It's just killing you Kryo isn't it?

[siq]

That you're not the top poster right now. I looked yesterday and you only had around 50, now it's up to 70. Keep werking, you'll get here next week ;)

[fstroupe]

Its not the quantity, its the quality. :lol:

[striker777]

LOL, and siq can thank the old host for his #1 rating! heh

[siq]

lol yes. thing is my post count drops dramatically after I post all the reviews. it's like a race. soon as i set the finish line it's hilarious to watch playa and kryo go at it to see who can get there the fastest.

[silenze]

Its not the quantity, its the quality. :lol:

lmao...

[KryoNexus]

lol, not really killin me, but i'm sure i'll pass ya in the next week or so.

[Beemer]

Yeah, 200+ is nothing for Kyro, I am looking fwd to seeing all the rankings though. Anyway we can scale siq's so that he is an uber noob?

[KryoNexus]

i can give him a permanent ranking ;-)

[Beemer]

Yeah, i am not feeling the whole moderator thing. :twisted:

[siq]

heh, i still put some hard work into that

[Beemer]

I think what we all should do is go into all the article review discussions and reply to everyone as "Great review, I enjoyed it." That would be a quick way to bolster my # of posts. :lol:

[techniq]

And my self confidence :)

[jurtje]

Has anyone noticed that playafly187 manage to post 29 posts yesterday (saturday) alone? :roll:

[KryoNexus]

i'd challenge anyone to post more than i do. usually if i take the time to read the posts, i'll respond to them. :-) (like here for example)

[siq]

there's a guy i hate to say kryo that would make you look like me when it comes to posting. he's on our clan forums and the guy averages atleast 50 a day, and that's not a lie.

[techniq]

Now he has a role model ;)

[silenze]

95! :?

[fstroupe]

There's a guy on Controlled-Insanity PC Mods with 19119 posts. Though, they have a spam section, a test section, and a fight section on that forum, and he's like a 15 y/o computer geek with no life.

[KryoNexus]

lol, role model.

[jurtje]

and he's like a 15 y/o computer geek with no life.

Aren´t we all...........

***hitting head on desk while still in denial***

[silenze]

and he's like a 15 y/o computer geek with no life.

Aren´t we all...........

***hitting head on desk while still in denial***

I'm 23 now thank you very much.

[jurtje]

Just like me and feeling younger than ever!!!! :D


I really have to go to class now :(

[KryoNexus]

i'm 22, but next year, i'm pretty sure i'll turn 40. :-(

[silenze]

I'm 23 going on 18 and 46... :?

[fstroupe]

If you guys only knew......

(I'm 45 going on 80...or 20...or somewhere, anyway)

[Beemer]

Now he has a role model ;)

I wonder if they offer a training course on "How to post more often with more effectivness" Because remember, its not just quantity its quality! :wink:

[fstroupe]

and he's like a 15 y/o computer geek with no life.

Not that I have anything resembling a life...just have better things to do than post 1000 consecutive times on the spam thread....several different times. That thread presently has nearly 30,000 posts....mostly from 4 or 5 guys.

They just ended a contest, and you had to have 25 relevent posts. The guys on the forum were debating whether he had 25 revelant posts out of all of those.

[30 minutes later....Frank is wondering what better things to do...]

Hmmm...like playing BFV....reading new posts on 3 forums and a dozen or so email groups four or five times a day....recording, mixing, producing music that pretty much no one but me and maybe a couple other people will hear, and the music sux anyway.....hmmmmm.....surfing for mod or O/C ideas......taking the 4 dogs out to urinate and deficate....sitting and dreading going to work.....finish reading the two books I have started (Sean Hannity's new book, and "Where the Birds Never Sing")....Watching "The Screen Savers", "Call for Help", or Fox News, taking the wife to eat Chinese or Mexican.....

Like I said, nothing that resembles a life. :)

[jurtje]

On the ars forum http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x
there's a guy called H@ who has over 16.000 posts and I have to say, I've only read useful and decent posts from him.

I think that guy gets paid to sit in front of a compu all day and answer all the newbies' questions.

role model?

[Beemer]

Get his name and we will nominate him for "Hometown Hero" :lol:

p.s. You probably wont get that unless you live in the WV area.

[techniq]

I didn't get it, and I am from WV ;)

[silenze]

What subject? :P ;)

[KryoNexus]

I didn't get it, and I am from WV ;)

nobody reads subject lines :-)

[Beemer]

Grrr, so I guess you guys dont watch the news. WSAZ's "Hometown Heros". You know the thing on the news where they deem someone a hero for little pointless things that have no great impact on the community?

Oh, and usually I dont read subject lines but I did in your case and its still wrong. :wink:

[Beemer]

i'd challenge anyone to post more than i do. usually if i take the time to read the posts, i'll respond to them. :-) (like here for example)

I believe Silenze has answered that challenge.

[silenze]

haw haw :D

[KryoNexus]

i'd challenge anyone to post more than i do. usually if i take the time to read the posts, i'll respond to them. :-) (like here for example)

I believe Silenze has answered that challenge.

true...we are holding dead even as i post this ;-)

[silenze]

Speak of the devil lol

[fstroupe]

Snif...snif....I want to be a hobbit too. :cry:

[silenze]

Filthy little hobbitses :?

We hates them! ... but master is our friend o_O

that's almost degrading considering I'm 5'7" 125lbs lol

[KryoNexus]

Filthy little hobbitses :?

We hates them! ... but master is our friend o_O

that's almost degrading considering I'm 5'7" 125lbs lol

i'm only 5'9"

[Beemer]

Filthy little hobbitses :?

We hates them! ... but master is our friend o_O

that's almost degrading considering I'm 5'7" 125lbs lol

Yea, that speaks of me too

[fstroupe]

just under 5'8" here. BUT....hobbitses are FAT, regardless of what Peter Jackson thinks. I'd pass that test at the present time.....

[Beemer]

well the only hobbit we have is 125lbs, I am well on my way but I am a skinny boy too. So i guess weight isn't everything to bein a hobbit

[silenze]

I've always been the little guy :(

[fstroupe]

Hey, there's 7 guy online now...

[KryoNexus]

I've always been the little guy :(

lol, that should probably come as no surprise ;-)

[silenze]

heheh

it does have it's advantages, though..


7 online -- yes, I'm on my way out the door but I can't keep up with the posts lol

[KryoNexus]

heheh

it does have it's advantages, though..


7 online -- yes, I'm on my way out the door but I can't keep up with the posts lol

yeh, but only in confined spaces or with tall women ;-)

[Beemer]

Seems like by the time I post, got back out of the thread someone has posted again. Its all happening so fast!

[KryoNexus]

Seems like by the time I post, got back out of the thread someone has posted again. Its all happening so fast!

guess you need to type faster

[Beemer]

I need to overclock my mouse :lol:

[KryoNexus]

I need to overclock my mouse :lol:

or your brain

[Beemer]

:x Yeah, I ll get right to work on that. :lol:

[silenze]

What does your mouse have to do with your typing? :)

[Beemer]

More about navigation throught the forums, and I wanted to refrence my status.

[silenze]

technically, if you're overclocking your FSB without a PCI-lock, you ARE overclocking your mouse, heh.

[Beemer]

PCI is locked :wink:

[silenze]

Slow mouse for you :?

My FSB is at 230Mhz, so that's what.. 46Mhz PCI ? heheh

[Beemer]

hrm, wonder if there is a benchmark for mouse speed/precision?

[silenze]

Hm... no idea, but I got an MX510 recently, and it rules. (speaking of speed/precision)

[Beemer]

I got the mx500 (like a week before the 510 came out) and I really like it. Lotsa buttons :D Good speed and precision. I might have to upgrade to the 510 though.

[silenze]

I'm LOVIN' this mouse, I recommend it :P

[Beemer]

I would like to see some different colors, dont get me wrong the red is cool but if you could get a blue mouse to match the rest of your system or green or whatever goes best, that would be awesome.

[silenze]

yeah, I agree, but I also would be annoyed by a plastic snap-in that wasn't very secure.. luckily the red matches my system. :D

[Beemer]

I was thinking, just offer the mouse in different color variations(buy the color you want), no snap in stuff.

[silenze]

yeah they should do that, or make it so you can order it in any color you want hehe

[KryoNexus]

obviously some people don't check logitech very often ;-)

they offer a blue 510 now :-)

however, i'm still waiting on a 710 myself

[techniq]

I have both a mx700 and mx510 (which I reviewed (http://www.ocia.net/reviews/logitech_mx510/logitech_mx510.shtml)). It took me a while to get used to a corded mouse again, but I have to say the 510 is great (but the mx700 really isn't really worse).

[silenze]

I've used both, not a huge difference, but I don't trust wireless stuff :?

[Beemer]

Me neither, even though there isnt much difference now.

[KryoNexus]

honestly, i don't know if i'll ever go back to corded devices. wireless is just so convenient and the problems that existed originally with wirless are long gone for the majority of manufacturers

[fstroupe]

I love my wireless mouse...BUT you have to make sure you have extra batteries around. They last about a month.

[KryoNexus]

it depends for me. at my house, the matteries in my wireless mouse last about 4 months, cause i don't use the machine a whole lot. at work though where i am on my computer for AT LEAST 8 hours a day, the batteries will make it about a month, maybe month and a half

[techniq]

thats what made the mx700 such a great mouse. Not only does it have the best sensor and trasmitter on the market, but its receiver doubles as a charger. The batteries usually only last a few days between charges, but as long as you throw it on the charger every other night, you'll never run into problems. Plus it uses NiMH batteries, so if your really in a pinch, just go steal some from your digital camera if you have one.

[B16SOLNA]

but back to the original subject............ive always thought post count never really mattered..........you can have 10,000 posts but if they are all a bunch of crap, youre still just as bad as any douchebag n00b comin in here and sayin something stupid. one good post is better than 100 crappy ones.........i say again, post count doesnt matter.

[KryoNexus]

i like post counts ;-)

[fstroupe]

but back to the original subject............ive always thought post count never really mattered..........you can have 10,000 posts but if they are all a bunch of crap, youre still just as bad as any douchebag n00b comin in here and sayin something stupid. one good post is better than 100 crappy ones.........i say again, post count doesnt matter.

Personally, I like post counts, even though I am a noob at every forum I am registered to. But, I have been going to forums long enough to take post count "with a grain of salt".

In some other forums I frequent, more of a technical nature than this one, mostly the repair and/or modding of tube-type guitar amplifiers, post count is equated with technical experience.

I.E., you've got your local forum "gurus", with post counts in the many hundreds, or thousands:

Let's say that Joe Noob (noob to tube amp troubleshooting/repair, and noob to internet forums) comes along with a problem, and gets a couple of totally different answers. Who is he going to trust? Each answer is going to cost him bucks...which he obviously doesn't have, or he would have taken the amp to a tech already...and probably only one of them is going to actually help.

Does he trust the "guru" with post count of 2123 and member for a couple of years (who secretly has only been working on mostly his own 3 amps for those two years, and he was as noob as Joe when he joined the forum)? Keep in mind that this guru probably is going to be "amen'ed" by other guys who respect this "guru", and have post counts nearly as high as he has.

Or does he listen to a guy who happened to join the forum the day that Joe posted his problem, and his answer to Joe is his first post... unbeknowingst to Joe that this guy has been a tube amp tech for 25 years ...all Joe knows is that this guy has the same embarrassing nooby-style title that he has. And this guy's advice probably will be totally ignored if not criticized by the forum regulars...or he will be chided for something totally stupid, i.e. not giving the standard tube amp warning: "Warning, tube amplifiers contain high voltage that can KILL YOU........".

Unless the real tech gave advice that is much less expensive than the "guru" gave, Joe is going to listen to the "guru". And if the "guru's" advice didn't work, Joe probably will find another forum to take his problem to, since he didn't want to offend the "guru" by telling him how stupid his advice was, and he still questions the validity of the advice that a "fellow noob" gave him.

Administrators of a few of the forums I go to have eliminated post counts and titles, supposedly for this reason....though I suspect that at least one of them did it because the post counts of "gurus" had doubled or tripled his own.

But, having said this, I still like post counts, if for nothing else, to see what titles the administrator has come up with, or for threads like this one, where I can inflate my own post count. :)

[Beemer]

Moral of the story: Post a lot so people will listen to you, but keep your post count below the administrators :wink:

-edit- oh, and when asking for help with a problem, dont just listen to the "guru" :lol:

[jurtje]

We have 51 users now, shouldn't we have some kind of party now or something. Or give $10 to everyone who has more than 10 posts, or maybe a t shirt? Or all three maybe?

8) 8)

I can wait until after their finals...

[playafly187]

10 bux per person would add up QUICK... hehe

i cant even afford school, much less free cash handouts :shock: lol

[Roadracer_4ever]

How many posts do ya have to make to get past being an uber noob? :roll:

[fstroupe]

15, I think.

[Roadracer_4ever]

Only 15 to not be a n00b...lol..I'm pretty sure I can post 15 times in here without to much trouble. Just gotta have more time to sit here...lately things have gone just nuts for me.
Right now, between working a mix of evenings, nights and weekends, trying to find time to be on here gets limited. Added to that list my eldest sister was diagnosed with a condition called multiple malinoma, which is very similar to lukemia, and I'm spending a great deal of time researching it as well, to understand it.
As an added stress, I've had to give up smoking without the aide of the patch or other cessation devices, as I may be a bone marrow donor for her (testing in the next two weeks) and have to get as healthy as possible in a short period of time, posting becomes somewhat irrelevant. However, it is a good place to come and just see what others are doing, and relax and take my mind off the day to day humdrum, and personal stresses going on.
Side note to that, have taken to letting my pc run 24/7, since we found out of her condition, and am folding@home all the time now.

[Roadracer_4ever]

HAHA! I just posted my 10th post, and now I'm up to cd-burner status..lol...considering I've had one for a long time I guess I can live with the title.... :shock:

[striker777]

Welcome to the board Roadracer! Sorry to hear about your sister though. Thanks for helping us Fold!

[Roadracer_4ever]

LOL...so now i'm not a n00b anymore...and I had a rather dead couple of evenings at work so I was able to sit around and borrow some of the company's bandwidth and geek out in here for a while and make a few posts, nevermind kill the boredom.
Talked to my sis saturday morning after i got off work, she was just getting her last dose of chemo, and gets next week off from it. Providing she doesn't catch any infections during the week, she gets to go home for a bit to rest and get away from the hospital atmosphere. All things are going well for the time being and her body seems to be reacting in a positve direction to the treatments, which is great news.
Gotta wonder how many posts it will take to not have the "chick's monnicker of i have a cd-burner" lol...still sorta chuckle at that one cuz I know a large number of people who think as soon as they have a pc they're "in the know" and immediately want to become part of the crowd.
Alas, we were all there at one time or another......
A big part of my limited knowledge has come from reading forums like this, as well as tech articles, how to articles and just plain gettin in the box and working on my own pc or other's that have brought them to me for help. One thing about it, a pc is an ever growing learning curve. Some get right into it, and a little knowledge becomes the quest for more....others are to scared to try anything at all. Admittedly I could not say I'm educated by any means in all the workings of a pc, just have a good basic understanding of them and a willingness to try and screw up and start all over again, but i suppose having a good background in mechanics and such hasn't hurt me either. I hope all the others that have joined and do join this forum in the future don't take offense to the monnickers, as they are all in fun.

[Beemer]

:drags up dead thread:

Had to make a post to get to 500 - its just killing me to find out if/what the status changes to. :wink:

[Beemer]

<-----Bah! ripped off! no change at 500??

[Kattikawn]

You're going for the big bucks now. They make you work a little harder. It's probably 1000. ;)

[KryoNexus]

You're going for the big bucks now. They make you work a little harder. It's probably 1000. ;)

shhhhhhh ;-)

[silenze]

Mine changed at 500, you just didn't do it right. ;)

[KryoNexus]

rofl

[Beemer]

Mine changed at 500, you just didn't do it right. ;)

But yours wont change anymore! so HAH :!:

[silenze]

<-- :oops:

[silenze]

posts = > 500:

playafly187: 1,143
silenze: 894
kryonexus: 864
siq: 622
beemer: 594


:lol:

[KryoNexus]

grrr, can't believe i dropped to third. i knew i couldn't keep up with playafly, but it seems i'm quickly droppin rank.

[silenze]

heheh

we've been about even since restarting the forums last time...

[Caj Darkmoon]

Ahh, but the question is, who is rising the fastest among the ranks? :) }(15th)

[Roadracer_4ever]

lol....been thru the post count discussion so many times in the last few months....the fun here is watching the title change.... ;)

[Beemer]

posts = > 500:

playafly187: 1,143
silenze: 894
kryonexus: 864
siq: 622
beemer: 594


:lol:

Hey siq, I'm coming after ya!

[Caj Darkmoon]

It's more fun if there's special ranks that only show up with a certain post count, because then I don't know what's coming by looking at the posters ahead of me. :)

[KryoNexus]

Yeh, we've tried to get suggestions for them numerous times. there's actually about 10 different ones right now, but i agree, they need adding too. i'm open to suggestions. most of the ones right now were just stuff off the top of my head

[Caj Darkmoon]

0 - Slacker
420 - Bong
666 - Diablo
777 - Lucky Day
930 - Caj's Birthday
1337 - h4x0rz
1492 - Columbus

[techniq]

lol, nice suggestions. Maybe add...

3434 - Ha Ha
7734, Brrrrrr
1001, XOR


Sorry, nothing is really coming tonight, time for sleep :(

[siq]

beemer it's all yours man ;). I've had barely enough time to sneeze this semester, let alone try and post something.

[Caj Darkmoon]

As jaws theme music plays in the background...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the forum...

dum dum

That the threat of new posters was gone...

dum dum

A new threat swims in the water...

dum dum

dum dum

dum dum dum dum dum dum....

[undergroundtech]

:eat this:

[Caj Darkmoon]

:eat this:

Oooooh, candy! :P