[SOLVED] "Beans" descriptions

[mdsmedia]

Can someone give me a link to somewhere I can see what all the "bean count" descriptions, like "these beans aren't roasted" and "burnt beans" and "beanie of the month" etc mean? If there is such a thing.

[r4ik]

Try,

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=181043&highlight=beans

Beany of the month is most active helpfull poster (i think)
Burned Beans you get when you disbehave.
Have fun.

[mdsmedia]

Try,

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=181043&highlight=beans

Beany of the month is most active helpfull poster (i think)
Burned Beans you get when you disbehave.
Have fun.Thanks for that. I've been meaning to ask that for a long time. I had sort of guessed on the burnt beans and beanie of the month, but wanted to know if there was an "official" list :)

[r4ik]

A high beancount is no direct indication for knowledge or skills.
I have seen people with one bean solving a real hard question.
And i have seen not so good reply's from "higher" beancounts.
Judge the answer(s) with common sense and if in doubt double check.

[nikoPSK]

hmm, I've never seen a beanie of the month....

[valke]

i've not seen a beanie of the month either.

[Joeb454]

No I've never seen beanie of the month....I want it!! :lolflag:

[aysiu]

From the Forum FAQ (http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?f=48): What's the deal with coffee cups/beans and the funny titles?
Beans are posts. The post/bean count can be turned off by the user if so desired.

There tends to be a close connection between geeks and coffee, so that's where the theme came from. Yes, we know not everyone likes coffee, but it's just a silly thing.

The images, their colors, and the changing icons don't have any special meaning. They simply change as time goes by. You will see (among other things) green coffee beans, roasted (brown) coffee beans, various sorts of coffee cups and mugs and so on. Like the titles, nothing specific is implied by the presence of specific images or titles (in almost all cases that is...staff, admins and banned users are some of the exceptions). These items are for fun, and are not serious. They are not a rank of any kind. They don't tell anyone how long you've been here nor how many posts you've made. The sayings and the images are a semi-random feature we have to provide a little kick. There is some structure to it, but only on the implementation side. We did this on purpose - because it was fun and whimsical.

There isn't a list of what you get, and when, because that's not the point. The reason for the secrecy was/is this: while we want to reward people who participate in these forums with titles and changing symbols we really don't want them to become some sort of gauge that people use to determine whether someone is speaking with more/less authority on a support topic. Other forums use the title/icon system that way and more power to them. However, there are people here with less than 20 posts who can code circles around much of the staff and are capable of giving amazing and useful responses to support questions...and there are some of us here with thousands of posts who might get lucky with a good and helpful reply on occasion. The fear is that people might use post count and titles/symbols as a means of judging the validity of a post's content rather than the content itself. We had a long discussion about this in the forums when they were first started and this subject has been revisited among the staff several times. Some forum members and staff wanted to eliminate the post count and title/icon system completely, some have gone the other way wanting a complete ranking system that is clear and gives honorific titles with great meaning to those with higher post counts (that particular group is in the extreme minority). The current system is a compromise that has been working pretty well for a while. With the compromise of meaningless titles/icons, post count can be hidden in UserCP. Anyway, this is why we don't publish how many posts are necessary for a change in title/icon...it's just a silly reward. The post numbers needed for title changes is something that is easy to modify so it gets modified on occasion, when the admins don't have better things occupying their time, merely to maintain the surprise factor. Bottom line: it just a trivial, whimsically amusing little thing. Don't read too much into it...it really isn't worth the slightest emotional involvement.

[SOULRiDER]

I thought titles were random but:
1-2 Ubuntu Green Beans
3-15 First Cup Of Ubuntu
15-99 5 Cups Of Ubuntu
100-249 A Carafe Of Ubuntu
250-400 Way too much Ubuntu
400-550 Quad Shot Of Ubuntu
500-700 Dipped In Ubuntu
700-800 Has an Ubuntu Drip
800-1000 100% Pure Ubuntu
1000-5000 Fresh Brewed Ubuntu
5000+ Ubuntu Mocha Milkshakes

[wieman01]

There used to be a "beanie of the month" and I remember Aysiu was given the honor once or even on a couple of occasions, but they must have disabled it sometime back in 2006.

[LaRoza]

I thought titles were random but:

Oh? Look at mine.

They are random.

[wieman01]

Oh? Look at mine.

They are random.
Oh, totally... Look at mine.

[Forrest Gumpp]

From the Forum FAQ (http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?f=48):

Just about says it all, doesn't it!

The 'Thanks Bank' proposal is looking better by the minute. And by golly it wouldn't be just interest on Ubuntuberrima Fidei Deposits that would be contributing to revenue, either!

Right about now I can see some little gnome in Zurich slaving over a proposal to become the banker for the Fund.:)

[Forrest Gumpp]

To be fair to new users (of which I consider myself to be one), things aren't always easy to find.

YAY! Found the Forum FAQ!

Now for some questions to all my answers without having to run the gamut of the 'Larson Illumination'. (See post # 27)

teryowen (from post # 19),

It is the last option in the drop dead menu that falls down when you click on the Forum Help button on the menu bar at the top of any Forum page.



Suggestion 1

Perhaps this button could better be named 'BEYOND Forum Help', and the last option in its menu better named 'The Last Resort - the...', with a full-title pop-up on the hovering of the mouse pointer named by way of extension, as presently, 'Forum FAQ'. That way it could be hidden a little better, revealing itself only to the idly curious, and then but momentarily to those who linger long enough over this option and are actually watching what they are doing.

Seriously, though, why not give it a go? We all know curiosity killed the cat, and another cat that probably lost an eye because of it. If there are any site statistics already held on Forum FAQ click-throughs they could then be compared to click-throughs after the changes have been emplaced as a possible objective measure of their effectiveness in encouraging visitors, let alone Forum members, to find the FAQs. Workers of the Forum, is there anything to lose but their claims (on your time)?.

It would be good for business, too, so far as a 'Thanks Bank' might be concerned!!:lolflag: