On a lark, I clicked on the "Overall Top 20 Posters." I was a bit surprised to find myself there, hanging in at #20. I feel a little like Ken Griffey, Jr., moving up on the 5000-post (in his case, 600 HR) mark, feeling that I might pass mike and Steve! reasonably soon, but not likely ever to catch Hank excathedra Aaron.
More to the point, what do the "rating" stars mean? I imagine that having five stars is good, but then why do others like dmiller and Sudo have none?
George
When you go into someone's profile, you can rate them. The stars represent an average
On a lark, I clicked on the "Overall Top 20 Posters." I was a bit surprised to find myself there, hanging in at #20. I feel a little like Ken Griffey, Jr., moving up on the 5000-post (in his case, 600 HR) mark, feeling that I might pass mike and Steve! reasonably soon, but not likely ever to catch Hank excathedra Aaron.
More to the point, what do the "rating" stars mean? I imagine that having five stars is good, but then why do others like dmiller and Sudo have none?
George
Another possible title for this thread could be: "you know you spend waaaay to much time here when..."
As in baseball, the rules have changed somewhat over time. (Walks were originally counted as hits and times at bat. Walk-off homers with men on base only counted as many bases as were needed to win the game -- i.e., a bottom-of-the-ninth, tie-game, bases-loaded homer counted as a single.) The reason I mention this is that excathedra would post a sentence in about four to eight posts, e.g.:
i really
really think
vpw
was an a$$hole
which would have counted as four.
One could still do that with the present system, but since any new post in the same thread within a few (10?) minutes becomes a part of the original post, you'd have to wait a long time to do it. It would be easier just to write new posts in different threads.
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pawtucket
When you go into someone's profile, you can rate them. The stars represent an average
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Zshot
Another possible title for this thread could be: "you know you spend waaaay to much time here when..."
Just kidding
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Tom Strange
Where is this "overall top 20 posters" you speak of?
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Linda Z
Tommy S, if you click on "My Assistant" at the top, it's on a drop-down menu.
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GeorgeStGeorge
It's also in the "Board Statistics" section of the forum front page.
I presume that the default number of stars is zero. I'll have to go in and "fix" dmiller's and Sudo's ratings! :B)
George
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Oakspear
How the heck is Zixar still ahead of me?
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gladtobeout
How does one get the little statement below my avatar changed?
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dmiller
Go to your controls (top of the page). Click that.
Then on the left menu bar, there is a spot to *edit profile info*. Click that.
CUSTOM MEMBER TITLE should be the first line.
Put in there whatever saying/ message you want,
and it'll show up under your avatar whan you post.
:)
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GeorgeStGeorge
Now that you have 500 posts, you can do it. I think it's in My Controls, but I can't remember how to do it right now.
George
OK. So dmiller told you while I was trying to figure it out. That's why I "fixed" his rating!
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dmiller
I think GreasyTech fixed it so you don't have to have 500 posts any more,
but I could be mistaken about that.
Btw --- GSGeorge --- Thanks!!!
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gladtobeout
Thanks dmiller and George
I did it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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dmiller
Free to be me
I see (said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw).
Congrats!!
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Tom Strange
Thank you Linzee! I see that Mr. Miller has sneaked past me as I was "busy" doing the work of the ministry...
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dmiller
Gathering snow from the gas pumps to make sno-cones???
;)
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socks
5 star Generals...
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dmiller
:blink: :blink: :blink:
(psst!!! I'm dmiller --- NOT Daimon!!)
But I see that you also (Bullinger) have five stars as well.
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GeorgeStGeorge
Two down, 17 to go...
George
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johniam
Wow. I'm #55. (a double nickel guy??) But Pirate 74 is close behind. I average 3 posts every 2 days or so. Excathedra averages about 9 posts per day.
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GeorgeStGeorge
As in baseball, the rules have changed somewhat over time. (Walks were originally counted as hits and times at bat. Walk-off homers with men on base only counted as many bases as were needed to win the game -- i.e., a bottom-of-the-ninth, tie-game, bases-loaded homer counted as a single.) The reason I mention this is that excathedra would post a sentence in about four to eight posts, e.g.:
i really
really think
vpw
was an a$$hole
which would have counted as four.
One could still do that with the present system, but since any new post in the same thread within a few (10?) minutes becomes a part of the original post, you'd have to wait a long time to do it. It would be easier just to write new posts in different threads.
George
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Rocky
FYI, it's 5 minutes.
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excathedra
most humble thanks
yours truly,
10 star
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GeorgeStGeorge
Love ya, Babe!
George
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