OK, folks, I'll fess up..... It was I who PM'd Justin and asked him if the levels at which one advances from a "newbie" to a "Junior Member" to a "Full Member", etc. were locked in place and could not be changed, or if as administrator, he could give the levels new names and/or add more levels. Why, you ask?
I regularly visit several motorcycle enthusiast forums where you can register and post your opinions, advice, rants, pics, jokes, etc., such as Chromeheads.org, BMWMOA.org. Moto Guzzi's Wildgoosechase.com, England's Moto-Bins.uk (and others). In each of these forums, once you officially register, you start out as a
"newbie" level member (or something similar) and once you hit a certain number of posts (like 100), your status level changes to something like
"Junior" or
"Regular" or something like that, and when you reach a higher milestone (like maybe 500) hit become a
"Senior" member and then maybe after 1000 posts, you become something like a
"Hero" member (as in the Wild Goose Chase forum, or
"Yabb God" at the Moto-Bins forum.
I just thought it would be fun to have levels that recognize those members who participate regularly and often. I didn't come up with the "labels" you 've all wondered about, however. That was Justin, your wacky administrator.
Maybe I opened up a can of worms here. I kind of liked the idea of status levels for members that change the more they post. But that's just me. We can always ask Justin to put things back the way they were!
