Re: Re: Did you come here a senior?
IFMU said:
Im still curious what I did to get promoted... lol
I am and always have been a person thats overly calm. It takes quite a bit to get me ryled up and even more when it comes to online. Im just a calm person really. Which, when dealing with some of the folks out there, its a real perk. lol
I think as far as all this goes, Ive always been a firm believer of the old sayin, Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you. or something like that. So, when I needed help, folks around here helped me out. So, when I can, I try to do the same. Kinda hand me down kinda thing. Someone helped me, I help someone else (hopefully) and they help someone else later on.
Still tryin to figure out why I was promoted....
We keep telling you, the Randomizer was malfunctioning that day...
(We can't figure it out either....)
j/k bud. You earned it.
What makes a Senior??
When I joined up, the forums were significantly smaller than they are now. We probably promoted people at about the same "quantity" we do now...if we were promoting on a ratio basis, based on membership totals, these days we'd be promoting so many people that the promotion would lose it's value.
I got my "blues" by doing what is outlined in the "sticky" at the top here...there's basically five things we look for;
1. A willingness to help others, particularly when an individual has little personal interest in the topic or problem. As when a Senior helps a beginner with a problem which has been discussed many times in the past.
2. A demonstrated patience and reserve in dealing with disagreeable people.
3. The ability to discuss or disagree in a topic on the basis of REASON rather than personal attacks, which never further knowledge, but can only wound hearts.
4.A reasonable to good back ground in overclocking and cooling combined with a general knowledge of hardware as a whole.
5. Approximately three - four months in our forum. Time to demonstrate a continuing interest in our forum and allow us to determine the presence of the afore mentioned qualities.
What I did was to pass along all and any knowledge I had acquired here, to the next person that came along asking the same questions....even the mundane questions like "How do I unlock my intel's multiplier?" and "What's the AMD "pencil trick"?"
#2 and 3 kinda go together..basically, using reason, calmly and rationally discussed and debated technical things with others. If I saw they were severely in the wrong, I would gently point out their error, and direct them to the info that was correct. I didn't reply with such things like "d00d...ur a spoonhead!! Get a clue!! WFT r u thinkin??"
#4 came about as a result of #1. I read, asked, read, read some more, answered, was willing to listen to those who informed me I was wrong when I was, learned from my mistakes, read even more. 99+% of everything technical I know about PC's I learned right here in these Forums.
#5 is somewhat flexible. The timeframe isn't as important as the last sentence of this parameter:
"Time to demonstrate a continuing interest in our forum and allow us to determine the presence of the afore mentioned qualities."
I didn't "come here" a Senior. I came here with an open mind, a willingness to listen and learn,
when needed, an ability to bite my tongue and walk away from a thread when I knew there was no reasoning with the other person. The desire to help others learn what I had freely given to me by those who came here before me.
These 5 parameters are
still our guide today...they have not changed since thier inception. This is how I became a Senior Member, and how every other person who has Blue Stars (or higher) became one too.
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