Community Ranks

[M_Smart007]

I always have to go back to @UncleB 

https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/SmorgasBoard/Community-Ranks/m-p/5517340#M67819

https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/SmorgasBoard/Community-Ranks/m-p/5521160#M67869

[Meanmchine]

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@Thomas_Thumb wrote:

Ranking	Total Posts	Minutes on-line	Sign-Ins
New Member	1	5	1
Member	5	60	10
Established Member	10	180	20
Valued Member	25	480	40?
New Contributor	50	600	60?
Contributor	75	720	75
Regular contributor	100	840	100?
Frequent Contributor	250	2000	200?
Established Contributor	500	4000	350?
Valued Contributor	1000	8000	500?
Senior Contributor	3000	50,000?	1000
Super Contributor	5000	100,000?	2000?
* Mega Contributor	10,000	200,000?	3500?
* Real world Mega min	15,000
Epic Contributor	20,000	250,000?	7,500?
Legendary Contributor	30,000	350,000?	10,000?

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Im alot closer to Mega than you are @Brian_Earl_Spilner 

Replies

9,927

Total Signins	3224
Total Minutes Online	297035

[Brian_Earl_Spilner]

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@Meanmchine wrote:

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@Thomas_Thumb wrote:

Ranking	Total Posts	Minutes on-line	Sign-Ins
New Member	1	5	1
Member	5	60	10
Established Member	10	180	20
Valued Member	25	480	40?
New Contributor	50	600	60?
Contributor	75	720	75
Regular contributor	100	840	100?
Frequent Contributor	250	2000	200?
Established Contributor	500	4000	350?
Valued Contributor	1000	8000	500?
Senior Contributor	3000	50,000?	1000
Super Contributor	5000	100,000?	2000?
* Mega Contributor	10,000	200,000?	3500?
* Real world Mega min	15,000
Epic Contributor	20,000	250,000?	7,500?
Legendary Contributor	30,000	350,000?	10,000?

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Im alot closer to Mega than you are @Brian_Earl_Spilner 

Replies

9,927

Total Signins	3224
Total Minutes Online	297035

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Yeah, but which one of us is gonna log in and out 3-500 times to see if the threshold is 10k?

[Meanmchine]

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@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:

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@Meanmchine wrote:

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@Thomas_Thumb wrote:

Ranking	Total Posts	Minutes on-line	Sign-Ins
New Member	1	5	1
Member	5	60	10
Established Member	10	180	20
Valued Member	25	480	40?
New Contributor	50	600	60?
Contributor	75	720	75
Regular contributor	100	840	100?
Frequent Contributor	250	2000	200?
Established Contributor	500	4000	350?
Valued Contributor	1000	8000	500?
Senior Contributor	3000	50,000?	1000
Super Contributor	5000	100,000?	2000?
* Mega Contributor	10,000	200,000?	3500?
* Real world Mega min	15,000
Epic Contributor	20,000	250,000?	7,500?
Legendary Contributor	30,000	350,000?	10,000?

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Im alot closer to Mega than you are @Brian_Earl_Spilner 

Replies

9,927

Total Signins	3224
Total Minutes Online	297035

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Yeah, but which one of us is gonna log in and out 3-500 times to see if the threshold is 10k?

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I will bow and give you the honor

[UncleB]

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@M_Smart007 wrote:

I always have to go back to @UncleB 

https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/SmorgasBoard/Community-Ranks/m-p/5517340#M67819

https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/SmorgasBoard/Community-Ranks/m-p/5521160#M67869

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Thanks, @M_Smart007. 

Some of the speculation here is... interesting to say the least.  Now that the ability to @mention has been opened up to the entire community I really don't see what the rush is any longer.

A few things that have been mentioned before (by myself and others) that I'll repeat for any new viewers:

• The ranks are based on logins, post count, and time spent on the forums 
• The moderators don't know the forumula... only the admins do
• The three 'buckets' are weighed evenly (being over in one criteria doesn't help a deficiency in another)
• It's common knowledge that in Khoros communities the cutoffs for ranks are usually oddball numbers, to prevent gaming (by common knowledge, I mean this info is available via the public web)

I know we have a lot of fun here trying to figure out the "secrets" to FICO scores, but when it comes to reverse-engineering forum ranks I personally don't see the point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just my 2¢.

[Brian_Earl_Spilner]

@UncleB we're on a forum where people try to gather datapoints to reverse engineer proprietary scoring formulas and algorithms. Are you really surprised?

[UncleB]

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@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:

@UncleB we're on a forum where people try to gather datapoints to reverse engineer proprietary scoring formulas and algorithms. Are you really surprised?

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Surprised?  Nope, not at all.  Very (very) little surprises me these days.

[Anonymous]

I saved this snapshot on the very next login after receiving an email that my rank increased to Valued Contributor.

The post count (978+73, Replies + Topics Started) fits well with the table that Thomas_Thumb posted.

[Thomas_Thumb]

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@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:

@UncleB we're on a forum where people try to gather datapoints to reverse engineer proprietary scoring formulas and algorithms. Are you really surprised?

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Exactly, it's done for enjoyment not for value add . CassieCard, thanks for the detailed stats. Below are mine. I don't post all that frequently so that's my constraint. For many others it is number of log-ins. Generally not minutes on-line (except when there was a system glitch that reset minutes). It would be interesting to get more data points for minutes on-line for Valued, Senior, Super and Mega contributors. That's not a visible public domain attribute in user profile

Sign ins and minutes on-line for @M_Smart007  would be particularly insightful given his rather recent membership and Mega rank.

Total Page Views	99887
Total Messages Read	225705
Replies	3,256
Total Board Views	25197
Total Sign-ins	2617
Total Minutes Online	141581

[Thomas_Thumb]

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@Brian_Earl_Spilner wrote:

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@Thomas_Thumb wrote:

I see you are at 14,372 posts so I suspect you mean about 600 posts short of 15,000 for Mega - yes? Of course, posts on the smorgasboard don't count toward reaching the threshold.

As illustrated below, members can have well over 20,000 posts and not reach Mega rank (MyJourney has 31,001 as a Super Contributor while LS2982 is a Mega Contributor with 15,453 posts). Today's post range for Super Contributors is [5,759 - 30,001], [3,112 - 10,404] for Senior Contributors and [1,054 - 12,996] for Valued Contributors.

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No, I meant logins. The table shows 10k posts, with an update of 15k because you haven't seen anyone under 15k at mega. Based on the original numbers, I'm short of logins. At this point, I could log in and out 600 times and we would find out of 15k posts are actually needed, or if I already passed the threshold.

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Ok but ... the table previously benchmarked 5000 log-ins for Mega (now reduced down to 3500). Since we don't have the log-in count nailed down your result might be inconclusive. Regardless, it looks like you are on track to reach 15,000 posts before adding 600 log-ins so your rank up will probably be held back by log-ins. M_Smart007 logins and minutes on-line would be a good reference point for you.