New LAVAG Rank System?

[gleichman]

Noticed that everyone has a rank "Newbie" next to their picture. New update to the forum software?

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

On 7/27/2021 at 10:23 PM, gleichman said:

Noticed that everyone has a rank "Newbie" next to their picture. New update to the forum software?

Very obviously and the start date seems to be July 31, somehow (more likely whenever you first logged in after the forum update).

That's at least what most of my Ranks have as granting date. Funny to see that I have managed to create both my 10th and 500th Lava  post and been one month and also one year after joining Lava on that same day! Apparently the system doesn't know about a 10 year anniversary, but who knows maybe in 8 years from now it may grant the 25 years anniversary. 😃

[ShaunR]

I'm an apprentice, apparently 

When I finish my apprenticeship, I might be able to write some useful software. 

[Francois Normandin]

and perhaps even getting paid for it...

[Rolf Kalbermatter]

15 hours ago, ShaunR said:

I'm an apprentice, apparently 

Buaaah, not fair. I'm still only a Rookie! 😂

[jacobson]

4 hours ago, Rolf Kalbermatter said:

Buaaah, not fair. I'm still only a Rookie! 😂

You're doing better than jeffk, he's still a newbie. I guess LAVA just has high expectations.

[Neil Pate]

We could always just make dumb posts and rate each other 😉

For some reason this seems appropriate...

 

[ShaunR]

1 hour ago, Neil Pate said:

We could always just make dumb posts and rate each other 😉

For some reason this seems appropriate...

 

They must be the newbies.

Here are the apprentices.

Edited August 18, 2021 by ShaunR

[Lipko]

They got a medal for every single bullet they fired?

Anyhoos, I miss the "outsider" or "I only use local variables" rank.

[Bryan]

On 8/18/2021 at 5:17 PM, ShaunR said:

Here are the apprentices.

That's a lot of participation awards...

 

I'm surprised an Admin hasn't chimed in yet to let us in on the new hotness.

Edited August 25, 2021 by Bryan

[hooovahh]

18 hours ago, Bryan said:

I'm surprised an Admin hasn't chimed in yet to let us in on the new hotness.

I might be wrong but I think there is only one Admin left.  As a Mod I don't have control or visibility on this.  I was surprised as everyone else.  But at the same time I just assumed this was a relatively simple update on the board that came with a new feature.  It probably is a good idea to just keep the place somewhat up to date, rather than waiting several years and then have a much more difficult update process.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

I dunno what happened! Who did this?!...

Just kidding. It was me (i'm the Admin, BTW). Ya a new-fangled gamification ranking system is in place and I haven't had the time to re-configure the defaults. 
That photo with those all those medals made me LOL. 😀

 

[Francois Normandin]

Gave me a good laugh as well... but apparently this image is fake.
Once you know it, you wonder why the medals on the sleeves are all pinned towards the down direction with the ribbon stying straight even though one general has his arms bent and the other one not...