The Forum: A Contrast to Communism?

[AmericanZionist2004]

It may be trivial of me to point this out, and I don't mean this disrespectfully, but couldn't you get a forum with one or two admins and all the other posters are of equal rank, despite the amount of posts they contribute? Here it seems like there is a "posting hierarchy": Companero, Commandante, Commie Club, etc... Communism is supposed to be about equality.

I don't mean this in sarcasm in any way, I just want to know why such a format was chosen, I have never seen it for phpBB forums, so it looked weird at first.

[MysticArcher]

I don't know why we have such a system, I just joined a little while ago, but the whole posts to ranking relationship isn't uncommon, the other forum I post on has a similar system

the commie club isn't a rank, to my understanding it allows the person who has that in the space under their name, to access another part of the forum

[canikickit]

I think there is no way of removing that "ranking system" from the forum.
I'd like to see it gone myself, but it's not really a big deal.

The Commie Club is another forum where people can basically give feedback and suggestions are made and so forth. Discussion is made there on whether certain members should be banned or restricted.
Most members get access eventually, by my reckoning, although rerstricted members never will, and some non-restricted members are unlikely to get access either.

[synthesis]

I think there is no way of removing that "ranking system" from the forum

I don't see why there couldn't be. Even if the system is hard-coded into the forum, we could just make all ranks the same.

I am in favor of ditching it, personally, although it doesn't really matter enough to me for me to protest against it.

[(*]

It's not like those with a "higher" rank receive more privileges, or are treated any differently.

[canikickit]

You don't have enough posts to make a call like that, (*.

[Guest1]

who cares, all it does is show how much someone has posted.

as for this forum being a contrast to communism, I think it's an interesting example of distinctly collectivist social development. when did the commie club begin? when did the commie club begin to take on the role of being a democratic town hall of sorts for the administration of this board? when did moderators begin to be democratically nominated and elected?

I doubt Malte had a clear agenda to implement this sort of collectivist administration of the board when he first started it. It just sort of happened, step by step.

It's a testament to what can happen when socially-minded people cooperate. No matter how small an example it is, I'm pretty proud of che-lives.

[Saint-Just]

It merely labels us as different. It labels those with more experience here. It does not give them any authority, as such it does not contradict communism Although it looks like there is a heirarchy, there is not.