User ids

[stevesim89]

I could not find any answers for my questions on the forum so i though that this might be the place to ask.

Question #1: Why do some people have green circles besider their name while others have gray circles?

Question #2: How do some people get registered user , junior member , member , and senior member? It does not seem to work by the number of posts because some junior members have more posts than members.

 

[Fil]

#1: I believe a green circle means they're currently online.

#2: It depends on when they signed up, I think I read that once. A while ago they had a different user system in place, and I guess the subtitles for people stuck.

 

[aevans410]

Fil is mostly right. The second point though is complicated.

There was a settings problem on the board a few weeks ago. Everyone that signed up after a certain date was a registered user (Myself, Cory, Spock, Karl, Kwanny and more that I can't remember right now all had that tag). Somehow, something was changed accidentally, and anyone who posted in that certain time frame got their user ID changed to member, junior member, and senior member.