Quote from: arebelspy on September 30, 2016, 03:42:50 AMLuckily post counts don't matter for anything. :)Wait, what? You mean I'm not getting cash back at 5000?
Luckily post counts don't matter for anything. :)
Quote from: Spork on September 30, 2016, 07:45:12 AMQuote from: arebelspy on September 30, 2016, 03:42:50 AMLuckily post counts don't matter for anything. :)Wait, what? You mean I'm not getting cash back at 5000?You'll get refunded all the money you've spent here. :)
'rebs is getting kinda lonely spending all day in there by himself.
Clarification: I'm not a gambler and may have misused the term. I think "the over" in this case means at a later date or never.
Are ARS's large, blue boxes worth more than Spork's small, gold boxes?
Quote from: With This Herring on September 30, 2016, 10:24:52 AM Are ARS's large, blue boxes worth more than Spork's small, gold boxes? Gwah!! (sorry, 5th grade humor coming out...)Seriously though, those with the all-powerful moderator privileges seem to get blue boxes. The rest of us are stuck with gold ones. Anyone can use the red pen though.
Quote from: nereo on September 30, 2016, 10:29:05 AMQuote from: With This Herring on September 30, 2016, 10:24:52 AM Are ARS's large, blue boxes worth more than Spork's small, gold boxes? Gwah!! (sorry, 5th grade humor coming out...)Seriously though, those with the all-powerful moderator privileges seem to get blue boxes. The rest of us are stuck with gold ones. Anyone can use the red pen though.Rebs actually has special moderator black boxes. However, the black boxes are colored blue for visibility
Quote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 03:24:38 AMImage was used as the opposite method to attachments. So, you misunderstood me, but glad ARS made the correction as others may have thought the same thing.I was a victim of negative posts. When SOMEONE deleted her entire journal, my numbers went backwards.Shit, if I'd known it would affect your post count deborah, that definitely would've made a difference to my decision to delete my personal journal filled with private info! I'll be more considerate next time ;-)
Image was used as the opposite method to attachments. So, you misunderstood me, but glad ARS made the correction as others may have thought the same thing.I was a victim of negative posts. When SOMEONE deleted her entire journal, my numbers went backwards.
Quote from: HappierAtHome on September 30, 2016, 06:31:18 AMQuote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 03:24:38 AMImage was used as the opposite method to attachments. So, you misunderstood me, but glad ARS made the correction as others may have thought the same thing.I was a victim of negative posts. When SOMEONE deleted her entire journal, my numbers went backwards.Shit, if I'd known it would affect your post count deborah, that definitely would've made a difference to my decision to delete my personal journal filled with private info! I'll be more considerate next time ;-)No, no... delete whatever you want. It's like a game of Russian roulette, or the frog going up the well. If someone deletes your posts, you just go down a bit. Makes it exciting, and non-deterministic!
Quote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 04:11:53 PMQuote from: HappierAtHome on September 30, 2016, 06:31:18 AMQuote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 03:24:38 AMImage was used as the opposite method to attachments. So, you misunderstood me, but glad ARS made the correction as others may have thought the same thing.I was a victim of negative posts. When SOMEONE deleted her entire journal, my numbers went backwards.Shit, if I'd known it would affect your post count deborah, that definitely would've made a difference to my decision to delete my personal journal filled with private info! I'll be more considerate next time ;-)No, no... delete whatever you want. It's like a game of Russian roulette, or the frog going up the well. If someone deletes your posts, you just go down a bit. Makes it exciting, and non-deterministic!What if ARS deletes your user account itself?:o
Quote from: ender on September 30, 2016, 04:14:30 PMQuote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 04:11:53 PMQuote from: HappierAtHome on September 30, 2016, 06:31:18 AMQuote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 03:24:38 AMImage was used as the opposite method to attachments. So, you misunderstood me, but glad ARS made the correction as others may have thought the same thing.I was a victim of negative posts. When SOMEONE deleted her entire journal, my numbers went backwards.Shit, if I'd known it would affect your post count deborah, that definitely would've made a difference to my decision to delete my personal journal filled with private info! I'll be more considerate next time ;-)No, no... delete whatever you want. It's like a game of Russian roulette, or the frog going up the well. If someone deletes your posts, you just go down a bit. Makes it exciting, and non-deterministic!What if ARS deletes your user account itself?:oARS wouldn't do that!
Quote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 04:18:09 PMQuote from: ender on September 30, 2016, 04:14:30 PMQuote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 04:11:53 PMQuote from: HappierAtHome on September 30, 2016, 06:31:18 AMQuote from: deborah on September 30, 2016, 03:24:38 AMImage was used as the opposite method to attachments. So, you misunderstood me, but glad ARS made the correction as others may have thought the same thing.I was a victim of negative posts. When SOMEONE deleted her entire journal, my numbers went backwards.Shit, if I'd known it would affect your post count deborah, that definitely would've made a difference to my decision to delete my personal journal filled with private info! I'll be more considerate next time ;-)No, no... delete whatever you want. It's like a game of Russian roulette, or the frog going up the well. If someone deletes your posts, you just go down a bit. Makes it exciting, and non-deterministic!What if ARS deletes your user account itself?:oARS wouldn't do that!...but only because you didn't add the 'e' on my name that time. ;)As far as the colored boxes, I think I saw a setting to tweak those, but I've never bothered.
You could always move threads to an unviewable subforum instead of deleting.That's how I got all my boxes.
Quote from: dragoncar on September 30, 2016, 07:20:09 PMYou could always move threads to an unviewable subforum instead of deleting.That's how I got all my boxes.The worst part is the inconsistent space between the avatar and actual ones.My OCD. Gahhhh!
Quote from: ender on October 03, 2016, 06:02:05 AMQuote from: dragoncar on September 30, 2016, 07:20:09 PMYou could always move threads to an unviewable subforum instead of deleting.That's how I got all my boxes.The worst part is the inconsistent space between the avatar and actual ones.My OCD. Gahhhh!There, I fixed the space between the avatar and actual ones. All better?
Quote from: dragoncar on October 03, 2016, 11:51:55 AMQuote from: ender on October 03, 2016, 06:02:05 AMQuote from: dragoncar on September 30, 2016, 07:20:09 PMYou could always move threads to an unviewable subforum instead of deleting.That's how I got all my boxes.The worst part is the inconsistent space between the avatar and actual ones.My OCD. Gahhhh!There, I fixed the space between the avatar and actual ones. All better?:P
Quote from: dragoncar on October 03, 2016, 11:51:55 AMQuote from: ender on October 03, 2016, 06:02:05 AMQuote from: dragoncar on September 30, 2016, 07:20:09 PMYou could always move threads to an unviewable subforum instead of deleting.That's how I got all my boxes.The worst part is the inconsistent space between the avatar and actual ones.My OCD. Gahhhh!There, I fixed the space between the avatar and actual ones. All better?The worst part is that years later, the avatar will be gone, and future historians won't get the joke. The previous one, and this one, should be uploaded as attachments. :)
Post everywhere, all the time, and especially in the same thread over and over again.Or just modify the post count field.WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHICH IT IS
Quote from: ender on October 03, 2016, 09:04:56 PMPost everywhere, all the time, and especially in the same thread over and over again.Or just modify the post count field.WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHICH IT ISIt's only 13 posts per day. 13 posts per day is easy, it's doing it every single day for 5 years that's hard (on average)
Quote from: dragoncar on September 30, 2016, 11:10:48 AMQuote from: nereo on September 30, 2016, 10:29:05 AMQuote from: With This Herring on September 30, 2016, 10:24:52 AM Are ARS's large, blue boxes worth more than Spork's small, gold boxes? Gwah!! (sorry, 5th grade humor coming out...)Seriously though, those with the all-powerful moderator privileges seem to get blue boxes. The rest of us are stuck with gold ones. Anyone can use the red pen though.Rebs actually has special moderator black boxes. However, the black boxes are colored blue for visibilityThat makes sense, when there is foam everywhere. (Sorry, guys!)
I am trying so bloody hard to get to this mythical 5000 and stay in the top 40 posters and Miss M. Jenga just whooshes right past me!
I am trying so bloody hard to get to this mythical 5000 and stay in the top 40...
Quote from: marty998 on October 04, 2016, 01:14:37 AMI am trying so bloody hard to get to this mythical 5000 and stay in the top 40 posters and Miss M. Jenga just whooshes right past me!You just need to be involved in three or four journals that grow at a rate of a million pages per day.
Likely earliest/latest "graduation" dates for the next 8:lhamo 10/24/201611/15/2016Prospector 10/29/201611/23/2016nereo 11/12/201611/22/2016Spork 11/27/201612/25/2016Jack 12/6/201612/30/2016jordanread 12/6/20162/9/2017MonkeyJenga 12/29/20165/5/2017pbkmaine 1/10/20173/4/2017Of course, Observing a Phenomenon Affects Its Outcome so who knows...?
Woot! This is such an honor... I'd like to thank yew many mustache and friends all their love and support :sniff: and to posters like moonshadow who kept threads rolling against all probability! I'll be waiting by the mailbox for my certificate!
(Also Bracken Joy hit 5k two days ago, but wasn't on this list.)
now that I have the coveted 'Walrus Stach' it seems like we ought to re-adjust the posting levels again. 10,000 for Walrus, 5,000 for Magnum, and 2,500 for Handlebar? 30,000 needed to become an administrator?
Quote from: marty998 on October 04, 2016, 01:14:37 AMI am trying so bloody hard to get to this mythical 5000 and stay in the top 40...There's a Top 40??? As mentioned upthread, I don't really want to become a Walrus Anything, but there's a Top 40 and I didn't know about it? What? Wah!**Humor, not actual whining.
Quote from: Diane C on October 04, 2016, 05:04:19 AMQuote from: marty998 on October 04, 2016, 01:14:37 AMI am trying so bloody hard to get to this mythical 5000 and stay in the top 40...There's a Top 40??? As mentioned upthread, I don't really want to become a Walrus Anything, but there's a Top 40 and I didn't know about it? What? Wah!**Humor, not actual whining.Oh... it's not an actual thing.. .it's just when I view the member list on my laptop the screen is only big enough to show 40 at a time. I don't want to have to scroll to find my name :)On another forum that I lurk on, the top 40 posters get a yellow shield and the top 10 get a green shield I think...The ones with the most likes get a heart.
Quote from: nereo on November 02, 2016, 09:15:30 PMnow that I have the coveted 'Walrus Stach' it seems like we ought to re-adjust the posting levels again. 10,000 for Walrus, 5,000 for Magnum, and 2,500 for Handlebar? 30,000 needed to become an administrator?Inflation happens everywhere, even the MMM forums!Soon we'll be talking in terms of real post counts versus nominal post counts."Well, but those were 2013 posts, so they're worth like 2.5 times that now..."We'll debate how to minimize the impact of post inflation on our personal post budgets, and bicker about the man flooding the forum with posts, devaluing them.
Quote from: arebelspy on November 02, 2016, 11:12:44 PMQuote from: nereo on November 02, 2016, 09:15:30 PMnow that I have the coveted 'Walrus Stach' it seems like we ought to re-adjust the posting levels again. 10,000 for Walrus, 5,000 for Magnum, and 2,500 for Handlebar? 30,000 needed to become an administrator?Inflation happens everywhere, even the MMM forums!Soon we'll be talking in terms of real post counts versus nominal post counts."Well, but those were 2013 posts, so they're worth like 2.5 times that now..."We'll debate how to minimize the impact of post inflation on our personal post budgets, and bicker about the man flooding the forum with posts, devaluing them.This is an excellent point. I'm never going to be able to retire on just 5000 posts if I can't earn a good return on those posts. I don't even think my current deposits are beating inflation. Does anyone need to borrow some of mine? Maybe someone close to walrus? I'll change a very reasonable interest rate.
You'll probably delete them all like Scrubby (who recently deleted her journal again), and then people will be oscillating between walrus and magnum - both are huge.