About rankings

It's not just a matter of what you know. It's also about how much you contribute and whether your knowledge is sound or not. As an example, I had 30 years experience in Wicca but was unranked for the first four years I was on here until I became more active and started to contribute to the boards and demonstrating that I did indeed know what I was talking about.

Okay this makes more sense, but does that mean that a person with knowledgeable status can rank another member to Adept, or can Adepts only rank others to Adept?

Ranking does not indicate knowledge or competence. It indicates what we know of the member, by what the member writes on the Profile,and the Forums. If a member has nothing on the Profile, and never writes anything on the site, then that member would be ranked Unknown. Only by contributing to the site can a ranking be corrected.

Dear Lark, I have looked through the forums but nothing that answers my previous question, Brysing with all due respect what I am asking about here is the technical details (as in what ranks can rank who), I myself like to question the little details, but I can assure you as it states in the site introductions thread, I am not after and never want to be given a rank. This is not the purpose of why I am here.

Twilight, I cannot understand your "beef". If you are a member of SoM you will have a "rank". Yours is Unknown.

Woah woah woah for a second, I'm not sure what is ment by beef here. But where I am from it means you have a problem. I have no problem or mean to make one with anyone.

Please understand me, I was merely asking a question about a technicality with rankings, again I'm not asking this question in hopes of being ranked, I am asking it because it is one of many questions I want to ask people about on the site.

I'll repeat the question again to save you from scrolling up, "Can a member with Knowledgeable rank, rank another person as Adept. Or can only Adepts rank people as Adept?"

So for example, you have the rank "knowledgeable" does this mean that you can not only rank other members from beginner to knowledgeable, but also people to adept, even though you are not adept yourself?

They are trying to tell you,at this time you don't have. Rank other then unknown at some point in time you will acquire a rank if you earn one.

But you do seem to have a problem, Twilight; of not being able to understand.Lark has told you who can rank other members. Let me give an example. How would you assess the work of, say a cabinet maker? You would look at a cabinet he has made, and then be able to assess how good he is at his job. It is the same here. A member is assessed by what is revealed by the member during his/her membership.
You don't have to be a cabinet maker yourself to assess competence. I don't have to be an Adept myself to assess another member as Adept!

I think I can spot where this has all gone a bit messy, yes originally I was asking questions about rankings, but this lead me to ask another more detailed question.

Which again pertained specifically to being an Adept, so it would have looked like I didn't listen to Larks original answer, when I was asking another question, maybe what I could have done instead is to simply state that this was a new question being asked.

This topic has repeatedly come up and been exhausted thoroughly.
Don't worry about ranking. Worry about creating meaningful posts that say something worth reading. Ranking will follow.

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