Some Ideas I Had Options

[Coomer]

This morning I had some ideas for the site that I figured I'd share and get your guys' input on.

• Zip-Code Based Member Search
  You guys(in the US...sorry everyone else...but the normal location search will be coming back soon) would be able to input your five-digit zip code. Once enough people input their zip codes, I'd release the search function, which runs on a query that I created a while ago at work that calculates how far zipcodes are from each other. So you could login, then go to the page, choose how big of a radius you'd like to find people within, choose ordering options(member name, registration date, distance from yourself, etc.), and then you could find people close to you.
  
• Member Ranking System
  My second idea revolved around the idea that having everyone(except management) being an "Enthusiast" is boring. I thought about past attempts we'd made in trying to figure out a ranking system, and today I realized that maybe members could be ranked on a gear system. For example, if someone has under 30 posts or something, their label could be "1st Gear." 30 and over but under 150 could be "2nd Gear," etc. Looking at it now, it seems kind of dumb to me, but I'm curious as to what you guys think, or if you could suggest something else for this.

So let me know what you think.

[creis]

first one is good, I like it. but the gear thing, sounds like it would just be changing the word Enthousiast to a gear. I though that mabe rather then going buy how active a person is, it would be on an aproval rating, like every post you make other people (mebers only and not yourself) can chose (approve or disapprove) and your overall rating would be a % based number that shows weither you said something that added to the thread or if you just listed some BS. it would also represent your credabiblity as a person for selling stuff, and how knolagable you are about our cars. (its more or less a glorified poll)

The main problem with the current system is that someone who has been with the site for years would have a really high post number even if they only maid a few posts a week, but someone who has been here for a month and posted 10 a day would not have a high score. and its too easy to hack, i could make a thread and post 1000 times to it and get my rating up high.

This post has been edited by creis: Nov 20, 2004 - 6:23 AM