What's a VIP member...
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Topic: What's a VIP member...
Posted By: geneyesontle
Subject: What's a VIP member...
Date Posted: January 06 2013 at 15:16
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And how to be one ? I'm just curious. ------------- Poseidon wants to Acquire the Taste of the Fragile Lamb - Derek Adrian Gabriel Anderson, singer of the band Geneyesontle |
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: January 06 2013 at 16:14
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It just means the admins like you. Nothing special other than the title. ------------- https://aprilmaymarch.bandcamp.com/track/the-badger" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: January 06 2013 at 16:22
| Hi! When I originally joined the site I thought VIP members were famous musicians or something like that. VIP staus is really just an acknowledgement for people who have been around the site for a while, visit regularly, and make a positive contribution in the forum... without necessarily posting reviews or doing other collaborative work. The only thing it really entitles you to is to vote in the Collabs' album of the year poll. A Collab would need to recommend you to Admin but they don't give this out very often. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: January 06 2013 at 19:23
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You also get preferential seating in the threads. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: January 06 2013 at 19:40
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And a pretty lil' tag under your avatar. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 06 2013 at 22:43
| And people will wonder why you are special. |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: January 06 2013 at 23:25
It's all for the tag man.  ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Andy Webb wrote:Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 07 2013 at 00:09
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It's a recognition to members who participate in the forums for a long a time with correction, but haven't wrote enough reviews to be considered a collaborator. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 11:53
Just became a VIP member .... or  or rather  well actually  ... no I mean  From what I understand, you become VIP member when the admins want to honor your contribution to the PA community. Personally, I believe that in order for you to achieve a VIP membership it is required that you posses a certain focus on which threads you contribute to. In my case, 70's and 80's prog is archaeology and I prefer to look at the present and future prog. HOWEVER, I have a passion for the earliest expressions of prog (hence, "earlyprog") and consider myself an expert in this particular field. I guess to become a collaborator I would have to follow up on my intention to reviewing the - in my opinoin, most essential - proto-prog music on PA in order to gain collaborator status? Notwithstanding this, I have been a daily visitor to the PA site since 2006, and this could be the main acceptance criterion for becoming VIP Member So how many reviews do I need to do before I become collaborator? Benefits of a VIP member include the ability to vote in PA's annual album of the year poll and a fancy title under your avatar, a golden throne in ProgArchives heaven  |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 17:08
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Becoming a prog reviewer is simply based on frequent high quality reviewing on a dynamic range of albums (i.e. we don't want 50 phenomenal reviews of every album Rush has every released and nothing else). The thing that catches people up usually is they'll post a lot of 'ok' quality reviews (either they're really short or they just don't have a lot in them), they only review classic albums (Close to the Edge has hundreds of reviews, so we're not too worried about a new one), or they post one good review every two years.
There's no set number you need to meet. Generally, a good 40 or so high quality, multifarious reviews will catch the eye of an admin or collab who wants to sponsor you. If you really think you deserve it, you can always PM an admin asking to be promoted too, and it might happen. Collabs, on the other hand, function very differently. A collaborator serves a function on the site, whether it is evaluating artists, checking the site for errors, or monitoring certain parts of the forum. Reviews play little to no part in becoming a collab. We've had collabs with not a single review or rating. Becoming a PR is a good stepping stone for becoming a collab, but it's not necessary. ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: December 20 2013 at 18:39
| Some collabs just naturally exude a high level of win. :p |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: December 21 2013 at 02:57
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