Nth Post Angst? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lalwendë · 10-21-2008, 06:01 AM

Do you get this?

I've noticed to my surprise that my 4,000th Post is heading this way with all the speed of Gordon Brown chasing an Icelandic banker. Some how I feel I ought to do something special with it, as I've tried to do on my Nth Posts in the past, but that risks a.) ending up starting a really rubbish thread that you thought was impressive and everyone else thinks "yawwwwwn" and b.) you look dead uncool.

In fact a.) and b.) there might even apply to this thread....

Do you store up cunning thread ideas for your Nth Posts, like a squirrel stashing nuts for the winter? Or do you waste it on a WW post accusing Mithalwen of being a cobbler and upsetting her?

And do you actually care?

Rune Son of Bjarne · 10-21-2008, 06:37 AM

I do care, but I do not store anything up.

It is more a case of me suddenly realising a special number is comming up and then either make some panic post or I decide that I will hang onto the post until I figure out what I want to do with it. The problem with the latter is that I always end up forgetting and use the special post on some random thing like "Palantir of Fortune"

skip spence · 10-21-2008, 06:38 AM

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And do you actually care?

I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous!

Lalwendë · 10-21-2008, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by skip spence

I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous!

I wouldn't hold your breath, I'm such a flibbertigibbet these days I might do just what Rune says and waste it being facetious

What' funnier is with every pointless post I make time is counting down and using it to go "Hey! That was funny!" in response to an Assigned To Mordor post (and is the process even possibly getting chat-skwerled just to add to the sense of misery) is increasingly likely

Morthoron · 10-21-2008, 10:49 AM

Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal.

Legate of Amon Lanc · 10-21-2008, 11:17 AM

When it comes to me, I usually realise my n-th post had just happened right after I make it (except for my last jubilee, i.e. 3000th post, when I realised it only several posts later and not immediately. Maybe I am getting blind). From the "EDIT: Wow! #th post!" words which I have seen many times, I assume that this is no rare phenomenon. I think many people, like me, don't realise something special is happening until the number they were used to changes suspiciously. Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight.

Aganzir · 10-21-2008, 12:15 PM

I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post?

Even now I don't remember how many rep points I have, and about my posts I only remember there's 1,100-something of them. Occasionally glancing at the number actually makes me rather surprised: how come I have this many posts already! The worst thing is that I have no idea where I have posted that much.
I think I noticed I had passed one thousand only when I had something like 1,010 posts.

So no, no storing up for me.

10-21-2008, 06:01 AM	#1
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	Nth Post Angst? Do you get this? I've noticed to my surprise that my 4,000th Post is heading this way with all the speed of Gordon Brown chasing an Icelandic banker. Some how I feel I ought to do something special with it, as I've tried to do on my Nth Posts in the past, but that risks a.) ending up starting a really rubbish thread that you thought was impressive and everyone else thinks "yawwwwwn" and b.) you look dead uncool. In fact a.) and b.) there might even apply to this thread.... Do you store up cunning thread ideas for your Nth Posts, like a squirrel stashing nuts for the winter? Or do you waste it on a WW post accusing Mithalwen of being a cobbler and upsetting her? And do you actually care? __________________ Gordon's alive!

10-21-2008, 10:49 AM	#5
Morthoron Curmudgeonly Wordwraith Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits Posts: 2,509	Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal. __________________ And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.

10-21-2008, 11:17 AM	#6
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	When it comes to me, I usually realise my n-th post had just happened right after I make it (except for my last jubilee, i.e. 3000th post, when I realised it only several posts later and not immediately. Maybe I am getting blind). From the "EDIT: Wow! #th post!" words which I have seen many times, I assume that this is no rare phenomenon. I think many people, like me, don't realise something special is happening until the number they were used to changes suspiciously. Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

10-21-2008, 12:15 PM	#7
Aganzir Woman of Secret Shadow Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: in hollow halls beneath the fells Posts: 4,511	I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post? Even now I don't remember how many rep points I have, and about my posts I only remember there's 1,100-something of them. Occasionally glancing at the number actually makes me rather surprised: how come I have this many posts already! The worst thing is that I have no idea where I have posted that much. I think I noticed I had passed one thousand only when I had something like 1,010 posts. So no, no storing up for me. __________________ He bit me, and I was not gentle.