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I don't think your assessment is accurate. Many, many people have successfully integrated into the Hatrack community. You apparently did not and are now bitter because of it.
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quote:Originally posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan: I don't think your assessment is accurate. Many, many people have successfully integrated into the Hatrack community. You apparently did not and are now bitter because of it.
Perhaps, but I think the reason I left had a lot more to do with the way certain people here were treating certain other people here. I remember posting here quite a bit before then, and even though not everybody agreed with what I said (I was a lot younger then), I still participated here. A lot of my favorite people on the forums left around the same time I did too.
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quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: I don't want to be a cool kid. Especially on the internet.
Your words say, "no, no!", but your eyes say, "yes, yes!"
If you say so. Regardless, I meant my post to be less about my teenage angst, and more about Hatrack as a whole.
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I really haven't noticed lately, nor do I remember thinking back when I first strolled onto Hatrack, that folks particularly cared about post counts. Certainly not to the extent that thought-provoking, new content was ever ignored or dismissed because the little Posts: x slot wasn't sufficiently high.
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I think the time I started to feel more part of the Hatrack community is when I started to recognize most posters and their specific personalities. Also, when I felt like people could do the same for me.
I've invested almost a year of serious reading and posting, and I feel like I'm only now coming out of the newbie gate. But it's no different than when you move into a new community - you're the new guy for a while.
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quote:I think the time I started to feel more part of the Hatrack community is when I started to recognize most posters and their specific personalities. Also, when I felt like people could do the same for me.
Now, that definitely I've noticed, then and now. Its connection to post count, though, is sort of an incidental necessity, and sometimes is overcome very quickly. Sometimes very slowly, and sometimes never.
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quote:I think the time I started to feel more part of the Hatrack community is when I started to recognize most posters and their specific personalities. Also, when I felt like people could do the same for me.
Now, that definitely I've noticed, then and now. Its connection to post count, though, is sort of an incidental necessity, and sometimes is overcome very quickly. Sometimes very slowly, and sometimes never.
I wasn't welcomed with open arms, but that was because people thought I was an alt of someone who wasn't very well though of, due to the timing of my first postings. Also, I sorta jumped right in with long postings right away.
But I never expected everyone to be warm and fuzzy all the time. I'd rather post at a place where people take the time to get to know you, where opinions are known as opinions rather than fact (and it called a fact a citation can be asked for) than be in a forum that completely welcomes everyone equally regardless of their contributions to the community.
Post count doesn't mean squat to anyone I know who matters, not in and of itself. I MAY mean something relating to time/effort spent on the community, but even that varies on a case by case basis.
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I apparently passed 10000 posts sometime recently. I didn't notice it until y'all started talking about post counts.
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quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: Let's be honest; there's a whole lot of dick measuring that takes place around here when it comes to post count
I guess you're right. I saw how many posts I've made here, and my dick shrank.
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quote:Let's be honest; there's a whole lot of dick measuring that takes place around here when it comes to post count...
*laugh* No, there isn't.
Yes there is Tom, and frankly I'm sick of ghost writing for you, just so you can sit on top of a disgusting 30k post count. I'm tired of it Tom! I won't be your slave anymore. There, I've said it, your secret's out and now everyone knows what a fraud you are!
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quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: Let's be honest; there's a whole lot of dick measuring that takes place around here when it comes to post count
I guess you're right. I saw how many posts I've made here, and my dick shrank.
So now you have an inny?
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I really think that if the post-count *ahem* measurements were as bad as you say, I'd at least agree that some of that was going on. But I am honestly baffled at that impression. That could be just my own impression, though, since I've never cared about post counts at all, either when I started and had a low count, or now that I've been around awhile.
I really don't see where you're getting this impression from, SiyE. I think it might be in your head.
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Well obviously. Everyone knows that people with low postcounts also have bad personal hygiene, low IQs, and - most important in this context - persecution/victimhood complexes.
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ETA: Because, y'know, I feel pretty confident that 900, 9, or 90000 posts to your name, the complaints about post-count ego stroking would have been greeted with much the same response.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Its not hard to get a 30K post count when 90% of them are one liners.
Doing some guestimation, assuming it takes about 10 seconds for a post from Tom to appear after hitting the submit button, and even if we say all his posts took 5 seconds to write out, that's 1,500,000 seconds of time, or 25,000 minutes, or 416.66 hours of time.
Not a tiny feat IMHO.
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quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: I think you guys missed my point. Or maybe you just proved it.
here, how about a serious post:
this thread does not take postcounts very seriously at all. It is actually definitely not a community where postcount matters very much. You can take my word for it. There are no titles associated with post level. There are nearly no associations about how a higher post count confers upon a poster a more privileged status. The only person I have seen do that here in a long long time is Ron Lambert, and Ron Lambert is a crazy person who practically nobody listens to. Prior to today there had not been any active postwhoring threads (the last one had been the last post thread, if i recall) on the front page for a long time, and the one that was just made was made in jest. I am right now watching people with nearly no posts ingrain themselves seamlessly into the community with nary a word of concern. You need to re-analyze what you're asserting about this forum because for all its issues, postcount heirarchy is not one of them.
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Seriously this forum doesn't even bother to point out that someone is a <insert variant of newbie/new poster here>. hardly ever ever ever.
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Veterans do tend to be a little stern with new (or apparently new) members sometimes, but as far as I can tell it's only when/because they are acting juvenile, trollish, or otherwise sending signals that they aren't interested in learning and working around the community norms. This can be a little baffling if the standards are ones that aren't generally met even by veterans, but it's still a pretty well intentioned effort to keep things civil and interesting here - not a an effort to shame or exclude new people for spite.
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quote:Originally posted by Rakeesh: Yeah, but we're not s'posed to say so!
Well, you know how I feel about that sort of social falsehood. You're not supposed to point out that theists have no clothes, either, but I often do.
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Absolutely. It's 100% a "who is this guy" response related to an unknown quantity acting ridiculously, not postcount-heirarchism or community xenophobia or anything.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Its not hard to get a 30K post count when 90% of them are one liners.
Doing some guestimation, assuming it takes about 10 seconds for a post from Tom to appear after hitting the submit button, and even if we say all his posts took 5 seconds to write out, that's 1,500,000 seconds of time, or 25,000 minutes, or 416.66 hours of time.
Not a tiny feat IMHO.
Yes, but Tom has been posting regularly here for 10+ years. 1.5 million seconds is less than 0.5% of 10 years.
You, on the other hand, have been here only half that long and have nearly 10,000 posts, most of which aren't one liners. I'd be willing to bet that if we counted words/day rather than total posts you'd beat Tom hands down.
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