Why oh why? - Page 2

SamIam · 10-16-2008, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cicero

Well I like your posts just fine. Screw them if they can't take a joke. Every post can't be profound...Even if it looks profound and beautiful, chances are it's 50 percent bullshit.

This thread is not an example of that.

Thanks, Cice. I dunno, I've been hanging around for a year, you'd think I'd have had more to say by now. Maybe I have writer's block. I've got so damn much shit coming down in my life. Maybe I should post about that and bore you all with my woes.

Cicero · 10-16-2008, 03:23 PM

Maybe you should bore us with the contents of your mailbox. Anything interesting in there lately?

And yes, bore me with your woes......Whatever it is will probably more interesting than what's in the political thread. Now that's starting to really bore me.

Razzmatazz13 · 10-16-2008, 04:45 PM

I've been around for a while now, and I'm still pretty low too. Also keep in mind some of the eleventy-thousand-and-some post count people have been here for years and years, not hard to rack up a high count after that amount of time.

Treasenuak · 10-16-2008, 05:25 PM

Far as I know, I've yet to break a hundred...

Treasenuak · 10-16-2008, 05:26 PM

Whoops. Guess not. I haven't been keeping track

ZenGum · 10-17-2008, 04:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SamIam

Why is it that every single person (well almost) who is a member here has at least 9,000 posts and I have less than 200? I have tried to follow the board and be a thoughtful (or thoughtless) poster as the case may be, yet I despair of ever reaching the lofty heights of verbiage of the rest of you. Why are there so many people with zillions of posts and so few like me?

Simple. We don't have lives.

Browse through the members list at the top. You'll feel much better.

I wonder what percentage of people who have made enough posts* to feel reasonably established* have not left the cellar and are still reasonably active*.

*The precise definitions of these terms are also matters of interest.

Sundae · 10-17-2008, 06:44 AM

I agree that post count is no indication of quality.
The only time I notice it - or the join date - is when someone writes something bout how much the Cellar has changed, or how great/ rubbish it's been recently.

Then it helps to know the poster's history.

I don't think anyone here really posts to add to their post count - apart from, as Cic said - as a joke.
Those that post in inconsequential threads do it because they (I) have inconsequential things to say. After insulting Cloud early on, I have come to love the Post Whore thread, so that I can post random thoughts without bothering people who aren't interested.

Foot's Nothingland thread spew recently irritated me. But only because I'd been away for four days and thanks to the celebrated Cellar thread drift I felt it necessary to read every one to check I wasn't missing anything. I wasn't. Anyway, that's died a death now.

The only other thing that sometimes bugs me is that I can't participate in Chat. And people seem to get to know eachother well there, share info and jokes and memes. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out on a part of the Cellar. But that's probably just insecurity.

SamIAm - don't count posts. Just hang around another ten years

Crimson Ghost · 10-17-2008, 11:29 PM

It is not the quantity of words, but the quality, that matters.

DanaC · 10-18-2008, 06:26 AM

SamIam....doesn't matter how many posts you have. You're clearly a known and liked Dwellar:P

Sundae: why can't you go in chat?

SamIam · 10-23-2008, 11:51 AM

Thanks, Dana! Heh! Thru working hard and making lots of trivial posts, I have now broken the 200 post mile marker! In another year, I'll be at 300. Wooo-eeee!

10-16-2008, 03:23 PM	#17
Cicero Looking forward to open mic night. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: New Mexico Posts: 5,148	Maybe you should bore us with the contents of your mailbox. Anything interesting in there lately? And yes, bore me with your woes......Whatever it is will probably more interesting than what's in the political thread. Now that's starting to really bore me. __________________ Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.- Carl Jung

10-16-2008, 04:45 PM	#18
Razzmatazz13 Vicariously, I live... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,221	I've been around for a while now, and I'm still pretty low too. Also keep in mind some of the eleventy-thousand-and-some post count people have been here for years and years, not hard to rack up a high count after that amount of time. __________________ I have some people I need to have smoted. ~ SteveDallas

10-17-2008, 06:44 AM	#22
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I agree that post count is no indication of quality. The only time I notice it - or the join date - is when someone writes something bout how much the Cellar has changed, or how great/ rubbish it's been recently. Then it helps to know the poster's history. I don't think anyone here really posts to add to their post count - apart from, as Cic said - as a joke. Those that post in inconsequential threads do it because they (I) have inconsequential things to say. After insulting Cloud early on, I have come to love the Post Whore thread, so that I can post random thoughts without bothering people who aren't interested. Foot's Nothingland thread spew recently irritated me. But only because I'd been away for four days and thanks to the celebrated Cellar thread drift I felt it necessary to read every one to check I wasn't missing anything. I wasn't. Anyway, that's died a death now. The only other thing that sometimes bugs me is that I can't participate in Chat. And people seem to get to know eachother well there, share info and jokes and memes. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out on a part of the Cellar. But that's probably just insecurity. SamIAm - don't count posts. Just hang around another ten years __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

10-17-2008, 11:29 PM	#23
Crimson Ghost Larger than life and twice as ugly. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,264	It is not the quantity of words, but the quality, that matters. __________________ We must all go through a rite of passage. It must be physical, it must be painful, and it must leave a mark. I have no knowledge of the events which you are describing, and if I did have knowledge of them, I would be unable to discuss them with you now or at any future period. Don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years

10-16-2008, 05:25 PM	#19
Treasenuak Multiorgasmic and wrapped in plastic Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Central Tennessee Posts: 483	Far as I know, I've yet to break a hundred...

10-16-2008, 05:26 PM	#20
Treasenuak Multiorgasmic and wrapped in plastic Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Central Tennessee Posts: 483	Whoops. Guess not. I haven't been keeping track

10-18-2008, 06:26 AM	#24
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	SamIam....doesn't matter how many posts you have. You're clearly a known and liked Dwellar:P Sundae: why can't you go in chat?

10-23-2008, 11:51 AM	#25
SamIam Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Not here Posts: 2,655	Thanks, Dana! Heh! Thru working hard and making lots of trivial posts, I have now broken the 200 post mile marker! In another year, I'll be at 300. Wooo-eeee!

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