Get Marwood & I

You'll never beat Roy. He's the Chuck Norris of post counts...

Colour

The old dial up noise actually sounded a bit like the Floyd.

Lustre

Quite right too. What's the point in challenegeding people all the time? It's like a broken pencil.

Half the landing page would disappear if that were the criteria!

I suppose it's like a badge of honour for him though. The last cretin ever to get a good old fashioned old board strike

Can you do away with the Strike thread, and the Dog Like Sparky thing? It is sort of an annoying and useless forum/thread/public shaming punishment thing, whatever you want to call it. Yes! Get that cretin off the screen Arch!

Spot on bc. That is always my underlying point. Make things better, by pointing out what is wrong and inviting solutions / better ways of working.

I think it is far too low. I would increase it to 50, but for all groups, and not make a distinction between SVs and members. I think I said before, getting a message telling you that you can't like again today is a 'downer'. And a system designed to 'like' should not have a 'downer' element attached to it. Regarding your point about the trouble fake accounts can cause, am I right in saying that new members can only post twice on their first day, to stop them 'running riot'? If so, could you not set their likes limits accordingly? I really don't like (no pun intended) a system that places a cap on 99.9% of members to head off the 0.1% that may or may not abuse it. Needs of the many etc. My last try on this one - why do you want to keep the Leaderboard? Have you ever seen anyone mention it, or refer to it (apart from me in these posts)? What is the point of it? If you switch if off, you have no issues re gaming. Introduce a cap on new members (if possible) and you stop that abuse. Why do we always have to suffer en masse because you want to stop one or two people being silly? Why not ask the members Arch with a poll?

We have. It's called 'Support for the new boards'.

I think so, yes. I battled away with Arch on it for a time but just ended up making myself unpopular. I thought I had some good points really, but no one joined me in the fight so I gave up. There's some history here, if you're bored for 10 minutes: I still think it's silly that 99.9% of us have to live with a cap, which was brought in to stop a handful of people running riot. If you turned off the Leaderboard, which as I understand it is the only visible manifestation of like volumes, then there would be no need for a cap. But I'm going over old ground here, we have Arch's position on it and that's that.

A long time ago, in a thread far, far away.....

Now, what do you make of our good ladies expression on the cover of number 1 TVH? What could possibly be causing that slightly quizzical look do you think? Ignore the tag I placed under the thread heading. That's a big red herring Answers on a postcard.

Stand by your beds, citizens of Planet 9d! No, calm down, it's not one of the missing list, just - I say 'just' - a pence rated KKO. Number 98 in fact. So why post this? Well, it's the only one I've ever seen in person. A bizarrely rare book. My only previous sighting was from, of all places, an old Heritage auction listing. It makes you wonder how many on the missing list will turn up. This exists - and it's the only one I've seen to touch in all my years of looking. So maybe there's hope for his missing comrades yet. Still on 3,007 then. Nice Kirby cover by the way. He kind of looks like he's turning into the Hulk a bit doesn't he? Or turning back, given the state of his shirt

Yes, you're right it is. Cancel all competitions. Don't feel bad MechaF. 99% of posts go unnoticed. I know, I counted. He's back! Right, that's the pleasantries out of the way.Punish him liz. @lizards2 You tell em Rock Now thatt spelin is real anarchy at werk I agree Janector. When is greggy leaving? Don't feel bad speedcake. 99% of things people say go unnoticed. I know, I counted. Blame lizard brain deadleg. He started it all with his usual broken record 'everything is terrible' routine. He needs to stop sweating the small stuff and flippin well grow up! A tip for these scenarios Jimbo; leave a like. Then the author knows at least one person read their post. Assuming you liked it, obviously. Maybe we should have another 'like' choice - "I read your post, but was indifferent to it". Something like that? Well, I have to say I was pleased to see the level of support for lizards thread here, with the majority seeming to agree that things do appear to be tailing off, and even agreeing on many of the possible reasons that were put forward. I say again, this place is great, but could be so much greater with a little focus on housekeeping and some effort on improving the basics, especially with newcomers in mind. Well done liz - you brought the place alive

Look what you've gone and done liz. 227 posts in 12 hours, everyone joining in and having a good old moan. This kind of thing could catch on! @lizards2 Night everyone

I just searched members and selected the subset of SV's, and 10k does seem to be the bench mark. I wonder if that was a point in time decision, or whether you become one when you cross the line? Oh well, only another 5,000 posts to go before I get parity on daily likes. Assuming I become an SV on 10k of course. Who'd know! Or care.

Bless you Martin

The boards are just too damn busy!

You've taken it too far! Keep going.

Seriously? No idea. I don't know whether it was a one off event, or if there is qualifying criteria that one day mere members may hit. In context, we all have 'real' issues to worry about of course, it's really silly and divisive.

Engelbert Humperfink

Had, alas