Woohoo!! My 27th post !!!

2 Dec 2004

Actually that last post of mine is an old joke of Alex's she did when some complained about people placing nothing but Smiley posts.
- I did a 1000th post thread - Total Winston Churchill speech and total attention seeking self indulgence! wink

Ice Pie - don't do it - do you really want to hurt me? - I love you!

2 Dec 2004

Quote by Ice Pie
I think the landmarks suggested by Sarge are OK, although personally I feel if you're still inclined to celebrate your post count by the time you reach 2,000 you're probably a bit of a saddo. One observation I would like to make is that people used to make an effort to say something significant in their landmark posts - something with a little more substance than "Hey look at me, I found the Submit button 500 times in a weekend aren't I clever!"
I used to enjoy reading people's landmark posts, now those posts exist purely to notify the world of their own existence, and I for one won't be congratulating the people who are doing such a fine job of congratulating themselves.
I think the whole post count thing has got ridiculous now - there are people posting purely for the sake of getting their post count up to the next hundred for another "Woopeefeckindoo look at me" thread. It's not even as if the people competing with each other and racing for another hundred are genuinely prolific with things to say: They just look prolific because whereas other people occasionally manage to fit several sentences into one post, the new breed of post whores take several posts to construct a sentence. Posts consisting of 2 or 3 words or just a smiley are mere clutter, and I see nothing that merits celebration in that. Maybe these people would calm down a bit if the post count were not displayed in the posts themselves. If I'm really interested in knowing how many posts someone has made, I can always look it up on their profile.
Ice

yep ice, have to say agreed. oh and with you sarge as well! and OMG with you jon too! ;)
i haven't wanted to comment on it, cos it's an open forum etc etc etc and this is just MHO, and i well remember myself how excited i got after a point to be involved in it, but it's obvious that loads of regs aren't posting much cos stuff is just tumbling off the page too fast. the forums cluttered with threads and it's getting harder and harder to find anything of much substance..
i enjoyed making my 500, and my 1000, and they meant a lot, because by that time i'd genuinely had a lot out of SH and the people here, so i'm not knocking anyone at all here . . . . but . . . . whereas it used to take months in general to hit 500 or a 1000, we have members doing it now in a week or two.
the number of threads that are basically 2 way convos consisting of one liners and smileys that could quite easily be taken onto messenger or into the chatroom or even forum pm's is starting to get ever so slightly tedious. again IMHO, that's not what forums are for.
neil x x x ;)

2 Dec 2004

Actually the most recent prolific poster in the top 50 posters is..me.
As I write very member of this Forum except for me is having sex RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT!
I don't know why you begrudge me so much - I'm sat here all alone in the night posting away while you're all banging away! rotflmao

2 Dec 2004

Oh...so now it's not mind what you say, but how much you say too :? Gotta love this place rolleyes

I'm outta here for now mad

2 Dec 2004

Quote by Libra-Love
Oh...so now it's not mind what you say, but how much you say too :?

The point is not that people are saying too much though. Quite the opposite - people are saying nothing at all and saying it every 30 seconds just to get their post count up another hundred so they can applaud themselves. It just clutters the place up with the same banal conversation between the same few people, repeated ad nauseum in nearly every thread, and makes it difficult for everyone else to find the stuff they want to read. Frankly it's selfish and demonstrates a lack of consideration for other forum users. If people want to post 3 words at a time, 150 times a day, fine, good luck to them, that's what the chatroom is for.

2 Dec 2004

Sarge,Ice and Neil i have to say i agree with all of you (what a strange feeling :shock: )
There is sooo many threads ab out at the moment that it is truely difficult to find the good ones for the celebration of however many posts then as its been said,unless youve really got something to say to celebrate it with then whats the point in starting a whole thread over it?

2 Dec 2004

Me too - TOTALLY fed up with one liner conversations. Yesterday I even PMd one person to take his/her conversation into email, MSN or PM. And some of the threads recently have been not worth the money paid to the ISP.
Post counts mean nothing - someone before me has said that and I agree - if you write 700 posts in one or two days and it's all 'yes, I agree' or stuff. mad

:therethere: :therethere: to Sarge for not feeling well.
passionkiss

assionkiss: to Sarge for an excellent post.
:P

2 Dec 2004

Ice Pie wrote:

- people are saying nothing at all and saying it every 30 seconds just to get their post count up another hundred so they can applaud themselves. It just clutters the place up with the same banal conversation between the same few people, repeated ad nauseum in nearly every thread, and makes it difficult for everyone else to find the stuff they want to read. Frankly it's selfish and demonstrates a lack of consideration for other forum users.

Well said Ice, and Sarge, and the others who have joined in to agree with you. It's going to seem incredible to some, but I passed 1000 posts about three weeks ago without any comment on here at all, neither from me nor anyone else - and that was the way I wanted it. Maybe there's a case to be made for pausing for a little reflection when you reach one year of membership on here, as Jas-Tim did a while ago, but post counts are become more and more meaningless.
Mike.

2 Dec 2004

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2 Dec 2004

I did,nt celebrate reaching300 posts :angel: but i only celebrated the others cos i was new and wanted to make friends :upset: i,m going away to write 100 lines
I must not celebrate
i must not celebrate
only 98 to go ......... lol

2 Dec 2004

:thumbup: Nice one Sarge :thumbup:
Nothing else to say that hasn't already been said !! :small-print:
Dan innocent

2 Dec 2004

So, if you say anything at all here now it has to be more than one line and suitably in depth and thoughtful otherwise it shouldn't be here at all?
I'll get my coat...

2 Dec 2004

Yep....count us as pleased to see the trend acknowledged. Even if only to help us focus and not let some of the more meaningful threads disappear so quickly.
foxys x

2 Dec 2004

Quote by corriefem
I am bored with repling to 100 post thread etc and will only do 1000 threads now as too many people and I dont have time. This debate has been done before and I said same last time so thats got my post count up :shock:

That's a rule I'm trying to stick to (but being a self-confessed posting whore, I sometimes slip a little redface

Sorry guys..... one day at a time. lol

:wink: )
It's the way the forum's progressed. It's such an easy-going place (usually) and really does have a "cafe" type feel to it (usually confused

) that people can't help but post in a conversational style, ie short sentence replies, especially if the thread is of a fast-moving nature and you want to get your point across before it shifts away from the topic (again another example of the conversational style of the cafe.
We've all been guilty of making "smiley" posts *thinks of :laughabove: under quotes* so I don't think that's going to stop.
I do think that the celebrations should kick in at 1000 posts and if you want to celebrate at your next 1000 then it's your choice.

2 Dec 2004

I find myself agreeing with Ice Pies and Neils sentiments with regard to the number of lookatme I've posted 50,100,1000 etc and must admit I find myself thinking â€“ so what?
In the short time Iâ€™ve been here the number of threads that consist of one liners and smileys has increased whilst the number of interesting (to me) debates and topics have decreased.
I wonder whether people are too scared to post what they want to (within the guidelines) for fear of being pounced upon by the â€œIâ€™m so offended brigadeâ€. It seems that it is easier to go along with the masses and must admit that there are times when, before posting, I feel I should get a lawyer to proof read just ensure nobody in any way could be the least bit offended.

2 Dec 2004

Ah well such is life
I had been secretly working for several months on my 1500th celebration post and now it will never see the light of day.
Its a pity really as its 853 pages long and answers a few basic questions that have been floating around in my and others minds for some time now.
I had managed to conclusively discover the meaning of life, and answer the question as to the existence ofother lifeforms in other galaxies. I had also found a way to solve all the worlds social and economic problems and ensure everlasting peace and harmony.
Oh and during my coffee break I figured out a way to stop global warming and repair the ozone layer
the only problem that really stumped me was how to prevent my kids opening a new bottle of coke when there was one already opened. But some things are I guess just unsolvable
Ps this is not a moan I am actually broadly in favour of reducing these sort of threads but have been guilty myself and am certainly guilty of plenty of one liners. but I do try and keep them in the fun threads where I think it is appropriate
just my ten peneth have a good day all
I know I will have offended someone so i apologise but you have to go with what you feel sometimes

2 Dec 2004

I agree with you Sarge........celebrating 500, 1000 and 2000 is fine but when people are celebrating other ones it just gets boring.
Who cares about how many posts you make? Isn't the point that you have fun while you're here and be damned about how many comments you are making?

2 Dec 2004

Quote by DreamerHelen
Isn't the point that you have fun while you're here and be damned about how many comments you are making?

If by fun you mean solely thought provoking, deep, intelligent discussion, then you are entirely correct. If you mean a mixure of thought provoking discussion along with light hearted chat and banter then that, apparently, isn't what's wanted.

2 Dec 2004

I wholehartedly agree with Sarge, Ice, Neiland all the others in agreement.
It is getting a bit silly, this I've reached 20 or21 or22 posts.
Anyway I'm godlike so rise above it all. hehe

2 Dec 2004

Quote by Ice Pie
there are people posting purely for the sake of getting their post count up to the next hundred for another "Woopeefeckindoo look at me" thread.
Ice

Couldn't agree more. There's another forum where I play and there are several people who pose stupid questions on an almost daily basis, their post tally is overtaking people who have been on there making sensible helpful and erudite observations for years.
Although I must say I am slightly disappointed for this thread to arrive just as I'm looking 500 in the eye. However I wouldn't have mentioned it myself, but I admit I wouldn't mind someone else doing it! Kind of says, OK you've arrived.

2 Dec 2004

Quote by Happy Cats
In the short time Iâ€™ve been here the number of threads that consist of one liners and smileys has increased whilst the number of interesting (to me) debates and topics have decreased.

I have no problem with a one-liner complimenting a good post, everyone likes to be appreciated. I put up a link to a silly funny song yesterday, if nobody had responded with a one liner to say they enjoyed it I would have been quite disappointed, maybe thinking nobody shared my schoolboy humour.

2 Dec 2004

Mark I love you and want to have your babies lol

you have just cheered up a very mardy arsed warwick
thanks mate :lol:

2 Dec 2004

Quote by warwick
I had been secretly working for several months on my 1500th celebration post and now it will never see the light of day.
Its a pity really as its 853 pages long and answers a few basic questions that have been floating around in my and others minds for some time now.
I had managed to conclusively discover the meaning of life, and answer the question as to the existence ofother lifeforms in other galaxies. I had also found a way to solve all the worlds social and economic problems and ensure everlasting peace and harmony.
Oh and during my coffee break I figured out a way to stop global warming and repair the ozone layer

aw :therethere: warwick!
i'm sure it's a blinding read, but in all honesty SH wouldn't be appropriate for that sorta thing anyways. waaaaaaaaaay off topic mate. try a google search. sure you'll find the right forums if you chop it into chunks. they'd probably make quite a good impact as hello posts on them forums too! ;)

Quote by zootle
If by fun you mean solely thought provoking, deep, intelligent discussion, then you are entirely correct. If you mean a mixure of thought provoking discussion along with light hearted chat and banter then that, apparently, isn't what's wanted.

god no! please don't make it all deep and meaningful. i'm not doing that anymore! but as ice pie said, the opportunities for "everyone" to join in with light hearted banter are being swamped by convos that really belong in chatrooms. if someone posts 100 times a day on every thread, it makes it all the harder for others to get a word in edgeways. i've been known to make 40 posts a day during my posting frenzies, but i always tried to open a thread up, and add something to it. the one line convos all too often close threads down and flood the forum.
just MHO.
neil x x x ;)

2 Dec 2004

If by fun you mean solely thought provoking, deep, intelligent discussion, then you are entirely correct. If you mean a mixure of thought provoking discussion along with light hearted chat and banter then that, apparently, isn't what's wanted.

Just a mixture really is all that is wanted. Light hearted, banter and intelligent is great but it is getting swamped with look at me, congratulate me. Fear of offending anyone makes for the lowest common denominator

2 Dec 2004

I don't dispute the issue of the look at me I've hit such and such a post count threads being removed. Remove the post count for all I care, really makes no difference to me.
But it's clear soe people are complaining about the more light hearted general chit chat that goes on in The Cafe.

Quote by neilinleeds
god no! please don't make it all deep and meaningful. i'm not doing that anymore!

the new breed of post whores take several posts to construct a sentence. Posts consisting of 2 or 3 words or just a smiley are mere clutter

e number of threads that are basically 2 way convos consisting of one liners and smileys

It's up to others to join in, surely?

Oh...so now it's not mind what you say, but how much you say too

Apparently.

TOTALLY fed up with one liner conversations.

In the short time I?ve been here the number of threads that consist of one liners and smileys has increased whilst the number of interesting (to me) debates and topics have decreased.

At the moment I feel I should become a lurker until such time the issue of what is or is not desired here is resolved. At the moment, judging by some posts here, I'm no longer sure that this is the fun and easy going place I originally thought it was.
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood this morning...

2 Dec 2004

At the moment I feel I should become a lurker until such time the issue of what is or is not desired here is resolved. At the moment, judging by some posts here, I'm no longer sure that this is the fun and easy going place I originally thought it was.
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood this morning...

Nothing but deep and meaningful - boring
Nothing but banter - boring
Nothing but look at me - boring
An equal mixture -you takes your choice
Just my non offensive opinion wink

2 Dec 2004

Agreed that only milestone post counts should be posted about, ie 500, 1000.
We are all guilty of the oneline banter replies now and again and no-one has the right to make others feel uncomfortable with the way they post (unless they are trolls in which case feed them to blue and Jags! lol

), but the constant celebrations of odd number of posts is wearing thin.
It's taken me months to make the 1000 post mark and I didn't realise until someone else pointed it out to me. I ignorred all the milestones inbetween, my 500th post being linked in with neil's 2000th post if I remember rightly. I actually slowed right down heading towards my milestone post as I wanted to make it reflect how I thought of the people here. I tried to make it so I was saying thanks to you all for all the great times I've had here, not just a look at me and love me thread. I wanted to try and give something back to the people who have become my friends both in cyber space and IRL. I wasn't bothered if no-one replied to me however the responses I got in the thread and in PM moved me to tears. Ok, I'm a big soft bugger.... :lol: I think I was moved because I have met many of the people in real life and they mean something to me. This can't be gained in speed posting as no-one learns who you are through your public posts.
When people hit 1000 and its has taken them little over a month it does kind of devalue what I am here for. The inane drivel is good to read sometimes but the quality substance posts are the ones that stick in my mind, make me laugh the most and draw me in, even if I choose not to post on that particular thread.
kiss

2 Dec 2004

I agree.... I have no problem's congratulating people on being so sad they have ridculously high post counts lol

However, I only tend to reply to the 500, 1000 etc. And can I just add another sentence so this isn't a oneliner......... thankyou

2 Dec 2004

*easy pulls on his tin hat and runs for the bunker again*
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