Chameleon Enthusiast!

[jamest0o0]

No, it was someone else. Chase is ranked as "avid", and whoever it was was definitely "new". IIRC, this was in the past week.

If it were up to me, I'd throw the whole system out/disable it. To me it's as silly as all the likes, followers, friends, and the other high school ego-stroking stuff. IME (from the days of Usenet & before), people who want to help or have something to say are going to do it regardless.

Look we agree on something. I have no social media either and wouldn't have a smart phone if it wasn't useful for work and school. That said, I think it is useful to have a way of showing at least some amount of what someone posting knows.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

Respect is earned—not merely by what a person knows, but what they do with that knowledge/skill, and how they do it.

 

[kinyonga]

I'm open to the idea if an appropriate term can be found. We had a hard time coming up with the current titles.

• New Member
• Member
• Established Member
• Avid Member
• Chameleon Enthusiast

Titles have to be relatively short.
We want to avoid words like Senior that have a connotation with age.
We also want to avoid terms that imply a higher level of knowledge.

Maybe some of these would work... @Brad
Determined
Diligent
Dynamic
Impassioned
Ardent
Keen

 

[jamest0o0]

Respect is earned—not merely by what a person knows, but what they do with that knowledge/skill, and how they do it.

Not sure how this applies to what we're talking about. In this sense, the knowledge is the important part as we're sharing the knowledge with other people. Having at least some idea of what someone's experience/knowledge is, is helpful. It is the difference between a newbie posting something they have just heard somewhere and a 20 year experienced keeper posting something. People new to the forums often cannot tell the difference. IDT there is a perfect way to fix this, but there are ways to make it a little easier.

 

[Chase]

Not sure how this applies to what we're talking about. In this sense, the knowledge is the important part as we're sharing the knowledge with other people. Having at least some idea of what someone's experience/knowledge is, is helpful. It is the difference between a newbie posting something they have just heard somewhere and a 20 year experienced keeper posting something. People new to the forums often cannot tell the difference. IDT there is a perfect way to fix this, but there are ways to make it a little easier.

I think @Klyde O'Scope was touching on that people who have “Chameleon Enthusiast” as a title might not necessarily be an “expert”. I quote expert because we’re constantly learning and there’s always curveballs. This is the beauty of a forum. Someone may share their experience and you learn something and it may even be something you try!

With any animal you’re keeping- there is no one answer. Sure there’s guidelines on what you should be doing to keep your animal healthy, there’s many different routes. JMO

 

[jamest0o0]

I think @Klyde O'Scope was touching on that people who have “Chameleon Enthusiast” as a title might not necessarily be an “expert”. I quote expert because we’re constantly learning and there’s always curveballs. This is the beauty of a forum. Someone may share their experience and you learn something and it may even be something you try!

With any animal you’re keeping- there is no one answer. Sure there’s guidelines on what you should be doing to keep your animal healthy, there’s many different routes. JMO

Agreed. That's what I think most of us are pointing out by thinking of some other measure to gauge people's experience. For me I could care less about the ego aspect of it, don't get me wrong, I'm competitive and admittedly have an ego as much as anyone, but in this case I just think it's a good idea to have at least a broad understanding of who's posting. Like I've been here long as hell, but there's people that joined after me with much more chameleon experience.

 

[PoseidonTheChameleon]

I just want to point out... I posted this as a thank you to all of those who have brought me to the point I'm at, not because I think I am an expert now lol.

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

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[Chase]

I just want to point out... I posted this as a thank you to all of those who have brought me to the point I'm at, not because I think I am an expert now lol.

We’re just discussing

 

[jamest0o0]

I just want to point out... I posted this as a thank you to all of those who have brought me to the point I'm at, not because I think I am an expert now lol.

We got you! Just sprouted a conversation as all. Hope no one takes it negatively

 

[PoseidonTheChameleon]

We got you! Just sprouted a conversation as all. Hope no one takes it negatively

No not at all! I think it's an interesting conversation, I just dont want anyone thinking that I feel like a know it all.

 

[Brad]

The biggest question is, what defines the term Chameleon Enthusiast?
For me as newbie it doesn’t directly define it as a specialist or veteran, in other words I don’t directly link it with experience. Speaking of a suiting term, I would suggest Chameleon Veteran as the next stage and a veteran doesn’t refer to age, only to experience. And I agree with your feelings @jannb

Veteran isn't bad. It signifies one has experience but not necessarily the amount or level of experience.

Titles are meant to represent a member's participation within the community. We intentionally tried to use words that would not directly infer a level of experience or knowledge. I am open to the idea of adding a badge or something similar that would focus on those things. The idea has come up several times over the years but in each case we failed to resolve the question of how to both fairly and accurately measure one's knowledge. There are different types of knowledge and over 200 different chameleon species.

 

[BleuSaphir]

He looking so handsome!

 

[Klyde O'Scope]

The idea has come up several times over the years but in each case we failed to resolve the question of how to both fairly and accurately measure one's knowledge. There are different types of knowledge and over 200 different chameleon species.

Bingo. And hundreds of types of peripheral tangential knowledge/experience that apply—or can be applied—to keeping just one chameleon, but easily extrapolated.

Vocation (and life experience)———> Avocation.