Even though most of my posts are fluff, I have finally reached 1000! And it's only been about two months! (is that a record?)
I've noticed that a lot of you joined because you had friends here. Well, I didn't. I had just started getting into role-playing, and decided I wanted to join an online game. I vaguely remembered something about Hatrack 1830's here, so I decided to check it out. When I found VBS, I was thrilled! Ever since I had read Ender's Game, I had thought it would be cool if there was an RPG!
Anyway, soon after I joined VBS, I decided to join this forum. It all went downhill from there. Staying on the computer for hours at a time, staying up 'till midnight posting, etc, etc. I know you'll all admit, I was a hopeless newbie, and still am. I was totally clueless about everything. Good grief, I lost my innocence to you people! There were words I had to look up in the dictionary, and wish I never did!
However, I am glad I joined Hatrack, and now I'm totally addicted. Thank you to everyone for destroying hopes of getting anything usefull done.
And now, for the mushy part.
((((((Raia and Marek))))) Thank you so much! When I first joined, you guys really made me feel welcome. Most people stuck up their noses at newbies, but you didn't. You guys made me feel like I fit right in, and I'll never forget that. (((((Raia and Marek)))))
(((((Rhaegar))))) For being cool, and making this place more fun than it already was.
(((((Hobbes))))) For liking tigers, of course!
(((((Annie))))) For keeping Photoshop Phriday going. I don't have time to submit entries, but I love to see what other people are doing!
(((((Rivka))))) For being a smiley lover!
(((((Shigosei))))) For all those awesome Uruk-Haikus! I actually e-mailed a bunch of them to friends.
I'll think of more people to thank later. Right now my brain is kind of frozen...
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Awww, Eru, CONGRATS!!! YAY!!!!! (((((Eru))))) So good to have you here!! You were definitely one of my favorite newbies, now I dunno if you can be called a newbie anymore, being 1000 posts old...
Congrats, dear!! Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
Boy, I see you young kids and think "how would my life be different if I had started posting on Hatrack at age 16?"
And it's not a totally idle question, did't Hatrack already exist on AOL in '86?
(((EN)))
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I know. I saw a lot of people that had been here a long time, and knew each other so well. It made me wish I had joined sooner. But Raia and Marek fixed that! (((((Raia and Marek))))
And it did exist in AOL, but I'm not sure how far back.
Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
Heh, Congrats.
I don't know if it was on AOL that early...
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
I'm glad I could help you feel more welcome, I thought I was still a hopeless newbie, but thanks. You have helped make this place more fun too, and made me feel less out of place here, so thank you. I've only been here four months and have way fewer posts than you do, but if I was helpful in makeing you feel like you fit in here and should stay then good, because you do and you should.
Congrats on the 1,000 posts, and on being the only person to figure out my screen name on their own. *applauds* (they need an applauding smilie the closest to me is the hat tipping dude) Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*is shocked* NOBODY had figured it out yet?! That's very sad.
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Whadda ya mean, figured it out?
Posted by Scythrop (Member # 5731) on :
Congrats on 1000 posts!
*wow*
I only started a couple of months ago too, and I haven't even made 100 yet!
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Black Mage
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
((((((((((((Eruve Nandiriel))))))))))))
Glad to have you here for a quality 1000, stay for some more!
Hobbes Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Don't laugh at me! Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
To answer your title question: 'Cause you can't take a hint? Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
BM, you're so mean! Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Quality people, not quantity!!
Just messin' with you. Congrats on 1000 I suppose, although I don't think that having 1000 posts in two months makes you any less "new". Time would be the factor in newness.
I plan on never reaching 1000 posts. My next screen name is ready and waiting if that day ever comes along. If people think you are new, they will let you get away with more crap.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
I was nice in my post a second ago, but now I will not be because you are a Clemson fan.
You suck, and we all really wish you would just leave this forum. I was talking to raia a couple nights ago and she told me about how she was writing a song to sing in chorus about how much she hates you. Yeah that's right, and you thought she was your friend, shows what you know.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*sets tiger loose* "sic 'im!"
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Eruve, you know I'm only mean so I can hit my landmark by midnight. I'm sorry. . . (((((((((((((Eruve))))))))))))
Posted by Nick (Member # 4311) on :
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Just joking! Glad to still have an avid poster--and a cool person --around! We are becoming far to few. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Well if you're too mean, I might just leave, and then who would you talk to, hmmm?
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
I guess he would talk to all the other people here?
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Naw, ya'll are too boring. *dimisses idea with the wave of a hand*
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Why would they want to talk to HIM? Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Why do people keep getting in the way of my posts! Arrrg!
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Eruve. .. that hurt me deeply.. . Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Awww...that's too bad. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I noticed you were approaching 1000, Eruve. I'm glad you decided to do a landmark.
Congrats on 1000!
Long live e-hugs! Eruve
Fluff on, sister! Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Eruve, I only really discovered you today, and I'd really miss you if you left.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
All that time on VBS and you never "noticed" me?
That's sweet though! (((((BM)))))
(((((Rivka))))) Long live e-hugs!
Tigers rule. Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
Pathetic newbie lovefest.
::nukes lovefest::
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
(yes!the dude on Jonny Bravo was right! if you just sound sincere, you can reel in the ladies like trout!)
Yeah, erm, amazing, ain' it?
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Notice that Johnny Bravo always get beaten up by the ladies.
)))))BM(((((
And this thread has a nuclear defence system, you can't blow it up. *nukes USC fan*
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
What? You can't hear me when I talk in paren. . .I mean, what are you talking about? This is ridiculous. Just, you know--BURN HER!!! GET YOUR TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS! SHE'S A WITCH! SHE'LL EAT YOUR CHILDREN!
I feel I solved that problem well.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*turns BM into a Newt*
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
It got better.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*hacks BM's limbs off*
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Just a flesh wound. *looses the rabbit*
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
*finds rabbit* *sets rabbit loose on BM* Posted by Snuffles (Member # 4332) on :
Right. Why ARE you here?
GRRR
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
One. . .two. . .four--I mean three! *throws holy hand grenade*
[ November 22, 2003, 10:11 PM: Message edited by: Black Mage ]
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Because, Snuffles. Because.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
And if anyone wonders how it's possible to get to 1000 posts without really saying much of anything, there's ample demonstration on this thread. Posted by Frisco (Member # 3765) on :
*zing*
[edit: Am I one of those people, Tom, or is my subconscious merely well learned in the art of irony?]
[ November 23, 2003, 12:29 PM: Message edited by: Frisco ]
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I feel so unloved. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
(((((Eruve)))))
*whispers* Ignore the old fuddy-duddies. They're showing how "cool" and unfluffy they are. Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Congrats, Eruve.
The way I see it, if we drove you to the dictionary, we're doing our jobs right. Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Happy 1000th post, Eruve !
Posted by Lalo (Member # 3772) on :
Don't worry, Eddie. Your posts may be fluff, but you look so cute saying them.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
That's sixteen posts a day. Sickening!!
Which is 5.5 times more profient than me!
Keep plugging away, Eru, you'll have 5840 by the end of the year, 58400 in ten years...
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
quote: I feel so unloved.
I love you just fine, Eru.
[ November 23, 2003, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Black Mage ]
Posted by Marek (Member # 5404) on :
Eruve in recognition of your many contributions to hatrack let me just say:
Yay! New page!
It is just so hard to pass up makeing a new page
but seriously, glad to haveyou on hatrack. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Darn, missed starting a page again.
One thing I didn't mention, is that I have never been part of a forum before. So of course I just love all these cute little smileys, and use them whenever I get the chance.
And I know I'm addicted when I'm talking to people IRL and say things like "*grin*".
Teshi said:
quote:That's sixteen posts a day. Sickening!!
Only sixteen?
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
You are still here because we love you.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Congratz
And thanks for making Hatrack a weekend thing too. I used to ignore it all weekend because nobody would post. Now look at all I missed this weekend.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
quote:I love you just fine, Eru.
quote:You are still here because we love you.
Awww... Nevermind. I feel loved now.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Im not so sure we love you anymore. you hit us when we tried to hug you. Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Nevermind, we still loves you, you is nice to us now. We thinks we are Smeagol in this thread.
[ November 24, 2003, 04:11 PM: Message edited by: Rhaegar The Fool ]
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
PC- I'm me and I'm posting because I'm here.
(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Rhaegar))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Yes, we is feeling the love.
Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
PC - does it stand for political correctness?
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
I thought the exact same thing as glynn did. Landmarks should be based on time as well as posts. Just because you can post 700 times a day doesn't mean you deserve a landmark.
--ApostleRadio
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
um, i think that depends on what the landmark means to you.
a landmark post that exists because you feel comfortable enough to share enough of yourself to make one can be at any time. even at 200. even at 1.
of course, i'm required to say that since at over 2600, i'm still not comfortable making one and only have made the superficial 1000 and 2000 because of that accursed baron. if you kids want to yell at someone for misuse of the landmark system/tradition, yell at me. i'm far greater a violator of the intent that this poster.
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
no celia, you misunderstand
i think a landmark should come around when there are enough people who would care to read it. and when someone might recognize your name.
when i hit 1000, i wont be making a landmark for exactly those reasons.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
1000 seemed to be a goal for a lot of people. So I made a landmark. Be glad I waited 'till 1000. Even if it is fluff.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
We loves the precious
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
We loves the precious back.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
how many are enough? and who are these people? is there some executive hatrack committee that decides who is and isn't worth reading about?
like every thread here, if you don't want to read it you don't have to.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Thank you, Celia.
Posted by Rhaegar The Fool (Member # 5811) on :
Oh we most defenitly loves the precious more.
Posted by prolixshore (Member # 4496) on :
hush up celia, you know exactly what i am trying to say and you are just being difficult.
saying that i dont have to read a thread means absolutely nothing and you know that.
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
honestly, i don't. i'm just responding to what you're saying. shall we move this over to instant messanger (you know, when i'm on a computer that has it, instead of this lab one)?
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Eh, you're right. I probably won't feel comfortable enough to make a landmark for a few months, even if I hit 1000.
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
And it will still take you a few months to get to 1000.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
PC and AR -- just because you don't know or don't care, doesn't mean the same is true of others.
Is someone's landmark thread REALLY the place to be unnecessarily insulting?
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
Hey, I got two hundred posts in over the weekend.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
A landmark can be posted by anyone whenever they feel they have reached a milestone... if Eru feels 1000 is her milestone (heck, I posted a landmark at 500 the first time, I'm so comfortable here) then that's when she should do it! There's no specific rule for landmarking, it's whenever the poster feels that they have reached a certain point in there experience here, and that they want to share that moment with anyone else who appreciates it. Those who don't, needn't.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
I'm with Celia here. People should post it when/if they feel like it. If they haven't been here very long and not a lot of people know them, then they will simply not get a lot of responses, but posting might still have been a meaningful act for them and for the people who do know them. But a discussion of when it's appropriate to post a landmark might better go elsewhere, lest Eruve draw the mistaken impression that she is not welcomed or liked--and I'm sure nobody means for her to think that.
I for one, think she's a sweetheart, and I'm glad she's enjoying the forum. I hope she stays long enough for me to get to know her better.
Cheers!
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
I agree with you Icarus. I'm really sorry if I used you as a launch-pad for one of my silly, sometimes mean-spirited diatribes, Eruve Nandiriel.
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if you kids want to yell at someone for misuse of the landmark system/tradition, yell at me. i'm far greater a violator of the intent that this poster.