Achievement unlocked

[CDNSushi]

My profile displaying "100 points" for me welcoming 50 people, owning 3 kilt pins and getting married in a kilt adds nothing more than a line of text that took too much time and effort to add and was quickly forgotten a week later by those who had originally wanted to see it.

Let me just clarify, that I wasn't recommending that this be a "point" system at all. That was another poster's idea, and I just worked on the basis of what he said. I don't think that you can really justify that owning 10 kilts is worth "x" points and welcoming 50 people is worth "y" points... But just that they are just different ways to participate... It would be impractical to have most of this next to peoples' avatars... I think my idea was more along the lines of having "achievements" as part of a person's profile page that people can view if they wish...

LadyM, it is just human nature to desire to be recognized for something, or to feel special or unique. This is why, I suspect that so many of the forum were so fond of the titles, for instance. It doesn't even have to be anything significant or society-changing... Even when I play World of Warcraft, I've been there for a long, long time, new members routinely get achievements for silly, mundane things like catching 100 fish... Well, it's completely meaningless to me, but to that newbie, it's awesome! And everyone in the guild sends him a quick "gratz." To me it might sound trite, but to him, that probably just made his day.

Reminds me of a Farside cartoon...

[Lady M]

Let me just clarify, that I wasn't recommending that this be a "point" system at all. That was another poster's idea, and I just worked on the basis of what he said. I don't think that you can really justify that owning 10 kilts is worth "x" points and welcoming 50 people is worth "y" points... But just that they are just different ways to participate... It would be impractical to have most of this next to peoples' avatars... I think my idea was more along the lines of having "achievements" as part of a person's profile page that people can view if they wish...

LadyM, it is just human nature to desire to be recognized for something, or to feel special or unique. This is why, I suspect that so many of the forum were so fond of the titles, for instance. It doesn't even have to be anything significant or society-changing... Even when I play World of Warcraft, I've been there for a long, long time, new members routinely get achievements for silly, mundane things like catching 100 fish... Well, it's completely meaningless to me, but to that newbie, it's awesome! And everyone in the guild sends him a quick "gratz." To me it might sound trite, but to him, that probably just made his day.

Again I will state, I do believe we have numerous ways to express ourselves on this forum that was can utilize and many ways to discover more about others. I will quickly add the reminder of the great deal of effort, money and time it would take to create such a system and leave with, a personal note which is slightly off topic... I hate the achievement system in WoW but I won't go into that here.

I believe we have to respectfully agree to disagree. If anyone would like to discuss with me further, I think it would be best to take it to private messages.