Forum Rank Names

[MorbidBirdy]

A while ago I updated a lot of things on the forum - fixing boards and threads, re arranging, re naming, ect -

One thing i wanted to change was the Rank names. They are cheesy, and we have had them since the forum opened way back in 2004. Not much thought was put into them at that time.

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas for the rank names.

Current rank names are as follows:

Fangirl 0-99 posts
Fan 100-349 posts
Band Member 350-799 posts
Leader 800-1999 posts
Producer 2000+ posts

I may be changing the number of posts you need to rank up as well.
And there can be more than 5 rankings.

So if you have any ideas for some ranking names, please let me know!

[Shintotchi]

Maybe you could add in Roadie, Opening Band, or Street Team member? X3 I dunno. And I like the new layout.

PS: Where'd you get that cute sig of Die?

[MorbidBirdy]

That's an idea, but you don't think it is cheesy or none creative?
Or maybe I could just have like...three ranks. After all, they aren't a big deal and i highly doubt anyone pays attention to them.

[yuri]

Sweet monkey sundae, I've been outta the loop for awhile. I like the banner! The band members look so different to me now. I saw the idea in the earlier reply before this one and I kinda love the thought of having rankings like roadie, opening band, or street team member and such. Just my whole two cents on the idea.

[xchichix]

I like the first idea. I don't know because "fan girl" is kind of used more as a harsh term nowadays. Roadie, opening band, those are good. And maybe even record label staff like president, manager, producer.

[Melinen]

Now this is only an idea (and might be a stupid one, too) but how about names of the instuments? I've seen it used on a Finnish jrock forum and people seemed to like them there.

[MorbidBirdy]

That is an interesting idea, but with rankings, usually th lower ranks have less superior names and the higher ranks have better/more important names. How would you do that wit instruments?

[Melinen]

Well, the way they did it in that forum was to start with less cool instruments, such as a triangle, a maraca and a recorder (that's a kind of flute, isn't it? or then my dictionary lied to me, lol) and move onto more valued instruments. That, of course, depends on which instruments people value, but here they could for example be bass, guitar and drums, and the highest could then be vocalist.

[jkong]

maybe for a few names you can add
first club gig, signed by record label, in the studio, indies, going major,first mag cover, opening band, headlining,

yea....i donno if those are cool or not, but their just a few suggestions.

[xchichix]

^ Thats exactly what I was just about to write!

[Shintotchi]

Yeah you could go from Family Values to Deftones to End of Records if you wanted tours or labels.

I don't think it's cheesy. Maybe generic-ish, but not cheesy. Generic's not bad, because while you want to have creative names you also want to make it ovious that the person is getting a better title an dnot just a new one. Some forums operate with just giving new names, but I kind of like it when one rank is better than the other. Maybe have it so that everyone under 500 or 1000 posts gets the generic build up so they can tellw hen they'r emoving up the chain. And then one they've hit that peak number, the rankings can get more creative- like Toshiya's roadie, Kyo's water bottle, Kaoru's chin pubes, etc. XD

[MorbidBirdy]

Kaoru's chin pubes....XD

[kamisamakyo]

hahaha yeah just name it after each body part i.e "Kaoru's chin pubes", Kyo's middle finger, Toshiya's teeth, Die's eyes, Shinya's legs, or as courtesy of loligon we have to get the top rank as "big poppa" hahaha

[yuri]

I gotta second the "big poppa" one because it would be bad-ass. The instruments idea isn't a bad one either could go for guitarist, bassist, drummer, or vocalist and what-not. Heck, even include Kyo's mic and the tours or labels is a nice as well. If you find enough of them that everyone likes you could put them in a poll and the winners could replace the old rank names.

[kamisamakyo]

why dont we use, or do a new, fave song poll and with the average results set the ranks out like that, so maybe the top rank would be Obscure (jst coz many like this song no bias on the results lol)