This is firstly to introduce you to the spiffy new forum feature, the poll creator!
Doing this you can run a poll on the forum for people to vote on, that is give people some choices to click with different options over a period of days, and at the end of the specified period, the forum will close the voting poll and let you know which option got most votes.
With all the times developers ask whether we want feature x in a game or feature y, or people ask what is the best first person game? I thought a poll creator where votes were actually tallied would be a useful tool to have, hence why I asked sander to install it when I saw the option was there.
all that aside, lets get down to business, the rank poll!
You've all seen the forum ranks. These are audio gamer, advanced audio gamer, hyper advanced audio gamer etc.
In a discussion with Sander he mentioned the names were a little ad hock, and one thought I had was to change them to more interesting names that reflected some of our landmark audio games, and were a little more amusing in kind.
these would be names like kitchin golfer, tank compadre, zombie zapper, entombed one, swamp slayer, executive business monkey or perilous hearted. Names that had some sort of connection to some of the best audio games ancient and modern.
As well as being slightly amusing, moreinteresting to acquire when you reached a new rank and less drab than the old super uba guru hyper advanced audio gamer type of names, they'd also subtly advertise audio games to people brousing the site, and any newcomers we found.
note, that this would be just changing the names! your post count, and whatever rank you'd got would stay exactly the same as it is now, it'd just be called something different, ---- though sinse currently there are a few big gaps in post count vs rank I could always stick in a few new stages too, (especially sinse I imagine I can probably think of more random audio game related names than there are ranks currently!).
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)