Post Race!

[Niya]

This is the list you want to get placed on.

I made it up to 7th place at one point. At least I am still in the top 10...

That list is sorted by rep points not post count.

[Niya]

I gotta say, it's pretty hard to get banned from vbfourms. You really have to be a complete ass or just have no common sense.

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.

Manosphere bloggers also ban you from commenting for ridiculous reasons.

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.

[szlamany]

That list is sorted by rep points not post count.

Actually - I think the sort should be a factor of both rep counts and post counts.

Getting a high rep count with a lower post count should be worth more.

I like where I am

[Niya]

Actually - I think the sort should be a factor of both rep counts and post counts.

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

[dday9]

lol...If it were so, then guys like Sitten Spynne, Inferrd and DrUnicode would be leading....you would lose your position

I lie DrUnicode's name. That's funny.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Actually - I think the sort should be a factor of both rep counts and post counts.

Getting a high rep count with a lower post count should be worth more.

I like where I am

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.

[dday9]

Reputation wasn't original to vbforums?

[dday9]

Shaggy, how did you even find vbforums? Your join date is '02 which, by my calculations is only 2 years after the creation year.

[dday9]

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.

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.

[szlamany]

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=

[dday9]

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.

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.

[dday9]

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=

No responses in any of them?!

[dday9]

I did that a lot too :}

[Niya]

...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.

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.

[Niya]

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.

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.

[dday9]

My first reputation was telling somebody to use @ in the parameters for ms access :]

[Shaggy Hiker]

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.

[Niya]

I think JMC had three or four gems....

Jmc with 4 gems....must look strange.

[dday9]

Jmc with 4 gems....must look strange.

Very.

[Shaggy Hiker]

How about with none? There was such a day.

[dday9]

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[Shaggy Hiker]

Insurance?

[dday9]

Yes, it's what I do :/

[dday9]

How could I forget snoopy?!

[dday9]

[dday9]

It's actually funny because I work for one insurance company and my wife works for another insurance company.

[dday9]

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!

[dday9]

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.

[dday9]

Heck I think I pay $2700 in premium for my personal home, which I bought my home for 76k.

[dday9]

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!

[dday9]

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.

[dday9]

All of our graves are really mausoleums.

[dday9]

I suppose I'll refresh the page to see if anyone else has posted...