A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
and, why, look! Who's that at number fourteen? I suppose someone will be claiming there's a gang of thirteen now...
I expected to be part of it when DX first mentioned there were 14. (I was, as mentioned before, #15 by his post count.) You can ask him, he can verify it. Doesn't change that the majority of posts are by a small minority of posters. Doesn't change my feelings about that, even though I happen to know I'm a loud mouth. Also doesn't change that at least part of me stands by it, rude and impolitic as it was.
Your numbers and his don't match up, but I think he did a whole-thread count.
Edit:
And you will note I have thus far refrained from calling anyone Madame Mao. So there.
Well, look, in the posts John counted, clearly there's a big dropoff after the top six posters. But a LOT of other people have weighed in as well, which I think is more important.
Kat | 22 | 1.15 | 2521
Laura | 22 | 1.15 | 790
I love that Kat and I both had 22 posts, yet I had less than a 3rd of the wordiness. Go ecomony of words! Or possibly Kat's posts had actual content.
edited originally for line break, but since I am here - numbah!
Well, look, in the posts John counted, clearly there's a big dropoff after the top six posters.
Who are you calling a big dropoff?
And you will note I have thus far refrained from calling anyone Madame Mao. So there.
You know, I was going to let this go, but really: Do you have a problem with someone in particular? And do you want to share who it is? Because snidely oblique comments like this really don't help any.
Huh. Apparently, I post more frequently and am more verbose with my new posting name.
But a LOT of other people have weighed in as well, which I think is more important.
Agreed. I was pleasantly surprised that 80 people had participated.
You know, I was going to let this go, but really: Do you have a problem with someone in particular? And do you want to share who it is? Because snidely oblique comments like this really don't help any.
No, and it wasn't a snidely oblique comment, nor intended as one. Unless you take John's OBVIOUSLY DIRECTED AT ME comment seriously. Which I didn't.
Next time, I shall endevour to insert a :P when sticking my tongue out at someone.
See, people mock the emoticons, but I think they have their uses.
Edit: Can someone come up with an emoticon that says "You need a serial comma there"?
