and cottage cheese with garden raised chives, pistachios and cashews and sunflower seeds for snacks, along with cherries mango and oranges for lunch and breakfast, 2 slices of hard salami on beefsteak rye bread with brown mustard for lunch sandwisch, once in a while oatmeal for brekfast, used to be massive quantities of scotch, but it was stronger than me.
