If you ant to do that then please PM credentials to both myself and to ‘Mr Papa‘. Please include in the PM a link to your site, a link to this thread and brief reminder of the problem. And one of us will take a look for you. Note in this case that this would need to be a forum admin account with full access to the forum menus.

so this is working as designed…  forum admins and moderators dont get a forum rank based on post count…  they just get the rank titles of admin and moderator… and no badge…

why?

I dont know – its been that way since the dawn of ranks in simple press – probably tied to when we just had default avatars based on the four user types – admin, moderator, user and guest…  and only the user type gets a forum rank based on posts with a badge…

as I mentioned earlier, I cannot think of a technical reason why its the way it is, just that its likely a holdover from the earlier days and no on has ever tried or mentioned trying to give moderators a forum rank (with or without badge) based on the post count…

as mentioned, Andy and I will be discussing it to see if there is a reason or if it should be changed…  but until then, its working as designed…  i

f you wanted to do a bit of coding, it could be overcome using a filter when the user object is instantiated to add in the forum rank and badge for moderators…

Hi there,

I assigned myself, the admin of my own forum, a special rank. I have removed my self from that special rank and would now like to be part of the same forum rank progression as my members. I have a structure set up to with several ranks. Once I removed my self from my special rank list, all that happened was that I lost my admin badge. I thought it was going to be replaced with the badge associated with how many posts I have, just like I have set up for my members.

How do I do this?

I have just run some tests here on my account and indeed – it switched to the standard ranking as expected so the question is – what is up with your system. Can we assume that all your members DO see whatever ranking badge/label you have set for them?

Hi Yellow,

Yes, all of my members do see the different rank badges that are assigned to them. If you’d like, I can forward on to you my admin cred’s and you can go in and have a look at what’s happening. Let me know.

Can we just confrm here. When you say you removed yourself from the special rank that means you used the ‘Remove Members’ tool – is that correct? And if you show the members in that special rank you are really not in the list – also correct?

Yellow,

Yes, that is all correct.

so, looks like my post by email from a few hours ago never made it…

so to step back, admins cannot get a forum rank… they only a rank of admin or the special rank…  is that the issue? if so, sorry, not currently possible…

Hi Mr. Papa,

I guess that explains it. Thanks for the clarity. I thought it might be cool to watch my ranks increase as well.

kind of artificial for a forum admin to have post count rank, no?

glad to help…  when we are mucking in that area again, we can talk about perhaps allowing it too…