Rank system

Auditor, where did you get the rank names from. They're cool, but if you pulled them out of your head, then I'm seriously worried about you.

Blastula is in there twice btw.

EvotingMachine0197 wrote:

Auditor, where did you get the rank names from. They're cool, but if you pulled them out of your head, then I'm seriously worried about you.

Blastula is in there twice btw.

I pulled some out of my head ! Blastula is a bunch of growing cell isn't it? I think I'll try to base it on a growing entity and the number of posts are based on the number of cells in a blastula. The reason it's there twice is that an important number crops up during blastula development which I want to acknowledge for that post. 46 chromosomes is important and I like the Pareto principle for a hundred. (80/20 rule)

I spent some time on it yesterday looking for important numbers in wikipedia - I love the magic numbers of physics.

So my excuse or explanation for it is it comes from cybernetics - the theory of systems where complication emerges from combinations of simpler things. After blastula it's completely open as I haven't gotten past that stage yet so any good numbers you know please throw them my way - transistors on chips or number of flip-flops in a quad core or any good numbers you know. Or any suggestions you have etc. after that at all about anything. I don't mind changing it if you think it's too weird either

(yeah right )

And you don't know if there's a way of applying different ranking systems to posters on the basis of the forums they visit? We could grow people, machines, ticked-off accountants.

Now that would be cool

Can I be a politico? I had just attained the rank on p.ie. I had rushed out and bought a pipe and tweed jacket, but when I came back it was gone.

AuditorGeneral wrote:

And you don't know if there's a way of applying different ranking systems to posters on the basis of the forums they visit? We could grow people, machines, ticked-off accountants.

Now that would be cool

I'm quite sure that CANNOT be done. Sorry.

905 wrote:

Can I be a politico? I had just attained the rank on p.ie. I had rushed out and bought a pipe and tweed jacket, but when I came back it was gone.

Now why would a Morula want to be a politico. You don't know how lucky you are.

905 At the moment you are totipotent - you are a cell which has the potential to change into any organ of the body. You are a very important stem cell.

Soon you could be an urban district councillor though.

I still feel like a zyglote at this crack

Right lads and lassies. Upto now I was doing a bit of toying with the ranks and leaving it as a provisional scheme until the site maybe took and we could put a rank system together using suggestions from posters here.

As the site is supposed to be focused ultimately on 'Systems' I decided to use physical, biological and human systems to represent the amount of posts people made, increasing in complexity of system as the number of posts mounted.

Where the rank changes I also threw in a one-post rank for what I considered important numbers - 46 for human chromosomes for example. I didn't want the ranks to predictably change at 100, 500, 1000 etc. but rather on the computer system numbers 128, 512, 1028 up until there and then I stopped. You would have been a class of emergent politico in between those numbers.

You are free to offer suggestions and advice or indeed create a whole new ranking system.

Unity	1
Electret	2
pi	3
AGTC	4
Seven plus or minus two	5
Two digit binary	10
Morula	12
The Third Magic Number of Physics	20
Morula	21
Blastula	32
Chromosomes in Human Genome	46
Epi Blastula	47
Blastocyst	60
Three digit binary	111
Cyano Blastocyst	112
Seventh Magic Atomic Number	126
Implanted Embryo	127
Irish TDs as of 2008	166
Foetal Politico	167
Infantile Hack	256
Senior Infantile Hack	512
Adolescent Urban District Councillor	1024

I feel too weak to argue with that

cactus flower wrote:

I feel too weak to argue with that

Look, I was on drugs (paracetamol) when I cooked up the first dozen or two but would you not suggest something instead of the foetal politco ones up ? There's no point in people here having political ones but you could suggest ranks from the army, or business or mix and match them - they're not important anyway ...

Think you should chuck this lot in somewhere anyway...

Civil servants by Main General Service Grades
Secretary General
Deputy Secretary
Asst Secretary
Principal Higher
Principal
Asst Principal Higher
Asst Principal
Administrative Officer
Higher Executive Officer
Executive Officer
Staff Officer
Clerical Officer
Services Officer
Services Attendant

MikeW wrote:

Think you should chuck this lot in somewhere anyway...

Civil servants by Main General Service Grades
Secretary General
Deputy Secretary
Asst Secretary
Principal Higher
Principal
Asst Principal Higher
Asst Principal
Administrative Officer
Higher Executive Officer
Executive Officer
Staff Officer
Clerical Officer
Services Officer
Services Attendant

Thanks Mike.

This is the type of bureaucratic monikerism we could adapt in our own way.

Any ideas now cactus?

Or indeed:


1) Entered Apprentice

2) Fellow-Craft

3) Master Mason

4) Secret Master

5) Perfect Master

6) Intimate Secretary

7) Provost and Judge

Intendant of the Building

9) Master Elect of Nine

10) Elect of Fifteen

11) Sublime Master Elected (Sublime Knights Elect of the Twelve)

12) Grand Master Architect

13) Master of the Ninth Arch (Knight of the Ninth Arch)

14) Grand Elect Mason

15) Knight of the East (Knight of the Sword)

16) Prince of Jerusalem

Chapter of Rose-Croix

17) Knight of the East and West

18) Prince of Rose-Croix (Knight of the Eagle)

The Consistory (Council of Kadosh)

19) Grand Pontiff

20) Master Ad Vitam (Grand Master of all Symbolic Lodges)

21) Patriarch Noachite (Prussian Knight)

22) Prince of Libanus (Knight of the Royal Axe)

23) Chief of the Tabernacle

24) Prince of the Tabernacle

25) Knight of the Brazen Serpent

26) Prince of Mercy

27) Commander of the Temple

28) Knight of the Sun (Prince Adept)

29) Knight of St. Andrew

30) Grand Elect Knight of Kadosh

31) Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander

32) Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret

33) Sovereign Grand Inspector General

And the awards:


Mark Master

Past Master

Most Excellent Master

Royal Arch Mason (Holy Royal Arch)

Royal Master

Select Master

Super Excellent Master

Order of the Red Cross

Order of the Knights of Malta

Order of Knights Templar

Now mike they're fecking great. Knights of Columbanus? Great names..

These are the ones you turn into after you finish being an implanted blastocyst, right?

Auditor #9 wrote:

Now mike they're fecking great. Knights of Columbanus? Great names..

These are the ones you turn into after you finish being an implanted blastocyst, right?

No, those are the Freemasons (according to this Illuminati site anyway). Hadn't thought of the Knights of Columbanus though, give me a mo.....

I like the Masonic ones...I'd almost suggest Scientology ranks, but (a) we might get sued, (b) it would create the wrong impression, and (c) goes without saying.

ibis wrote:

I like the Masonic ones...I'd almost suggest Scientology ranks, but (a) we might get sued, (b) it would create the wrong impression, and (c) goes without saying.

Give us a flavour of at least a handful ibis, the curiosity...

Yeah the masonic ones are good.

Not having much joy with the KofC, but how about some Aztec Kings, purely on the basis that they are unpronouncable and Cuitlahuac has a fun translation....


Acamapichtli (Reed-Fist)
Huitzilihuitl (Hummingbird Feather)
Chimalpopoca (Smoking Shield)
Itzcoatl (Obsidian Snake)
Montecuhzoma I Ilhuicamina (He Frowned Like A Lord-Pierces The Sky With An Arrow)
Axayacatl (Water-Mask), son of Montezuma I
Tizoc (He Has Bled People)
Ahuitzotl (Water Dog)
Montecuhzoma II Xocototzin (He Frowned Like A Lord-the younger)
Cuitlahuac (Excrement Owner)
Cuauhtemoc (Descends Like An Eagle)
Netzahualcoyotl (Hungry Coyote)
Nezahualpilli (Hungry Prince)
Cacama (Second Ear of Maize)
Coanacoch (Serpent Earpendant)
Tecocol (Someone's Anger)
Cocoza (Necklaces)
Ixtlilxochitl (Black-Eyed Flower)

Auditor #9 wrote:

ibis wrote:

I like the Masonic ones...I'd almost suggest Scientology ranks, but (a) we might get sued, (b) it would create the wrong impression, and (c) goes without saying.

Give us a flavour of at least a handful ibis, the curiosity...

Yeah the masonic ones are good.

Pre-clear, Clear, Operating Thetan - from one of their websites "pre-OT levels: the advanced auditing levels after Clear and
preparatory to the actual OT levels which begin at New OT VIII. The
pre-OT levels are New OT I through New OT VII."

Advanced auditing ..? that sounds familiar.

Jehovah's witnesses next anyone?

Anyone ?



http://www.circle-of-light.com/Angels/ranks-of-angels.html

What about becoming Cliff Thorburn when you reach 147. He was the 'Grinder' after all.

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:

What about becoming Cliff Thorburn when you reach 147. He was the 'Grinder' after all.

lol

MikeW wrote:

Or indeed:


1) Entered Apprentice

2) Fellow-Craft

3) Master Mason

4) Secret Master

5) Perfect Master

6) Intimate Secretary

7) Provost and Judge

Intendant of the Building

9) Master Elect of Nine

10) Elect of Fifteen

11) Sublime Master Elected (Sublime Knights Elect of the Twelve)

12) Grand Master Architect

13) Master of the Ninth Arch (Knight of the Ninth Arch)

14) Grand Elect Mason

15) Knight of the East (Knight of the Sword)

16) Prince of Jerusalem

Chapter of Rose-Croix

17) Knight of the East and West

18) Prince of Rose-Croix (Knight of the Eagle)

The Consistory (Council of Kadosh)

19) Grand Pontiff

20) Master Ad Vitam (Grand Master of all Symbolic Lodges)

21) Patriarch Noachite (Prussian Knight)

22) Prince of Libanus (Knight of the Royal Axe)

23) Chief of the Tabernacle

24) Prince of the Tabernacle

25) Knight of the Brazen Serpent

26) Prince of Mercy

27) Commander of the Temple

28) Knight of the Sun (Prince Adept)

29) Knight of St. Andrew

30) Grand Elect Knight of Kadosh

31) Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander

32) Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret

33) Sovereign Grand Inspector General

And the awards:


Mark Master

Past Master

Most Excellent Master

Royal Arch Mason (Holy Royal Arch)

Royal Master

Select Master

Super Excellent Master

Order of the Red Cross

Order of the Knights of Malta

Order of Knights Templar

I think this or something very like it ..