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    Duplicate Questions

    thegreatone has posted the (nearly) same question five times. All threads have replies with working results, yet he keeps posting new threads asking again.

    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=260225
    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=260145
    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=260264
    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=260150
    http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=261384

    Could somebody maybe talk to him or...something?
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    I'm more annoyed with those outwar links people put in their sigs. He isn't masking it too much, some people really do.

    I agree the duplicate posting thing is annoying too

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    Yeah, well, what can you say... I replied to some of them to tell him. I couldn't be bothered to reply to all of them...


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    I'm addressing the duplicates from rummyvb now.

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    Perhaps he's trying to bump up his post counts with meaningless duplicates?
    Duplicates are being merged/removed, so his post count is now going down.
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    Perhaps he's trying to bump up his post counts with meaningless duplicates?
    What's with the post count? Are people here competing to get the highest post count? What do they get for that?

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    Originally posted by xing
    What's with the post count? Are people here competing to get the highest point count? What do they get for that?
    The only thing I can think of -- once you get 4096 posts, you can have custom user text under your name (see mine, for example).
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    Ah ok. I get it now. So that means 4053 more posts from me before I get that custom text. I should begin posting duplicates then.

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    Originally posted by xing
    Ah ok. I get it now. So that means 4053 more posts from me before I get that custom text. I should begin posting duplicates then.
    I hope you realize I will whine like a school girl if you do.
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    I sure do. Ahihihi...not really after that custom user text. It sure looks pretty nice, but I can live without it.

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    Megatron and Hack are up to 10,000 posts, so I wouldn't bother trying to get the most posts.
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    Originally posted by Pc_Madness
    Megatron and Hack are up to 10,000 posts, so I wouldn't bother trying to get the most posts.
    Of course, those two members don't participate anymore, so eventually, you could surpass them.
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    Originally posted by The Hobo
    Of course, those two members don't participate anymore, so eventually, you could surpass them.
    took me 3 months to have 50 posts. When do I get to surpass 10,000? Ahihi...

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    Why'd Megatron & Hack ever stop posting here in the first place? What about Serge? What happened to that guy?
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    Originally posted by Shawn N
    Why'd Megatron & Hack ever stop posting here in the first place? What about Serge? What happened to that guy?
    I believe Hack left because of all the corporate jumbo. I think he's running around on GalahTech now and probably a few other places.

    I'm not sure about the other two guys.
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