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Forum Supporter Award - Christophe - 12-04-2004
Art,
I just notice a new "thing" attached to your profile : a "Forum Supporter Award" avatar.
What is it ?
Is it related to donations or the Gold Forum Donors program ?
Are there other Forum Members with such an award ?
What are the criteria to get it ?
etc, etc...
Cheers.
Ch.
Forum Supporter Award - HuliganRS - 12-04-2004
Christophe,
Good eyes. We are working on a way to distinguish Gold Forum Donors.
Rusty.
Forum Supporter Award - Art - 12-05-2004
Guys,
As Rusty said, this is a way to distinguish those who have donated by attaching a small graphic to their forum postbit (the postbit is what the software guys call the area that includes your forum name, avatar, user group, etc.)
I installed this last night and I'm glad to see how many people noticed it. I wanted to see if there would be any problems with the forum after I installed it, and it looks like everything is fine. Now, what graphic do we use to distinguish those who will receive this prestigious award?
Art
Forum Supporter Award - Dolf - 12-05-2004
Art,
What do you mean by "... what graphic do we use to distinguish those who will receive this prestigious award? "
Thanks,
Dolf
Forum Supporter Award - dannybou - 12-05-2004
Art Wrote:Guys,Art, the one you are using is fine with me.
As Rusty said, this is a way to distinguish those who have donated by attaching a small graphic to their forum postbit (the postbit is what the software guys call the area that includes your forum name, avatar, user group, etc.)
I installed this last night and I'm glad to see how many people noticed it. I wanted to see if there would be any problems with the forum after I installed it, and it looks like everything is fine. Now, what graphic do we use to distinguish those who will receive this prestigious award?
Art
Forum Supporter Award - Christophe - 12-05-2004
Art Wrote:Now, what graphic do we use to distinguish those who will receive this prestigious award?
Art
Art,
Good initiative!!
I think now you have to define your own system of awards
, in using (why not) famous Soviet orders, in reduced graphics versions.Hence, why not doing something in the style of the avatars system you had in the first days of this Forum : 1 post : avatar X; more than 10 posts : avatar Y; more than 100 posts : avatar Z; etc...?
We could imagine different levels of donation : $20 = Red Star graphics; $50 = Order of Glory; $100 = Red Banner; etc... and with each year new donation, you win a second, third, fourth, fifth... order. Then, just have to make equivalences : for example, 3 Red Stars = Red Banner, etc... Some of us will soonly look like Brezhnev !!!
More seriously, I'm sure such a system would motivate Donors !!
What do you think ?
We could also imagine having awards linked to the number of posts of Members : it would encourage them as being active and make contribution !!
Just some ideas...
Cheers.
Ch.
Forum Supporter Award - Mozzabloke - 12-05-2004
Art,
Just an idea but if you want to have some way of showing how many years someone has donated why not use a red banner 2nd awarding for 2 years and so on.
What do you think?
Mark
Forum Supporter Award - Art - 12-05-2004
Mark, nice idea, but will it show up that small?
What I was thinking for the amount donated would be the following:
Order of Victory...$500+
Hero of the Soviet Union...$100-$499
Order of Lenin...$40-$99
Order of the Red Banner of Labor $1-$39
The awards would be cumulative for the total donated over the year(s). So if somoeone gave a one time donation of $20, they would get an Order of the Red Banner..when/if they donated $20 again, they would have that award replaced by an Order of Lenin. What do you guys think of that?
Forum Supporter Award - Christophe - 12-05-2004
Art,
Not bad !!!
Except that the gap from the Order of Lenin to the HSU ($400) seems a little bit too wide. I think sub-categories would be welcome : too many years to wait for being "upgraded"...
BTW, I already have the Order of Victory... as my avatar
.And why not use WW2 orders to fill the gap: Suvorov, Kutuzov, Nakhimov, Ushakov... ?
Ch.
Forum Supporter Award - Art - 12-05-2004
hmmm, O.K., Then how about this:
Hero of the Soviet Union...$241-260
Order of Suvorov...$221-240
Order of Ushakov...$201-220
Order of Kutuzov...$181-200
Order of Nakhimov...$161-180
Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky...$141-160
Order of Alexander Nevsky...$121-140
Order of Lenin...$101-120
Order of the Red Banner...$81-100
Order of the Patriotic War...$61-80
Order of Honor...$41-60
Order of the Red Banner of Labor $21-40
Order of the Red Star $1-20
This way, you will get an award change for every $20 donation. For those that go beyond $260, the awards will be added on..for example if someone donated a total of $500, their awards would be an HSU medal, along with an Order of Suvorov. I would like to use only screwbacks for the awards as I think we should be able to get some nice detail as Tretov's Order of Lenin shows. I could also use a few Republic Awards at the top and move everything down if you feel the lower awards are unexciting.
Also, I'm thinking for the years donated award to be a closeup of the numbered portion of the Red Banner, rather than showing the entire award..
Art