What does post count mean to you?

[Carbonyl]

A chance to get the Neo badge. Also as a sign of how often people post here, and possibly how well known they are within the community. I mostly judge people according to their avatars though.

I'm judging you based on your avatar.

....and I am judging you as AWESOME.

Then you are an excellent judge of character. And avatar. But mostly character. Because I'm totally as awesome as my avatar would imply, though I have never dodged bullets in my life. Or killed someone. And I'm not particularly good around blood. Maybe that method doesn't work that well.

Are you acrobatic enough to cartwheel on a moving train? That might be enough.
I actually may be able to, given a wide enough train car.... Hmmmm.... This may be the genesis of either a really great or a really horrible decision.

Sadly, I am anything but acrobatic. As for the rest of your comment...
[/quote]

That image is perplexing and somewhat offensive to my bleeding-heart liberal sensibilities.

But there is a train yard just a few blocks down by the river.... if only I didn't have a presentation at 9am tomorrow.

Also! On the earlier mentioned subject of ability to deal with blood, I come out of lab covered in sheep/squirrel/frog blood on a weekly basis. I am good with blood.[/quote]
Hey, I don't make the memes, I just post em'. And I totally understand. I had a teacher who would get so angry about people who used the word ****** like that and thanks to her I can no longer use the word without feeling incredibly guilty. She once went on a big rant about how often homosexual teenagers kill themselves because of how people treat them like an insult. Then an office aid came in with a note and she chewed him out. He proceeded to walk away sheepishly and said that he was going to go kill himself.

You have a presentation at 9! I have a test just an hour before then! If you live in the Rocky mountain time zone than we could be doing those things at the same time! As I have no evidence to the contrary I will now assume you live in Montana because that would be neat. Montana has moose. Mooses. Moosen. Meese. Ah, fuck it.[/quote]



Ahh, the magical power of guilt. It has tremendous staying power.

Sorry, I'm on Pacific time, studying my science All Night Long. As much as I like mooses (which is quite a lot), I do not wish to be in Montana. I like Oregon just fine, even if I can't throw a rock without hitting a hipster (even if I'm not aiming).

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

A chance to get the Neo badge. Also as a sign of how often people post here, and possibly how well known they are within the community. I mostly judge people according to their avatars though.

I'm judging you based on your avatar.

....and I am judging you as AWESOME.

Then you are an excellent judge of character. And avatar. But mostly character. Because I'm totally as awesome as my avatar would imply, though I have never dodged bullets in my life. Or killed someone. And I'm not particularly good around blood. Maybe that method doesn't work that well.

Are you acrobatic enough to cartwheel on a moving train? That might be enough.
I actually may be able to, given a wide enough train car.... Hmmmm.... This may be the genesis of either a really great or a really horrible decision.

Sadly, I am anything but acrobatic. As for the rest of your comment...
[/quote]

That image is perplexing and somewhat offensive to my bleeding-heart liberal sensibilities.

But there is a train yard just a few blocks down by the river.... if only I didn't have a presentation at 9am tomorrow.

Also! On the earlier mentioned subject of ability to deal with blood, I come out of lab covered in sheep/squirrel/frog blood on a weekly basis. I am good with blood.[/quote]
Hey, I don't make the memes, I just post em'. And I totally understand. I had a teacher who would get so angry about people who used the word ****** like that and thanks to her I can no longer use the word without feeling incredibly guilty. She once went on a big rant about how often homosexual teenagers kill themselves because of how people treat them like an insult. Then an office aid came in with a note and she chewed him out. He proceeded to walk away sheepishly and said that he was going to go kill himself.

You have a presentation at 9! I have a test just an hour before then! If you live in the Rocky mountain time zone than we could be doing those things at the same time! As I have no evidence to the contrary I will now assume you live in Montana because that would be neat. Montana has moose. Mooses. Moosen. Meese. Ah, fuck it.[/quote]



Ahh, the magical power of guilt. It has tremendous staying power.

Sorry, I'm on Pacific time, studying my science All Night Long. As much as I like mooses (which is quite a lot), I do not wish to be in Montana. I like Oregon just fine, even if I can't throw a rock without hitting a hipster (even if I'm not aiming).[/quote]
WHERE! WHERE IN OREGON DO YOU LIVE! THIS COINCIDENCE IS TOO ASTOUNDING!

 

[Carbonyl]

A chance to get the Neo badge. Also as a sign of how often people post here, and possibly how well known they are within the community. I mostly judge people according to their avatars though.

I'm judging you based on your avatar.

....and I am judging you as AWESOME.

Then you are an excellent judge of character. And avatar. But mostly character. Because I'm totally as awesome as my avatar would imply, though I have never dodged bullets in my life. Or killed someone. And I'm not particularly good around blood. Maybe that method doesn't work that well.

Are you acrobatic enough to cartwheel on a moving train? That might be enough.
I actually may be able to, given a wide enough train car.... Hmmmm.... This may be the genesis of either a really great or a really horrible decision.

Sadly, I am anything but acrobatic. As for the rest of your comment...
[/quote]

That image is perplexing and somewhat offensive to my bleeding-heart liberal sensibilities.

But there is a train yard just a few blocks down by the river.... if only I didn't have a presentation at 9am tomorrow.

Also! On the earlier mentioned subject of ability to deal with blood, I come out of lab covered in sheep/squirrel/frog blood on a weekly basis. I am good with blood.[/quote]
Hey, I don't make the memes, I just post em'. And I totally understand. I had a teacher who would get so angry about people who used the word ****** like that and thanks to her I can no longer use the word without feeling incredibly guilty. She once went on a big rant about how often homosexual teenagers kill themselves because of how people treat them like an insult. Then an office aid came in with a note and she chewed him out. He proceeded to walk away sheepishly and said that he was going to go kill himself.

You have a presentation at 9! I have a test just an hour before then! If you live in the Rocky mountain time zone than we could be doing those things at the same time! As I have no evidence to the contrary I will now assume you live in Montana because that would be neat. Montana has moose. Mooses. Moosen. Meese. Ah, fuck it.[/quote]



Ahh, the magical power of guilt. It has tremendous staying power.

Sorry, I'm on Pacific time, studying my science All Night Long. As much as I like mooses (which is quite a lot), I do not wish to be in Montana. I like Oregon just fine, even if I can't throw a rock without hitting a hipster (even if I'm not aiming).[/quote]
WHERE! WHERE IN OREGON DO YOU LIVE! THIS COINCIDENCE IS TOO ASTOUNDING![/quote]



Portland, City of Roses, crown jewel of the hipster empire. Considering the distribution of population density in Oregon, Portland is statistically the best guess when wondering where anyone in Oregon is.

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
(Capslock for emphasis)

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

A chance to get the Neo badge. Also as a sign of how often people post here, and possibly how well known they are within the community. I mostly judge people according to their avatars though.

I'm judging you based on your avatar.

....and I am judging you as AWESOME.

Then you are an excellent judge of character. And avatar. But mostly character. Because I'm totally as awesome as my avatar would imply, though I have never dodged bullets in my life. Or killed someone. And I'm not particularly good around blood. Maybe that method doesn't work that well.

Are you acrobatic enough to cartwheel on a moving train? That might be enough.
I actually may be able to, given a wide enough train car.... Hmmmm.... This may be the genesis of either a really great or a really horrible decision.

Sadly, I am anything but acrobatic. As for the rest of your comment...
[/quote]

That image is perplexing and somewhat offensive to my bleeding-heart liberal sensibilities.

But there is a train yard just a few blocks down by the river.... if only I didn't have a presentation at 9am tomorrow.

Also! On the earlier mentioned subject of ability to deal with blood, I come out of lab covered in sheep/squirrel/frog blood on a weekly basis. I am good with blood.[/quote]
Hey, I don't make the memes, I just post em'. And I totally understand. I had a teacher who would get so angry about people who used the word ****** like that and thanks to her I can no longer use the word without feeling incredibly guilty. She once went on a big rant about how often homosexual teenagers kill themselves because of how people treat them like an insult. Then an office aid came in with a note and she chewed him out. He proceeded to walk away sheepishly and said that he was going to go kill himself.

You have a presentation at 9! I have a test just an hour before then! If you live in the Rocky mountain time zone than we could be doing those things at the same time! As I have no evidence to the contrary I will now assume you live in Montana because that would be neat. Montana has moose. Mooses. Moosen. Meese. Ah, fuck it.[/quote]



Ahh, the magical power of guilt. It has tremendous staying power.

Sorry, I'm on Pacific time, studying my science All Night Long. As much as I like mooses (which is quite a lot), I do not wish to be in Montana. I like Oregon just fine, even if I can't throw a rock without hitting a hipster (even if I'm not aiming).[/quote]
WHERE! WHERE IN OREGON DO YOU LIVE! THIS COINCIDENCE IS TOO ASTOUNDING![/quote]



Portland, City of Roses, crown jewel of the hipster empire. Considering the distribution of population density in Oregon, Portland is statistically the best guess when wondering where anyone in Oregon is.

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
(Capslock for emphasis)[/quote]
Hey I can always dream. I would rather you didn't live in the hipster capital of the world. I'd rather nobody except the hipsters did. Then they could be destroyed once and for all.

I live in Roseburg, Douglas county, an hour south of Eugene. We have trees, houses, trees, a shitty mall, trees, a community college, and more trees. Did I mention that we have trees? They're pretty nice trees too. Really tall.

 

[Carbonyl]

A chance to get the Neo badge. Also as a sign of how often people post here, and possibly how well known they are within the community. I mostly judge people according to their avatars though.

I'm judging you based on your avatar.

....and I am judging you as AWESOME.

Then you are an excellent judge of character. And avatar. But mostly character. Because I'm totally as awesome as my avatar would imply, though I have never dodged bullets in my life. Or killed someone. And I'm not particularly good around blood. Maybe that method doesn't work that well.

Ahh, the magical power of guilt. It has tremendous staying power.

Sorry, I'm on Pacific time, studying my science All Night Long. As much as I like mooses (which is quite a lot), I do not wish to be in Montana. I like Oregon just fine, even if I can't throw a rock without hitting a hipster (even if I'm not aiming).

WHERE! WHERE IN OREGON DO YOU LIVE! THIS COINCIDENCE IS TOO ASTOUNDING!

Portland, City of Roses, crown jewel of the hipster empire. Considering the distribution of population density in Oregon, Portland is statistically the best guess when wondering where anyone in Oregon is.

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
(Capslock for emphasis)

Hey I can always dream. I would rather you didn't live in the hipster capital of the world. I'd rather nobody except the hipsters did. Then they could be destroyed once and for all.

I live in Roseburg, Douglas county, an hour south of Eugene. We have trees, houses, trees, a shitty mall, trees, a community college, and more trees. Did I mention that we have trees? They're pretty nice trees too. Really tall.

Oh man! I've dissected squirrels from around that area!





Turns out the abnormal levels of bromine in their muscle tissue was due to them drinking from swimming pools. I'm glad you have trees, they're nice. Everyone likes trees. I have trees too, I'm here for school and we have a lovely canyon on campus, there is even one growing in my office.


Hey now, there is a sizable population of gloriously wonderful nerds and some very silly hippies that live here too! And with our poor hand-eye coordination, the concentration of hipsters is great enough that we actually have a decent chance of getting one with a rock.


Also, the reply thread was so long I had to delete ALL the things that I could figure out how to delete without messing up the quoting-computer-y-majiger.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

If you go back a year I had less than 1000 posts on this site.

<-- I've gotten a bit more active

Well, post count tells me how active a person on this site is.

I wouldn't say my voice is that loud on the forums, but I've been very active in groups

 

[Revnak_v1legacy]

A chance to get the Neo badge. Also as a sign of how often people post here, and possibly how well known they are within the community. I mostly judge people according to their avatars though.

I'm judging you based on your avatar.

....and I am judging you as AWESOME.

Then you are an excellent judge of character. And avatar. But mostly character. Because I'm totally as awesome as my avatar would imply, though I have never dodged bullets in my life. Or killed someone. And I'm not particularly good around blood. Maybe that method doesn't work that well.

Ahh, the magical power of guilt. It has tremendous staying power.

Sorry, I'm on Pacific time, studying my science All Night Long. As much as I like mooses (which is quite a lot), I do not wish to be in Montana. I like Oregon just fine, even if I can't throw a rock without hitting a hipster (even if I'm not aiming).

WHERE! WHERE IN OREGON DO YOU LIVE! THIS COINCIDENCE IS TOO ASTOUNDING!

Portland, City of Roses, crown jewel of the hipster empire. Considering the distribution of population density in Oregon, Portland is statistically the best guess when wondering where anyone in Oregon is.

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
(Capslock for emphasis)

Hey I can always dream. I would rather you didn't live in the hipster capital of the world. I'd rather nobody except the hipsters did. Then they could be destroyed once and for all.

I live in Roseburg, Douglas county, an hour south of Eugene. We have trees, houses, trees, a shitty mall, trees, a community college, and more trees. Did I mention that we have trees? They're pretty nice trees too. Really tall.

Oh man! I've dissected squirrels from around that area!





Turns out the abnormal levels of bromine in their muscle tissue was due to them drinking from swimming pools. I'm glad you have trees, they're nice. Everyone likes trees. I have trees too, I'm here for school and we have a lovely canyon on campus, there is even one growing in my office.


Hey now, there is a sizable population of gloriously wonderful nerds and some very silly hippies that live here too! And with our poor hand-eye coordination, the concentration of hipsters is great enough that we actually have a decent chance of getting one with a rock.


Also, the reply thread was so long I had to delete ALL the things that I could figure out how to delete without messing up the quoting-computer-y-majiger.

I haven't dissected squirrels. We got to dissect a lamprey. It wasn't as fun as I imagine the squirrels would have been. I'm also very surprised we have enough swimming pools to mess with the squirrels. Swimming pools aren't that big of a thing here. We don't have much money and we have plenty of good natural places to swim. I suppose the sprinkler things they use to treat the wood chips at the mills could have caused it.

I don't doubt that, but I still think there isn't a person in the world that's best off living in Portland.

 

[Carbonyl]

A chance to get the Neo badge. Also as a sign of how often people post here, and possibly how well known they are within the community. I mostly judge people according to their avatars though.

I'm judging you based on your avatar.

....and I am judging you as AWESOME.

Then you are an excellent judge of character. And avatar. But mostly character. Because I'm totally as awesome as my avatar would imply, though I have never dodged bullets in my life. Or killed someone. And I'm not particularly good around blood. Maybe that method doesn't work that well.

Ahh, the magical power of guilt. It has tremendous staying power.

Sorry, I'm on Pacific time, studying my science All Night Long. As much as I like mooses (which is quite a lot), I do not wish to be in Montana. I like Oregon just fine, even if I can't throw a rock without hitting a hipster (even if I'm not aiming).

WHERE! WHERE IN OREGON DO YOU LIVE! THIS COINCIDENCE IS TOO ASTOUNDING!

Portland, City of Roses, crown jewel of the hipster empire. Considering the distribution of population density in Oregon, Portland is statistically the best guess when wondering where anyone in Oregon is.

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
(Capslock for emphasis)

Hey I can always dream. I would rather you didn't live in the hipster capital of the world. I'd rather nobody except the hipsters did. Then they could be destroyed once and for all.

I live in Roseburg, Douglas county, an hour south of Eugene. We have trees, houses, trees, a shitty mall, trees, a community college, and more trees. Did I mention that we have trees? They're pretty nice trees too. Really tall.

Oh man! I've dissected squirrels from around that area!





Turns out the abnormal levels of bromine in their muscle tissue was due to them drinking from swimming pools. I'm glad you have trees, they're nice. Everyone likes trees. I have trees too, I'm here for school and we have a lovely canyon on campus, there is even one growing in my office.


Hey now, there is a sizable population of gloriously wonderful nerds and some very silly hippies that live here too! And with our poor hand-eye coordination, the concentration of hipsters is great enough that we actually have a decent chance of getting one with a rock.


Also, the reply thread was so long I had to delete ALL the things that I could figure out how to delete without messing up the quoting-computer-y-majiger.

I haven't dissected squirrels. We got to dissect a lamprey. It wasn't as fun as I imagine the squirrels would have been. I'm also very surprised we have enough swimming pools to mess with the squirrels. Swimming pools aren't that big of a thing here. We don't have much money and we have plenty of good natural places to swim. I suppose the sprinkler things they use to treat the wood chips at the mills could have caused it.

I don't doubt that, but I still think there isn't a person in the world that's best off living in Portland.

No, the fun had with the squirrels was entirely outweighed by the fact that one had just entered the active decay state before being frozen for shipment. I cannot.... the smell.... I could feel it on my eyeballs, its innards had... nearly liquified. The peristaltic muscle was GREEN. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE PINK OH GOD THE MEMORIES OF THE SMELL. For weeks I had to grind various parts of that squirrel! The fresh squirrel was fine and easy and fun to dissect, but my god, never, EVER dissect something that is beginning to decay. Preparing a homogenous solution of squirrel for irradiation was so very, very unpleasant.

But I do love Portland, it's just wonderful. Hipsters can easily be ignored, and there is just so much wonderful stuff in this city. Gardens and food and free couches and chocolate and people smile (unlike in Chicago). The temperature never gets below 30 degrees and the whole city is just better in every way than the midwest.

 

[Extragorey]

If they're got less than 5 posts, I'd usually welcome them to the forums, otherwise it's meaningless.
You could reach 10k posts in a year easy enough by posting 30 times a day.
On the other hand, I've been around a few years but only have a few hundred posts.

So you really can't draw any other conclusion from it.

 

[smithy_2045]

My post count means I've posted a couple of thousand posts here.

 

[Torrasque]

hmm i see you have over 2700 hundred posts so i agree with your opinion.

lol, I see what you did there.

I think we all kind of care about post count, but that always translates into caring about the person behind the post count.
For example, seeing someone post something really intelligent seems to have more weight when they have 20k posts compared to 20 posts. The weight difference is so infinitesimal, but it is there. But as others have said, you'd say "That 20k poster has been here a while and I know they usually have good things to say", whereas the 20 poster would be "Hey, welcome to the site! Good post, I hope to see more in the future!"

Hope that makes sense.

 

[geK0]

I dunno, once I hit the 1000 post mark I guess I felt like I was actually a part of the community.

Ya I was the same way actually. When I hit the thousand mark I felt like some people may recognize me and same goes backwards.

Hrm....

Will I have a magical moment like this when I hit 1k?

58 to go : D

 

[aba1]

I dunno, once I hit the 1000 post mark I guess I felt like I was actually a part of the community.

Ya I was the same way actually. When I hit the thousand mark I felt like some people may recognize me and same goes backwards.

Hrm....

Will I have a magical moment like this when I hit 1k?

58 to go : D

Getting there already I actually recognize your avi

 

[Vegosiux]

To me, my own post count mostly means..."I either talk too much or get bored too easily".

 

[subtlefuge]

It means that you have progressed past lurking, but not that you necessarily should have.

 

[geK0]

I dunno, once I hit the 1000 post mark I guess I felt like I was actually a part of the community.

Ya I was the same way actually. When I hit the thousand mark I felt like some people may recognize me and same goes backwards.

Hrm....

Will I have a magical moment like this when I hit 1k?

58 to go : D

Getting there already I actually recognize your avi

Huzzah! I knew Pokemon Yellow Pikachu was a good avi choice!

 

[Lionsfan]

Do my eyes deceive me? A thread where I beat Daystar to a comment on it? Huzzah!

OT: Not really much, the more times someone posts the more I recognize them. But that doesn't mean anything, this one guy a couple months ago had like 800 posts within 3 months or so, but half of them were just him being a tool and trolling, and he got banned

 

[GundamSentinel]

It's usually post count combined with join date for me. Just an indication of how active someone has been during their time here, nothing more. Having a big mouth does not necessarily mean you have a lot to say. Usually the opposite in fact.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I see it as a measure of forum activity; someone who's only been around for a couple of months but already has 1,000 posts is much more active in the community than someone who has twice that many posts, but has had an account for two or three years. About the only time I trot out the post counts is if some guy who has been around for ages but has a very low post count starts jumping in on community arguments while acting like they own the place because of their join dateit's happened; I'm talking about things like the minor controversy over Dragon Age II having made the 12 games of Christmas list; there were a couple of early join date, low post count users shooting down anyone who suggested there was something off there, acting like they were more knowledgeable about how the average user felt about the game than the people who had been posting several times a day for the last year.. Other than cases like that that, it's mostly just an indicator of activity; as long as a user who clearly isn't very active isn't claiming to know the community better than those who clearly are, and as long as the poster doesn't make an exceptionally large number of posts in an exceptionally short amount of time, I usually don't notice the post count at all.

 

[geK0]

I dunno, once I hit the 1000 post mark I guess I felt like I was actually a part of the community.

1001 posts..... am I part of the community now?

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I apologize for the necropost