That list is sorted by rep points not post count.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
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That list is sorted by rep points not post count.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Thank God for that. There are sites out there where moderators actually ban you if they don't like you, if they don't like your views or if you comment on anything they say that isn't sucking up to them. TeamLiquid.Net is the best example of such a site. You almost have to be a cheerleader to the moderators if you want to avoid getting banned and man do people there kiss ass. Brown-nosing is an art form over at TL.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Manosphere bloggers also ban you from commenting for ridiculous reasons.
I managed to get banned for a day. One pun was apparently a bit too off-color.
JR managed to get banned over and over and over until he went away for good...for a couple years. Now he's being more moderate, though I never knew quite what got him banned all those times in the past. I said at the time that he was figuring out the AUP using the Braille system.
Actually - I think the sort should be a factor of both rep counts and post counts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
Getting a high rep count with a lower post count should be worth more.
I like where I am :)
lol...If it were so, then guys like Sitten Spynne, Inferrd and DrUnicode would be leading....you would lose your position :(Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I lie DrUnicode's name. That's funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
Reps didn't show up until several years on, by which time several people had pretty high post counts. Megatron was already over 10K and had vanished, before reps even started.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Reputation wasn't original to vbforums?
Shaggy, how did you even find vbforums? Your join date is '02 which, by my calculations is only 2 years after the creation year.
Personally I found vbforums doing a search on BindingSource.Filter() and I figured, heck if this nice(ha!) guy named JMcIlhinney is helping out these people on database issues, perhaps I should become a member.
I have no idea how I found the place. I think the forum was around longer than two years, though. I joined while people were still talking about the Great Crash, which wiped out most records. I think Megatron was around 10K posts, already, so the forum had probably been going for a time. It may have started in 99, or possibly earlier.
In my case, I probably searched for how to do something in VB5, and got a thread on here as one of the responses. I have no specific memory of that, except that, since I'm a pretty dedicated non-joiner of groups, I didn't join this one all that quickly. Being entirely self-taught, and having been almost entirely isolated from other coders, I had no idea whether I knew anything or not. I didn't, of course, as learning never ends, but what I realized was that others didn't know, either, so there were things I could help out with.
This appears to be my first thread
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ler&highlight=
Answered by Merrion - who is a top-notch printer expert here.
To get an answer from a qualified person is the reason I hang around
Second post
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...OCX&highlight=
Third post
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...app&highlight=
Ahh, Wall Street. Yes, I watch the Great Gatsby the other night and saw how people foolishly believed it'd keep going up up up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
No responses in any of them?!Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I did that a lot too :}
This is the exact same thing with me, except that I do join stuff all over the place but almost never with the intention of taking them seriously. I ended up making an account here after being totally stumped by a problem that I could not find a solution to anywhere. I never got the answer here either but in between waiting for replies and browsing around I realized that I could help out with some of the questions and so began my time here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
This was the problem that brought me here. That was actually my second thread here but it was a more pressing problem than my very first question which was about implementing a Name property.
My first post was a rather lame response to a question. I shan't be posting a link. My first question was a bit later. That's interesting, because I answered something before asking anything. Very odd.
My first reputation was telling somebody to use @ in the parameters for ms access :]
I think JMC had three or four gems before I got a rep. When that system first showed up, there was something of a race, but it quickly faded away.
Jmc with 4 gems....must look strange.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Very.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
How about with none? There was such a day.
Insurance?
Yes, it's what I do :/
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How could I forget snoopy?!
It's actually funny because I work for one insurance company and my wife works for another insurance company.
She's only a secretary though, and works in the life and health side. I'm a licensed sales producer for the property and casualty side, although I do want to get my life and health license. Dead people can't yell at you. And the living relatives are happy to have money. So life insurance is a win win!
Property and casualty is tough. Especially sense I live in Louisiana, our Home policies are up in the $3000 premium range. Well I take that back, in south Louisiana it is, up in North Louisiana it's a lot cheaper.
Heck I think I pay $2700 in premium for my personal home, which I bought my home for 76k.
Thank god I'm in a flood zone X, if I was in anything but an X the mortgage company would require me to carry flood which is outrageous!
It's funny because in Louisiana there is no such thing as not being in a flood zone. Everyone in the state of Louisiana is in a flood zone. I suppose it's because where I live you can't dig more than foot without hitting the water table.
All of our graves are really mausoleums.
I suppose I'll refresh the page to see if anyone else has posted...
Nope, but I did skip a page.
Yeah, with them it's just, "Braaaaaiiins!!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Flood insurance isn't an issue for me, either, though it sounds like your rates are considerably higher, anyways. My house cost a bit more (though it all depends on the date of purchase for the last decade, or so), but I think my insurance is less than half as much. I seem to remember being surprised at how low it was.
Perhaps it is all the other inclement weather you get down there, especially those over-zealous tropical lows that occasionally hit the area. There is no bad weather to speak of out here, so as long as the fires stay out in the sage brush, all is well.
Unfortunately what a lot of knock-off insurance brands did was go into towns and rewrite people dwelling 1 policies with a wild fire exclusion clause. Then when those major fires that happened 2 years ago, those that decided to go with the lower premium/knock-off brand where left to hang out for wolves to get them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
They also did that to a lot of towns in tornado alley and other places that are prone to tornados like Joplin, MO.
The whole reason why I stay in insurance is because I get to help people everyday. In fact, something that happened recently, a man who worked with my grandfather for decades came in because lighting struck his house and burnt it to the ground. I was able to not only reassure him that we're going to pay him for his house, but we'll also pay him to live in a rent house. Not only did we pay the rent for the rent house, but we also paid utilities, groceries, everything he needed. And that made my year. I'm still happy to this day that we were able to give him peace of mind.
I'm very passionate about my work :]