Is there a title above ‘fish guru’

[AmyKieran]

There are members here who know very little but just post a bunch of stuff and climb up the scale (if that is what it is). If you hang around long enough, you know who they are and just take what they say with a grain of salt.

That’s me lol

I try to listen and learn but still know very little lol

 

[DoubleDutch]

Colin_T is actually the top title on the site - once you make more posts than him you get his account.

Wills

Or get banned just before hahaha.
To be serious : I hate titles like these but if I can think of someone deserving a honourable one right now (and not tomorrow) it is Byron.
"Fish-hero" maybe.
I believe I am a fish herder ?? Fishhoarder would be more appropriate hahaha.

 

[GaryE]

As usual, I'm overthinking this!
I used to work on the info side of the aquarium hobby. That meant conventions and congresses and speaking gigs, and they in turn meant beer and watching the sun come up in lounges full of some of the recognized leaders in the hobby and scientific sides of the aquarium world. I got to be a fly on the wall for some fun discussions.
None of them had to do with answers. The serious 'heavy hitters' did nothing but raise questions based on their research or discoveries and discuss possibilities. Thinking back, everything was oriented towards better and better questions.
Rather than levels of experts, maybe we should have curiosity markers - going from a newcomer being a person with a few questions up to a person with a million posts being a person with a lot of questions...

 

[PheonixKingZ]

No but it both professional sports and fishkeeping have groups of people who are very good in that retrospective skill and hence such should be rewarded. I doubt very much that @Colin_T actually cares about being rewarded but I believe people who are in the top percent of what they do, regardless what it is, should be rewarded

If you doubt he cares, why press on and argue?

 

[AmyKieran]

If you doubt he cares, why press on and argue?

Because he was just an example, there could be other fish gurus who would care

 

[Colin_T]

Because he was just an example, there could be other fish gurus who would care

only 3 gurus on the forum and 1 of them posts lots of pictures

 

[PheonixKingZ]

only 3 gurus on the forum and 1 of them posts lots of pictures

Who would that one be.

 

[Fishmanic]

but there's only one "Boss Man"

 

[Colin_T]

I remember the Big Boss Man from the wrestling on television.

 

[DoubleDutch]

But to be honest isn't it quite a weird idea to praise someone for the quantity of posts instead of the quality?

Members as Colin, Byron and a.lot more. have proven to give qualitiy answers over a long period of time (within their specialism).

To reward newboes for the quantity of.questions even sounds more weird.
There come (and go) newbies who ask questions that could be answered by themselves if they'd do a little bit of research on their own (or before they'd.bought the fish).

If questions like "do I need to keep fish in water", "do they need food" or questions about highly available info (on the internet, in books, on this or othernforums, in stickies, etc...etc.....) count for a title I think it is strange.

On other forums people.with specific knowledge are given a "title" so they can be found / called in if someone has questions in that specific aerea.

Still think that will happen automatically.

As said I hate titles. I don't know why exactly. Maybe cause I noticed during my life / work that a lot of people with titles given didn't.know anything, weren't prepared to share their knowledge or were plain stupid.

A lot of those people appeared to share one thing : The Dunning Kruger effect. Give it a google to get that psychological phenomenon explained.


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[Essjay]

If you look at the list of members with most posts (the software calls them messages), you'll see there are actually 8 people with enough posts to qualify as gurus. But only three have that title. One has the title moderator, one retired moderator and the remaining three have personalised titles - they joined the forum so long ago that when they reached a certain number of posts they were permitted to choose their own.

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[Colin_T]

If you look at the list of members with most posts (the software calls them messages), you'll see there are actually 8 people with enough posts to qualify as gurus. But only three have that title.

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Some of those names look familiar. Wilder and I were on here at the same time when the forum was young.

And Essjay has joined the club, good on you and welcome to our exclusive little guru group