Lets stop the word association game thread/Goodbye

Dude its the safety valve...

This thread you just started could be considered post padding...

But its not. It is the Safety Valve...

 

I don't know why, but I rather enjoy it. Hey, I do my bit...I go and help out, answer questions try to help someone in need of assistance; in fact, what attracted me to this site in the first place was people's willingness to help because I was seriously confused about a couple of things. I've learned a lot and have been able to help more and more and I do help. Having said that, if one is out helping, what's wrong with a little silliness?

I keep hearing all this about padding post counts; I'm not altogether sure why that is a matter of such importance if it isn't padding my take home pay at the same time but I guess we all have our priorities even if their value is critical to some and of nebulous importance to others. Seems to me, I see most of the people out helping others, so where is the problem? I'd wager that if the saftey valve and other subjects areas weren't applied to post counts, people would be there anyway. My two cents, I guess.

 

Hey DVD i actually said that like earlier toay did you read my post because that is what i said...I am on your side DVD

 

The majority of the posters in "Safety Valve" are there to "pad" there post counts. None of this stuff helps anyone with backing up their DVDs....Just my NSHO.....

 

This is what i say........Remeber it is just an opinion

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I know this isn't a part of the game but i think this game is stupid and an easy way to gain post count....I mean c'mon this is so easy just about any word works......In my opinion i think this should be closed but that is an opinion
At this rate evrybody will be addict in a week,

It is alright to be silly for lil while but it's been going on for a little while and now it is just stupid

 

i want to pad my...account thats why i post in the Safety valve...
i am trying to get to 50000 post by December,*(so their...

You have posted 11963 messages to our discussion forums since you created your account on 29 November 2002.

 

If people want it closed, then by all means close it. If people are doing their bit elsewhere and helping out where help is needed, why all the fuss? If I've done my best to help others in those forums where I have some knowledge, does that mean I should just sign off and go to bed because I've exhausted my usefulness for the day? ...I've contributed where I could so go away because you've outlived your usefulness for the day? Just seems pretty narrowminded to me. Yes, everybody should do their part, I couldn't agree with that more fervently; I think its everyone's duty to contribute to the benefit of other members...newbies and long-term alike, in so doing we "teach and learn" as ddp is so aptly correct in saying. It was that very generosity and willing to help without the techno-snobbery so frequently found elsewhere that attracted me here in the first place. Gear79 helped me a lot, I learned a lot, I shared what I learned in helping others, and damned near all of you know gear, he spent huge amounts of time just coming into the safety valve and being unbelievably silly when he finished assisting in the forums and there were few more respected than he. It's part of the attraction that one socializes and doesn't take life so damned seriously. Indeed, why would "addicts" continue to post to the safety valve with such vigor if rank were their only motivation?

If the number of posts are to hold, for whatever inexplicable reason, the value of gold ingots, perhaps the administrators should stop the count in these particular forums...I'm sure they'd go on anyway because people like to unwind and get downright silly as is just human nature and those who fear "post padding" with such dread would be satisfied. In another forum, someone spoke of putting a system in place where only technical contributions are included in the post counts...go for it; safety valve will hardly die down because I rather doubt that most people just post for the sake of increasing their numbers...to what end, what's the prize?...the word "addict"? I, for one, feel sorry for the person who considers that an ambition! Just stop counting the posts in the safety valve rather than critizing someone's all too human need for plain and simple foolishness.

 

DVD,

Why are you going to leave? You post some very helpful info in the other forums. I too post where I can help out.

Why would you leave because of the saftey valve? No one is going to get to Addict by playing that game...

Its just not going to happen. That takes a lot of posts. The saftey valve is a way to just have fun. I feel some have lost sight of that.

Look, we just don't want to lose another good member. They are becoming few and far between... And you , my friend, whether you like it or not, are a valued member. So if we have lost your respect by playing a game, so be it. But you haven't lost ours.

Come on back. We'll be here...

 

I did a search on a few members, just to see where they were posting. Few help others, a few just post in the safety valve! Way to get rankings. Along with all the pointless threads, these endless discussions that just seem to round & round. We have threads where people express a valid opinion on religion or politics & are flamed for it. So much for free speech or respecting other peoples' opinions.

It's a shame really.

 

I am just a curious person. I rarely comment in these futile discussions. Only if I feel someone is being flamed for no reason.

 

Is there a prize for how many posts you make? Is there a punishment for making to few posts? And if the answer is no to both the above posts i dont know people are bothered about this.

I say if you want to make 700 one word posts, then carry on knock yourself out your only wasting you own time. I am not the only person that dont care what word/words appear below my name. Change mine to "smuck" then again i dont care.

 

Yes the only reasons there are Afterdawn Addicts, is because they are dedicated to the forums and help people out, not to play some stupid game to boost there post count, I think that Afterdawn Addict status should be a vote kind of rank if this stupid game is to still go on......So what i am trying to say when you see an Afterdawn Addict you know they will help you but if we keep playing this stupid game and everybody reaches Addict status you won't know that they are dedicated to the forums to help you.........
That's what i have to say...And to all current Addicts thanks for your help on these forums.....

 

"Status" "rank" "status" "rank". Where does this come from? "Status?" ...what status is that? What "rank" is that? I don't think I've ever heard those two words used to describe something so terribly insignificant!

I too think that this thread should be closed now too...now that people have taken what fun there is totally out of it for fear of lowering some really nebulous if not totally bizarre notions of "status" and "rank". Some people really need to set their sights for "status" and "rank" a little higher than they have rather than make accusations of those to whom those two words actually mean something close to their original definitions.

And I also wish they'd stop the post count in the safety valve so that inane accusations can stop and those of us who like to play after we contribute can do so in peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND I DO CONTRIBUTE UNLIKE SOME OTHERS. Might as well close it ... and the whole damned safety valve as well since our complainers don't seem to agree with the very description of the forum in the first place!!!!!!! Guess I'll go get my ill gained, all important, earth shattering, nothing else matters, make me the high and mighty addict short sightedly defined ambition of the chronic complainers in, oh, what do you think....the important thread of breadfast coffee where posts are so much more legit? Or is my post more valid in the three word responses of "What are you listen to?" Bunch of adolescent whiners!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!