Rankings (post count) have been added

Post by **Ghost** » Wed May 19, 2004 8:05 am

I think â€œIBDoF Striderâ€

Post by **Darb** » Wed May 19, 2004 8:32 am

Ok, "IBDoF Strider" (2931) has been added.

Any others ?

Post by **KiltanneN** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:38 am

Brad_H wrote:The latter one is a bit esoteric.

I think I HAVE to agree - I don't consider myself a complet tyro in Middle-Earth lore - but did not recall myself that Aragorn/ Strider used the name of Elessar.

Doesn't even ring any bells - is that actually right?

kitl

Post by **KiltanneN** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:40 am

Speaking of rankings - I think it's time we allowed MK to experiance the regular rankings again - there have been very little oppurtunities lately to even try out whether or not he is as fast as sE at defending the Chronicles.

kilt

Post by **Darb** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:47 am

Speaking of rankings - I think it's time we allowed MK to experiance the regular rankings again - there have been very little oppurtunities lately to even try out whether or not he is as fast as sE at defending the Chronicles

[faithful psychophant]

I hear and obey, master.

[/faithful psychophant]

Post by **Darb** » Wed May 19, 2004 9:58 am

Kilty asked:

I did not recall myself that Aragorn/Strider used the name of Elessar ... is that actually right?

Yep. He was given the name "Elessar, the Elf Stone" by the powers that be after he became king at the end of LOTR. The movie glossed over that.

If I recall, two of the tokens he was given by Galadriel were the Ring of Barahir (which was given to Barahir, one of Aragorn's VERY distant ancestors from way back in the first age, by Prince Finrod of the Noldor). The other was an ancient green beryl stone from the treasury of Formenos in Valinor.

Both heirlooms were symbols of friendship and commemorative of the gratitude of the immortal Elves to the loyalty, bravery and self sacrifice of the early and notable ancestors of the Rangers, the last surviving heirs of the kings of men of old.

/me idly wonders if that above & beyond explanation is worthy of a Sherlock

Post by **Ghost** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:30 pm

kiltannen wrote:Doesn't even ring any bells - is that actually right?

I'm hurt

- is that actually right?

Post by **KiltanneN** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:38 pm

Ghost wrote:I'm hurt - is that actually right?

No need for tears Ghost, I was not suggesting that your statement was wrong - merely that my understanding was likely to be faulty. Up till the point I asked - the Elessar=Aragorn/Strider was implied, fairly strongly, but not stated. And While I consider myself fairly bright

I recognise that my ability to pick up on subtleties is not without flaw.

kilt

Post by **Darb** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:42 pm

Ghost: Hey, I defended your honor (pardon the pun on ranks) against that thuggish Palmer fellow

Post by **Ghost** » Mon May 24, 2004 6:42 pm

Thanks, Brad I appreciate it.

Brad's creation of the Star Trek / Gene Roddenberry threads made me think about the dates for Star Trek.

The new Enterprise series has a date of 2151 and states it is approximately 100 years prior to the original Star Trek series.

Maybe a ranking of Star Trekker, Star Gazer, or Vulcan Companion.

Post by **KiltanneN** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:48 am

Due to some superb work on Brad's part we now have another OADG.

I think we should recognise this success by setting up a new special rank!

IBDoF Salesperson
Author Hunter
Traffic Generator

Or something aong those lines!

kilt[/url]

Post by **Darb** » Tue May 25, 2004 8:51 am

Nah, no special rank needed. Thanks though.

I'll stick with the regular progression ... and the occasional "dunce cap"

Post by **Darb** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 5:42 pm

Well, it looks like I'll soon be going where nobody has gone before ... right off the top of the ranks scale.

Anyone have any ideas for ranks beyond 3k ?

/me pauses long enough to give Awren a big smooch.

Kahrey · Post by **Kahrey** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:02 pm

My goodness, you're almost to 3k!

Kahrey · Post by **Kahrey** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 3:44 pm

Do you have an updated ranking system that you could post?

Post by **KiltanneN** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 5:51 pm

I had thought of simply posting a link to this post:
viewtopic.php?p=12508#12508

But realised that there have indeed been a couple of minor changes...

Special Titles:

Site Admin
Professional Wordsmith
Critic
Editor
Defender of Database Integrity et Critic
Defender of the Chronicles Stylesheet
High Moderator and Lord of the Database
Deep Thinker
Judge Roy Bean
^Dunce Cap^

Numeric Rankings:

Bookworm 1
Apprentice Scribe 50
Scribe 125
Scribe Adept 225
Literature Addict 350
Fireman 451
Assistant Scholar 500
A Lamb With Horns 666
Born Again Reader 667
Scholar 675
Devoted Scholar 875
Viking Skald 1179
Scholar Adept 1241
Vlad's Minion 1476
Shakespearean Groupie 1564
IBDoF Silver Star of Valour 1962
Minister of Truth 1984
Monolith Dancer 2001
IBDoF Strider 2931
Methuselah's Child 2136
MST3K 3000

We do need some more rankings for our perennial overachiever

I am not terribly familiar with the Star Trek Universe - but considering the numbers involved - I suspect that's where we'll need to pull those numerical relevancies from...

I suggest "USS Enterprise Librarian" as the first one to throw in - now all we need is to come up with a numerical referance - I took a quick look here:
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/s ... index.html
and while they do publish the stardates - I can't make head nor tail of them - the first stadate is in the low 1300's while the last stardate is in the high 5900's - they obviously can't stand for years... Perhaps somebody knows how to translate the stardates into the gregorian calender?

kilt

Post by **Darb** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 8:21 am

"gragorian" ?!

Oh, Kilty, how could you ... and you being a budding geneologist.

(horrified at the brutal spelling)

Post by **KiltanneN** » Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:07 am

Brad_H wrote:"gragorian" ?!

Oh, Kilty, how could you ... and you being a budding geneologist. (horrified at the brutal spelling)

Thx Brad!

All fixed up now

kilt

holmes_douglas · Post by **holmes_douglas** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 11:40 am

Can you find something in here?

Zager & Evans - http://www.lyricsdepot.com wrote:In the year twenty-five twenty-five, if man is still alive, if woman can survive they may find
In the year thirty-five thirty-five, ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
ev'rything you think do and say, is in the pill you took today.
In the year forty-five forty-five, you ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
you won't find a thing to chew, nobody's gonna look at you.
In the year fifty-five fifty-five, your arms hangin' limp at your sides,
your legs got nothin' to do, some machine's doin' that for you.
In the year sixty-five sixty-five, you won't need no husband, won't need no wife,
you'll pick your son, pick your daughter too, from the bottom of a long glass tube.
In the year seventy-five ten, if God's a comin' He oughta' make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say, "Guess it's time for the Judgement Day."
In the year eighty-five ten, God is gonna shake his mighty head,
he'll eighter say, "I'm pleased where man has been."
Or tear it down, and start again.
In the year ninety-five ninety-five, i'm kind a wonderin' if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken ev'rything this old earth can give, and he ain't put back nothin'.
Now it's been ten thousand years, man has cried a billion tears,
for what he never knew, now man's reign is through,
but through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight so very far away maybe it's only yesterday
In the year twentyfive twenty-five, if man is still alive
if woman can survive they may find.

Kahrey · Post by **Kahrey** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 5:04 pm

That's funny.

Aunflin · Post by **Aunflin** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:29 pm

Just wait, Brad...get to 3535--and you can be a "Pill taker...."

Post by **Ghost** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:10 am

Here are a couple of ideas -

1) The invention of writing (cuneiform tablets) dates back to 3200 B.C. I know it is backwards, but how about the rank of â€œIDBoF Writerâ€

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 8:48 am

Off the top of my head, don't know how suitable these are:

Paperback Writer (for Beatles fans maybe)

Pregnant With Prose

Professor Posterus Emeritus

Elephant of Erudition

Lookum-At-Many-Bookum

Reading Wrangler

Post Prostitute

Carpal Tunnel Victim

holmes_douglas · Post by **holmes_douglas** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:15 am

A different approach may be required.

Why not call the top spot something like 'Trailblazer' and break off new categories behind them at regular intervals (every 250 or 500) and name them after the elapsed time or the posting that marked the event? Then the categories become a trail to follow the leader, and in the event of his lagging or someone more prolific, the title of Trailblazer becomes like the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

Post by **KiltanneN** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 9:27 am

holmes_douglas wrote:A different approach may be required.

Why not call the top spot something like 'Trailblazer' and break off new categories behind them at regular intervals (every 250 or 500) and name them after the elapsed time or the posting that marked the event? Then the categories become a trail to follow the leader, and in the event of his lagging or someone more prolific, the title of Trailblazer becomes like the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

Nice Idea - but too much work! We'd have to keep checking it!

kilt

btw - did you ever get a chance to look at enhancing the SQL to include ratings? Or did I not get that message through to you...