I joined in 2005, but still a newbie? 
I wonder what you have to do become a (full) member. 
 

You have to be more active in the forums. Phil (the webmaster) is still a junior member (next to newbie) even though he's the first member of LG. Have to leave at least 100 posting in the forums to be a full member. Can't abuse that or Jace will not be happy. (Just letting ya know not trying to take his job as the admins.)

You're:

- A junior member with 50 posts thru 99 posts
- A full member with 100 posts thru 249 posts (I'm in this category but I'll go to the next soon  )
- A Sr. member with 250 posts thru 499 posts. Only 4 members are Sr. member I think
- A hero member with 500 posts and above. Jace is the only Hero member and Form109 is becoming the 2nd.

This is the result and as of Feb 2, 2009



Remember Gallery and Forum are actually separate hosts that was put together in ONE page...So most of the stuff that is powered by SMF will not work in the Gallery part since Gallery part is powered by Coppermine....

Back in July 2006, we only had gallery, no forum. So it was more simple. only having Coppermine...so we got the forum part added in August 2006.....(also the time I became an administrator)

So it is only based on the forums....note that the karma can not be controlled in Gallery page but is only shown....while you can use karma in the forum part......perhaps the Webmaster can explain better and perhaps you guys have other suggestions for the Webmaster...

Strange system. I thougt it went by the period you're a member.
Anyway this means I stay a newbie by this system, because no one is interested in the most topics I post. So I stopped doing that.

   

how can you be a hero if you were a member for a long time but never helped others? and yes I wish we could make gallery part be connected to Karma but we are unable to do that

Like I said before. No one is interested and I don,t have any info about the American lighting.