How would one amass a great number of posts without being blatantly annoying?

[Riven___Caulfield]

I've been writing here for a while now, and just recently I've waded into the message boards.

Unfortunately, I'm still a virgin by message board standards, and all I can offer for my profile is something skittering around my whereabouts.

I shan't be able to include a snappy little pic for some time. Seventy-nine posts or so.

<sighs - sits on the doorstep>

I feel like an Acolyte - yet to earn my robes.


I see the logic to it - people who aren't really into the message board just aren't allowed to have a pic up - that's fairly reasonable. But a HUNDRED posts?

<sighs>

Y'ever hear that old Zen story about this would-be monk? He goes to a monestary to be trained, but they tell him they're full. Go away.

He doesn't leave. They come out and thrash him around - tell him to get the hell away - curse his name.

He doesn't leave. The next day they come out and thrash him twice as bad - they break his arm, his leg, and knock out three of his teeth.

He doesn't leave. The next day they open the gates and let him enter - pure. And so he starts his training.

It may be an overzealous analogy, but I'd like to hear a reaction. Poll, anyone?


-Caulfield

 

[MechaBlade]

I felt this way at first. Especially at 50.

But, Dude, it's only 100 posts. You won't die.

Knocked out 3 of his teeth? That's mean! Buddhist monks are bastards.

 

[metal_minx]

I've been writing here for a while now, and just recently I've waded into the message boards.

Unfortunately, I'm still a virgin by message board standards, and all I can offer for my profile is something skittering around my whereabouts.

I shan't be able to include a snappy little pic for some time. Seventy-nine posts or so.

<sighs - sits on the doorstep>

I feel like an Acolyte - yet to earn my robes.


I see the logic to it - people who aren't really into the message board just aren't allowed to have a pic up - that's fairly reasonable. But a HUNDRED posts?

<sighs>

Y'ever hear that old Zen story about this would-be monk? He goes to a monestary to be trained, but they tell him they're full. Go away.

He doesn't leave. They come out and thrash him around - tell him to get the hell away - curse his name.

He doesn't leave. The next day they come out and thrash him twice as bad - they break his arm, his leg, and knock out three of his teeth.

He doesn't leave. The next day they open the gates and let him enter - pure. And so he starts his training.

It may be an overzealous analogy, but I'd like to hear a reaction. Poll, anyone?


-Caulfield

its easy just pop in some cds & post every song you listen to under my thread 'what are song are you jammin to' thats how i got to past 200 so fast.

 

[solid_]

See the what song are you jammin to right now thread in this section soon amass many posts there. not the way i got up over 100 posts thou

 

[Sillyman]

To the true student of Tae Kwon Leep, a year is as a day...

A hundred posts is nothing. You'll be there before you know it, just zone out post, and pretty soon people will be asking you what you want for your avatar.

 

[Riven___Caulfield]

It feels like cheating.



Perfect.

 

[OpposingBalance]

*sigh* I see it is up to me to provide the guidence this young man truly needs...

I've been writing here for a while now, and just recently I've waded into the message boards.

Unfortunately, I'm still a virgin by message board standards, and all I can offer for my profile is something skittering around my whereabouts.

I shan't be able to include a snappy little pic for some time. Seventy-nine posts or so.

<sighs - sits on the doorstep>

I feel like an Acolyte - yet to earn my robes.


I see the logic to it - people who aren't really into the message board just aren't allowed to have a pic up - that's fairly reasonable. But a HUNDRED posts?

<sighs>

Y'ever hear that old Zen story about this would-be monk? He goes to a monestary to be trained, but they tell him they're full. Go away.

He doesn't leave. They come out and thrash him around - tell him to get the hell away - curse his name.

He doesn't leave. The next day they come out and thrash him twice as bad - they break his arm, his leg, and knock out three of his teeth.

He doesn't leave. The next day they open the gates and let him enter - pure. And so he starts his training.

It may be an overzealous analogy, but I'd like to hear a reaction. Poll, anyone?


-Caulfield

Ahhh, young one (see sillyman's thread "Wild Speculation")
Your philosophy is all wrong...
In order to amass a great number of posts, one must be blatantly annoying...
*smacks young pupil upside the head*
In other words, jump into the middle of as many posts as you possibly can, and to hell with the consequences!
100 posts isnt that much. On my second day of posting I had already reached it... (I didnt begin posting till weeks after my registration)
The real goal is 1000 posts, where you get to write in that nifty little bit under your name..lol.

PS: look into the something new and different thread, and others like it to raise your number of posts, even if you have nothing to say at the time..lol.

 

[bluespoke]

Easy!

Just respond to all p_p_man's threads!

 

[SweetCherry]

Bah, come on over to the Kiwis and Aussies thread. Beat nzwookie about the head for a while. Flirt with the girls. In no time, you'll be there.

 

[MissTaken]

Re: *sigh* I see it is up to me to provide the guidence this young man truly needs...

Ahhh, young one (see sillyman's thread "Wild Speculation")
Your philosophy is all wrong...
In order to amass a great number of posts, one must be blatantly annoying...
*smacks young pupil upside the head*

I could learn to resemble that remark!




However, it took me about a month to reach a hundred posts. I was a bit shy on the board. I typed, editted, thought about my post, editted it again and then posted. Usually, by which time, four other people had posted , rendering my bit of babble useless.

Oh...how do you spell "editted" "edited" "edided" ...

 

[OpposingBalance]

 

[kiwiwolf]

Bah, come on over to the Kiwis and Aussies thread. Beat nzwookie about the head for a while. Flirt with the girls. In no time, you'll be there.

The lady has a point... amazing things happen on the Kiwi/Aussie thread... and yes nzwookie needs a regular beating...

 

[Guest]

I swear.
I'll never use av.
I'll follow yayati's path.

 

[Cheyenne]

The board moves much faster these days- it takes almost no time at all to get to 100 posts by posting thoughtful comments to various threads, or starting your own. Like this one.

People who post crap (other than nasty) just for the sake of getting to 100 or 1,000 are annoying, yes. But I'll never see it as long as they stick to the fluff threads that never die.

A couple years ago, there was maybe one page of new threads in a day. It took me about 5 months to get to 1,000 posts. Some people do it in a week now. Time flies at Lit.

 

[MissTaken]

I swear.
I'll never use av.
I'll follow yayati's path.

Oh please!

One Yayati is more than enough!

 

[SINthysist]

I have several old names I am not using...

I can sell you views in the hundreds or in the thousands...

Of course, you will have new enemies and trolls. But with all the fawking newbies, half the board won't recognize the names!

 

[Rhys]

Start writing a story in a thread...

post to the thread every 250-500 words

easy....

 

[lobito]

Start writing a story in a thread...

post to the thread every 250-500 words

easy....

oh shut up Rhys, at least your thread is worth reading.

I think the people who feel they have to put a whole fucking story in their location are annoying, but that's just me. Many people find me annoying, and I am.

 

[morninggirl5]

One thread....


Something new and different


It's now very old and the same, but it survives and will probably be here after many of the posters in it are gone.