Why oh why?
 

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? :(

Hang in there. I feel like I've been around for a bit, but my post-count is... low. You're on track to meet my target. :haha:

Because you do not make trivial posts.

post count is not a good way to judge a person.

I am a great example of the above post - as is this particular post.

Yeah the one problem with post count being visible is that everybody thinks it's so very important, and some participate in the nothingland threads just to bump their count which I sometimes think is regrettable. Many small posts are not as valuable to us as a handful of really good ones.

Yeah, so I'm a post ho.


But irony isn't lost on me: ;)

Maybe some of us just type faster. :lol:

Who is "us"?
I like the post whore thread, I am one for idle chit-chat, I like high quality posts, and very meaningful posts. Sometimes I even like the bullshit threads that should not even exist. I like all of it.

I think the post count thing was always a joke around here. Mebbe I'm wrong. That's the way I've treated it, as a bit of a joke. I remember that Zen and I competed to get to a thousand for awhile, and that was also a joke....Maybe you are the only person taking post count srsly?

This is a good question. Who takes post count that seriously?

Yes, you are a thoughtful poster Sam, mmmkay?

Well, I do NOW, since I feel like post glutton extraordinaire. ;)

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.

'Zactly.

Shut

up

you.

I never look at post counts - well sometimes I am amazed that people have been here for years and still have single digit posts.

Very funny Cic & S123

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. ;)

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.

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. :)

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

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

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.

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 :)

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

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?

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! ;)