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Yeah, I made this account a year ago but never used it. Thinking of using it now. I uploaded 2 pictures, well, technically 4, but 2 of those were the result of lag. I now have a Gold Membership.

Is there a chart I can look at or something? I do not understand how I have this…

It doesn’t really matter anyway. Nothing special happens.

Your membership is determined by the number of “contributions” to this website.

These can be anything you do on this site; forum posts, comments, entry edits/submissions, images, and videos are all considered contributions.

I don’t know the exact number required to progress to each level, but I think it goes
Brand New Member (0-5)
Member (6-10)
Gold Membership (11-50
Reseacher (51-9000)
OVER 9000!!!1 (hurr I dunno)

There is also a hodgepodge of moderator and administrator positions. These are the people that can ban, lock threads, deadpool/confirm entries, etc.

Some of these individuals hold powers that have yet to be fully used. In addition to the standard forum and entry mods, we have a number of interns, a Scientist Emeritus, and Tikibar Management.

Truth.

I wish we could make custom titles….

In order to upgrade to Platinum membership, send me $50.

PayPal accepted.

Silly troll, you have no power here. Begone!

I uploaded over 100 ponies my first day here.
So I instantly got researcher and didn’t know it.

Just like James ‘Nic Cage Fan’ thing he’s got goin on.

OVER 9000!!!1 was a gift by jamiew to me for being the first to reach 9000 contributions.

I’m so jealous.

I’m 6527 contributions away from getting the OVER 9000!!!1 rank.

I don’t think you’ll actually get it, because it was only given to the first person to do so.
Though, you’ll probably get some special rank for going out of your way for doing something special.

Do I need to be OVER 9000 to run for Mod/Admin?

No. The admins will mod you if they think you’re good for the job, but a lot of it is also luck.
If you want to be an admin, seek internship at Rocketboom, and if you secure a permanent job there, it’s possible that you’d become an admin.

I think RG (Kate C. Campeau) is the only person with that many contributions- moderator, staff, or other.

Also, KYM has had two rounds of appointing moderators:
1.0 – Horseeater, Shadowfury (Shadowfairy), Mellow (now a Community Manager), Jostin Asuncion, Tomberry, Blah-tan, Frketson
1.1- Watcher
2.0- Christopher the Pimp Abra, Doc, Trick Lobo, myself

So I don’t know when the next round will come around, but it’s not something you “run for,” and is thus far given by invitation only :|

edit: what RG said

I’m also the only Video Mod.

It’s funny because the Video system doesn’t work, so, I can’t do anything regarding videos yet.

Thanks for the advice… :-)

Yeah, I have posted shitloads of comments and forum posts and one day I became a researcher. And I was really surprised because I thought you also needed to post atleast one entry or more.

There really ought to be more divisions above Researcher, as one gets there awfully quickly (as 00CLANK) pointed out, and then everybody pretty much stays at that rank forever. Among other things, as sonic4ever13 pointed out, it doesn’t even have anything to do with how much actual research you’ve done. Sometimes I feel it’s not right that people who may have contributed nothing to the database get the same status that I do, and at the same time, I get the same status as people who have done ten times as much work as me (or far, far more!) I remember when I made “Researcher” thinking, “Really? I make a handful of comments and post a couple of second-rate entries to the database and I have the same status as someone like Ogreenworld? That doesn’t seen quite right somehow.”

Oh, and one more thing I forgot to mention:
There is also a “Jr. Researcher” rank that was not on this list.

I think Proto-member is “Brand New Member” after a certain amount of time has passed.
Also, your activity on the forums vs your activity on the Database has an effect as well. You are forever a “Member” if you havent posted on the database.

Also, I think there shouled be at least one more division, mainly about those people who have submitted a meme entry to the database and people who are an editor of a confirmed entry.

Work here and make some t-shirts and soon you will have a radical cool STAFF MEMBER title and you get to do cool adminy things.

Also, you get to hang out with awesome people like me.

the more you post the more you get end then level up yah noob.

I always thought that “Gold Membership” was a 4chan reference. Not that I go there, or anything, I was just wondering.

The best rank ever is the “Tikibar” one. No exception.

There are two reasonable answers to your remark:

1 – KYM oldfags are still here but don’t bother posting because of people like you finding happiness and excitement at creating flame wars on this website. They may also be indifferent or disappointed by the fact we can’t have a normal conversation with you anymore without feeling irritated in some way or another.

2 – It wasn’t a joke. Tikibar is the best rank ever. Period.

PROTIP: The shortest answer may or may not be the best one.

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No kidding. I haven’t made any entries or anything. Just slapped up a bunch of pictures, which doesn’t take any real effort or skill, just a bit of time.