General Forum Info/Ideas

Aces and Experten are more or less the same. However Experten have often more claims (much more I should say ) than allied Aces. Therefore I would say that the Expert Rank would be more difficult to achieve. This is however debatable.
Krieger is German for Warrior (Krieg = war) It is also a word used for a native brave. In the Luftwaffe "Indian" was the slang name for allied aircraft. I would use the word Krieger for a Junior rank (it is not an army rank)
Kamarad is the one who shares your daily life at the front or behind the front , and suffers or cheers with you. He is someone you'll never forget even after the war. Kamaraden can be rookies as well as confirmed fighters. Therefore you could use ranks , or stars to make a difference between a Junior and a Senior Member.
By the way Rookie could be a nice addition for a Junior member. I'll come up with more ideas later. in my opinion, we should avoid army ranks ( already used elsewhere).

 

Well, lets see, these are only my humble opinions and I wouldn't be offended if something else is prefered: firstly everybody has military ranks, so something more original would give the forum a soul rather than having a system that could be found elsewhere. secondly not sticking to military ranks and yet use something easy to undersstand would allow to mix the semantics and languages, instead of using for instance German / British / U.S. ranks only.
Thirdly by adding certain names taken from roles games , famous movies etc... everybody on this forum would be involved, whether interested by the historical / game etc.. aspect of the forum. Fourthly using terms like those invented by Peppy would bring another humoristic touch to the whole thing.

 

Your opinions are what we want here Skipper, so thank you. I visit with Otto quite often and I know for a fact he likes feedback as he tries to accomodate as many of you Rogues as possible. As a matter of fact we have some good memmber rank ideas, but right now we only have one crappy laptop between myself and Otto, and I have to visit him to use it. When we get a better set-up were thinking of installing several historically accurate rank streams, as well as a specific rank stream for the Forum members who don't want to pick a specific country/branch, one that's more humorous and creative. Lots of food for thought anyways...

 

Sounds great Peppy, a mixt of several types of ranks with invented ones would make the whole thing unique . I can imagine you with Otto, work 5mn and party all night!

I have a few other suggestions :

Venerable: a wise person with a lot of experience, a reference for others
Wise man: (a person with many quality posts you can rely on
Patriarch: a sort of fatherly Grofaz
Dean: the oldest quality member on the forum

 

The Partiarch is a grofaz? How dare you Skipper! There is only one grofaz here and that's Otto! I sure hope der panzerPenguin doesn't get wind of this!

Seriously though thanks for the suggestions. I'm just looking for a few specific names for some of the posting accomplishments that some of our more active members have reached.

I like the term Experten for the 5,000 posts mark. It takes literally years to get to that point, so I think the Experten/Ace title is fitting. Now I just need some fitting name to apply to the Rogues who have hit 1,000 posts and I haven't yet seen anything that I really like. I've got a few positive reputation points for the Rogue who can give me a title for the members of the 1,000 posts club.

 

I should have know that there is only one Grofaz on earth.

I've been thinking about a few new terms (they were not used and some are my invention , but could have been because they sound quite realistic).

Stosskämpfer : fighter that really goes for it (allusion to those who get involved in the forum)

Stosskrieger : warior with guts (allusion to the members who put their pictures )

Kernntrupper : elite (forum) member, same roots as hardcore.

Scharfschütze : elite and specialized soldier=sniper. (Allusion to a specialised and experienced forum member)

Berufsoffizier: professionnal officer ( allusion to the permanent and long term commitment)

 

Thanks Skipper, I really like those, but I'm looking for something a little more general and maybe not German, since we are already using the term Experten. If we had a term that somehow referenced the value of 1,000 in the same way centurion refernces 100, that would be perfect.

Right now I'll give the terms as I have them so far. We will need to come up with specific terms before we place them permanently into the Code of Conduct.

Rogue - any WWII Forums member. As soon as you register, you become a "rogue"
??? - 1,000 posts (name yet to be decided)
Ace - 5,000 posts
Expert (aka 10K Elite) - 10,000 posts *

*Thanks to Skipper67 for the Experten suggestion at 10,000 posts this fit in perfectly with Ace at 5,000 posts.

So, we still need a good WWII or military term for a member who hits 1,000 posts. Anyone who comes up with a term I like will get some shiny new reputation points from me, and you will put yourself in good stead with der PanzerPenguin. I think I can also convince our stingy Gröfaz Otto to cough up some reputation points too. There are lots of good terms here so far, keep them coming!

Peppy >>> wants a better term than "millenion"

 

Got the message Peppy, one precision: Expert is the singular Experten the plural so the name should be Expert with a capital "E" as in all German names.
I'll come up with a name that will refer to a Millenium post member later today.

No German term ,not the term Millemium : uhm I'll have to think hard.

 

Thanks for the correction Skip! I'm not much of a deutch sprecker. Looking forward to your suggestions, because I'm drawing a blank,

 

It took me a while, but I have three new equivalents that could fit our 1000 posts members. My defintion of these members would be related to a special elite section of an army such as an imperial guard. I therefore looked among roman ranks and found the name of "Tribune". A Tribune is the leader of an entire legion and is therfore above the Centurion. Then I proceeded and looked into Byzance. I came up with two other ranks: a "Tumark" who is the leader of a Turn (Byzantinian Legion) and check this one out: a "Protospatharian" who is a superior elite officer of the Byzantinian Imperial guard.

 

Too complicated, nobody can pronouce that. How about Big Cheese, Great Spirit or Gangabwana to keep it multicultural?

 

I kind of like the ubique aspect of it though, but I can understand.
The term has to be something special related to the Rogue galery and to 1000 posts. Not anybody can have that, so a too general term won't do either.
There is only one Great Spirit, for instance. I'll try to find something in between. Tribune is pretty known, Tribunes are the leaders of Roman Legions.

 

How 'bout something more along the lines of Dogface or Old Salt?

 

if you put dog face next to my name, i am coming after you....

 

dog face Carl G. E. von Mannerheim

 

Come on guys, it's got to be something noble and proud, like an Elite order not a dog kennel. And remember not a German name and not a name that nobody can pronounce either. What about "Pretorian" or "Pretorian Guard"? I like tha tone ther eis something noble , universal and grand there !

 

This guy was certainly proud to be called a Dogface:



I Wouldn't Give A Bean
To Be A Fancy Pants Marine,
I'd rather Be A Dogface Soldier Like I Am.
I Wouldn't Trade My Old O.D.'s
For All The Navy's Dungarees
For I'm The Walking Pride Of Uncle Sam;
On All The Posters That I Read It Says
Be All That You Can
So They're Tearing Me Down To Build Me Over Again
I'm Just A Dogface Soldier
With A Rifle On My Shoulder
And I Eat Raw Meat For Breakfast Everyday.
So Feed Me Ammunition,
Keep Me In The Third Division,
Your Dogfaced Soldiers A-Okay.

 

I sure grant you that one, nice poem by the way. Do I notice some french decorations on him too?

 

It's actually a song Skipper. You can listen to a version of it here if you would like: http://avconvert.com/time/060218/marching--dogface060219.mp3

Yes sir Skipper, I see the French Croix de Guerre[SIZE=-1], the French Legion of Honor, and the [/SIZE]French Fourragere.