I'm sorry and I know your new title system has only been in operation for a week but it seems to encourage pointless postings.

No one can deny that:
Aaron Young
Serge
Clunietp
Yonatan
MartinLiss

All deserve the guru status as all their postings have been solely VB related but it seems that several members (they know who they are) are intent on achieving that title by posting any old crap!


I know you’ve probably got mixed feelings about this because, the more ‘hits’ the site gets, the happier your advertisers will be, but it’s spoiling what is/was a VERY good forum.

contributions from Serge and Co seem to have dropped of lately. If they have been put off by the deterioration in quality it will be a sad loss for every one

I think that having the number of posts displayed by the user name also exacerbates the situation.

So, my suggestion is:
Do not display the number of posts next to the user name.
Revert back to the three tier titles ie Junior Member, Member and Senior member with the <30 , 30 –100 and 100+ intervals but use New Member instead of Junior member because that seems to cause offence to every junior member (I know – I didn’t like it either!)

Keep the Guru title for the true VB gurus but only award it to those who have > 1024 postings AND truly deserve it.