From 5 Cups of Ubuntu to Just Give Me the Beans!---> I screenshotted it!!

[d.kusummmanth@gmail.com]

I'm navigating through Ubuntu forums, for last 3 hours non-stop. I was 5 Cups of Ubuntu.I just checked on a tab( I use way too many tabs, while I'm browsing, till my 512 MB RAM forces me to close all tabs and continue again) and saw that I became Just Give Me the Beans!.:KS:guitar: So i took Screenshots and am uploading them here, to just share my happiness at getting "promoted" with YOU:)






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[keiichidono]

My dear friend you are sorrily mistaken. That title is a downgrade from 5 cups of Ubuntu. you should feel ashamed. Don't worry though my pal, the easiest way to fix this is to keep on posting helpful posts until you get 3500 then you can change it to something appropriate.

[Joeb454]

Actually I think "just give me the beans" is when you've posted a certain number of posts in a certain time period.

Mine stayed up until around 100 posts when it changed to "Carafe of Ubuntu"

[i_love_AMY_MACDONALD]

Actually I think "just give me the beans" is when you've posted a certain number of posts in a certain time period.

Mine stayed up until around 100 posts when it changed to "Carafe of Ubuntu"
so does the ranking depend on the no of posts? What is the exact criteria?

[gameryoshi600]

i liked just give me the beans lol.

[Joeb454]

so does the ranking depend on the no of posts? What is the exact criteria?

Yes basically - only the forum admins know when it will change, I believe there's a section on it in the Forum FAQ :)

[Dr Small]

I don't pay attention to mine anymore, since it hasn't change for over 2500 posts.

[bapoumba]

Moved to FFH.
Beans and title have no particular meaning, please read the FAQ and the sticky in FFH (link is in my sig).
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.

[hyper_ch]

btw, you want to ask to get your username changed... using the email address isn't such a good thing as spiders will find it and then start spamming you...

[LaRoza]

btw, you want to ask to get your username changed... using the email address isn't such a good thing as spiders will find it and then start spamming you...

Too late, already spammed forum...