We've tweaked the user titles around here. PR Senior Member is now renamed to PR Elite. PR Founding Father has been expanded to contain the actual users responsible for building this community way back when. To understand more read on...
Your user title is displayed in your profile right under your avatar. If you just signed up on PitRacer you're probably still a Noob. If you've signed up and gotten involved in any way you've probably reached PR Member status. The next level is PR Addict where these guys are on every day interacting and contributing.
Then there's the upper level where only a select few have achieved. It used to be labeled PR Senior Member but this implies it's also a vet rider which wasn't always the case so we've relabeled this PR Elite. These users have thousands of posts, have built tracks, promoted events, have been around for years and are most likely the reason you're able to ride a motocross bike anywhere around here.
The very top level used to be called PR Founding Father. This name suggested these users were involved from the very beginning but it was flawed because our data didn't go back that far so it was only based on number of posts. The problem was there were users who didn't post as much but were involved and committed from the beginning. Pit sent me the original database from 2001 which lead to some interesting discoveries (unfortunately there's no data before 2001. The actual start date was somewhere around 1998). There were 789 users back in 2001. I've gone through each by hand and come up with what seems to be a real list of founding fathers. These guys were around in 2001 building what is here now but the interesting fact I found is most are still around, still contributing. You know most of these guys by name and avatar but some have quietly sneaked by.
I still have hundreds of original users from 2001 that I couldn't match up to an existing user. If your user title doesn't reflect the hours and dedication you've put in please let me know and we'll make it right. We can help honor this sport by honoring the people who put in the work.
In summary, if you see a guy with one of these special titles be sure to thank them for having a place to post and for having a place to ride. Most likely they were directly or indirectly responsible for both.
Your user title is displayed in your profile right under your avatar. If you just signed up on PitRacer you're probably still a Noob. If you've signed up and gotten involved in any way you've probably reached PR Member status. The next level is PR Addict where these guys are on every day interacting and contributing.
Then there's the upper level where only a select few have achieved. It used to be labeled PR Senior Member but this implies it's also a vet rider which wasn't always the case so we've relabeled this PR Elite. These users have thousands of posts, have built tracks, promoted events, have been around for years and are most likely the reason you're able to ride a motocross bike anywhere around here.
The very top level used to be called PR Founding Father. This name suggested these users were involved from the very beginning but it was flawed because our data didn't go back that far so it was only based on number of posts. The problem was there were users who didn't post as much but were involved and committed from the beginning. Pit sent me the original database from 2001 which lead to some interesting discoveries (unfortunately there's no data before 2001. The actual start date was somewhere around 1998). There were 789 users back in 2001. I've gone through each by hand and come up with what seems to be a real list of founding fathers. These guys were around in 2001 building what is here now but the interesting fact I found is most are still around, still contributing. You know most of these guys by name and avatar but some have quietly sneaked by.
I still have hundreds of original users from 2001 that I couldn't match up to an existing user. If your user title doesn't reflect the hours and dedication you've put in please let me know and we'll make it right. We can help honor this sport by honoring the people who put in the work.
In summary, if you see a guy with one of these special titles be sure to thank them for having a place to post and for having a place to ride. Most likely they were directly or indirectly responsible for both.
