topic Re: Contributor Status in Community Chat

Contributor Status

Miranda1550 — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:35:50 GMT

I do not understand the order of the Titles.

Super, Valued, and the others. would appreciate it if

someone could list them for me.

Re: Contributor Status

Krimpette — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:37:06 GMT

Actually, I sooooo wish they'd just get rid of those meaningless titles.

Re: Contributor Status

cotton4me — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:45:31 GMT

I found this from another thread about the same topic. This was an answer posted by @Kachina624

"QVC Bulletin Board

Occasional Contributor
Contributor
Frequent Contributor
Regular Contributor
Super Contributor
Valued Contributor
Trusted Contributor
Respected Contributor
Esteemed Contributor
Honored Contributor
Outstanding Contributor
Acclaimed Contributor
Exalted Contributor

Ranks are used to indicate the number, quality, and impact of your posts. As you spend more time in the community participating, your ranking level will progress.
The Community has a distinct set of ranking ladders which match your natural behavioral tendencies to either collect, contribute, or advise within the threads.

A community member starts as a “New Member” and depending on how often you visit and what you contribute will move through the following order."

Re: Contributor Status

dooBdoo — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:46:22 GMT

@Miranda1550, Since you asked, I'll list what we think the order is, but to my knowledge the moderators haven't verified this.

Occasional Contributor
Contributor
Frequent Contributor
Regular Contributor
Super Contributor
Valued Contributor
Trusted Contributor
Respected Contributor
Esteemed Contributor
Honored Contributor
Outstanding Contributor
Acclaimed Contributor
Exalted Contributor

The "titles" are based on an unknown (to us) software algorithm of number of posts and, maybe, hearts. Again, it's never been verfied by the Q Social Team. They're essentially meaningless, because if any of us choose to start posting quick images and then heart each other we all could have the same title after a short time (not seriously suggesting we do this... just an example of the way these "rankings" mean nothing).

Re: Contributor Status

dooBdoo — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:48:44 GMT

@cotton4me, GMTA!

Re: Contributor Status

Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 01 May 2016 15:55:56 GMT

@cotton4me wrote:
I found this from another thread about the same topic. This was an answer posted by @@Kachina624

"QVC Bulletin Board
Occasional Contributor
Contributor
Frequent Contributor
Regular Contributor
Super Contributor
Valued Contributor
Trusted Contributor
Respected Contributor
Esteemed Contributor
Honored Contributor
Outstanding Contributor
Acclaimed Contributor
Exalted Contributor

Ranks are used to indicate the number, quality, and impact of your posts. As you spend more time in the community participating, your ranking level will progress.
The Community has a distinct set of ranking ladders which match your natural behavioral tendencies to either collect, contribute, or advise within the threads.

A community member starts as a “New Member” and depending on how often you visit and what you contribute will move through the following order."

So .... if I understand the above correctly .... it's the MODERATORS that decide on the "quality" of our posts? Does one Mod decide, or do they vote on this? Do I have this right?

Re: Contributor Status

SaRina — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:03:08 GMT

@Krimpette wrote:
Actually, I sooooo wish they'd just get rid of those meaningless titles.

ITA. It's juvenile. However, Q isn't about to eliminate something that might be important enough to some posters to bring them here more often; hence, more possible sales. Everything the Q sets up on-line is geared for the result of increased sales. That is no secret.

Re: Contributor Status

dooBdoo — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:01:51 GMT

Tinkrbl44 wrote:
cottonball wrote:
I found this from another thread about the same topic. This was an answer posted by @Kachina624

"QVC Bulletin Board
Occasional Contributor
Contributor
Frequent Contributor
Regular Contributor
Super Contributor
Valued Contributor
Trusted Contributor
Respected Contributor
Esteemed Contributor
Honored Contributor
Outstanding Contributor
Acclaimed Contributor
Exalted Contributor

Ranks are used to indicate the number, quality, and impact of your posts. As you spend more time in the community participating, your ranking level will progress.
The Community has a distinct set of ranking ladders which match your natural behavioral tendencies to either collect, contribute, or advise within the threads.

A community member starts as a “New Member” and depending on how often you visit and what you contribute will move through the following order."

So .... if I understand the above correctly .... it's the MODERATORS that decide on the "quality" of our posts? Does one Mod decide, or do they vote on this? Do I have this right?

@Tinkrbl44, That quoted text is from another forum. From what I've seen, that's not what happens here. There also was an odd "blurb" about the "weight" of hearts on this forum and one of the moderators said those parts of the software aren't used on the Q Community. It's all meaningless... and I wish the tech staff would just block the "rankings" so they wouldn't create such a stir.

Re: Contributor Status

Miranda1550 — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:03:10 GMT

To dooBdoo Thank you for taking the time to answer, very kind.

Re: Contributor Status

Miranda1550 — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:06:26 GMT

Thank you to all the ladies who answered my request. Kind, caring, all describe the QVC Ladies.

Re: Contributor Status

World Traveler — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:13:19 GMT

I believe it has to do with the NUMBER of posts you do. When I had done 500 posts, I received a notification that said I was a Valued contributor.

I recently completed 1,000 posts, and again received a notification; this time saying I was now a Trusted contributor.

If you look at people's information when they post, to the left of the message they left, it will show the number of posts they have done. That will give you an idea of the range of post numbers needed in order to have that contributor status.

From what I have read in the past, most people don't care what the status is. But I think it shows the vested interest a poster has in the forums. I don't take it to mean that they know more than someone else on any given subject, just that they contribute a lot to the forum.

Those with Honoroed, like @dooBdoo, have several thousand.The highest number I have seen is around 19,000; but I forget what their status was.

Re: Contributor Status

ChynnaBlue — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:09:58 GMT

@Krimpette wrote:
Actually, I sooooo wish they'd just get rid of those meaningless titles.

Can you not just ignore them without the Devs getting involved? I don't even notice my own title, much less anyone else's.

I usually only look at a poster's registration date and post count, and even those I only look at if the person asks a question indicating she or he might be new here or may be a spammer.

If the reg date is very new and the post count is very small (100 or fewer posts), that may impact my response because it indicates the person may be very new here and need more basic help than someone with 4000 posts and a reg date of 2014.

Re: Contributor Status

qbetzforreal — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:16:36 GMT

@dooBdoo wrote:
@Tinkrbl44 wrote:
@cotton4me wrote:
I found this from another thread about the same topic. This was an answer posted by @@Kachina624

"QVC Bulletin Board
Occasional Contributor
Contributor
Frequent Contributor
Regular Contributor
Super Contributor
Valued Contributor
Trusted Contributor
Respected Contributor
Esteemed Contributor
Honored Contributor
Outstanding Contributor
Acclaimed Contributor
Exalted Contributor

Ranks are used to indicate the number, quality, and impact of your posts. As you spend more time in the community participating, your ranking level will progress.
The Community has a distinct set of ranking ladders which match your natural behavioral tendencies to either collect, contribute, or advise within the threads.

A community member starts as a “New Member” and depending on how often you visit and what you contribute will move through the following order."

So .... if I understand the above correctly .... it's the MODERATORS that decide on the "quality" of our posts? Does one Mod decide, or do they vote on this? Do I have this right?

@Tinkrbl44, That quoted text is from another forum. From what I've seen, that's not what happens here. There also was an odd "blurb" about the "weight" of hearts on this forum and one of the moderators said those parts of the software aren't used on the Q Community. It's all meaningless... and I wish the tech staff would just block the "rankings" so they wouldn't create such a stir.

The moderators are here to patrol and answer questions. A status moves up with the number of posts. So if you post your own posts or reply several times or to everything and if you're here everyday, all day-you will move up the status ladder.

Re: Contributor Status

dooBdoo — Sun, 01 May 2016 20:54:11 GMT

The bottom line (for me) is that it's just a number, just a silly, meaningless "title." If it's an easy switch on/off, I'd vote for blocking it. If it takes more than that, my vote is for the tech staff to devote their time to the myriad of other real problems on this wonky website.

Re: Contributor Status

sunshine45 — Sun, 01 May 2016 16:28:57 GMT

i had found these rankings on an HP forum months ago (shortly after the boards changed last june 2015) and had posted them here. it seems to be what qvc has applied in the new forums. the explanations DONT include the heart feature ( i dont believe). i THINK this is the full list of forum rankings for posters on the qvc forums.:

Ranks are used to indicate the number, quality, and impact of your posts. As you spend more time in the community participating, your ranking level will progress. The Community has a distinct set of ranking ladders which match your natural behavioral tendencies to either collect, contribute, or advise within the threads.

You will begin as a “New Member”, and depending on how often you visit and what you contribute, will move through the following rankings.

New Member

Occasional Visitor

Visitor

Frequent Visitor

Regular Visitor

Member

Established Member

Senior Member

Through your contributions to the community, you will move on to one of the following ladders:

Occasional Contributor

Contributor

Advisor

Frequent Contributor

Regular Contributor

Super Contributor

After navigating these steps, you will progress to the “Super User” ladder:

Valued Contributor

Trusted Contributor

Respected Contributor

Esteemed Contributor

Honored Contributor

Outstanding Contributor

Acclaimed Contributor

Exalted Contributor

Re: Contributor Status

January121 — Sun, 01 May 2016 18:16:54 GMT

@cotton4me wrote:
I found this from another thread about the same topic. This was an answer posted by @@Kachina624

"QVC Bulletin Board
Occasional Contributor
Contributor
Frequent Contributor
Regular Contributor
Super Contributor
Valued Contributor
Trusted Contributor
Respected Contributor
Esteemed Contributor
Honored Contributor
Outstanding Contributor
Acclaimed Contributor
Exalted Contributor

Ranks are used to indicate the number, quality, and impact of your posts. As you spend more time in the community participating, your ranking level will progress.
The Community has a distinct set of ranking ladders which match your natural behavioral tendencies to either collect, contribute, or advise within the threads.

A community member starts as a “New Member” and depending on how often you visit and what you contribute will move through the following order."

@cotton4me THANKS!!!!!!

Re: Contributor Status

bri20 — Sun, 01 May 2016 18:20:22 GMT

Do you get a crown once you reach Exalted status? Lol

Re: Contributor Status

sunshine45 — Sun, 01 May 2016 18:38:21 GMT

Beachy1 wrote:
Do you get a crown once you reach Exalted status? Lol

LOL.....i am counting on it!!!!

Re: Contributor Status

ECBG — Sun, 01 May 2016 19:15:15 GMT

Some of those high status labels belong to some very negative posters on this board.

Re: Contributor Status

missy1 — Sun, 01 May 2016 19:19:59 GMT

@ECBG wrote:
Some of those high status labels belong to some very negative posters on this board.

That's why I think it's measured by post count, alone.(which isn't accurate , anyways)