Curious @karolinalinda - how do you do this? How does Inactive get set? ... View more

@CarolineS - I actually have a to-do to investigate this. Ours is turned on like that for similar reasons but it makes me uncomfortable so I was going to poke at it some. It's helpful to know that it is possibly not something we did to ourselves. ... View more

@LisaB - There's an interesting debate on this. I think there's a 'historical/all' rank and a 'current' rank. If we use analogs to real/meatspace communities, if I am the vice-president of my Chipmunk Fan Club because of my contributions to that club, but leave for two years, when I come back I'm not necessarily vice-president material. I can talk up, and some people will remember, that I was vice-president, but when I initially come back, maybe the club is now focused on Albino Chipmunks and I have less to offer. So, why should we not have a similar 'fade' in our online communities? For instance, our top user in the community I manage has been dead for over two years. However, the leaderboard says he's still the top. Should he be?  The real issue, IMO, is that the author's rank is not 'frozen' with the content given. Meaning, my first post in this community where I knew so little about Khoros now shows me as a Titan. Should that content be assumed to be useful because of that? It's a deep hole to wander down, but I was trying to specifically respond to @djondinium's question. ... View more

I've spent some time researching how to "fade" user ranks based on recommendations in "Building Web Reputation Systems". As far as I can tell, there's no out of the box way to do this. The ranking system doesn't have a call to 'last login date'. You could potentially script this (I haven't done this, but I think the API calls are there): Find all members of rank X Find last login date Set rank or badge or similar that indicates this person has been away awhile Based your ranking algorithm on #3.  Agreed that is would be nice to have though. ... View more