Has the 'Respected Member' tag had its day?

[Dan]

Surely every member is respected.

It sounds ever so cliquey.

I think in the current times when everybody should be totally equal, denoting who's 'respected' it a bit cheeky.

It used to be called "Elite Member" - Christ, imagine if we had that these days?!?!?!
On TilersForums.com it's now 'Trusted Advisor' but even then the advice changes and it's marking old now inaccurate posts as if the post should be trusted. And it can cause a bit of a shitstorm every now and again because some poor sod has tiled their bathroom the old way and their tiles are falling off.

I've put a poll up to get a feel for it. But it's not to say if either outcome is clear - that we will go for it.

It's up for discussion.

Please be professional with your replies. That said we wont be warning anybody for speaking out. This is my own thread and my chin can take it.

 

[richy3333]

The short form course references remind me of the old Frost report sketch. Do you think that electrical trainee look down on Electrical Trainee who in turn look down on electrical trainee

If we are going over to just numbers can I be have a 69

 

[Spoon]

It would probably be more helpful if we all voted on any '****' replies and had those unhelpful idiots tagged. !

All depends on what people class as rubbish replies mate.
Some people who posts questions expect that they should be told how to do what they need. Sometimes it's not safe to tell them the info, for their own safety. This is then classed as 'a rubbish reply' and they get annoyed.
If everyone can vote on a post then this may not stop rubbish replies as they may get more positive votes than negative.

 

[Spoon]

Respect is earned is it not? I would say that this is probably coming from who has experience to help others rather than know it alls who disrespect genuine sparks who want to ask advice.

The 'Respected' banner was given to the members that the admin/mods thought were worthy of it.

 

[telectrix]

christ spoon, you got more medals/badges than the chelsea pensioners..

 

[HappyHippyDad]

Try any other electrician's discussion platform on the internet ....

Yes, I've heard it on other forums but not from the sparkies at the wholesalers or on other jobs. It seems to be an internet thing.

 

[123]

Keep it simple just give everyone a number

Numbers as usernames has to be the stupidest idea ever. Oh hang on

 

[Lister1987]

christ spoon, you got more medals/badges than the chelsea pensioners..

Gets more action than a Chelsea chick too....

 

[Baddegg]

Yes, I've heard it on other forums but not from the sparkies at the wholesalers or on other jobs. It seems to be an internet thing.

Funny how derogatory terms are not used when anonymity is removed isn’t it?.....

 

[Deleted member 105166]

christ spoon, you got more medals/badges than the chelsea pensioners..

@telectrix how do you manage to get Trainee Access without being either a Trainee, or a Mentor?

 

[DPG]

Tel can get anywhere. Lol

 

[123]

@telectrix how do you manage to get Trainee Access without being either a Trainee, or a Mentor?

He is a trainee, it's the 60th year of his apprenticeship

 

[Spoon]

christ spoon, you got more medals/badges than the chelsea pensioners..

Only same number as you mate.

 

[Spoon]

So is this to see how many tags we loose if the tags are removed. Only yesterday I only had 'Forum Mentor' being shown. Not sure why the others have appeared again.
Maybe the decision have been made to keep them after all....

 

[Dan]

So is this to see how many tags we loose if the tags are removed. Only yesterday I only had 'Forum Mentor' being shown. Not sure why the others have appeared again.
Maybe the decision have been made to keep them after all....

I'm having a look see who's got what. And then reorganising the usergroups to get rid of a lot of the tags but keep the usergroup access right.

eg; you're not DIY you don't need the DIY tag. But you might need access to DIY forum - which currently can only be done by adding the tag. So we just need a group for non-diy to apply you to, that gives you access to DIY forum. If that makes sense.

You don't need Mentor AND Trainee - Those both have access to trainee forums. So there's another gone.

CCTV / Alarms probably doesn't need a tag. You just chat about that in the forum - those with access know you have access. Nobody else needs know.

So that would leave you with Arms and Mentor.

 

[static zap]

I quite like the labels...when I see respected member ....

. Of course, we cannot condone outright attacks, racism and so on, but I really can't see why we are even ...

Youv'e been a very respectful Pirate my my reckoning.

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