RadioRob

I can't believe I'm able to post this before someone had commented on it. I guess I'll have to work to add new features later at night as people are sleeping! Following our move from Xenforo to IPB, one of the most common requests I've seen from folks was around notifications. When someone reacted to a topic, they did not know what the reaction was. It simply said there was a reaction. I've been able to add the reaction to the notifications. You can now see the specific reaction you received. BEFORE: AFTER:

The horror... we are not straight people!

Just imagine if I would not have gotten the settings off before it spammed you with every single possible rank or badge possible... It would be like having your life flash before your eyes.

I just thought about it as being new all over again... for a short period of time, I had my V-card back.

I'm not sure I understand your question... why achievements? The simple answer is that it is a base part of the IPB software. It was applied this morning while upgrading to the latest version of the software which updates a few security bugs that were discovered and fixed. It does not hurt anything having it enabled, so I did not spend time to specifically disable it.

If that is the case, I'm manually adding a million points to my own score!! We've got some hot guys here I would not kick out of my bed for eating crackers.

I miss a lot of things... that's not unusual. 😳

That is correct. It's based on interactions. The default "starting" rank is "Newbie". As you do various activities on the site such as start new topics, reply to topics, get/give reactions, you gain points that move your virtual rank up. The "Newbie" note you saw earlier was shortly after the upgrade completed, but before the system had a chance to actually go back and count all of the activity on the site over the last 20 years or so. (That is actually STILL going on. We're only about 65% done counting right now.) Your rank as of right this second is "Enthusiast". Like I said, the system is still counting all of the posts, topics, reactions, and the various things that score points based on the thread. That's why I mentioned that for a short period of time, EVERYONE was a newbie.

Your reputation score is different than the achievement points. I just checked and even had the system actually recount your score for you. I show it as 700 with 402 posts. You can see exactly how this was calculated from your profile page: https://www.companyofmen.org/profile/3337-hotwhitethirties/reputation/ You'll see how many of each reaction you've received. As you click through each of the various types of content (topics, posts, status updates, etc), you'll see the exact what triggered each individual scoring decision. If there was a different number listed before, it was inaccurate so I apologize if there was a misunderstanding.

Absolutely. It’s not a competition. This is just something fun and a way of noting the top contributors to the site.

@marylander1940@jjkrkwoodand @WilliamM now make up our top 3. Remember... the system is counting oldest to newest, so those that have more of their content later will move more as the counting completes. This isn't the 2000 election, it's playing out more like the 2020 election.