I was only thinking that the 'Member' rank should be blanked as it's meaningless. Other more informative ranks are still useful.The purpose of ''Member'' and ''New Member'' is to distinguish between the different rights and forum access levels granted to each category. Similarly if we removed ''Member'' and ''New Member'' then ''Administrator,'' ''Banned,'' etc. would also have to go for consistency, which would cause even more problems.
The situation is less than ideal but feedback will be taken on board.
I also liked the original titles, but they probably bore no resemblance to forum members actual jobs. I think this would be useful and interesting, as for example I'm an old retired Signalman (not that horrible replacement 'signaller' Other members might also bw proud enough to display their current job titles. Add this idea to any potential poll!
or another idea could be progressing through historical classes or notable Locos/units up until one of the new state of the art trains that run the network today, for example, a new member would be "catch me who can" or "locomotion" then "rocket" and so on up to something like "class 395 Javelin"
Best way to do it: New Member, Poster, Posts on Occasion, Posts a Bit, Posts Quite a Lot, Frequent Poster and Posts Too Much, then Moderator, Administrator, Banned and my old friend On Moderation as applicable?
Could do, if I know how! If people use stn BB code tags in the mean time that would be a short term fix.
[STN]ZFD[/STN]
I like the idea suggested earlier of progressing up through class numbers as a compromise, though it would have the slight inconsistency that units would come after locomotives, unless we all started off working through the DMU classes, then the EMU classes and finally the ultimate, the locomotives?
But then, that might not appeal to people who actually prefer units to locos?
Truth is, there is never going to be any one system of railway based rankings that would suit everyone.
Except...
Maybe....
Name the rankings after the time honoured footplate crew link system?
I have an idea it might not work though. You can do a javascript/php hover over and load station information from a Sql database? (If stn code=BHM for example, a php code pulls info about database col BHM into the hover over?)
Could we use a sticky in the mean time?
I have an idea it might not work though. You can do a javascript/php hover over and load station information from a Sql database? (If stn code=BHM for example, a php code pulls info about database col BHM into the hover over?)
Interesting idea. JQuery and PHP would do it. You'd need a database with the code and the name in at the least.
Just PHP should do it. Calling up a database and just display the results using HTML with $data marks.