CHiP CHiP?

Why instead of Private or some other rank does it say CHiP CHiP under my name?

It's a brand-new special rank! We've come up with this rank to designate our Compulsive Hyper interweb Posters. If you have been give this rank, that means that the mod team has noticed a special effort on your part to drive up your post count by posting the same thing in multiple places, posting one response in multiple posts, or otherwise posting more quantity than substance.

You can earn your way into this rank and you can earn your way back out of it again by posting relevant original posts or responses, using your Edit button when you think of something add after you hit the Submit button, and keeping your posts in the section for that subject or purpose.

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Nice move, mods. ;)

most excellent. :mrgreen:

haha, to admit, im a little scared to post this

i like this idea though, it will allow people to know who those type of people are, and its not really mean, like other sites

I like my rank! :-D

not to be mean,but im pretty sure its not somthing to be proud of

i think they made up this new "special rank" becuase of that stupid thumb war thing that went one the other night,i have no clue what all that was even about (but its ok,i dont want to so dont explain)

(sorry if all that sounded a little rude, i didnt mean for it to be)

Wow..........I have now reliezed that there is no room for humor on this site I will try and tone it down a little everyone. Also I wasnt trying to move my rank up with that thumb war thing it really was just meant as a joke. I mean rank doesnt really mean anything does it?

^ To some people, it does, yeah. I think it has more to do with posting non-topical things than posting a lot. I've posted 200+ since I've joined, but I try to keep everything on topic. I just have a hard time shutting up. :D

ok ok, im sorry i was bein a little mean up there,i know you were just tryin to have some fun,but i mean,c'mom keep that kind of stuff to pm's like green man (i think) said

i dont really think rany means that much, if we were ranked on how much we actually know about snakes,how much we are liked by people here,what kind of posts we post and stuff like that i know some of us (even me) would prolly not be the ranks we are.You just get ranked on how many posts you make, i could sit here all day and just type BLAH BLAH BLAH and of course my ranking would go up (but, i would most likely get banned too)

and once again sorry if i came off a little insensitive or mean up there,i didnt mean to.

ya i have one also but i thought it was a virus

ok the chip thing is alright with me i pretty much diserve it for being so immature but i guess this place really isn't for jokes or anything just info and serious discussions but i would like to say that besides the thumb war i did try to put in my opinion on certain topics and maybe a few smart remarks to stop people from being sos serious all the time but i see that is not really tolerated here. oh yeah and for the record i didn't post anything to get my ranking up that thumb war thing was just spur of the moment but i will try to redeem my appropriate rank by putting the smart remarks and jokes to a hault and simply just share knowledge.

There is a place for jokes ... i really dont think we are all that up tight ;). The rank was more to try to cut down on the thread hijacking and the multiple posts about the same thing in two or more places. We all like to have a good time and joke around, we ( staff ) were just trying to cut down on some of the "spam" we were seeing as a result of multiple posts about the same thing in multiple places. Questions should be asked in the appropriate forums, if not, staff moves them to the correct places. However when you ( meaning anybody ) post the same question in 4 different forums ( exageration, but you get the idea ), it makes our jobs a bit harder.

Please dont think we are all up tight and trying to come down hard on our members. Far from it. We just want to make this place a great community and a great place to hang out. We like having each and everyone of our members here. Our members make this place great. However, people spamming up the same questions in multiple places at the same time, and multiple posts right after another asking another question ( thats what the edit button is for ), just makes us look like we ( all of us ) dont know what we are doing.

sorry. i must have done that without noticing. i get frustrated sometimes when my questions aren't answered quickly.(I am so impacient) i know u guys aren't real up tight just one question, was this rank for the thumb war or something else that i did that i can't remember? just wanna know what caused it so i can refrain from doing so again. and i really apologize to the whole staff for making ur jobs harder than they really have to be.
and since u guys have a sense of humor if ya look at my avatar u really put a chip on reeses shoulder lol.

I don't think it's an issue of people not having a sense of humor, just that it be well-placed. It's hard to keep *any* BBS thread on track, and b-p.net is just trying hard to keep things on the subject. Aside from that (and I'm not pointing ANY fingers here, please don't think I am, I had no one specifically in mind when I made these examples) posting things like one-word responses, "updates" on a feed/shed situation without editing the posts so there are 5 posts in a row, and replying to every single post in a thread without adding any new information can really clog up the board. We really want to hear about everyone's herps and are excited when things go well, but a new thread to tell us all that your BP kinda almost pooped and had a tail wiggle but didn't exactly poop but he will soon WHEE I'm so excited....isn't exactly necessary, know what I mean? ;)
I've been posting an awful lot lately, and to tell you the truth I was kinda worried that I'd get CHiP status because of it.
Question for the mods...is the "off-topic posts" rule less strictly enforced in the Lounge? To be honest, if it isn't, IMHO it should be. That's the one non-herp room in the forum, and it's the one place for my attention span (which is about <thisbig> by the way) to run around. ;)

oh when i do things like that i really do it out of excitement and anxiousness(once again the impacience) i will stop this as of right now! but u have to admit the chip on reeses's shoulder is kinda ironic.

Brian, I don't think anyone's trying to yell at you for it; I think the mods introduced the CHiP system more for *your* information than anything else. I know you've been trying, I can see that. Don't worry.
And I enjoyed the CHiP on the shoulder comment. ;)

well... i understand now. :)

lol

Its definitely more for everyone's information. We just ask that you keep your posts in the correct place and on the topic at hand :) We are not trying to yell or condone anyone at all.

And, for what its worth, anything goes in the Off-Topic Cafe as long as it's kept family-friendly. You can talk about cars or music or movies or fav foods or penguin mating habits or whatever as much as you want in there.

BUT if you're asking (for example) what size cage to buy for your herp, please put it in caging. If you want to know how to raise rats to feed your pets, please put it in feeders. If you want to know whether to buy a corn snake or crested gecko, please put it under corns, rhacodactylus, or general herp.

We're really not that uptight, but we want to keep this site as user-friendly for everyone as we can, and that means people who take the time to look for previous threads on ball python shedding shouldn't have to look further than ball python general or husbandry to find them and shouldn't have to wade through 50 posts to find 7 that are actually on-topic. If you think, "Oh! I should have asked/mentioned this!" after you hit submit, use the Edit button at the top right of your post to add it instead of posting again (and again and again) right under your previous post.

Play and have fun, but if you see a thread seriously going off-topic, please start a new thread in the appropriate section to continue that discussion.

Anyone who got CHiPed this weekend is welcome to try to post by these guidelines this week and then ask to have your rank returned. It's not a punishment. Punishment comes in the form of a strongly-worded PM from a mod or admin or being banned from the site and takes pretty bad forum behavior to earn.

just wanted to add my two cents...
Chip was intended as a humorous way to say "hey, please tone it down a notch". It was not meant to be insulting as Blink found it. We are sorry to see him go. Our goal here is to make an informative site for everyone. Lately there has just been a lot of posts where people are having one on one convo's, and threads that mean nothing to anyone else. That kind of thing is better left to pms or our awesome chat room (please check it out!). We want this site to grow, but having alot of spam on the boards is going to deture new members and also takes away from people looking for information.
This is also why we have created the off topic cafe. For the most part, that has been going well, and we thank you guys for keeping off topic there and making our lives easier as mods.

So please, no one take offense, we are just trying to keep ball-pythons.net an informative place. You guys have been great. You are what has made this site the great place that it is.
Thanks everybody.

wow i thought the chip thing was just something that u put on yourself

I asked that people ask questions in the other topic. Thank you.