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Curb the postwhoring.









Just an idea...

we're working on removing the post count altogether. no stopping a PW if they want to whore it up...except peer pressure.

I think it will be a problem either way. Some people have too much free time. What if your working on yur bike nd have to post about diff problems? I also like the counter it gives an idea of senority. Maybe a points system for relevant posts or maybe a number of stars based upon length of time someone has been a registered member might work better. Something atleast to give a members an idea of who knows what they are talking about.

-ash

you mean like how my 7 stars are bigger than your 5? LOL..yes, all good ideas.

I just think it's sad to see one guy (just tonight, for example) with almost half of the threads in OE front page started by him.





Get the f%$k off your computer and go do something in real life.

I think it's sad to see someone attack someone else for how they spend their free time.

Get off your motorcycle and go do something productive.

f%$king inane comments.

you're both saying the same thing, in the same attacking tone.

Both of you go do something productive.

Quote from: pantablo on November 05, 2006, 11:50:27 PM
you're both saying the same thing, in the same attacking tone.

Both of you go do something productive.

It's 2AM.. what could I possibly do to be productive right now? I'm watching TV, conversing with the people I enjoy talking to...

An does the same thing... granted, he's slightly more verbose than the rest of us.. but attacking him is just dumb. I stand up for my friends.

Quoteconversing with the people I enjoy talking to...

An does not converse with people he enjoys talking to. He posts for the sake of posting. That gets annoying.

certain sites i belng to give one the  option of either 1  clincking an icon which says "nice post . informative!" or 2 wtf was that (which is negative)

Quote from: NiceGuysFinishLast on November 06, 2006, 12:03:35 AM
I stand up for my friends.

:thumb: :cheers:

Quote from: Mk1inCali on November 05, 2006, 11:19:44 PM
I just think it's sad to see one guy (just tonight, for example) with almost half of the threads in OE front page started by him.

I take it you don't remember that on a night long long ago, a certain someone (me) had the WHOLE 1st page of OE with my topics.  Except for the stickies of course (but I couldn't do anything about that). :laugh:

Ashman?
In this forum the number of stars a person has, gives absolutely NO GUARANTEE that the person concerned knows what he/she is talking about and it shouldnt be taken as an indication of credibility  :laugh:

yup

Quote from: ashman on November 05, 2006, 11:16:46 PM
  or maybe a number of stars based upon length of time someone has been a registered member might work better.

read more carefully. I was not talking about the current stars.

-ash

An's freetime=his whole life.  That, my friend, is what is sad.

Quote from: Mk1inCali on November 06, 2006, 08:59:05 AM
An's freetime=his whole life.  That, my friend, is what is sad.

Unfortunately, this is exactly how I feel...

Work full time, school part time, the rest is eating and sleeping.  I know some people do this same thing, but with my schedule, I can't get anything else done.  To be honest, I don't even have a SET schedule. :mad:

Sometimes I'm working from 8am-5pm
Sometimes I'm working from 1pm-10pm
Sometimes I'm off from work on weekdays
Sometimes I'm off from work on weekends

The ONLY set thing in my life right now is school (kinda).  School Wed & Thurs nights, but then there's homework.  UGH!

I like the Positive and Negative ratings to people's posts...  You could apply it to the 45 second wait time.

If you average a high positive, then your wait time goes down...   Then if you average a high negative, your wait time goes up... 

5/5 would be a zero wait.  0/5 would be a 45 second wait...  and -5/5 would be a 2 minute wait time.   :laugh:  An would be f%&ked...   :laugh:  And so would I...   :laugh:

You can't go out on the weekend nights that you are off?

I have 15 credits of school, work 20-25hrs, and after only living here in SD a year, I've got a pretty good base of friends that I can call to hang out with.  I'm only bored and stuck here at home on the comp if I've made the choice to stay in and be bored, otherwise I'm out with friends doing something...riding bicycle, at a bar/the beach drinking, going for a moto ride, playing tennis, etc etc.  I know it's harder to do stuff outside now that it's cold for you guys, but I managed a social life in the midwest while working the same amount and going to school full time, PLUS racing motocross and having to go training rides for that 2-3 nights a week.

Part of life man, dealing with schedule conflicts/nightmares.  Buckle down and go meet some folks.  You might be surprised how welcoming folks are, if that is part of your issue of not going out.

Ok I really don't care for this software.  VBulletin works better and have built in features that REALLY set it apart.

Post counts are cool...they should stay.  As stated, it gives an idea of senority...not so much intellgence, but it's hard to have 10k posts and only have been here a few months.

Post limits are NOT cool.  The most helpful members here post as needed...sometimes that's not many, sometimes it's a lot.  Some people post here to socialize...again sometimes it's not a lot of posts, and sometimes it's a LOT of posts.  There shouldn't be a limit as sometimes people just want to post.  It's not a bad thing.

VBulletin has a thing, though, that allows members to "rate" one another.  Though on larger forums it's always went downhill, I think here it could be managed.

VBulletin has a points system, too.  You get points for posts...how many points you get is dependant on the activity and location of the thread.  Though most forums have this turned off, others use it for an online store, others have an arcade installed and the points are your quarters.

VBulletin has an arcade.  I mean, really...it has an arcade.

VBulletin's lifetime license isn't that expensive, and the software is less taxing than what's being run here...on both the users and the host.  I'm sure GSTwins would be glad to donate to get it up and going.

Quote from: makenzie71 on November 06, 2006, 02:40:51 PM
VBulletin has a thing, though, that allows members to "rate" one another. Though on larger forums it's always went downhill, I think here it could be managed.

This sounds like a good idea, although I can imagine the kaos it could create...

Quote from: Mk1inCali on November 06, 2006, 01:42:32 PM
You can't go out on the weekend nights that you are off?

Part of life man, dealing with schedule conflicts/nightmares. Buckle down and go meet some folks. You might be surprised how welcoming folks are, if that is part of your issue of not going out.

It's sad, but I have lost touch with all my school friends...  actually, MOST friends...  I started this job 7 years ago with a set Mon-Fri (7am-4pm) schedule.  Back then, I was able to hang out with MOST of my friends.  Then My schedule started getting more and more hectic.  I saw less and less of my friends, until I didn't see them at all.  Some moved away, some got married, some got busier like me. :cry:

The strange part is that I WAS a very personable.  I got along with just about EVERYONE.  But after working in retail for SOOOO long, it has "soured" me against people.  After work, I would just wanna be alone and go home.  I didn't really wanna converse with anyone.

I don't drink, smoke, or do drugs.  Some of my old friends always would go out clubbing or to the bar.  A small amount got into drugs, so I didn't really associate with them anymore.

in your situation, its really important to make extra effort to stay in touch. Its too easy to lose touch with good friends and before you know it 5 years have passed and they've moved so you cant find them...its hard, you have a spammed schedule, but if you managed your time differently you could do something else besides watch youtube all the time...

ditto...there's a few people from high school I really wish I'd kept in touch with.  I've only got two friends who;ve I've actually managed to keep with...other than online personas.

Give the poor guy a break.  Maybe he has social anxiety disorder or something.  I'd rather him post whore here than go out cause trouble and be an unproductive member of society.

Quote from: wannabebiker2006 on November 06, 2006, 11:12:35 PM
Give the poor guy a break.  Maybe he has social anxiety disorder or something.  I'd rather him post whore here than go out cause trouble and be an unproductive member of society.

I work in retail, where MANY customers love my help.  I honestly do not think I have social anxiety.  Of course, if I DO have it, I probably wouldn't know if I did.

how could you not know if you suffer from a social anxiety disorder?  Isn't that like not kowing whether you have hair on the back of your head?

or on your palms?  :laugh:

http://www.degnanco.com/anxiety/symptoms.html

Bullshit, limiting posts discourages posts, forums should encourage posts... yes, sometimes there are annoying or offensive posts, but hey, gotta live with 'em I say  :flipoff:

And in most normal situations, I would agree.  As long as I've been here, there have been lots of postwhoring times.  But then, there was a lot of GOOD discussion going on to back up all that postwhoring, and usually it was the same people doing both.  Now, it's just a whole bunch of postwhoring and no real discussion/help for the newbies.

I guess I'm that grumpy old man.


Meh.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/slingshot240/Bicicletta/Centurion%20Ironman/IMG_0803.jpg

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oh you sonofabitch, you had to post a beautiful fixed gear...
so what, do you know that I've actually ridden multiple times a week these last several weeks, and that I've ridden my FG too...as I will be in 6 hours again...good to be back.
I'm also possibly going to be doing a project at the local velodrome...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/pantablo/Img_0344.jpg)

I was trying to figure out the point of the pic...  Now I get it...  Pablo bait! :laugh:

bah...road bikes...how lame.

(goes back to play with windmills...)

I think you need to get some...  Or something...

hard to get anything when everything in my life is emmotionally stressed. Why the hell am I the only one ok with everything?!

Quote from: makenzie71 on November 06, 2006, 11:25:53 PM
how could you not know if you suffer from a social anxiety disorder?  Isn't that like not kowing whether you have hair on the back of your head?

Look at it this way...   If you have been like that ever since you can remember, how do you know if something is wrong?  It just feels "normal" (lacking a better word).

For example...  I am "legally" blind in my left eye.  I can see shapes and colors and movement, but I will never be able to focus on anything (like reading).  My right eye has adapted so much, that the doctors have told me that in my right eye, I have better vision than most people with around 20/20 vision.  (This doesn't make sense to me, cause 20/20 means 20 vision in both eyes.  but whatever)

So basically, I do not have great depth perception.  But I have adapted somehow.  I can play sports, drive a car, ride a bike, etc...

It all feels normal to me.  If I never went to the eye doctor, IMO I would never even know about my condition.

(http://www.burntheedge.com/forums/uploads/1124499611/med_gallery_18_5_13399.jpg)
mine, taken a while back.

An: What 20/20 means is what you see at 20 feet is what the average person sees at 20 feet, if it was 20/15 it would means you can see something clearly at 20 foot that the average person would have to be at 15 foot to see clearly. like wise 20/30 would mean you at 20 ft = average at 30 ft. etc. (per eye)

Jim

Quote from: annguyen1981 on November 06, 2006, 09:40:12 PM
The strange part is that I WAS a very personable.  I got along with just about EVERYONE.  But after working in retail for SOOOO long, it has "soured" me against people.  After work, I would just wanna be alone and go home.  I didn't really wanna converse with anyone.

You're still personable. It sounds as though you're more burned out than anything else, and that's pretty darned normal with your schedule. I talk on the phone so much for work that I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out and my arms lit on fire than talk on the phone when I'm not at work. That doesn't mean I have a social anxiety toward phones. It just means I'm sick to f'g DEATH of them!  :laugh:

The internet offers sort of a compromise social life. You can still have the social life, but you don't have to "put out" as much, if you'll pardon the expression. We all need contact, but sometimes getting together with people takes too much energy. By getting together on the internet, we have social contact without having to work so hard.

I will, however, go with the +1 on keeping contact with friends, though. The internet can't make up for in-person human interactions.  Is there ANY chance at all of changing jobs, cuz it really sounds as though that one is sucking the life out of you, An.... :(

Campy cranks, you bastard.

Did you have it converted from normal road-style dropouts to track fork ends?  Never seen a Bianchi with track ends and brake mounts f/r, much less H20 bottle braze-ons.

Local=Encino for you?  My lil bro now works at Bev. Hills Bike Shop...but they don't get much past the nuevo-yuppie and his kids.  Some higher-end roadie stuff, but no fixed gear/single speed items beyond a BMX chain.

I dig the brakes on a f/g, I keep thinking about putting one back on my bike, but I never really get the urge to grab it after riding without one for 8-9 months now.

yep, thats all campy record from 1985 on there. the cranks are campy for track, added later. bike is road bike (SLX frame) from 1985 and I had Brian Bayliss weld the track dropouts on it a few years back. I love his work...

Encino isnt next door but its 35-40 minutes over the hill without traffic. Same distance to Dominguez hills (ADT) track. about 75 minutes in traffic.

I've since removed the rear brake and done the front bars as bullhorns with a mtn bike brake lever...

Quote from: pandy on November 07, 2006, 09:01:23 AM

Quote from: annguyen1981 on November 06, 2006, 09:40:12 PM
The strange part is that I WAS a very personable.  I got along with just about EVERYONE.  But after working in retail for SOOOO long, it has "soured" me against people.  After work, I would just wanna be alone and go home.  I didn't really wanna converse with anyone.

You're still personable. It sounds as though you're more burned out than anything else, and that's pretty darned normal with your schedule. I talk on the phone so much for work that I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out and my arms lit on fire than talk on the phone when I'm not at work. That doesn't mean I have a social anxiety toward phones. It just means I'm sick to f'g DEATH of them!  :laugh:

The internet offers sort of a compromise social life. You can still have the social life, but you don't have to "put out" as much, if you'll pardon the expression. We all need contact, but sometimes getting together with people takes too much energy. By getting together on the internet, we have social contact without having to work so hard.

I will, however, go with the +1 on keeping contact with friends, though. The internet can't make up for in-person human interactions.  Is there ANY chance at all of changing jobs, cuz it really sounds as though that one is sucking the life out of you, An.... :(

You could learn how to dance, for example.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-282608652837696089&hl=en  That would be way better than working at Staples.

Quote from: pandy on November 07, 2006, 09:01:23 AM
You're still personable. It sounds as though you're more burned out than anything else, and that's pretty darned normal with your schedule. I talk on the phone so much for work that I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out and my arms lit on fire than talk on the phone when I'm not at work. That doesn't mean I have a social anxiety toward phones. It just means I'm sick to f'g DEATH of them!  :laugh:

The internet offers sort of a compromise social life. You can still have the social life, but you don't have to "put out" as much, if you'll pardon the expression. We all need contact, but sometimes getting together with people takes too much energy. By getting together on the internet, we have social contact without having to work so hard.

I will, however, go with the +1 on keeping contact with friends, though. The internet can't make up for in-person human interactions.  Is there ANY chance at all of changing jobs, cuz it really sounds as though that one is sucking the life out of you, An.... :(

I am considering changing careers.  I have wanted to become a firefighter for the last four years, but three years I missed the civil service exam by a month, and this year I was busy on the exam date.  Maybe next year.

I have learned that I really DO like to help people.  Being a FF might be the move I should make.  Although being an ERT might be the way to go, but I don't think my stomach can handle the sight of blood or similar fliuds.

Actually I've found that when people have a hard time with the sight of blood/fluids/inards, they desensitize themselves to it after a short while of exposure.  Visit a beef backing plant for good desensitizing material.

I'd much rather be in an ambulance running to a car wreck and back to the emergency room rather than spending hours inside a burning, multi-story building.

I've thought about that, but I personally would like to see my efforts at work.  I imagine that the ERT's only transport, and when they get to the ER, they don't know what happens to the person.

At least with a FF, you'll know what happened in the end. (which may be a good OR bad thing)

If you think paramedics are only the middle man you might want to go for a ride-along (a lot of hospitols will offer this as demand for paramedics is quite high...they encourage most interest)

Quote from: annguyen1981 on November 07, 2006, 08:53:02 PM
...they don't know what happens to the person...

My sister worked as an ER nurse for ~6 months before going elsewhere in the hospital.  My mom worked as an ER room rad tech for ~3 years before moving on.  I have an uncle that has been an EMT for about 10 years now.  They all have talked about how the EMTs do have the chance to talk with the same reception staff and learn what is going on with the cases if they'd like to know.

Quote from: Mk1inCali on November 08, 2006, 07:40:40 PM

Quote from: annguyen1981 on November 07, 2006, 08:53:02 PM
...they don't know what happens to the person...

My sister worked as an ER nurse for ~6 months before going elsewhere in the hospital.  My mom worked as an ER room rad tech for ~3 years before moving on.  I have an uncle that has been an EMT for about 10 years now.  They all have talked about how the EMTs do have the chance to talk with the same reception staff and learn what is going on with the cases if they'd like to know.

I didn't realize that.  Thankz man! :thumb: