And what's with this New Member Frank G #17?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I'm number 16 on the rank of top posters. Surprised the hell out of me. In other news, TSN and Snay need a vacation from the forum. Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
Bug, Charles.
In the directory by member number, you have skipped a few members between pages. Between page 1 and 2, you are missing members 32 and 33, one of them is basically myself.
I hope there isn't a vendetta here.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
It's been there for a day now.
Tahna - odd... try tabbing between a few other pages. Pages 2 and 3 don't have the same gap. I'll look into it.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
Wow, I'm 18th on most posts? I figured I'd be way down there... Posted by O Captain Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
i post way too much as well. go me!
Posted by Free ThoughtCrime America (Member # 480) on :
I see everybody likes trek, then.
I feel out of place on that directory.
Posted by E. Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Gah... there's another Cartman, and he's got a three-digit member number to boot. Fark it.
Yeah, I can relate to feeling out of place.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
The surprising thing is that, as long as Elim Garak has been gone (see neighboring thread), he's still got the seventeenth-highest number of posts.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Hey, that's an interesting feature... IMO there could be a little tidying up of the UI, but it looks interesting. Especially from a community perspective. Not that I necessarily want to know everything about this bunch here, ( ) but clicking on different icons from the threads isn't the greatest way to get details when you're looking for something specific.
Pretty cool!
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
My posting has been down lately. I went for almost six days without a single post ... and I still have 50 since Sept. 24th.
If only I had a $1 for every time I posted ... Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
What gets me it that I am #27 on the list.... Even with those missing months....
Yes Jeff, you do need a different fix... Almost 9,000 posts, to my about 1950... man, and only about 10 days separate us joining here....
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
MinutiaeMan: What sort of UI changes? Be specific please. Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Ritten,
But you have the habit of taking month-long absences. Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Yes, it keeps me fresh.....
Still, if you figure that a quarter of the past two years I've been offline, then I am still behind the power curve....
Then again, you've gotten in to a few more heated debates with First and Omega then I have by a huge margin....
Posted by Nimpim (Member # 205) on :
I didn't know there was a Zathras among us!? How quaint! And I'm sixth place poster? "Huh", to coin a phrase.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by Charles Capps: MinutiaeMan: What sort of UI changes? Be specific please.
I realized a little while later that part of the problem is probably my browser. The tables looked a bit misaligned...
I thought it was a little weird to have the search-input field at the bottom rather than the top, but it seems to work well.
The only real problem wasn't exactly UI -- when you search through member status, the only options the menu gives you are New Member, Senior Member, Moderator, and Administrator. Are those the only hard-coded statuses, or can the list be expanded to include the Junior Member, Perpetual Member, etc.?
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
Heh, even with CCs once in a while purges, its still interesting to see how a graph of posts by member, would be a stretched out exponential curve.
Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :
That's actually a point of contention, MinutiaeMan. The other statuses aren't really real, but they're there nevertheless.
Posted by Zathras (Member # 87) on :
Zathras not post much. Zathras forget have login here. But now Zathras come, Zathras stay.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
*grin*
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Interesting, how Zathras have same IP address as Vogon Poet have. Very interesting...
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Thanks Tim. I'm sure there were some retarded monkeys out there incapable of figuring that out for themselves.
Howsabout a post frequecy table? By overall time, this year, and so forth...
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Yes, thank you Timothy.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Liam: Actually, there probably were. Except, instead of "retarted monkeys", "people who read this thread".
And, really, it was just an excuse to use a really poor example of Zathras-speak. And I'd just gotten home from work when I posted that, so my brain was partially numbed.
[ October 15, 2002, 22:46: Message edited by: TSN ]
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Anyone want to take a crack at explaining to me who Zathras is and why he/she/it is so important?
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Anyone want to take a crack at explaining to me who Zathras is and why he/she/it is so important?
you really need to watch Babylon 5. see, Zathras was this monkey lookin' guy who they found on Babylon 4....
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Which was really weird because, well, you can't have Babylon 4 around if Babylon 5 is around, so Babylon 4 was an anachronism, to say the least.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
except that it wasn't. no nyah.
Posted by Magnus de Pym (Member # 239) on :
Tenth?
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
Ninth, Eighth, what the fuck are you talking about?
Posted by O Captain Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
he's commenting on the fact that the directory shows that he is tenth in the list of most frequent posters.
a big 'what the fuck' isnt necessary if you pay attention to what people are talking aboot...
btw, welcome back UM. i think i might have missed you. a little. or not.
oh, and i'm 12th. with 13 months here under my belt. im not sure if thats impressive or sad.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
What's the deal with "Member of the Moment"?
Mike, I've been here just over two years. I've got the second highest amount of posts, and TSN is only leading me by 400 posts or something. Given how long he's been a member verses how long I've been a member, it's only time before I eclipse him
As I figure it, he's been here about three and a half years, which gives him an average of 2686 posts or so per year. I have been here two years and two months, giving me an average of 4142 posts per year. My math may be off a bit.
I just hope that people don't start looking at the Directory at the same way people look at the post listings on the TrekBBS.
Posted by O Captain Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
its been a long moment for Jonas. i'm assuming that CC is going to make it shift randomly with the next update. or maybe he's waiting for bribes.
wow.. im getting to be an old man of the forum.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
And, as has been said, a poster who hasn't posted in two years is in the number seventeen spot. And another poster who left a few months ago is still in the top twenty. This just goes to show that the majority of the posts here are a running group therapy session for about a couple dozen regular people.
Also, no one has explained who Zathras is other than it has something to do with Babylon 5.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Actually, there are something like nine Zathrases (I forget the exact number). Slight differences in pronunciation.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by O Captain Mike Captain: he's commenting on the fact that the directory shows that he is tenth in the list of most frequent posters.
a big 'what the fuck' isnt necessary if you pay attention to what people are talking aboot....
sorry, i thought he was commenting on what i had said just above his post. and i say "what the fuck" all the time in real life, so i don't see why i shouldn't here.
Posted by Nimpim (Member # 205) on :
Because in most contexts it screams "Foulmouth kid with a chip on his shoulder" to everyone present, like the one above. That's what Captain Mike was polite enough not to spell out. He nice.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
OK, here's the story: Way back in time, at The Dawn of Flare, it was a new age. Men were Men, Women were Tora and Jubes, and Tim was Tim. Posters could spell and punctuate. We didn't have any right-wing nuts, Christian or otherwise. It was a lot easier to create extra IDs then, and a few extra ones got created. One was Vorlon Speak, created by Adam H, an ID only ever posted to say either "Yes" or "Never ask that question!" in response to some question put forward by someone else. Another was created by me, Zathras, usually to say something like "Zathras warn, but no-one listen to Zathras" - in effect, "I told you so." We got tired of such jokes and the IDs faded into obscurity.
Posted by Nimpim (Member # 205) on :
You sound like the proverbial scientist that explains to the group (trapped in a broken elevator shaft) how the current catastrophe came to be.
"You must understand! We never saw it coming back then! We thought we were doing the right thing!! So what if we played God! *sob*" Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Thanks. I think. 8)
Posted by Commodore TSN (Member # 11) on :
Right! Stop that! It's silly.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Silly man.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
But then they didn't get purged during the great flare purgings of the early 21st century....
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nimpim: Because in most contexts it screams "Foulmouth kid with a chip on his shoulder" to everyone present, like the one above. That's what Captain Mike was polite enough not to spell out. He nice.
i'm certainly foulmouthed, and i do have a chip on my shoulder, but i'm not foulchipped with a mouth on my shoulder. afterall, if i had a mouth on my shoulder, Data would stab me with a knife in the turboshaft, thinking i was covered in transphasic crickets.
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Well, that'd be his excuse, at least.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
And then ten other people's too.
Posted by O Captain Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
wasnt that OJ's excuse?
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Yes. As famously summed up by Johnny Cochrane in his closing argument: "If you believe the story of the transphasic cricket, you must acquit!"
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
And what, exactly, is the story of the transphasic cricket?
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
It wants to suck your cellular peptides.
Posted by O Captain Mike Captain (Member # 709) on :
mmm.. cellular peptide cake.. with mint frosting.
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
"sometimes a cake is just a cake, but not when it fucking looks just like you and you are eating the damn thing!"
--the last words of David Lee Roth, before he quit his job at Burger King last summer.
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