we need new hat categories for James

[James A. Donovan]

You know, I was thinking the same thing myself. I was thinkning that maybe there could be an Emperor hat (after all a King is just an Emperor who lacks ambition!) at 20,000 points and a "Exalted Grand Poobah" hat at 50,000.

[someone_4]

Ok this is a good time to ask my question since we are talking about hats. Humor if you will im still new to this HPUX thing.
I wonderstand the grad , the wizzard , and crown. But what does the cap stand for ?
Fill me on ..

Richard

[Mark Vollmers]

20,000 seems awfully steep. I mean, at 10 points a question, he'd still need well over a thousand questions. Unless, of course, you started getting bonus points once you got a crown (you know, 100 points for a magic answer instead of the normal 10). Kinda a reward for being so smart in the first place.

[Richard Darling]

Let's personalize it a little - put a picture of the person who reaches the 5000 point level...then we'll see if they are human or part-machine.

I think James Ferguson is not human, but a computer that automatically searches all known UNIX databases in the universe and comes up with the correct answer...

[Patrick Wallek]

That's a good one Richard. I like that.

I'm sure you'll read this JRF. We've yet to hear from you. What's your reaction to this whole thread?

[John Bolene]

Man, what a struggle to get in and reply.
2 404's, 2 server not found, then a 5 minute wait to finally load the page.


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I finally got that funny looking green cap!!
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I'll assign points on Monday when hopefully the forums are better behaved. I don't have another 30 minutes today to try and assign points.

[Tim Malnati]

Some new answers to a repeating topic. In my mind the best solution for HP on this one is to award Jim with a job; and nothing run of the mill either. Talent like this should be rewarded where it counts.

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

This question had previously also occurred to me. My first idea was an image of a smaller crown on top of another. Had associated king of kings along with Omniback's manager of managers. But thought it a bit too ridiculous to be worth mentioning.

I think the idea that one of the forumers mentioned above about having multiple crowns is a splendid idea, 2 crowns for 5000 and so forth.

Personally, I find James very dedicated to the forum. Am most impressed. I feel that he is constantly striving for perfection of his answers, concentrating on quality rather than quantity of his answers. The number of perfect scores (8-10) he has in ratio to his total number of points speaks for itself.

Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong
Brainbench MVP for Unix Admin
http://www.brainbench.com

[Karthik_2]

John,
I have an idea ...
The person scoring the highest number of points at any given time will be a "Guru"
i.e at any point of time there will be only one Guru.
Apart from this we can give specialist titles for people who top various categories like syadmin expert,network expert etc.
And an expert circle can be formed by people who cross 5000 points and a degree of authority can be given to their answers.

Karthik...

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

If i were a king, i will wear the the wizards hat ( what i want is the magic stick, better yet).

I think what JRF needs is a book, a ball or a very very long trip ( just as Shayne).

JRF, dont be angry with me please( i am not ungry with you)

Regards.