Abo, Wins vs. Losses and medal count are already displayed in the profile. (Under your name/belt.)

Submission-% would be cool under the Comp record.

(Then the system has to identify most subs from the "Method" text field on Won matches, but I guess it should be simple enough to type in the few dozen most common subs; also anything including "lock", "choke" etc.)

BJJ Heroes has a cool breakdown of methods of win/loss, but here a percentage would be sufficient I think. (Btw my submission-% in competition is absolutely abysmal...)

Some editing of one's promotion history (I don't know what exactly) will get all the votes invalidated - would be nice if the system gives you a warning about this. (If you have made a typo on coach name or date etc., I think updating the such details shouldn't erase the votes.)

Also perhaps add a button which you need to click to open voting for your profile? You might have verified your ID and added some promotion history but still work on finishing all the details, and in this case people can already start voting on incomplete profile, and when you add a newer rank/degree all those votes need to be re-verified.

Should also be a notification that if you open your profile for voting before filling in all the promotion history, you risk being downvoted by Daniël. :D

Add an elo system to competition results. Imagine. Also, verified blackbelts should be able to verify their students at any level without extra people to verify. We don't vote on a person's belt; it's that professor who decides.

No Jon, that'd be defeating the starting point of that system.

I actually can't figure that out. Is beltchecker speaking to the quality of the belt someone holds, or the fact that they were given a belt by a black belt? My professor didn't ask the gym if I deserved my belt, and all the crowd can do is verify that my professor gave me my belt. Unless this platform is to tell the world that I'm really just a white belt. Confused.

Turn off forum post notifications

Allow turn on/off widgets like achievements. I like my turn off

So, I became verified as a black belt, which required 1,000 vote points.

However, perhaps additional vote points should be required for each black belt degree.

And perhaps people should be allowed to vote to the belt ranks below their rank, so long as they have enough votes for those lower belt ranks, even if they have not been verified to their highest / real rank yet.

So, in this situation, with a 1,000 points, I would be verified as "black belt", and be able to cast votes that have the point value of a black belt, but not yet as a first degree or fourth degree, because I only have enough vote points as a black belt myself so far.

In this case, because degree ranks were also verified with an additional point requirement, and are more rare, rather than more common, each black belt degree should be worth more vote points than they currently are, when votes are cast, as well.

On the subject of pre-verification, I would also suggest that pre-verifications should not only be rare, and not be done further because the seeding requirements are probably already met, but also should only be up to the maximum level of black belt, which is sufficient for the growth acceleration and the initial site bootstrap.

These are just idle speculations on potential additional rule complications.

Christian G may not like them, may not want to program them, and/or the community may prefer the simpler, existing approach.

Since black belt degrees are only based on time, I don't feel like it should be necessary to verify anything but the original black belt promotion and date. Degrees are just time served from there, so if someone is verified to have served 3 years as black belt, they are 1st degree without question. Vote points verify that you're actually a black belt and how long you've been that.

Pre-verifications ARE very rare, we use them as little as possible. I think I've added 3 of them over the last week.

"Turn off forum post notifications"

Yes this is on my list for sure :)

"Allow turn on/off widgets like achievements. I like my turn off"

Meh, that would open a pandoras box of all sorts of things people should be able to turn on and off. If you don't like them then just don't look at them :)

When starting a new topic, let people choose which forum to post it in.

I was just verifying a profile from my phone and I accidentally hit the post button before I had completed my comment. Is there a way to edit it that I can’t see? If not, editing capability by the author may be a good idea.

Module for managing information about bjj clubs.

I would like information such as address or other contact information.

I like the idea that I will come to a foreign city and get the necessary information such as where to train and whom I can meet there.

A button that autogenerates a post with your last promotion pic. It should add some text like “Hey I can’t believe its been 3 years since I got promoted to blue belt”, tag in your instructor, and list the teams you’re considering moving to if you don’t get your next colour upgrade. :O)

Mr. Vlastník's suggestion about club pages is a great one. Allow verified, non-white belt members of said club edit the information (I figure this should work like a Wikipedia, and probably wouldn't be misused due to the verified requirement.)

Also auto-generating a Coach as a link after enough people have put the name out? Some people will never registered here, but then you could see who shares the same coach. Would work similarly to the "Academy" and "Association" information. (Not all coaches have their own associations.)

I like the idea of club pages, I will put it on my list and let it brew a bit in my mind to make sure I eventually build it in the best possible way

a LIke/Dislike button on the Forums, It would clean up all the clutter and the dozens of replies that say nothing more than "i agree." Also i would like to be able to put videos on my profile. Comp highlights as well as promotion videos. I have photos of some of my promotions, but mostly i have videos. which are nearly impossible to photoshop and would hold even more credibility.

Ryan, there's also a separate thread for that with varying opinions :) Come voice your opinion there as well.

Question for webmaster: what functionality serves the "Friend" thing now and what is planned for later? Because currently it seems it's not doing much if anything.

Jorgen, i mentioned it on that other forum as well, I just figured i'd bring it to light here as well. Also VIDEOS on profile!? Anyone? or is it just me that wants it? ha!

Yeah, I second Jorgen's question. I like being friendly with people but am hesitant to respond to friend requests from people I haven't met in person, as I don't know what this function is for.

Definitely the option to edit your own Vote comments. I dislike typos but tend to make them.

Jorgen >> For now it's just a list for you to use for whatever. Later it will be used for other functionality too.

Tatu >> Yeah that's on the list too :)

Should disputes automatically be cleared when someone changes their promotion history? Say a self promotion to a new belt is noticed by someone and they dispute the rank, all the self-promoting person has to do is go in and change a date and it clears your dispute. What if we could select the severity of the dispute? One for incomplete promotion history, which is temporary and clears when the person changes their promotion history and another dispute that is more permanent and doesn't get cleared unless you decide to remove it.

Maybe some seminar curriculum would be nice so you can list the seminars you've attended.
Maybe in future there events added to beltchecker.

Not so much a new feature, but can you make the promotion history update page a bit more clear. Maybe follow the "WYSIWYG" approach where you can edit it in the format that you see it on your profile. Right now it's very confusing (at least for me) when you edit it and want to add stripes or other things.

Also maybe give a notification that the voting history is going to be erased if "date" is changed? Something like a "confirm popup" are you sure this and that will happen if you change these settings.

List View of ppl online.


The site is very very good. Just a couple things but I’m sure they will be sorted out over time

- If colored belt is verified by 2-3 black belts with degrees it constitute a verified account.
i.e. a brown belt gets votes with two 3rd degree verified black belts they should be considered verified

- please remove the notifications for any non direct relations to the person

- the ability to see who is actively online

That list is right there on the front page :)