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Post by Balfour on Aug 16, 2006 18:12:08 GMT -8
This Poll will close at 10:30PM tonight!
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Post by Ferryman on Aug 16, 2006 18:20:04 GMT -8
Senior Capt ion  |
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Post by Balfour on Aug 16, 2006 18:24:10 GMT -8
do'h! I mean Senior Captain
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Post by Curtis on Aug 16, 2006 19:32:58 GMT -8
Senior Captain as well
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Post by Balfour on Aug 16, 2006 21:37:26 GMT -8
The new rank will be Senior Captain!
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Post by Engineer on Aug 28, 2006 19:17:10 GMT -8
Sr Chief Engineer !!!!!
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Aug 29, 2006 17:07:33 GMT -8
That should be for the 4k post mark.
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Post by Balfour on Aug 31, 2006 0:00:43 GMT -8
we'll make it the 5000 mark.
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Post by Mike C on Aug 31, 2006 12:38:52 GMT -8
Three red stars I pressume?
Karl vs. Curtis: THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN: Who can make it to 5000 first!
Aaagghhh!! I'm sitting at 1,150 or something like that! It's going to take me ages at the rate I post!! Damnit, wish I had more time.
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Post by Curtis on Aug 31, 2006 12:45:52 GMT -8
That should take me about a year and a half to get to that point.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Aug 31, 2006 14:21:27 GMT -8
No offense intended to anyone, but maybe we should focus on "quality", rather than quantity.
(the above sentence is 2.5 times the average size post by Klatawa teen, and also contains the daily average number of punctuation marks used by PR Teen).
And while I'm on the topic of being off-topic, during the Circle-Trip weekend, I never heard Karl "Laugh out loud" once, in person. What's the story with that, lol!
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Post by Ferryman on Aug 31, 2006 19:40:35 GMT -8
...And while I'm on the topic of being off-topic, during the Circle-Trip weekend, I never heard Karl "Laugh out loud" once, in person. What's the story with that, lol! Laugh out loud? Everyone was laughing out loud at something. But just to make it clear for everyone, here's the translations for 'internet lingo"....  |
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Post by Balfour on Aug 31, 2006 20:27:47 GMT -8
There are just some people that should not be unleashed onto an internet forum...
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Neil
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Post by Neil on Sept 2, 2006 13:54:47 GMT -8
A cranky thought, to expand a bit on what HMCS Nanaimo was saying:
If we want this forum to grow a bit, and have a bit more variety in voices- and if we want people who stop in here to be interested in what they see....
Do we do it by encouraging people to post every little thought molecule that comes into their heads so they can get a 'title'? Those are the posts that I skim over and wonder why the person bothered. Quantity, and a manic posting finger, doesn't necessarily make for an interesting forum.
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Sept 2, 2006 14:43:54 GMT -8
hornbyguy, if we were proper and PC all the time, that is essentially ruining the fun and the shape of what we have today. People who want to join can, it is their decision, I am not in the mood for change and we are fine as we are. The part I agree on is that quantity of one liners is unecessary, however, I do not want to see half page long reports per post. As always, there needs to be lines drawn in what is acceptable and unacceptable, and a balance.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 2, 2006 16:35:00 GMT -8
If we were proper and PC all the time, that is essentially ruining the fun and the shape of what we have today. A bit of a counter-point to that. We can have a geat time, and still be relatively proper & definately PC. I think that we are currently having lots of fun & leisure on this board, alongside education and advocacy for issues we believe in. I personally have a lower post-count that most "regulars" on this board......and if you look at the top-posters, you will see a definite age-profile issue. (ie the higher-posters are the younger guys.....I mean, take a look at Harry's post count, and tell me if it adds up to a Pulitzer Prize?). Not to say that all younger posters aren't quality.....how dare I say something like that. I talked with a 15-year-old in Powell River about Union Steamships & the history of Quarrys on Texada Island, and it was a most interesting discussion. I've enjoyed reading posts & viewing photos of many younger posters (and by "younger", I would mean anything less than mid-thirties !). All I'm saying is that it's likely not a coincidence that all the top-posters re #-of-posts are people under the age of 25. Having a "non-Ferries" off-topic page helps to corral some of our silliness into one area, where it can be ignored by those who aren't interested. The forum Moderators are taking a more active stand in challenging some of the one-liner-posters to elaborate and to exchange hyperbole & rhetoric for "reasons that are open to discussion". Posts such as the following example will hopefully become a rarity (and I think they are already becoming pretty rare, unless we get another "British Invasion" of sorts...): bcf is privtised!!!
« Thread Started on 8/28/06 at 17:21 »
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oh my god in 2003 bcf was privatived and sold to the washington marine group for a ten year lease. thats why the logo was changed now bcf is not public that makes me so pi**ed ============================================ |
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 29, 2009 20:50:26 GMT -8
This Poll will close at 10:30PM tonight! Yeah Coastal, you totally shut down that poll at 10:30pm, 3 years ago...yup...we can all believe that!  ;D   Everyone vote, before it's too late!!!  |
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Post by Balfour on Sept 29, 2009 20:57:30 GMT -8
EEEEEEK! That was me making a rookie moderator mistake 3 years ago |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 29, 2009 21:01:08 GMT -8
Good to see how much I've changed since back then.
I was full of sarcasm and over-punctuation in 2006. All that has changed by 2009..... ha ha.
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Post by lmtengs on Sept 29, 2009 21:10:00 GMT -8
don't lock this thread. its amusing...
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Post by Curtis on Sept 29, 2009 22:43:28 GMT -8
Whoa, Flashback! It's almost strange to see how things have changed. Where has the time gone? It feels like this only happened yesterday. I was only at what, 4000-something posts neck and neck with Karl in posting numbers?, Now I'm at 5400 posts and Flugel is at the top of the post count with nearly 6000.
Do we even need forum ranks anymore? About 75% of our regulars are under the Voyager rank. It should at least have a smaller more reachable margin.
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Mill Bay
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Long Suffering Bosun
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 30, 2009 9:05:37 GMT -8
Do we even need forum ranks anymore? About 75% of our regulars are under the Voyager rank. It should at least have a smaller more reachable margin. The voyager rank is not based on number of posts... there are other, more special qualifications. In regards to the other issue: I think Flugel has been secretly adjusting his post count. But since I seem to have missed the entire poll and voting yesterday anyway, I'll go with the dire response of, I don't really care. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 30, 2009 9:16:07 GMT -8
The voyager rank is not based on number of posts... there are other, more special qualifications. In regards to the other issue: I think Flugel has been secretly adjusting his post count. ha ha. I've secretly been amalgamating inactive-members' posts into my own profile. No, the actual sad truth is that I spend too much time in front of the computer.... |
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