What happened to the gold ranking?

[UnknownKirbyMan]

I just want to know why the gold ranking under your username is gone.

That was something that I thought should still be here.

[blackbelmoral]

it is mainly on forumer.com, but now there is a "posts" box that says how many, and a rank. no more ap's/gold ones.
*sniffle**grumbles sadly*
^nice avvie^

[Spawn of Yanni]

The entire forum theme has been distancing itself from N as a game, because Metanet is moving on to more things now and having an N-centric look would soon become less relevant.

[Kablizzy]

Also, pips were strictly an IPB thing - and while neat - isn't something we've found a mod for on our shiny new phpBB board yet.

[squibbles]

On top of that, it's been known to cause mucho-spamo, with people thinking that the more pips they had, the more respect they got...not true.

[Superpok]

interesting, that's pretty pathetic that people were spamming to get pips

[Lenny]

Also, pips were strictly an IPB thing - and while neat - isn't something we've found a mod for on our shiny new phpBB board yet.

Couldn't be hard to write in PHP. I could possibly write it, but it would be messy because I wouldn't use loops or anything. And the only way to edit it would be via the source file...

We don't really need it though. Pips are flashy, but not really needed. Post count is flash too, but at the end of the day anyone could be as wise as anyone else, regardless.

[SlappyMcGee]

The Gold Standard is gone, bitches.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[Superpok]

yep, pips are just a flashier post count

[blackbelmoral]

more reasons to spam.

[Spawn of Yanni]

Evidently you guys don't need the pips to do so.

[smartalco]

Couldn't be hard to write in PHP

would be ridiculously simple actually

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int pips;
pips = floor(postCount/200);
for (x=1, x < pips, x++) {
echo '<img src="pip.jpg" />';
}

This would obviously only add one for every 200 posts, and you would probably want it more exponential (which could be done also easily, I'm just lazy), I don't remember what the actual round-down function is, and I'm not really sure if I got the for() loop syntax right (I haven't done any php in awhile), but it would still be this simple (and if we really wanted it, I could bother to look up the appropriate syntax and make this actually work in another 3 minutes)

[Rikaninja]

Oh yeah, I remember that Gold Ranking. I only posted once on the .forumer, can't think of a reason why but yeah. So I guess it's not going to be on the RealN, so is that good thing or a bd thing?