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New Forum Function: Forum Experience

The Dude

The Dude

The artist formally known as Casinomeister
Hall Of Fame Awardee Shield Meister
Joined
Jun 30, 1998
Location
Bierland
There is a new forum function that has been installed - it's the Forum "Experience"
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I've been talking about it for a few weeks now, and we've finally installed it and turned it on. What we intend to do with this is to incentivize certain aspects of the forum - we can give out awards for things like most active social group, most active poster, most popular poster, most infractions received ;p, members with the most postings upgraded to the Meister Beat, etc.

There are both awards and achievements - the thing is, the moderators and I need to work out the bugs, and tweak it a bit for the next couple of weeks. I hope you will post your questions and suggestion in this thread here.

I also hope that you will explore this a bit - there is the link above and also in your user profile. Please post your input here. :D
 
One of the first things you'll notice are the three bars by your user name. These indicate what level you are at, how many points you need to get to the next level, and your activity. This is one function that needs to be seriously tweaked, so don't get too caught up in that. :D
 
binary128 said:
Casinomeister,

The new Experience system looks to be a bit of fun.

I appear to have received a "Player Assist Award". I always take 'em whenever I can get 'em, but what is this all about?

Chris
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Like I said, we're still working out the bugs. Jk :p

The "Player Assist Award" is a monthly award given to the most active i-Gaming rep. The rep will be given credit and showcased in one of the sidebars for the following month. We're still working on this :p
 
A few questions...

Errr, what is the Tagger thing?
And how does the experience points work?

And a non Forum experience question, sorry! I tried to access a member blog but received a message I wasn't allowed access. I've received these before on several occassions, is it something I did or is it something the blogger did? Sorry for the derail...
 
I just noticed this and wasn't sure if it was an error? This user only has 40 odd posts yet has three separate 1000 point icons. Haven't seen this elsewhere on the forum so wasn't sure what was happening?

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Cheers
Gremmy
 
Gremmyboy said:
I just noticed this and wasn't sure if it was an error? This user only has 40 odd posts yet has three separate 1000 point icons. Haven't seen this elsewhere on the forum so wasn't sure what was happening?

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Cheers
Gremmy
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Nah your eyes are deceiving you. It seems the green dots are those you see when you start your computer.
 
ksech said:
A few questions...

Errr, what is the Tagger thing?
And how does the experience points work?

And a non Forum experience question, sorry! I tried to access a member blog but received a message I wasn't allowed access. I've received these before on several occassions, is it something I did or is it something the blogger did? Sorry for the derail...
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Glad you asked about the blogs. I have been getting the same message.

Michelle
 
Casinomeister said:
Like I said, we're still working out the bugs. Jk :p

The "Player Assist Award" is a monthly award given to the most active i-Gaming rep. The rep will be given credit and showcased in one of the sidebars for the following month. We're still working on this :p
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Hmm. I'm not sure how I feel about being the first recipient of this "Player Assist Award" written off as a system bug.

Still, I take 'em when I can get 'em, so Thanks.

Chris
 
I looked at some of the new stats in the forum. There are some strange things there, for example the "top posters" stats. I see that Votran has written 351 posts in the last 60 days (avr 5,8 per day) :D
 
Noticed something odd, think it's happened before. I get a notice of an Award and then it says something like the following:

31st October 2011
11:59 PM maxd returned the award Activity Award
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I did? Not that I was aware of. Doubtless I did something inadvertently but ... dinged if I know what that was.

Anyone else have this problem?

PS. trying to fix the problem(s) with my blog re others being able to read and comment, both of which should be enabled. Apparently not there yet. :confused:

later: looks like other are getting this "returned Award" thing too. Or am I not understanding how this works, what "returned" means?
 

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maxd said:
Noticed something odd, think it's happened before. I get a notice of an Award and then it says something like the following:



I did? Not that I was aware of. Doubtless I did something inadvertently but ... dinged if I know what that was.

Anyone else have this problem?

PS. trying to fix the problem(s) with my blog re others being able to read and comment, both of which should be enabled. Apparently not there yet. :confused:
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According to the stats, you have written 370 posts in the last 60 days so you are the nr 1 top poster. Thats is 6,1 in average per day. So you deserve an Activity Award :D (but again, I do not think that these stats are correct)

But seriously, I also got a couple of notifications about some awards the other day and a new notice today when one of them was removed from me. I personally find these things a bit unnecessary, but I can understand that some will enjoy these new features. Is it possible to at least choose to turn off these notifications regarding awards? I only want to be notified when I receive a PM.
 
Like I said, lots of tweaks need to be made :p

I'm exempting Vortran from the awards since he's just a robot (he alerts the moderators and me with "report a posts", that's why his post count is so high).

The rest I'll be dedicating some time tomorrow to square away. It's a holiday today, so I'll be busy doing other things besides tweaking the forum :D
 
LMAO And I thought I was confused BEFORE the changes. Now I can be an experienced tagger who can overtake another poster to give back something which I didn't know I took in the first place. But I'm a hyperactive member in overdrive who has 3 friends, at least I didn't get the troublemaker award :D BUT I'm happy cause now I can read the blogs!!!!

BTW, very nice blog maxd, thoroughly enjoyed the read!:thumbsup:
 
Casinomeister said:
Like I said, lots of tweaks need to be made :p

I'm exempting Vortran from the awards since he's just a robot (he alerts the moderators and me with "report a posts", that's why his post count is so high).

The rest I'll be dedicating some time tomorrow to square away. It's a holiday today, so I'll be busy doing other things besides tweaking the forum :D
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Okay, that may explain the case yeah. I think you should let Vortran be a part of this award/stat thing. He is a great guy. Wish I had a robot buddy like him:D


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And yes, I'm still tweaking things. Everybody is losing points - some more than others - since I'm having the points recalculated. Before the points were calculated for the past 13 years, since the board was launched in 1998. I've redone the calculation to only include activity for the past two years. This way people who haven't been around for the past few years aren't included in the score. I didn't think it was fair to the current active users.

More to come - I promise.
 
After reading CM's post I checked my points out of curiosity.

Can you elaborate on what these changes mean? Is the below correct? I lost over 20,000. On the other hand I didn't know I had that many to lose. :D


17th November 2011
04:18 PM bb28 has lost -5763 Points for User points
04:18 PM bb28 has lost -14905 Points for Posts points
04:18 PM bb28 has lost -1246 Points for threads points
04:08 PM bb28 has lost -87 Points for User points
04:08 PM bb28 has lost -2 Points for Posts points
03:46 PM bb28 has earned 5 Points for Posts points
03:46 PM bb28 has earned 26 Points for User points
03:46 PM bb28 has earned 2 Points for threads points
 
bb28 said:
After reading CM's post I checked my points out of curiosity.

Can you elaborate on what these changes mean? Is the below correct? I lost over 20,000. On the other hand I didn't know I had that many to lose. :D


17th November 2011
04:18 PM bb28 has lost -5763 Points for User points
04:18 PM bb28 has lost -14905 Points for Posts points
04:18 PM bb28 has lost -1246 Points for threads points
04:08 PM bb28 has lost -87 Points for User points
04:08 PM bb28 has lost -2 Points for Posts points
03:46 PM bb28 has earned 5 Points for Posts points
03:46 PM bb28 has earned 26 Points for User points
03:46 PM bb28 has earned 2 Points for threads points
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Before last night, everyone's points were being computed since the first postings were being made in this forum 13 years ago. I adjusted the computations to include only activity for the past five years, then I did it again for activity made in the past two years. This gives members who are currently active a better chance to be competitive with their points. There are a lot of members who were very active for a number of years, but have since left the forum. It seems pretty lame to award members with activity points when they no longer participate.

To get the gist what the point system is all about, please check out the points' page here:
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To see the rankings, check out this page:
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You're on the second page at around #48. Which is pretty good considering this computation is including 6170 members (those who have signed up after 1 Nov. 2009).

Soon, we will be organizing the awards and getting some competition going in the forum. Should be some fun.
 
Casinomeister said:
To see the rankings, check out this page:
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WOW - I'm number 1 - even higher than CasinoMeister himself...
Does that mean I can boss him around a bit? :p

KK
 
Elsewhere it has been asked how one gets to see their Experience, etc. I thought I'd offer this little "show and tell":

If you're interested in the forum Experience activity in general have a look at the "Experience" section, accessed via the tabs at the top of any page in the forums:

experience tab.webp

If you're interested in your personal stuff try this, accessed via the "My Profile" link at the top of any forum page while you are logged in:

my profile - experience.webp

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Jasminebed said:
Seems there are some "Achievements" you don't really want to achieve. There is one for infractions, and I just got one for overdrive. Sorry, I ran out of money to gamble with today, I had to post at all the threads I've been meaning to say something on.

What the heck is a tag?
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Welcome to the overdrive club :)
 
Jasminebed said:
What the heck is a tag?
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Tag is a blogging term, like if you're posting about a tournament at ClubWorld you could add the tags ClubWorld and Tournaments, or if you're writing a recipe for Thanksgiving you can put the tags Turkey, Recipe, Pie etc. it gives people easier things to search for or to help find related stuff.

There used to be a field under the post field where you could put tags but I don't see it anymore....?
 
chayton said:
...There used to be a field under the post field where you could put tags but I don't see it anymore....?
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Scroll further down. It's under "Related Posts" you'll see them :p

Tagging is an excellent tool to enhance everyone's search capabilities in the forum. If there is a certain topic that comes up, and you want this to be available for future reference, create a tag (if your permissions allow you to do so).

Here we have Chayton who is lost. She can't find the Tags and I have told her where to find them "Scroll down..." So I have added a tag to this thread for future reference.

Now I can go to the Tag Cloud, and there it is (I have to search). I can find it whenever I want to refer to this thread. :D

Cool eh?
 
Casinomeister said:
Scroll further down. It's under "Related Posts" you'll see them :p

Tagging is an excellent tool to enhance everyone's search capabilities in the forum. If there is a certain topic that comes up, and you want this to be available for future reference, create a tag (if your permissions allow you to do so).

Here we have Chayton who is lost. She can't find the Tags and I have told her where to find them "Scroll down..." So I have added a tag to this thread for future reference.

Now I can go to the Tag Cloud, and there it is (I have to search). I can find it whenever I want to refer to this thread. :D

Cool eh?
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:lolup: "chayton is a lost puppy"

My new avatar...?

lostpuppy.webp

Ok so the tags are for the whole thread, not just the post, right?
 
chayton said:
... tags are for the whole thread, not just the post, right?
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Yeah, think so. I've thought it would be nice to be able to tag individual posts ... but maybe that would be a nightmare for the forum server.
 
maxd said:
Yeah, think so. I've thought it would be nice to be able to tag individual posts ... but maybe that would be a nightmare for the forum server.
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If you get one of those superlong 80 page threads that go all over the place to crazytown and back, but someone posts some good info on something in the middle, even if it's tagged like that you won't be able to find that post without slogging through the whole thing, right? heh - actually if it's in the middle you'd only have to slog halfway, but still.

oh well, it's not like I have anything better to do.
 
chayton said:
... someone posts some good info on something in the middle, even if it's tagged like that you won't be able to find that post without slogging through the whole thing, right?
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Right, as things currently stand. Which is why I said it would be good to be able to tag individual posts.

Actually I've been working on something that effectively does the per-post tagging but it's still in the trial stages so not ready for real time yet.
 
tags and rewards for posting a lot

i think this thread is relavent enough for me to post here instead of starting my own.

regarding tags, i wish there was a list of tags. i created a new thread and put some tags on it and i got a message saying i'm not allowed to create new tags.

as to experience points and such, i think it would be best if the number of posts a person makes doesn't affect a person's status very much, and the quality of one's posts affects it more.

sometimes i read very long threads and come out not having learned much because many of the posts are just people saying 'yeah i agree' or arguing back and forth with the same points.

i have to have made 10 posts to be able to thank a user for a post. i could just go and find a few threads to post in without really contributing to the thread just so i can have that ability.

i really like the thank a user feature - it decreases the amount of posts in a thread that are just agreement posts and rewards people for valuable posts.
 
dwype said:
i think this thread is relavent enough for me to post here instead of starting my own.

regarding tags, i wish there was a list of tags. i created a new thread and put some tags on it and i got a message saying i'm not allowed to create new tags.

as to experience points and such, i think it would be best if the number of posts a person makes doesn't affect a person's status very much, and the quality of one's posts affects it more.

sometimes i read very long threads and come out not having learned much because many of the posts are just people saying 'yeah i agree' or arguing back and forth with the same points.

i have to have made 10 posts to be able to thank a user for a post. i could just go and find a few threads to post in without really contributing to the thread just so i can have that ability.

i really like the thank a user feature - it decreases the amount of posts in a thread that are just agreement posts and rewards people for valuable posts.
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Interesting you should mention quality vs quantity, given that you just finished posting exactly 10 times in an hour to enable tagging in your posts :rolleyes:

What's the big deal about putting tags in your posts anyway? Hardly anyone does it, so I hope you're not intending to start any stealth advertising or linking as you won't find the moderators very forgiving.

Forgive me if I have it all wrong, but its not the way the newbs usually behave.
 
yeah i didn't want to wait - i wanted the thank a user feature because i've wanted to use it many times after reading helpful posts on here.

and i wanted to use the tags "positive expected value" "negative house edge" "positive player edge" "+EV" on the thread i made in the online casinos subforum

: )
 
dwype said:
yeah i didn't want to wait - i wanted the thank a user feature because i've wanted to use it many times after reading helpful posts on here.

and i wanted to use the tags "positive expected value" "negative house edge" "positive player edge" "+EV" on the thread i made in the online casinos subforum

: )
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I figured as much.

It's a shame you couldn't do what every other newb does (I.e.the polite thing) and just join in threads which interest you and post legitimate contributions.

I still don't get why you're desperate to tag...??
 
dwype said:
i think this thread is relavent enough for me to post here instead of starting my own.

regarding tags, i wish there was a list of tags. i created a new thread and put some tags on it and i got a message saying i'm not allowed to create new tags.

as to experience points and such, i think it would be best if the number of posts a person makes doesn't affect a person's status very much, and the quality of one's posts affects it more.

sometimes i read very long threads and come out not having learned much because many of the posts are just people saying 'yeah i agree' or arguing back and forth with the same points.

i have to have made 10 posts to be able to thank a user for a post. i could just go and find a few threads to post in without really contributing to the thread just so i can have that ability.

i really like the thank a user feature - it decreases the amount of posts in a thread that are just agreement posts and rewards people for valuable posts.
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This is something that is worth considering, we all came here with 0, just like you.


Some things have been revamped and changed since I've been here, but I like the system that CM uses for the most part because the system takes into account many different factors.

Also I don't understand the big deal about tagging, most don't do it. I will occasionally when bored. :)
 
Casinomeister said:
Before last night, everyone's points were being computed since the first postings were being made in this forum 13 years ago. I adjusted the computations to include only activity for the past five years, then I did it again for activity made in the past two years. This gives members who are currently active a better chance to be competitive with their points. There are a lot of members who were very active for a number of years, but have since left the forum. It seems pretty lame to award members with activity points when they no longer participate.
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29th December 2011
08:30 AM binshakindown has lost -59 Points for Posts points
08:30 AM binshakindown has earned 6 Points for User points
08:30 AM binshakindown has earned 1 Points for threads points

So was a new time period change made again in December, or was I just a bad poster.:D
 
How come there are no points for snipping off a sarcastic or silly response because you're never really paying attention to what the actual thread subject is?
 

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