Search
Forum Home | Login
sTonEbLuE
sTonEbLuE
Join Date 12/2002
0

What does it take?

May 31, 2006 8:31:58 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Exactly what does it take to get promoted around here? I see people here that haven't even been here a year, not skinners and most of their forum activity is in "meaningless" posts. And I mean I don't see them helping or trying to help someone. And please don't send me to a link...I've read them before and I am still wondering. I know...I know...I'll get labeled a whiner. But I am really just curious....
Locked Post
Search this post
Advanced Search
Subscription Options
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
2 Pages1 2 
sTonEbLuE
WOM
Join Date 01/2002
+253 moderator
Reply #1 May 31, 2006 9:22:29 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
If you've read them before, then your question should have been answered.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
sTonEbLuE
Join Date 12/2002
0
Reply #2 May 31, 2006 9:52:31 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
That's the kind of response I expected....Which was no answer.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
boss0190
Join Date 09/2005
+58
Reply #3 May 31, 2006 9:55:16 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
And that's the kind of re-response that get's you no promotion.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!

Sign Up or Login and this ad disappears!
There are many great features available to you once you register. Sign Up for a free account and browse the forums without ads.

sTonEbLuE
sTonEbLuE
Join Date 12/2002
0
Reply #4 May 31, 2006 9:58:29 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
My point proven , huh?
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
boss0190
Join Date 09/2005
+58
Reply #5 May 31, 2006 10:12:34 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Yep...but isn't that what you knew already? Play nice and don't make waves if a promotion is something that you really want....kind of like at work. Only thing is...you don't get a raise here.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Double Zero
Join Date 07/2004
0
Reply #6 May 31, 2006 10:48:39 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
LMAO...
I am going to remain somewhat reserved on this issue..
My point proven , huh?

*Exactly*

But SB, really..who cares? having the title doesnt make your work any better or worse..it's just a title, and pretty much meaningless, other than a few so called "benefits" that can actually be a "hinderance" for you and others..

Just keep on doing what you like to do, Skin.. upload and move on to the next project... Thats probably the best way to be surprised if you do get a promotion...
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Keikonium
Join Date 08/2005
0
Reply #7 May 31, 2006 10:54:59 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I didn't know there were promotions here ! I have seen people labled Journey Man and stuff like that, but I thought that was when they reached a certain number of posts or uploads or something. They get benifits. I better crawl out from under this rock . Jafo and Brad are the only people I know of that are staff .
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Jafo
Join Date 03/2001
+1845 sdemployee
Reply #8 June 1, 2006 12:31:06 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

Jafo and Brad are the only people I know of that are staff

Technically, as yet no-one is 'staff' on Wincustomize.com, though people such as T-Man are employed as site-coders, etc, but their role is not exclusive to Wincustomize.com.

Even Frogboy's 'interaction' with Wincustomize.com is voluntary in the strictest definition of the term...

Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Fuzzy Logic
Join Date 05/2002
+493
Reply #9 June 1, 2006 6:53:48 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Promotions: When you expect them you don't see them, but see them when you don't expect them... is that clear enough?
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
sTonEbLuE
Join Date 12/2002
0
Reply #10 June 1, 2006 7:59:52 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Play nice and don't make waves


Do you think this post is "not playing nice and making waves"?
I have said things before in posts and they got spun. It's all about the typed text and how someone "interpets" it. It's unfair and true....oh well...I'll keep plugging away even though my original questions remain unanswered.


I see people here that haven't even been here a year, not skinners and most of their forum activity is in "meaningless" posts.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
ZubaZ
Join Date 11/2001
+917
Reply #11 June 1, 2006 8:41:28 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Do you want a promotion? Why? What's it get you?

The only thing I (think I) got with my promotion is the honorific.

Apprentice
A citizen user who has submitted skins can be nominated to be promoted to an Apprentice. To become an apprentice one needs to be contributing to the skinning community in some way. WinCustomize is not the skinning community, helping other websites in the skinning community counts as well. An apprentice can not only talk on the message board but can also comment on skins and the news items. The honorific "Sir" or "Lady" is appended to the front of their na There is also a Master Apprentice rank for those right on the verge of becoming Journeymen.


I like helping out here. The promotion was a surprise to me Just like it was a surprise to the Master that promoted me that I wasn't already promoted.

The percieved tone of your OP (and follow-up posts)was that there was unfairness going on. That you deserved it more than otheres. It sounded like a whine to me.

If I were you, I'd quietly accept that promotions are nebulous. I'd skin some more and help out some more and see what happens.

I'd also change my motto on your profile page.
My Motto: People suck!

Posted via WinCustomize Browser/Stardock Central
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Hankers
Join Date 04/2004
+545 moderator
Reply #12 June 1, 2006 9:11:13 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I see people here that haven't even been here a year, not skinners and most of their forum activity is in "meaningless" posts.


I have said things before in posts and they got spun. It's all about the typed text and how someone "interpets" it.


So how does one "interpret" .... "meaningless" ?
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
sTonEbLuE
Join Date 12/2002
0
Reply #13 June 1, 2006 9:35:48 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I am not here to get into anything. Or a lengthy debate of sorts. I will retract my questions and quietly bow out. I knew I would get the type of responses I did. But I was hoping for something a bit more tangible. Thank you everybody for your answers. That's it for me!
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Jafo
Join Date 03/2001
+1845 sdemployee
Reply #14 June 1, 2006 9:44:39 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

sTonEbLuE ...

More often than not [it seems that way sometimes] promotions are caused by Good Morphing noticing people's works/input on the site and forwarding their name/s to me via email with a 'what do you think?' question....

If I'm unsure...I'll look...to jog memory....but usually it's a case of 'gee, I thought they already had been'...so then they are...


 

Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Adamness
Join Date 08/2005
0
Reply #15 June 1, 2006 10:18:43 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
When one becomes a 'Sir,' do they get a suit of armor too?

And if so, is the armor skinnable?
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
WebGizmos
Join Date 09/2003
+735
Reply #16 June 1, 2006 10:39:36 AM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Oh man! When I got my totally unexpected Journeyman status I was surprised at all the perks...I got a car...a time share thing with Brads house ( I gotta bring my own food though)...my future subsciptions were all free...I got all the software for free...Brad comes by and mows my lawn once a week...monthly trips to disneyland...the list never ends!

But really SB...I asked the same question out of curiosity when I first became a member here...and the answer I got was... contribute to the community. And thats what I've been doing ever since. I started tinkering around with stuff and found something I enjoyed doing...like making docks for skins. And while doing that...helping out answering questions where I could...basically treating this place like a home away from home. And after I asked the question I never really gave it another thought...then one day out of the blue I was promoted. Its really a no brainer.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Double Zero
Join Date 07/2004
0
Reply #17 June 1, 2006 12:58:09 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
When one becomes a 'Sir,' do they get a suit of armor too?

Not only that but you are properly "Knighted" ..LoL

Im still waiting for my "James Bond" title..I dont really care about journeyman..LMAO
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
yrag
Join Date 08/2001
+393
Reply #18 June 1, 2006 2:47:59 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Give him mine.......I'm still holding out for 'Pope'......
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
I.R. Brainiac
Join Date 05/2003
+281
Reply #19 June 1, 2006 3:16:13 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Pope gary... I want Captain,Stud,Village Idiot,We Love You,...
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
I.R. Brainiac
Join Date 05/2003
+281
Reply #20 June 1, 2006 3:20:30 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Wincustimizite...hmmmmmm...awkward but cool...
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
yrag
Join Date 08/2001
+393
Reply #21 June 1, 2006 3:23:16 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
......go with Supreme Stud...

This is a thread worthy of a highjacking.....

Where the hell have you been, Brainy? I saw IPlural sneek in the other day.....you two aren't an 'item' by chance, ah?
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
Cyberworld
Join Date 07/2002
+4
Reply #22 June 1, 2006 3:46:39 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Well only thing a promotion gets you is a change in honorific...

...oh and a sense of self-satisfaction which fades away in a day or two.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
BoXXi
Join Date 03/2001
+393
Reply #23 June 1, 2006 5:38:25 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I need someone to polish my armour...... or my amour.

Any takers?
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
I.R. Brainiac
Join Date 05/2003
+281
Reply #24 June 1, 2006 6:44:27 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
becoming homeless tomorrow Gary...going to jail first actually(missed court date,cops impounded my van)I WAS wondering if IP was still around.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
sTonEbLuE
WebGizmos
Join Date 09/2003
+735
Reply #25 June 1, 2006 6:53:43 PM
from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
For some reason I envision I.R...with coke bottle glasses...sneeking down some alley behind a dumpster with a laptop...like some crazed scientist...and screaming "You'll never take me alive!"...while pounding away at his keyboard creating skins to get his skin fix.
Reason for Karma (Optional)
Successfully updated karma reason!
2 Pages1 2 
View all recent posts
Mark all posts as read Delete cookies created by the forum Return to Top
Stardock Forums v        Server Load Time:   Page Render Time: