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Prolific 'lithers: an invitation to reflect

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Glenn Close But No Cigar

14:36 / 19.12.06

I'm pretty new here (joined in October '06, and have managed 8 topics and 61 posts), and have only recently discovered the tables detailing members' posting histories. They make for pretty interesting reading. To pluck some figures from the 'leader board', Eight-Stoats-A-Rocking has managed 19,395 posts, Haus 15,009 and Ganesh 13,239, while another 160-odd individuals have managed over 1000 posts each. By any standard, this is a serious amount of time and effort to invest (even without moderating responsibilities etc.), and so I'd like to ask any prolific posters who'd care to answer to reflect on what their heavy involvement with Barbelith means to them. I've no value judgement to make one way or the other, but I'm very much intrigued as to how central / peripheral Barbelith is to your creativity, social life, intellectual development etc. I'd also like to ask (again, wihtout prejudice) whether if you could have those hours (days? weeks?) you've spent on Barbelith back, you'd spend 'em again in much the same way. Thanks in advance to anybody willing to share...

Whisky Priestess

14:48 / 19.12.06

Since most of the hours I spend on Barbelith I am also at work, I have absolutely no regrets. Except for that time it got me fired ...

14:58 / 19.12.06

where be this leader board you speak of? It would seem I've been spending too much time reading/posting and not enough time poking about...

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:01 / 19.12.06

Oh, God. More than Ganesh?

My life is over.

Glenn Close But No Cigar

15:01 / 19.12.06

If you click on the part of the front page that reads 'Barbelith now has 5716 members', it'll take you through to a list of all members, which you can then sort by date registered, no. of topics, or no. of posts...

Glenn Close But No Cigar

15:13 / 19.12.06

Haus, you may be able to salvage a little (I don't know, pride?) from the fact that Ganesh has begun 293 topics to your 263. Then again, he did register some 5 months before you...

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:17 / 19.12.06

Haus and Ganesh have both had suits hacked and restored, too, so I think those tallies are actually lower than they should be.

17:25 / 19.12.06

RECOUNT! RECOUNT!

17:37 / 19.12.06

Ze List can be found here.

I can hardly believe I am still on the first page.

17:44 / 19.12.06

I'm at number 13, I think.

Must try harder.

17:50 / 19.12.06

Could be different. You could be 243.

I'll have to come back to the initial question, however, later, because it needs a little thinking about.

18:17 / 19.12.06

You bunch of threadrotters, I was looking here to read some wisdom from the "Prolific" posters...

And because you mamoth web personalities have withheld your words, I will start:

Barbelith has been a philosophy buffet for my budding little mind. Some things are a bit over the top and some people's humor can be a bit pointed (and thank god it is not often pointed at me anymore) but as of today I can honestly say that this forum has been a place that I have turned to in times of great joy and sadness too.

The conversation forum is whatever you make of it. We have discussed some heavy topics and we have talked about nothing at all. The creation forum has always been my favorite, and I have made friends there, and my style and craft have improved because of it.

The switch board has kept me on my toes at times, and it is a place that has inspired me to be civicly engaged.

The temple is over my head, I will be honest, but some day I may learn about this Magick that some people talk about.

Some of you have been like patient Barb parents to me, I came to you as a punk kid who liked the idea of revolution. I had just read the invisibles and thought that I was pretty smart shit. I have posted some seriously confused things here and at times been met with hostility.
I remember defending various unpopular politions on these pages... Oh, the errors of youth.

I was posting here as I found my identity. I have read through others ideas as I was forming my own. My world view has been shaped largely by your words.

So, what has Barbelith meant to me? hmmmm, well, I guess it is the one place online that I feel like I can go when I am shitty drunk and stumbling over the keys. And it is a place that I can talk about what ever is pulsing inside my heart and mind to people I have never met but feel are some sort of odd relation.

I have been wanting to say all that for a while, thanks.

18:23 / 19.12.06

should we debate the importance of tenure vs prolificacy?

i mean, new members are clearly way lamer than old members, and some people talk too much. is it really fair to say stoatie is the best just because he talks too much?
i say thee nay!

tom is king, and sleazenation is his prince.
all you chatterbox wannabes are just imititating.
clearly.

you flap your gums, hippies!
nobody's fooled!

18:29 / 19.12.06

I am a bit nervous about the mention of Barb royalty.

I mean wars have been fought over such things, do you really want to have an all out brawl over who is king and who is prince?

All the same, if you guys really want to have royalty I would be tickled if someone would make me a Duke and throw in a cushy computer chair (or throne if you rather, as long as it has those cool little wheels on the bottom. A duke has to be able to be able to get around you know).

18:35 / 19.12.06

dude.
you are member 3374.

i don't mean to be rude, but, uh... like, get in line and shit. i'm like, 1500 duchy points ahead of your late-coming ass.

with all due,respect, etc.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:42 / 19.12.06

I'm 81. Dunno how I feel about that.

Just think: if I had more Web access, I would probably gain a higher standing...

18:44 / 19.12.06

i don't mean to suggest error, but you are member 50, ma'am.

*

18:50 / 19.12.06

Oh my gods I'm a frequent poster. And that's after periodically leaving the board in a huff for such reasons as people saying mean things to me for going all gooey about Mirrormask &c.

I must talk too much.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

18:52 / 19.12.06

Oh, I know I'm member 50, but I am 81 in post rankings.

18:55 / 19.12.06

Alright toksik, I have checked the numbers and you seem to be correct...

Surely being number 3373 qualifies me to be someone's wingman though, doesnt it?

Think about it, "Duke" toksik a wingman can come in handy when you are trying to hit up with that special Barbelith peasant/newbi.

18:57 / 19.12.06

and of course you do have experience, if i recall correctly...
hm. i'll certainly consider it.

until then, though, i say thee KNEEL!

Phex: Dorset Doom

19:12 / 19.12.06

Good God- I'm even behind the fake Haus!
From now on I'm starting completely useless threads ALL THE TIME- a 'What do the clouds outside your window look like' thread, a 'I've lost my keys... no wait, here they are, never mind' thread.

19:19 / 19.12.06

two words.
'late' and 'shift'.
live the post-happy dream through meaningless chatter in the wee smalls.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:19 / 19.12.06

I've always wanted to start a completely uselessly thread dedicated to nothing but increasing one's post rankings.

Oh wait, what's all this then?

19:20 / 19.12.06

also, forget to ask supplemental questions.
like, uh, do deleted posts count towards your total?

see what i mean?
piece of piss.

19:21 / 19.12.06

sorry, that may not have been clear:
forget to ask supplemental questions, so that you require another post to do so.

19:21 / 19.12.06

was that helpful?

20:00 / 19.12.06

Wow, that was impressive. I really mean it.

20:01 / 19.12.06

Impresive.

So, about that Wingman thing?

20:09 / 19.12.06

All this talk of Wingman... I want a heapimg mass of Buffalo Wings.

20:09 / 19.12.06

and better typing skills.

20:19 / 19.12.06

So, in a small way Zahir, you have your answer.

Not what it means to them, but what it has done to them.

Phex: Dorset Doom

20:47 / 19.12.06

Ender dude, I could do with a wingman to talk me up to the lay-deeez.
See that one there? With the- Well that's awfully rude of you, and for the record I think sideburns on a woman add to her mystique.
Okay brah, go over there and totally talk me up. If you could use the phrase 'billionaire ninja sex genius' then that'd be just great.

22:02 / 19.12.06

done and done.

22:10 / 19.12.06

Electrix wrote: I can hardly believe I am still on the first page.

...and I had just passed you when you came back! Now you're 200 ahead! I think I need to start late-shifting again...

I find it odd that even though I still read Barbelith almost every day, my first 3000 posts were all within about 2 years, and the 600 after that have been in the 3 years since... maybe I've become one of those wise old monks who realise the virtue of silence or something...

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