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Oh no, I am not offended. Everyone (well I didn't hide it) on gupshup knows I have only 2 IDs. This one and "Sohail A" I don't post from that ID anymore. This is the one currently in use :p
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It's not just you Shikra..but dont let us go off topic :P
Appreciate your comments and good to see ppl being honest :)
so u is a moderator shik’ and isn’t admitting to it :k:
not a bad idea…but rating individual threads will be difficult with all the flooding going on.
Allow me to use this opportunity to re-introduce my rating system , which has proven both its effectiveness and user-friendly application
bad Idea I think
what is an interesting thread for a mod who s gonna rate it, might not be interesting for the rest of the guppies
The 'interesting threads' are on top most of the time anyway.
Regular guppies are not able to access it, the link I mean.
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bad Idea I think
what is an interesting thread for a mod who s gonna rate it, might not be interesting for the rest of the guppies
The 'interesting threads' are on top most of the time anyway.
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NO! The most flooded thread is on top most of the time you see a difference?!
I think i have clarified about the first para....
NeSCIO a mod wow 
well i would like to see that rating system…some one try to post a screeny is that possible?
Ali: :D, yeah, yeh din bhi dekhna tha
anyway, here’s the quote from that thread:
why not make a rating system of guppies.
just to give an idea of which guppie is a ‘valuable’ guppie at GS.
and perhaps mention everyone’s ranking alongside their no. of posts
(the numbers used in the following outline are just hypothetical)
now, several things should be considered:
it is very easy to flood in certain forums whereas it is more difficult to even put a sensible reply in others
active users should get a higher ranking than a guppie who posted a lot four years ago.
if someone opens a thread which gets a lot of replies it means that the ‘topic’ was apparently very interesting.
but again in some forums even a smilie-thread can get 100 replies, whereas in others a good topic only gets 10
how to deal with these problems:
you have basically TWO sides:
the active poster (point 1 and 2): the replies u post urself
the passive poster (point 3 and 4): the replies u get to ur threads
point 1: you look at how much someone has posted in various forums…and for each post in each forum u’ll get some ranking-points. For example: if u put 1 post in Religion it is equal to putting 25 posts in Cafe.
in other words: there are weighing factors for each forum.
so if someone posts 50 posts in Cafe and 2 in Religion, his/her ranking points will be + 100 (=50 x 1 + 2 x 25). (just like in cricket u get more points for scoring a century agains australia, than against kenia)
point 2: because we have to consider current users, you can ONLY look at the posts from the last 5 or 6 months. So, guppies who haven’t posted for a long time will over time automatically lose their ranking (just like in sports like cricket/tennis etc)
so, point 1 and 2 together give a ‘ranking’ of the active-posters side.
now the passive-side
point 3: u could look at the average replies to ur threads over the last 5/6 months.
two problems arise here: -1/ merging threads
-2/ threads with more than 500 or so replies: u could just put a treshold at 500....annything above will give the same points
point 4: again, average posts per thread in Cafe are counted less than average posts per thread in Poetry for example.
this is the passive-poster side
the active and passive together give u the ranking of a guppie
advantages of this method:
people will be more inclined to reply in other forums too…check out those forums…
people will be motivated more to open ‘interesting’ threads! threads which will appeal to other guppies will get more replies
using this method we can get an insight into guppies who are doing a good job in other forums, without them having to flood. there are a lot of guppies in other forums who are unknown only because they don’t post much…like in Poetry, Culture etc
Ahmadjee’s wish will be fullfilled that ppl should check out other forums too
disadvantages and solutions to them
one might say that people will now be inclined to start flooding in other forums 
solution for this: make sure that the weight of a forum is inversely related to how much is posted in that forum: in other words: if a forum will get flooded, the weighing factor of that forum will decrease thus ensuring that posting in that forum gets less attractive! :k:
if u see any disadvantage please tell
^ Is that an automatic system that will be implemented or someone will have to do it manually? Because if it is manually done, then I don't think anyone would want to take that headache because there are are lot of if and thens.
^with a few fixes here and there it can be made fully automatic
Hmmm in generally I agree with u Nescio but then the point 2 is makin me headache. I for myself am not that active any more and I have my reasons, my personal life, family etc. But that would mean i would have to be declared as a passive user n then I feel becoming a flodder just for the special invite. You getting me? (note: this is an example doesnt reflect me!!!). On the other hand we have very active users who dont even like to switch to other forums like WA, SPORTS and r basically good for bak baking and obtaining the status with much ease.
Aint this a bit unjust?!
And yeah i need support from the high roots of this forum and yet i didnt get any answer just hope its been talked about that at MOD Forum....til then ILL let at least my face disappear from this site :)