To all members

Site Issues 2007 Archive Room
#1

ww2adim congratulated us on the effort we have put forward. However I must say that it is the site members that have made it a great year for us. ww2admin has more than done his job advertising the site. I would like to say that it is the normal members that have made it great. I look forward too the new year with new membesr that are interested in discussing WW2.

We are a work in progress and in the future things will slowly but surely impove. Please bare with us.

Anyhow Merry X-mas and happy new year to all.

One more thing is that I hope to get usergroups going! At the moment the only successful one is the 101st Airborne. If you have a good idea (and som people) for a usergroup. I will be more than happy to create it. It is my hope in the future that we can have competions between the usergroups.

Looking forward to the new year and all that each can offer.

Thanks,

Gen. Sandworm.

#2

BTW

If any of you that have medal would like to change them to the new style here are the links

Administrator’s Citation Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/MedalofHonor.jpg

Outstanding Site Service Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/OutstandingSiteServiceMedal.jpg

Outstanding Moderator Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/OutstandingModeratorMedal.jpg

Outstanding Loyal Member Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/OutstandingLoyalMemberMedal.jpg

Loyal Member Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/BronzeStar.jpg

All-Around Good Posting Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/SoldiersMedal.jpg

Outstanding Post Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/MeritoriousServiceMedal.jpg

Site Service Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/SiteServiceMedal.jpg

Outstanding Idea Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/OutstandingIdeaMedal.jpg

Good Conduct Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/GoodConductMedal.jpg

Site Defense Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/SiteDefenceMedal.jpg

Site Peacekeeping Medal

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v738/ex3no/UNPeacekeepingMedal.jpg

Remember posting a award you did not earn will result in a harsh punishment.

#3

May I Put forward an Idea for a medal ( a new one )

#4

Of course, any suggestions are more then welcome.

#5

I was thinking of a kinda Honourable member medal for those who reach 5000 posts?

#6

Behave!!!

#7

its not that hard :lol: :lol: if you ant we can reduce it to 2500.

#8

We get rank from how many posts we post. I do not think we need to hand out medals.

What about a medal for someone who brings a truely unique and unheard of info to the site?

For example there is a lot of good info coming out of HGs “weird and wonderfull (but non-war fighting) aircraft” thread or what ever it is currently called. Is this not worthy of recognition?

Rather than who can post the most drivel? Which is the one thing a medal for 5000 posts would encourage.

This medal would encourage people to search for new and interesting info, back it up (that would be stipulation) and bring it forward.

Let us not forget that there have been people on this site whose idea of a post consisted of this…

:smiley:

or

:shock:

or

:roll:

etc. etc

#9

I still maintain that these things are silly. I also still maintained that the use of genuine medals does a great disservice to those who rightly earned them in real life, especially when applied as a “loyal member” or “good post” member and awarded for drivel.

#10

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion!

#11

I think Stoat has a point though with using Medals that already exsist.

Whats wrong with someone designing new site medals? Its only a coloured rectangle after all?

#12

How about little gold stars? Once you have more than say 5, we could put a different coloured background behind, and you could start to earn them all over again.

It wouldn’t use existing medals, which is a little bit disrespectful in my humble opinion.

#13

Personally I agree with the ideea of new medals.

I still have a single question. How comes that using ranks (real ranks) doesn’t bothered you?

#14

LOL, its not ‘frikin McDonalds in Colour’ either. I do think that we could have our own site medals though, if they are made up wheres the disrespect in this?

#15

Probably because he (like I suspect the majority of military types on the forum) is from the UK. I haven’t seen any of those rank insignia yet which correspond to UK ranks. Slightly parochial maybe, but I suspect that’s the reason.

#16

Probably because he (like I suspect the majority of military types on the forum) is from the UK. I haven’t seen any of those rank insignia yet which correspond to UK ranks. Slightly parochial maybe, but I suspect that’s the reason.[/quote]

OK but the medals ARE Americans and not British. Why a US rank or a US rank insignia is OK but a US medal isn’t?

#17

well, i was looking for german, english, US and russian rank during ww2

#18

As Ive said in another room. The rank is tied to posts and cannot be helped, the medals are awarded and need to be opted for.

No big deal really!

Would guys here put up medal ribbons specifically designed for the site, yes or no?

Or should we have a poll?

#19

We should poll it. If we don’t its gona end up in shambles mates!

#20

I don’ tknow about any one else but the rank is something many people have earnt. It is not as exclusive as say the Medal of Honour.

Lets have a poll and see if we can invent our own ribbons?

The rank can stay. Is there any one with objections to it?