Originally posted by schrodingers dog
And so what's up with Gemwolf's bar?
It looks pale and sickly.

Maybe its going to die and drop off.

I think for mods it has something to do with sarcasm though...

So fearing the skittles actually kinda makes sense now I think.

All the different colours, just like the different boards!

Possibly...
I can guess many of the members color based on that theory, but there are still a couple that seem off to me. Mostly Mods, who for the vast part seem to have their colors locked. However, I think its on the right track, maybe it is a combination of the forum you post in and the forum in which you get the most applause. Supposedly applause still intensifies the color. I have gotten a lot of applause in the survival section which is orange, and it appears to make my bar slightly OD colored.

Since I have been posting in here tonight it has gotten much greenish/grayer, I assume because this area is gray/black. If you recall it was much darker green earlier tonight.

In truth there is one that really threw me, Intelgirls. I was trying to think of folks that post in one main area mostly, and hers should have been blue from the aircraft threads. Unless she also posts a lot in the UFO area, I don't get hers. However, Military Projects is sort of pinkish, so is weaponry. Maybe its not the individual boards color, but rather there is a color assigned to the category in which that board falls under. For example Military projects, and Weaponry, fall under the same category as UFO's which is most certainly red, and aircraft fall under Science which is Blue, making hers dark red. Therefore, maybe its not the sub-category, but rather the overall category it falls under.

Anyway, thanks for the motivation to seek this out.
Its been a lot of fun.


Edit to add.
There is no way to figure this out 100% though because we can only see a members last 250 posts, and have no idea what posts they got applause on. Besides this they move and change board colors from time to time. The only way to test it is for us to only start posting in one area for awhile.


[edit on 10/20/2008 by defcon5]

This is a great thread, thanks for posting this question SD and great detective work D5.

I have always wondered about the bars, but I never asked because of the funny answers people would get when they asked.

This is a great mystery that only one man can really answer. That man is SkepticOverlord. If I am not mistaken if someone actually cracks the code and the logic behind the bar system there is still like ton's of points up for grabs.

Nice one schrodingers dog for posting this, I was looking last night for a thread on this very subject.

Cheers.

Originally posted by whatukno
This is a great mystery that only one man can really answer. That man is SkepticOverlord. If I am not mistaken if someone actually cracks the code and the logic behind the bar system there is still like ton's of points up for grabs.

Did somebody say points? I didn't know there was a contest. I just did it because I have no life. Who do I submit what I figured out to? I've been hoarding the info to myself and only let one other person know. Tell all. I want my reward.

I thought you guys would have figured this out on the first page
The answer to your question is Snip