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Contributor levels

bonnielu — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:17:52 GMT

What are the guidelines for confributor levels. Meaning by my question what are the point values that allow you to go up a rank?

What seems like long ago I have plenty of "numbers"and all of a sudden everything was erased and I had to start over.

Why do I care? i have no idea but I am just curious and I would love my numbers to be reinstated as a matter of principle.

Re: Contributor levels

StylishLady — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:19:33 GMT

Happened to me too. Not a big issue. Maybe the powers that be just did a re-set ?

Re: Contributor levels

Qgirl26 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:23:48 GMT

@bonnielu, my numbers have gotten reduced so many times! I have been a part of these boards for many, many years, long before the date mentioned. Back then they did not keep count of your posts or the date you joined or anything. (I'm talking late 90's). It seems every time they reformatted the boards once they did start keeping track, I lost many, many posts. My post number is incredibly low. The only thing it's taught me is that post numbers mean nothing and to just ignore them. I have no idea what it's supposed to mean on here but it means nothing to me.

Sorry, I know this is of no help.

Re: Contributor levels

fthunt — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:25:42 GMT

Up in ranks or Down........can you explain ranks? If it was a number system or better yet - A B C D Failed........ I might have a clue but.............a word changes to another word means absolutely nothing to me.

I don't even know what RANK I am..........I'll go look right now!

Re: Contributor levels

EatWell — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:29:06 GMT

@bonnielu wrote:
What are the guidelines for confributor levels. Meaning by my question what are the point values that allow you to go up a rank?

What seems like long ago I have plenty of "numbers"and all of a sudden everything was erased and I had to start over.

Why do I care? i have no idea but I am just curious and I would love my numbers to be reinstated as a matter of principle.

@bonnielu

When you reach a certain contributor level, you get a $100 gift card? 🤔

~Life is short. Don't sweat the small stuff. Enjoy everyday as if it is your last day on earth. You could die tomorrow.~

Re: Contributor levels

MamaWick — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:37:12 GMT

@fthunt it is listed right under your name. You are an "Esteemed Contributer." I don't know how this is calculated.

Re: Contributor levels

proudlyfromNJ — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:45:58 GMT

@MamaWick wrote:
@fthunt it is listed right under your name. You are an "Esteemed Contributer." I don't know how this is calculated.

@MamaWick @fthunt It's calculated by the number of posts you have. It will go up to the next level after a certain amount of posts. I don't know what the post numbers are but that's all it takes into consideration. Yes, if you were here years earlier you lost posts. If you notice under your picture everyone has the same start date 2010. That's if you started before then. I started in the nineties and it shows 2010.

Re: Contributor levels

dooBdoo — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:28:53 GMT

@bonnielu @fthunt

@MamaWick @proudlyfromNJ

Here's my post from a previous thread on the topic of "contributor ranks / titles":

QVC uses a pre-programmed web hosting package supplied and managed by Khoros (merged companies Lithium Technologies and Spredfast).
They use it on many of their website forums.
The contributor "ranking" system is an automagic internal software algorithm that appears to differ from one website to another, but in general it's not determined by only one factor.

You'll occasionally see that 2 posters might have the identical number of posts

but they have different "contributor titles."

That's because, for the most part, the software uses a

combination of such things as

number of posts, login activity, posts viewed, hearts,

registration date, etc.

I've seen no specific explanation from the developers for the automatic assignments on the Q Community -- to me the system is pointless, confusing, relatively meaningless, and I'm surprised they don't suppress the display since it doesn't really tell us anything and it merely raises unanswered questions.

We had a long discussion about this in a "Customer Care" thread almost a year ago that illustrates some of the variations (I had far too much time on my hands 😜🙃😉 and looked into it to see what I could figure out).

Here's the link to the discussion -- including details about the various post numbers associated with different contributor "titles" -- if you're interested.

https://community.qvc.com/t5/Customer-Care/I-should-be-a-Trusted-Contributor/m-p/5638537/highlight/true#M40112

Basically, this is the list of designations we seem to see here on the Q:

Occasional Visitor
Frequent Visitor

Visitor
Regular Visitor
Member

Established Member
New Member

Senior Member

New Contributor
Occasional Contributor

Contributor

Frequent contributor

Regular Contributor
Super Contributor
Valued Contributor

Trusted Contributor

Respected Contributor
Esteemed Contributor

Honored Contributor (from what I can tell, once we have this designation on the Q we don't see any additional changes to our so-called "ranking")

Re: Contributor levels

Cakers3 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:48:08 GMT

@bonnielu wrote:
What are the guidelines for confributor levels. Meaning by my question what are the point values that allow you to go up a rank?

What seems like long ago I have plenty of "numbers"and all of a sudden everything was erased and I had to start over.

Why do I care? i have no idea but I am just curious and I would love my numbers to be reinstated as a matter of principle.

@bonnieluMany of us lost our post counts and sign up dates during one of the upgrades-I think the last one.

My sign-up date is actually 2007.

Re: Contributor levels

I am still oxox — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:49:30 GMT

I have no clue what my level is but I will see it after this post.

Re: Contributor levels

Cakers3 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:51:57 GMT

Well since I am "Honored" and cannot advance anymore, I expect something. A little gift card would be nice.

LOL

Re: Contributor levels

EatWell — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:53:47 GMT

Do you loose rank if you get banned?🤔

Re: Contributor levels

proudlyfromNJ — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:56:34 GMT

@EatWell wrote:
Do you loose rank if you get banned?🤔

@EatWell Banned or just a time out? Banned means you can't post anymore.

Re: Contributor levels

SilleeMee — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:58:50 GMT

@EatWell wrote:
Do you loose rank if you get banned?🤔

I don't think so b/c I was ~~banned~~ suspended for a few days one time and nothing changed when I came back.

Re: Contributor levels

EatWell — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:15:57 GMT

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@EatWell wrote:
Do you loose rank if you get banned?🤔
@EatWell Banned or just a time out? Banned means you can't post anymore.

@proudlyfromNJ

Time out. Serving time in the naughty room. 😁

Re: Contributor levels

dooBdoo — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:59:50 GMT

@EatWell wrote:
Do you loose rank if you get banned?🤔

No.

Also, deleted posts are not subtracted from our listed post count.

Re: Contributor levels

MamaWick — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:47:34 GMT

@dooBdoo thanks for the info. I've been around here a loooooonnnnngggg time. I know my total posts have gone down at times, but I don't know why...nor does it matter.

Re: Contributor levels

bonnielu — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:48:31 GMT

Thought I was alone. Thanks for posting. Just curious where the level names change... at what number.

Re: Contributor levels

bonnielu — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:50:25 GMT

Thanks. I guess I have time on my hands. And just was curious.

Re: Contributor levels

fthunt — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:56:11 GMT

@MamaWick don't know how it's calculated? Neither do I. It sounds good tho - doesn't it.

LOL