Ah the rankings, they've always been somewhat of a mystery to me. It kinda reminds me of when I first joined this site because I believe was speculating with Twilight Paladin as to what they might be. We were both very very active back in those days, to the point where I believe I was making about 3.1 posts per day, which very quickly racked up into little over 300 posts in just a few months. We thought we'd be able to keep the pace and outpost some of the longer term members of the site since the highest totals from nonstaff were just scarcely pushing upwards of 1,000 from members like Master Zed, Djibriel, Dark Paladin and I think even yourself GMH. I know my own have always been relatively lengthy in comparison to others in the same topics too so it's not like I was rushing to get up there.
Twilight probably could've done it himself, since I know he has somewhere around 2,000-3,000 on various other sites, including Eyes on Final Fantasy but like Blitzsage I very much doubt I have it in me anymore myself. I just don't think I have much more I can say on the site's primary subject matter and had very little to begin with on more generalized topics. Elsewhere I post even less as this is more or less my favorite online forum especially now that HTE II is gone for good, if not only for the sake of the orderly cleanliness and relatively comprehensible threads. I vaguely recall there was a time when R51 was commenting on how I had something to say about everything and now I'm not even posting even 1/10th of what I used to. It's vaguely disappointing to know I'll never get to taste this glory as it does seem like a fun thing to do at least once. It's only natural since even though as Blitzsage said, it's not meant to be a contest per se, there's at least some sort of reason we bother having these ranks afterall and yet at least one more for hiding some of them.
Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey) I think I went over 3300 before this contest began anyway, but this music contest has definitely gotten me to post a lot more than I otherwise would.
One of the things I like about competition is that it actually gives us a sort of communal activity we can do together, allowing us to socialize over a common experience we're all having. More skillful ones like online games even allow us to match wits in a more or less unbiased way, bringing a level of respect and even comradery in co-oporative games. To make a long story short, activities raise activity, which is just about why the only socializing sites I really like more than CoN just so happen to be online games, since I can interact with people a lot more on them on a more regular basis. A large portion of the time I've spent away happened to be at Hunted to Extinction II (now defucnt) and The Battle for Wesnoth for these reasons. I now wonder just how many posts I could've made in those years of downtime.
Speaking of which even though I know several never to be named members of the staff I shall not name hate them, I kinda miss the trivia/quiz topics for this sorta reason. The Mario one allowed me to show off a level of interest that I simply couldn't express otherwise. (I mean sure, virtually everybody loves Mario but really just how much and if it's really super deep, just how could they go about showing it?) I'd say more but guess this is the point where I should stop talking since I'm starting to veer off the main topic now... |
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