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Good rule of thumb

Blah, blah, old people talk ;-)

After reading the OP, I scrolled down to see if Draco Suave responded, and went like "how many pages?".
It's like with "listen to older people, they probably saw it more than once" - you often get to appreciate this wisdom only after it no longer applies :)

As to the OP - I blame lack of "search" option for non-subscribers ;-) With that many users I understand rationale behind it - but yeah, it causes a lot of repeats.
In fact, this, along of incredible moderators*, is one of the things that make me like EnWorld most. No matter how often given subject floats up - there's still some people that show up and explain. As many that try to re-invent the wheel - but still. It has a nice atmosphere :)

Oh, well. Good effort, Defcon - but it seems that everyone has to learn it the hard way. Learning it as a stripling is something to be proud of.

*Really, I've seen some well moderated forums, but EnWorld is class for it's own. A all 3.x-splat wizard to others core bards. Clerics to their monks. Dragons to their linnorms.
 

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We're above this here at EN World. I'm calling BS. Take this topic down. It smacks of snobbery.

Thank you, Iconik. You successfully necro'd my thread after I let it fall off the front page... thereby bringing it back to everyone's attention. Doing the exact opposite of what you wanted to happen. ;)

And just to correct you... it's not snobbery... it's just pointing out an uncomfortable truth. It's not my fault those of you who don't post that often refuse to consider it might actually be accurate. :lol:

At the very least, my thread's done one positive thing... it's given DracoSuave a whole new graphically identity. You're welcome, Draco.
 


*cough* tongue in cheek post is tongue in cheek.

People take stuff -way- too seriously.
In reference to posts after the one quoted above, I was personally always a fan of DracoBieber, but then I am evil.

Or at the very least unaligned.

In all fairness, though, tongue-in-cheek post can't seem to help being followed up with "j/k lol but actually im being srs guys" which has led to a great deal more awkwardness than necessary. The sheer glee with which Hon. Def Con responds to each such attempts to counter his argument demonstrates the classic behaviors of what many forums refer to as "trolling." To whit: before Hon. Def Con I starts ripping tendons and ligaments with his typical knee-jerk reaction to my letters, he should realize that his push to replace Robert's Rules of Order with "facilitated consensus building" at all important meetings is primarily an effort to retain power and control. The following text regards my complaints of recent days against him and his subtle but apolaustic attempts to trick our children into adopting unconventional, disapproved-of opinions and ways of life. We are now living in a post-ideological age. So what's the connection between that and his commentaries? The connection is that by writing this letter, I am decidedly sticking my head far above the parapet. The big danger is that Hon. Def Con will retaliate against me. He'll most likely try to force me to lose heart although another possibility is that I am reminded of the quote, "His précis are grounded in phony acts of kindness." This comment is not as temperamental as it seems because Hon. Def Con has been known to "prove" statistically that he is the arbiter of all things. As you might have suspected, his proof is flawed. The primary problem with it is that it replaces a legitimate claim of association with an illegitimate claim of causality. Consequently, Hon. Def Con's "proof" demonstrates only that only through education can individuals gain the independent tools they need to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic. But the first step is to acknowledge that Hon. Def Con's method (or school, or ideology—it is hard to know exactly what to call it) goes by the name of "Hon. Def Con-ism". It is a rummy and avowedly brutal philosophy that aims to convince innocent children to follow a path that leads only to a life of crime, disappointment, and destruction.


Hon. Def Con wants to convince impressionable young people that we have too much freedom. I shared his comments with my own parents, and my mom got scared and said and said 'you're moving with your aunt and uncle in Bel-Air.' I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said 'Fresh' and had a dice in the mirror if anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought now forget it, yo home to Bel-Air! I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby 'Yo, holmes smell you later!' Looked at my kingdom I was finally there to settle my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.


But then I'm a fan of the classics, myself.
 

Thank you for that, Gradine. I appreciate enlightened rebuttals. And you are absolutely right, parents just don't understand.
 

Since I never want to be right I need to keep my post count below 1,000.

DANG IT! I just put myself one post closer to being right all the time.
 

My rule of thumb is that post counts are often inflated by people who had nothing to say on a topic, but didn't let that stop them. :p

The ratio of posts that meet the criteria for this rule, versus those that do not, varies across person, board, subject matter, and the particular mix of posters in a given topic. (When silly season cranks up, all posters in the topic are temporarily so afflicted.)

My tentative intuition--arrived at by the same observation that led to the above rule of thumb--is that any post count above about 100 is useless as a marker for anything. (Below that is only useful in a, "Hey, you haven't been here long, have you?" way, in that long-time lurking before posting seems to be gradually going out of style.)
 


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