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08-20-2018, 03:38 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On a hill in the Pine Barrens
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I keep using the Retort Post button, but my post disappears!
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Rianne has a way to go to catch these folks
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08-20-2018, 04:04 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
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Rianne has a way to go to catch these folks
(in last 7 days)
| Top Posters* | | | User | Posts | | pb4uski | 82 | | NW-Bound | 65 | | Dtail | 61 | | audreyh1 | 59 | | MRG | 51 | | Alan | 47 | | Oz investor | 44 | | MichaelB | 43 | | joeea | 41 | | imoldernu | 35 |
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08-20-2018, 04:17 PM
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#43
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Gosport, IN
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At the rate I'm going that next star is a LOOOOONG WAY OFF!
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08-20-2018, 04:41 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 4,172
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Originally Posted by Rianne
I've been posting for awhile. Is it the number of words? So wordy people get more stars? Or the number of actual posts. So if I post +1, that's a post? I could go around and post +1 to all the statements I agree with. Then I'd have 6 stars.
Love the forum and seriously joking!
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Rianne..........thanks (?) for posting this. The ? is because you confirmed that DW is right when she says that I don't observe things. I knew that the left column had interesting info like poster's image,location, #posts, join date but
the presence of stars ,much less that the number of stars varied was a big surprise to me.
So thanks for an interesting diversion for the day...........if life is simple...
might be because there was only 1 outlier in the small sample size I looked at....perhaps there is only one factor......as you mentioned the # of posts.
Interesting fact.....your post count doesn't change within the thread so if you are going do +1 to increase posts,you need to do it in multiple threads to maximize efficiency. Another interesting fact, when you are posting you can't see
that left column info until you finish your post.
Who knew that there are 3 stars and even 2 stars? Maybe even 1 star but I didn't see any and perhaps that would too ego-deflating. Anyway what I saw suggests (if life is simple) possible categories:
2* < 25 ? posts
3* 25-49 posts
4* 50-499 posts
5* 500-999 posts
6* 1000-4999? posts
7* 5000+ posts ? there is some uncertainty in the 7* limit because I believe
I saw something slightly above 5K posts that was still 6* so if that is real
then the limit is above 5K but below 7K but that doesn't fit nicely with the 2x and 5x and 10x wide bins.
I guess you can tell who has too much time on their hands.............
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08-20-2018, 04:53 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Conroe, Texas
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Originally Posted by kaneohe
I guess you can tell who has too much time on their hands.............
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Yeah, we planned it that way retiring! 
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08-20-2018, 04:59 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kaneohe
I guess you can tell who has too much time on their hands.............
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Maybe this belongs in the "What did you do today?" thread....
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08-20-2018, 05:03 PM
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#47
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Nov 2011
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"Obviously we need to raise the Star Tax on those lucky enough to be in the Top 1% of stars."
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08-20-2018, 05:24 PM
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#48
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Kansas City
Posts: 7,968
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Stars! Stars! We don't need no stinking stars. Just post it and they will come.
Saw both movies.
heh heh heh -  
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08-20-2018, 05:30 PM
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#49
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Originally Posted by unclemick
Stars! Stars! We don't need no stinking stars. Just post it and they will come.
Saw both movies.
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"Show me the stars!" (Apologies to Cuba Gooding Jr.)
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08-20-2018, 05:43 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Northern Illinois
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wmc1000
At the rate I'm going that next star is a LOOOOONG WAY OFF!
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You'll get there sooner than you expect.
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08-20-2018, 06:35 PM
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#51
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
Posts: 11,300
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kaneohe
Rianne..........thanks (?) for posting this. The ? is because you confirmed that DW is right when she says that I don't observe things. I knew that the left column had interesting info like poster's image,location, #posts, join date but
the presence of stars ,much less that the number of stars varied was a big surprise to me.
So thanks for an interesting diversion for the day...........if life is simple...
might be because there was only 1 outlier in the small sample size I looked at....perhaps there is only one factor......as you mentioned the # of posts.
Interesting fact.....your post count doesn't change within the thread so if you are going do +1 to increase posts,you need to do it in multiple threads to maximize efficiency. Another interesting fact, when you are posting you can't see
that left column info until you finish your post.
Who knew that there are 3 stars and even 2 stars? Maybe even 1 star but I didn't see any and perhaps that would too ego-deflating. Anyway what I saw suggests (if life is simple) possible categories:
2* < 25 ? posts
3* 25-49 posts
4* 50-499 posts
5* 500-999 posts
6* 1000-4999? posts
7* 5000+ posts ? there is some uncertainty in the 7* limit because I believe
I saw something slightly above 5K posts that was still 6* so if that is real
then the limit is above 5K but below 7K but that doesn't fit nicely with the 2x and 5x and 10x wide bins.
I guess you can tell who has too much time on their hands.............
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I believe <10 posts is 1*.
Perhaps I have even more time on my hands. 
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08-20-2018, 06:53 PM
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#52
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Rio Grande Valley
Posts: 38,154
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OMG! I didn't realize that I had well over 18,000 posts!
But REWahoo has 44,063 posts and
and MichaelB has 26,677 posts.
OK, I feel better.
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08-20-2018, 07:13 PM
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#53
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by audreyh1
OMG! I didn't realize that I had well over 18,000 posts!
But REWahoo has 44,063 posts and
and MichaelB has 26,677 posts.
OK, I feel better.
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And yet only 7 measly stars...
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08-21-2018, 06:19 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: The Great Wide Open
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I have 6 measly stars but 1200 bottles of wine!
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08-21-2018, 06:21 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Tellico Village
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MichaelB
The number of stars one has is an iconic reflection of the degree of existential interdimensionally applied to the human condition using a mathematical formulation that is asymmetrically bi-correlated to the inverse of the utility of said collaborations.
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That's easy for you to say...... 
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08-21-2018, 08:26 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dtail
I believe <10 posts is 1*.
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And you joined in Jan. 2018. FIRE is more than a hobby, it's work! Did you work for the government? Or NASA?
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08-21-2018, 08:34 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
Posts: 11,300
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rianne
And you joined in Jan. 2018. FIRE is more than a hobby, it's work! Did you work for the government? Or NASA?
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Okay I admit I am an ER.Org junky. I do love reading this site and posting to it.
I do actually do lots of other things, but this site is my form of relaxation. Actually my former job was as a Director of Valuation on Wall Street, which was technical math and also accounting oriented.
So the gist of your NASA comment is not too far off.
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08-21-2018, 08:46 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dtail
Okay I admit I am an ER.Org junky. I do love reading this site and posting to it.
I do actually do lots of other things, but this site is my form of relaxation. Actually my former job was as a Director of Valuation on Wall Street, which was technical math and also accounting oriented.
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Ha! You just opened yourself up to a lot of questions! I would conceal a career like that on this forum.
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08-21-2018, 09:13 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rianne
Ha! You just opened yourself up to a lot of questions! I would conceal a career like that on this forum.
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Well let me edit that the valuation gig didn't teach me anything about personal finance or investing. Thus there are many folks on this site with much more knowledge in these areas, not to mention the math background of the engineers and such. 
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08-21-2018, 01:31 PM
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#60
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
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I think W2R deserves her own Galaxy with over 40k posts.
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