Are there any members who actively help people in the production of TASes, but never make movies themselves? If there are, those members should be visibly acknowledged. How about giving them a unique forum rank:
"Assistant" or "TASsistant" ???
For example, writing a good Lua script is something that can help
a lot in the tasing process, but some players may not have any experience in coding. On the other hand, some coders have little difficulty in writing scripts, but they may not have the time or interest to actually use those scripts to create TASes.
There exists the "coder" rank, but that rank does not include people who only make Lua scripts, or does it? I wonder, how many coders here actively create Lua scripts for projects that they don't TAS themselves? (I know I don't.) How many are capable? (I am only somewhat capable.)
Passive coders are potentially a huge TOOL for the community, so their contributions should be hailed more.
Maybe the member's profile page could have the following info representing the member's coding skill:
No coding skill / Basic scripting / Experienced coder / Emulator engineer / Professional / Bisqwit
Maybe we could then sort the member list by coding skill? That would be interesting in itself.
Another example would be a member who actively produces high-quality feedback, ideas, encouragement or encodes. The increasing post count does not fully cover this kind of helpful activity. See this top quality post by solarplex, which includes an encode, yet the current "encoder" rank does not seem to cover this type of help:
Post #372420
Can you think of other types of posts that are worth more than "+1 post count"? Are there more "hidden" ways of helping that are not praised enough? People need to be praised, because people are awesome.
Just casually brainstorming here. Feel free to assist.
