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08-21-2018, 01:36 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 5,972
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Maybe we should offer up extra stars in return for...
Chocolate
Air miles
A stint on the site team
hmm...
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08-21-2018, 01:38 PM
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#62
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
Posts: 48,611
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Originally Posted by Janet H
Maybe we should offer up extra stars in return for...
A stint on the site team
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Geeze, NOW you offer it. 
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Numbers is hard
The key to understanding human behavior is realizing half the population is below average.
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08-21-2018, 01:42 PM
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#63
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 5,972
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Maybe we need a star exchange program... I would give up 2 stars for rewahoos voice on my answering machine. Desired message: Please leave a message after the beep... and stay off my lawn.
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08-21-2018, 01:59 PM
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#64
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 390
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Janet H
Maybe we should offer up extra stars in return for...
Chocolate
Air miles
A stint on the site team
hmm...
Attachment 29356 |
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08-21-2018, 02:05 PM
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#65
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Bernalillo, NM
Posts: 2,715
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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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I totally want to steal that phrase!! That is the answer for any question that can ever be asked. Now we know the answer to 'what is the meaning of life!!!
The <question subject> 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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"We can cannot compel others to do our will" ....Norman Goldman
"There never is shortage of the gullible to accept the illogical"...Anonymous
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08-21-2018, 04:35 PM
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#66
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: New Orleans
Posts: 45,758
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Originally Posted by kcowan
I think W2R deserves her own Galaxy with over 40k posts.
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Oh wow, I have a fan club!  
Thank you, I completely agree, an entire Galaxy or perhaps dozens.... 
But REWahoo has posted over 44K posts so he gets at least one more than that.
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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities. - - H. Melville, 1851.
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08-21-2018, 05:37 PM
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#67
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 31,796
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Originally Posted by aja8888
(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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Darn! Look what happens when I have Internet access, compared to the previous 2 months when I was in the boondocks in Alaska.
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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08-21-2018, 05:46 PM
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#68
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Posts: 14,601
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Darn! Look what happens when I have Internet access, compared to the previous 2 months when I was in the boondocks in Alaska.
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19,000 + more posts and you catch up to REWahoo and W2R!
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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth...philosopher Mike Tyson
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08-22-2018, 10:02 AM
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#69
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 31,796
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Easier said than done. I post, but they also post. We need to get them to a place without Internet access, like the Alaskan boondocks.
And then, with my posting rate as you showed above, at 65/week, it will take me 292 weeks or almost 6 years.
Oh, it does not matter anyway. They do not get more stars than I do. When you max out, there's no more reward.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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08-22-2018, 10:06 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Acworth
Posts: 1,204
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Stars.... we don't need no stinkin' stars...
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08-22-2018, 10:08 AM
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#71
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 8,368
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
And then, with my posting rate as you showed above, at 65/week, it will take me 292 weeks or almost 6 years.
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Perhaps, following the current PC trend, you should simply self identify as someone with an infinite number of posts........(and, refuse to let the riffraff use your washroom).
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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08-22-2018, 11:05 AM
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#72
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Posts: 14,601
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Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Easier said than done. I post, but they also post. We need to get them to a place without Internet access, like the Alaskan boondocks.
And then, with my posting rate as you showed above, at 65/week, it will take me 292 weeks or almost 6 years.
Oh, it does not matter anyway. They do not get more stars than I do. When you max out, there's no more reward.
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6 years isn't a long time. Get going and post one liners like REWahoo does. Maybe double your posting rate? Stay up into the wee hours of the morning posting?
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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth...philosopher Mike Tyson
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08-22-2018, 11:06 AM
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#73
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 3,602
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Now that I have 5*, my goal is to get "moderator emeritus. It's kind of like CEO of early-retirement.org. I will sit in my private office on the 60th floor and decide who is offensive and who is causing trouble. The good posters will get a free star for every 25 compliments they give me. Goals are important, even if one is FIRE.
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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08-22-2018, 11:12 AM
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#74
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Tampa
Posts: 9,431
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rianne
Now that I have 5*, my goal is to get "moderator emeritus. It's kind of like CEO of early-retirement.org. I will sit in my private office on the 60th floor and decide who is offensive and who is causing trouble. The good posters will get a free star for every 25 compliments they give me. Goals are important, even if one is FIRE.
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You are very nice. I like your posts. wow 23 more to go.....sigh
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TGIM
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08-22-2018, 11:16 AM
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#75
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Posts: 14,601
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rianne
Now that I have 5*, my goal is to get "moderator emeritus. It's kind of like CEO of early-retirement.org. I will sit in my private office on the 60th floor and decide who is offensive and who is causing trouble. The good posters will get a free star for every 25 compliments they give me. Goals are important, even if one is FIRE.
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To get "moderator emeritus, you first have to serve as a moderator, then retire. I know you can do it!
Just PM a Mod and they will get you an interview and the fee schedule! 
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Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth...philosopher Mike Tyson
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08-22-2018, 11:17 AM
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#76
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 3,602
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dtail
You are very nice. I like your posts. wow 23 more to go.....sigh
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Feel free to give more detail .
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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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08-22-2018, 02:06 PM
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#77
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Boise
Posts: 6,488
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Quote:
Originally Posted by aja8888
To get "moderator emeritus, you first have to serve as a moderator, then retire. I know you can do it!
Just PM a Mod and they will get you an interview and the fee schedule! |
I could never afford to pay the fees to become a moderator. Sigh.
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"At times the world can seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe us when we say there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough, and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events, may in fact be the first steps of a journey." Violet Baudelaire.
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08-22-2018, 02:11 PM
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#78
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Flyover country
Posts: 20,833
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Originally Posted by SecondCor521
I could never afford to pay the fees to become a moderator. Sigh.
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Actually, it's not as bad as you might think.
Only 1.5% of AUM for me, and they told me that's very competitive.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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08-22-2018, 02:25 PM
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#79
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,943
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kcowan
I think W2R deserves her own Galaxy with over 40k posts.
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+1
I also posted to see how many stars I had.
It may take me another 8 years to get to 7!
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08-22-2018, 02:28 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: North
Posts: 3,392
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ivinsfan
Well, I feel us six stars people have been put upon...We all have over 1000 and I have over 2000 posts and we only have one more star then someone with 500 posts?
Target2019 has over 4000 posts.....
This is patently unfair and needs to be remedied ASAP...what's the point of endless posts if we are not rewarded?
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Knowledge sharing is not rewarding?
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