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Here at Less Than Dot we understand the importance of recognition for our members. Most of our members put a lot of effort into the community by answering questions, writing blogs or articles and generally helping others. So to recognise their efforts and help other members appreciate the quality of the responses and content they see on the site, the following awards/ranking system has been put in place.

Activity Recognition

To reward activity on the site, we measure the number of posts a user has made and award a "Rank" as follows:

Ranks

Rank	Name	Number of Posts
	Newbie	0
	Apprentice	5
	Senior Apprentice	50
	Sage	250
	Senior Sage	1,000
	Guru	2,500
	Senior Guru	5,000
	The Oracle	10,000

Special Ranks

In addition to the automatically assigned posting ranks, there are also some special ranks which are awarded by the LTD Administration Team in special scenarios. These are detailed below:

Special Ranks

Rank	Name	Description
	LTD Moderator	Less Than Dot Moderators provide support to the site and ensure that the content and usage of the site remains inline with site guidelines. Moderators may be specific to one or more Forums / Categories and are selected by the LTD Admins where a user has demonstrated their ability to perform this role
	LTD Senior Moderator	Senior Moderators are Site-Wide Moderators, who have access and control over all forums/categories, and have additional authority to the Moderators during decision making processes
	LTD Administrator	Administrators are the owners, founders and managers of LTD

User & Topic Medals

As Quantity doesn't always reflect Quality, we have also included an awards system for the quality of content. This is through optional rating features against each post. When a user posts some content, you can rate how useful this is -either to yourself or others. This can be a rating of 0, 1 (good) or 3 (very good) for all users and the Original Poster can vote 10 (excellent). You can change your rating at any time - though please note that all ratings for a post are visible for others to see, so keep the ratings as honest and accurate as possible.

These ratings are used to rate the individual topic/thread and also the user - each of which are awarded medals in the following way:

Posts

Award	Required Rating
	1-2
	3-4
	5-6
	7-9
	10-12
	13-15
	16-20
	21-25
	26+

Topics

Award	Required Rating
	1-2
	3-4
	5-6
	7-9
	10-12
	13-15
	16-20
	21-25
	26+

Users

Award	Required Rating
	1-49
	50-99
	100-149
	150-199
	200-249
	250-349
	350-449
	450-549
	550-649
	650-749
	750-1,499
	1500-2999
	3,000-5,999
	6,000-9,999
	10,000+