G'day folks,
Further to our Registration and participation drive, I've instituted a form of Ranking for the community based on number of posts submitted within Hawk Talk.
Some interesting statistics I thought I would share with you all. Did you know that in most on-line communities....
- 90% of users read or observe, but don't contribute.
- 9% of users contribute from time to time, but other priorities dominate their time.
- 1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions.
I thought that was very interesting and I think we'd all agree that we've seen this trend here on Fish-Hawk.Net as well. Within our forums, there's nothing wrong with that. I encourage everyone to visit us, but I also encourage our readers to register and participate in the content that is being provided. Let's see if we can break this statistic, and bring Fish-Hawk.Net Hawk Talk to the next level.
When looking at this, we also must consider that most users will visit websites, participate for a while, then take a break and perhaps come back later to continue participation. This does not affect the ranking upon which they've been assigned, even if they are still not active participants.....they were at one time or another, and well recognize that.
Having said that....Rankings are as follows...
- Participant - Single Fish; Minimum of 1 post
- Bronze Participant - 2 Fishes; Minimum of 100 posts
- Silver Participant - 3 Fishes; Minimum of 500 posts
- Gold Participant - 4 Fishes; Minimum of 1000 posts
- Diamond Participant - 5 Fishes; Minimum of 2000 posts
Your Stars will appear above your avatar just like other boards. They really mean nothing, except gives us all a goal for continued participation within Hawk Talk and "graduation" so to speak to the next level.
For those with "Special Ranks" assigned, these ratings do not apply. A new rating icon has been created for you and will appear in the same place as the stars for other users.
So have fun with this....let's land the fishes.
,,,,,jee.
