Thread: 'Honemeister' should not be based...

Originally Posted by azjoe

Maybe it's just me... I guess I'm having one of those 'old and crotchety' days... but it only took me maybe two visits to the site after I joined to realize that the "Rank" (which is what the vBulletin forum software calls it) of "Honemeister" had no relationship to the capability called "honemeister".

It's true that people realize this very quickly. But if they've been told to get to SRP and contact a honemeister, this doesn't help them much.

How to find a honemeister (currently):
1: "Is there anybody here that can hone my razor?"
2: "You need to go to SRP and get a honemeister."
3: "Wow there are a bunch of them, which one do I want?"
4: "Is there anybody here that can hone my razor?"
5: "You need to talk to lynn or randy or joe."
6: "WTF are these people and where do I find them?"
7: "PM ...., ....., or ....."

versus:
1: "Is there anybody here that can hone my razor?"
2: "You need to go to SRP and get a honemeister."
3: "Oh, here's one. (right click on name and send PM)."


As for the previous poster: There is already something that the other forums and SRP have agreed on to identify those who are available to hone razors: 'honemeister'. It's just that the forum rank obscures just who those honemeisters really are.

azjoe: I've got no problem with ranks, I wasn't the least bit confused by barber, shaver, etc, heck B&B has a labyrinth of ranks, it seems every time I log in there I've got another rank. It's just that 'honemeister' has achieved a special meaning elsewhere in the shaving community -- this meaning may well have originated from the SRP honemeister post-count rank, but it's achieved a meaning beyond the 100-post-count that the SRP rank means, so we should seriously consider adjusting the SRP rank scheme to conform to its exogenous meaning.

edit:
Maybe 'honemeister-for-hire'? or some such?