What is the criteria for becoming a honemeister?
Bill Watkins
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What is the criteria for becoming a honemeister?
Bill Watkins
Bill,
If you are referring to the title under your name, it's by the number of posts, regardless of whether they have any value or not. It is not overly accurate as I am a Honemeister (am not!).
As to becoming an actual Honemeister, I would assume lots of practice. I am qualified to comment on the first paragraph, but far from qualified to explain here.
RT
FYI -- there are two items... Title and Rank. Both are controlled by the number of posts a member has authored. The transition points are as follows:Quote:
Originally Posted by str8razor
Code:Title:
Junior Member 0 - 29 posts
Member 30 - 99
Senior Member 100+
Rank:
(blank) 0 - 24
Shaver 25 - 49
Barber 50 - 99
Honemeister 100+
Joe, I think the post limits for the titles and ranks are set too low... Maybe the trafic of this site went over everyone's expectations. I definitely think you should set the transition points higher... I was hardly shaver with my 30-40 posts, and not barber at all with 70. I also think that honemaister title should be the ultimate rank reserved for the higher posters... (Well, you can set Lynn's rank permanent honemeister:))
Maybe you can ask for members to post their title and rank examples, then you can select the best of them and use that. I already know Randy's suggestion Blabbermouth ;) but I think shaving related names are more fun.
maybe:
Rank 0-50 newbie (patron?)
50-99 badger wrestler (think xman posted this somewhere)
100-199 whisker twister
200-299 barber
300-499 hone crusher
500-1000 sumo honer
1000 + honemeister
and maybe make the senior member title after maybe 500 posts...
Now, I am sure someone will come up with funnier titles than mine, so go ahead...
have phun,
Nenad
Not to be a pain but Blabbermouth was mine!!!!:D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by superfly
However I really don't care what you call me as long as it's not late for dinner:D
oops, sorry :)Quote:
Originally Posted by RichZ
I personally don't think post counts are needed. Not that we have a problem here, but on my off road board, where we have a lot of youngin's, we disabled them. Mainly because some folks thought they meant something, and would respond to everything just to pad their count. Even if they didn't have something inteligent to say.
BADGER LOVER :pQuote:
Originally Posted by RichZ
Personally I feel that in order to become a HONEMEISTER you should have to prove that you can actually hone a razor with different types of blades and actually shave with them. We could have some of the current proven honemeisters check out our honing skills but then that might cause some dissention, I don't know. As some have said posting has nothing to do with the skill of honing a razor. I could put my wife on here and she could talk or post her way to a honemeister in a heart beat and yet do you think that she could hone a razor......... NOT.
Then again what you have now may just be OK. I am sure that some of the current honemeisters wouldn't want to be shaving with all of the razors that will be sent to them in order for them to analyze them. I guess we could go on the honor system and take the word of the person doing the honing and the shaving. :hmmm:
Bill Watkins
We could require pictures AFTER the shave!Quote:
Originally Posted by str8razor
RT
There's so much subtlety to a good edge. I can get a blade to shave easily, but how comfortable is that shave? A little extra effort on the hones will produce a very comfortable shave. Pictures after the fact would be the same, but the feel during and after would be quite different. A sustained effort with the hones will produce a truly wonderful shave that still looks the same as the lesser edges. It IS all about how it feels IMO.
X
<<Rank 0-50 newbie (patron?)
50-99 badger wrestler (think xman posted this somewhere)
100-199 whisker twister
200-299 barber
300-499 hone crusher
500-1000 sumo honer
1000 + honemeister>>
Or maybe:
0 - 50 Bleeder
51 - 100 liar <g>
101+ shaver
Tony
Tony,
Still no stropmeister???
RT
Gee, I can't believe you guys are making such a big deal out of this thing. The titles are really meaningless and personally I think they should be dropped and just have the post counts.
Hey we could have a convention once a year and all meet somewhere and have different competitions for stropping, honing, shaving kind of like that lumberjack competition they have each year. The guy who shaves the fastest with the fewest cuts wins now that would be something!
Ooops, I thought we were just "poking fun"!
RT
As some of you have stated, these titles and ranks don't really mean much...
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Originally Posted by Rob
In my experience, those with a high number of posts are not always those with the most knowledge... some are, while others are just very communicative/social on the forum. And unfortunately (as Rob said) a few will just be posting to raise their counts. :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by thebigspendur
That said, titles and ranks are somewhat traditional on most forums, and often provide a point for some healthy "kidding around" when certain members make it to a new level. I agree that we probably should add a few more levels, and the thresholds could use some upward adjustments. I checked the posts count for the top members and was surprised that only 15 have > 200 posts, and only 3 are >500 with the top one being 649.
I'd suggest we let it run as-is for awhile (until there are more posters with higher counts) and then change it... that way there will be a more meaningful distribution for those that care to put some value in these types of things. What da ya think?
I think if you keep that avatar Joe, we'll have plenty to dirstact us from "titles".