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47.6% (39) |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1179 Joined: 13 Sep 2007 | |
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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 533 Joined: 1 Jan 2008 | @ Purple Rain I'm stopping at 1337 then making a new account.Shame you've wasted your chance :) |
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Press Junketeer  Posts: 481 Joined: 13 Nov 2007 | I find it fun counting the number of one-post users in the ZP comments threads. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1847 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 |
... Geez, I don't know whether I should respond to that as a compliment, or an insult... Damn you root, for putting me in this predicament! |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1179 Joined: 13 Sep 2007 |
I had a conversation with him about that once, I really want the mods to make that a new rank, maybe even the final rank. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1720 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 |
Don't worry, Purple was just being a bit of an Ass-hat. Anyway I think they should make some new titles for 2000. Maybe a new title for every thousandth post? |
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PROBATION  Posts: 2466 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | I would love a new title for every extra 1000th post... Purple Rain should be the final at 5000, though...
Not so much that I took offense at it, even though it is my religion... Just that everyone else corrects anyone who misspells their names, so I did too... But rather than being an ass-hat about it, like some have done, I just was more subtle about it... (Sorry Crap_Hat, I couldn't resist. I will stop disrespecting the Hat now...) User was put on probation for: HowTo: Talk to Girls. (3 days) |
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Muckraker  Posts: 314 Joined: 10 Sep 2007 |
Screw you, nub. I've been around longer. That's the REAL dick hat. It means nothing, can lend a ludicrous sense of false superiority, and you can't change it, so when someone comes along who trumps you, you can't do anything except deflect attention, look sheepish, and shut the hell up. Kudos to Cheesy, in that regard. Post counts are meh. If you need the help of a number to tell you how much you should listen to someone, then you need help. If someone builds up 500 posts in two days with nothing but meaningless crap, the fact that they have nothing worthwhile to say is usually a more reliable measure of how stupid they are, more than their ridiculous post count. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2026 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | Break, there are no needs for such words as your first paragraph here. :/ |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 990 Joined: 8 May 2008 | the post counter is just a number underneath yoru avatar that means nothing. all forums have some form of a post counter. its not really anything to care about and the funny thing is, people do and the post count/join date ratio doesnt appply to all, some people...moslty me if my ratio is hiigh i really dont know but o yes, and sometimes lurking isn't lurking, someone makes a point or says somethign and you have something to say back. |
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Press Junketeer  Posts: 367 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
Not that I hang around a lot of forums, but this is the first time I've ever seen such a post counter. And I don't really care about it too much - it is a bit fun, it's sort of akin to your level in an rpg - but it never figures into my evaluation of an individual post. I just thought it'd be interesting to see what everyone else thought. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2026 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | That's the spirit! Now let's all watch something to be happy about all together. |
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PROBATION Posts: 2466 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | I would be happier if you had more Calvin & Hobbes cartoons... User was put on probation for: HowTo: Talk to Girls. (3 days) |
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BANNED  Posts: 1695 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 | silly whistling jack smith, here's your real god don't click that link unless your prepared to accept the consequences. post counter is worth nothing, i'm more awesome than anyone here and i only have a few hundred User was banned for: Escapist Election! (First eliminations). (30 days) |
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Muckraker Posts: 314 Joined: 10 Sep 2007 |
You thought I was being serious? Isn't it more likely that I was joking, than making such a big deal over something as meaningless as post counts or join dates? I'd find it difficult to believe that somebody could be quite that petty, myself. To be honest, I find it hard to see how my post could be taken as insulting. |
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Beat Writer  Posts: 128 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 | Hmm... it's probably a good idea... as long as you don't get people going "w00t 100th post!!!" all the time[/irony] (and yes, I do know that this will only be true if I were to never post again, and yes I was sad enough to wait until my 100th post to post on this thread)... |
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Infamous Scribbler Posts: 533 Joined: 1 Jan 2008 |
Funny enough I've never noticed any of these anniversary numbers. |
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Pulitzer Laureate Posts: 990 Joined: 8 May 2008 | w00t 75th post!!!1 wait...damn thats sorta a land mark number. I was just trying to be redundant. the post counter isn't an issue unless people make it one and anyone that uses it to try and show dominance and those people...well they have problems of their own. so next time someone does that be nice and give them an m&m and that video was amazing ...and I named my dogs calvin and hobbes |
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Press Junketeer Posts: 367 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 |
Blasphemy! You can only name a cat Hobbes! |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1847 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 |
Even though I mentioned mr cheeze of having the highest post count, I remember him/ her saying that it was due to them posting on the Warcry forums, and not The Escapist. So, technically, mr cheeze has no time superiority here... I believe it's Cheeze Pavilion (sp?) (sorry, I don't know who it is. Could someone please correct me if I'm wrong about who's the oldest?). |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1274 Joined: 1 Feb 2008 | On another BBS I used to frequent, after a certain point, you could pick your own designation, which was fun. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 108 Joined: 4 Dec 2007 | im fine with it |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 723 Joined: 9 Jan 2008 |
Eat my genital warts. |
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Anonymous Source  Posts: 3 Joined: 14 May 2008 | I think the post counts are and should be directly proportional to your influence on the forums. The more time you waste here, the more say you should have. However, that also means that my opinion matters little, so no one should care what I say. |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 7 Joined: 18 May 2008 | I think it will encourage post - whoring. |
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Red Guard  Posts: 884 Joined: 21 Feb 2008 |
A valid concern, but I've seen the mods bring down the uru hammer of ban for people they think are doing that. |
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Muckraker Posts: 314 Joined: 10 Sep 2007 |
I was actually referring to the Dairy Gazebo himself. I don't actually know who Mr Cheeze is.
That's a fairly common feature on forums. In my experience, it's more unsual when your member title isn't customisable. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 18 Joined: 18 May 2008 | I haven't really had a problem on other forums with the post counter. Only on one forum, really. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 236 Joined: 4 Feb 2008 | I think it's just there because a lot of people just expect it to be there, but honestly, I don't care about it. I don't think it really means much at all. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 246 Joined: 9 May 2008 | Yes, but probably because I like trying to get mine as high as possible; forum-grinding, if you will :) Although mind you, I'm still only interested in posting things when it's worth doing |
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IT Director  Posts: 783 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
Admins! ;) |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1847 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 |
Whoops, sorry, my bad. Anyway, mr cheeze has got about 4000 posts under his belt. But, yeh, thanks for clearing that up. |
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BANNED  Posts: 502 Joined: 3 Jan 2008 |
Yeah, or who has the biggest mouth! Nah, I think that it's all about the joined/posts ratio. User was banned for: Zero Punctuation: Mailbag Showdown. (Permanent) |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2239 Joined: 14 Jan 2008 | As I have said countless time before and I am sure I will in the future. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 324 Joined: 20 Nov 2007 |
damn straight, Joe
hehe yeah no kidding, also its usually the first 3 posters are banned for saying "first" "second" and "third" |
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You took great offence to Scarpy misspelling your name didn't you? I noticed that you changed it's spelling in the quote. [building post count]