Whither the Watch?

Post by **MsMary** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:56 pm

Linna Heartlistener wrote:
MsMary wrote:Pot, meet kettle...
oh, that is great.
Took me a bit.

But I don't think I should believe it..

I don't know if I do, either, but it was too funny to pass up.

Post by **Wosbald** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:40 pm

+JMJ+

I know that I'm a newb, so take my 2¢ for what it's worth, but …

Considering that this thread is about a (perceived) dearth in community vibrancy, I'm wondering why this forum doesn't seem to have a leaderboard.

The "posts since last visit" function kinda does the same job. But not quite.

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:12 pm

Wosbald wrote:Considering that this thread is about a (perceived) dearth in community vibrancy, I'm wondering why this forum doesn't seem to have a leaderboard.

We have a statistics page with top posters, if that's what you mean. But we have been calling it the avatarboard since 1990.

Post by **michaelm** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:29 pm

wayfriend wrote:
Wosbald wrote:Considering that this thread is about a (perceived) dearth in community vibrancy, I'm wondering why this forum doesn't seem to have a leaderboard.
We have a statistics page with top posters, if that's what you mean. But we have been calling it the avatarboard since 1990.

I had never looked at that page before, and was really surprised to see that I'm on it as the 4th fastest poster...

Post by **Wosbald** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:46 pm

+JMJ+

wayfriend wrote:
Wosbald wrote:Considering that this thread is about a (perceived) dearth in community vibrancy, I'm wondering why this forum doesn't seem to have a leaderboard.
We have a statistics page with top posters, if that's what you mean. But we have been calling it the avatarboard since 1990.

I mean a board listing the last 20 or so topics to which posts have been made.

EDIT: Every time a post is made, the topic goes to the top of the list while others are knocked off as they slide down the list.

I thought that this was called a leaderboard, but I'm a bit of a dinosaur so I'm open to correction on that.

Post by **wayfriend** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:59 pm

Wosbald wrote:I mean a board listing the last 20 or so topics to which posts have been made.

We used to have a home page/welcome page where you first landed. It listed some active topics. It went by the big old by in the sky.

Post by **Wosbald** » Mon Feb 09, 2015 2:07 pm

+JMJ+

wayfriend wrote:
Wosbald wrote:I mean a board listing the last 20 or so topics to which posts have been made.
We used to have a home page/welcome page where you first landed. It listed some active topics. It went by the big old by in the sky.

Okay, yeah, I think I may have also heard it called that. It just seems like a good idea (though I imagine that a downside might be that some could feel their favorite sub-forums to be getting short shrift if they don't regularly appear on the welcome page).

Anyhoo, just a thought.

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:24 am

Hey, think away, and don't be shy about sharing them thoughts either.

Nice to see new folk joining in.

I'm not opposed to the idea...there's probably a mod or something...but where to put it...

michaelm wrote:I had never looked at that page before, and was really surprised to see that I'm on it as the 4th fastest poster...

Go MichaelM.

Congrats. Keep posting.

wayfriend wrote:But we have been calling it the avatarboard since 1990.

Hey! I resemble that remark.

(WF jests of course. And exaggerates.

)

--A

Post by **MsMary** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:31 am

michaelm wrote:
wayfriend wrote:
Wosbald wrote:Considering that this thread is about a (perceived) dearth in community vibrancy, I'm wondering why this forum doesn't seem to have a leaderboard.
We have a statistics page with top posters, if that's what you mean. But we have been calling it the avatarboard since 1990.
I had never looked at that page before, and was really surprised to see that I'm on it as the 4th fastest poster...

Yes, you really jumped right into the fray.

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:17 am

That's what we like to see.

--A

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:09 pm

Yes, indeed. We like to get people addicted...uh...involved.

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 4:23 am

--A

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:18 pm

Sorus wrote:
sgt.null wrote:
Sorus wrote:
Actually Sarge has been rather quiet this month. Perhaps that's the crux of our problem. SARGE! Mallory's needs you!
I am headed there right now.
Holy cow. I take my metaphorical hat off to your Mallory's skills.

I have been, weep all thee curses of the random...

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:20 pm

aliantha wrote:Oh, please. Like that's ever stopped anybody here before.

what sort of prize am I winning anyway?

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 4:53 am

I dunno yet, but we're having a bumper weekend.

--A

Post by **Frostheart Grueburn** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:01 pm

Lord Foul wrote:
Frostheart Grueburn wrote:Does not this mischievous slant adorn even my very name?
Does not!

Frostheart Grueburn wrote:One can light a smattering of lurid green noxious candles stinking of attar, draw a foulgram on the floor, and commence the ritual...
No-no, that's the old ritual, when I felt sleepy for millenia, and you know one can't sleep with all those candles around and chalk for foulgrams screeching on the floor - now I have a wondeful new foe to devastate, so no millenia-long sleep wanted here, merely distracted. But for certain I'll come here from time to time to gather inspiration for evil plotting and perhaps even get some allies to bring him to well-deserved misery and ruination of all his plans

A million years later, Baf Scatterwit wends her way hither, through the toils of Soulbiter and by the error of scrutinizing the map of the Land sideways...
Do you vilely imply in the slur above that I should possess a softy side of some standing?

Hmm, so one must revise the ritual...shall the odor of illearth cupcakes tickle the nose of certain someone and the Foul within? Or a gift of pink, lacy lingerie, as we all ken the Despiser adores such garb?

Post by **michaelm** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:18 pm

Avatar wrote:I dunno yet, but we're having a bumper weekend.

--A

I had a bumper weekend too. Actually it was more like a bumper being ripped off by a dump truck weekend...

Post by **Avatar** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:13 am

That doesn't sound like much fun.

--A

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:32 am

Well, it's clearly been a quiet day after a busy weekend.

Where is everybody? Get posting.

--A

Post by **SerScot** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 3:17 pm

Post people.... post!

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