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Top Members ?

dougw

The Top Members "thing" seems to have changed or pretty much faded away despite an old description of what they are.

Less than half of the listed Top Members are currently active. There haven't been any new Top Members in a while.

I don't think there is a private Top Members group discussion area any more.

There aren't any Top Members activities or perks other than a personal blog space.

They do have a personal blog space, but this is very seldom used.

I don't mind the change or demise at all - just observing that the Top Member idea has faded.

Do you think the Top Member designation is at all useful?

Should the Top Member designation even exist and if so how should it be defined?

Are there some currently active members who should become Top Members? 

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  • I used to like the idea, but I am not sure anymore. I guess the owner of Element14 should consider motivation of people being here - there is internal and external. Only the external can be influenced from the outside, but it might attract people who only participate in order to get some benefits. I kind of like some simple profile status like how many posts a specific user made and maybe how many people found his/her post useful. It is up to the owner to reward the most active people to support the place growing - it might help, it might not.

    Not sure how can a private section of a forum be useful.

    BTW a few years ago there were claims E14 has 500 000 members. Looking at the Top participants box on the homepage, seeing myself around position 100-150 when writing ca. 1-10 discussion replies a month makes me think there might be ca. 30 very active members and I instantly spot their posts by avatars. The rest are mostly consumers (most of us have a job, school, family ...).

  • in reply to koudelad

    Since the platform change, I feel kind of lost here. I am a guy who prefers something like old-school discussion forums. The trouble is, there are so many platforms, forums, Discord and Slack server, that one could spend his entire day doing just "social electronics" :)

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