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How can you become a top member?

By posting a lot? Being active? Just logging in for certain amounts of time? Any info would help, thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy on November 19, 2011 at 2:27pm

You need to put on a chicken suit and eat nothing but KFC for a month.

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Permalink Reply by Richard K. Emms on November 21, 2011 at 6:40am

Jeremy,

I love it! The real point is community. Every time something becomes competative some of the original purpose is lost.

I'm happy just to be a part of it.

Rick

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Permalink Reply by Sandi on December 20, 2011 at 4:35pm

I had barely noticed the top members section. I had no idea we accumulated points or anything nor do I care. I come here for friendship and sanity. We all share a common interest and from what I have seen so far, we are able to control ourselves and behave, as a matter of fact, I don't think I have ever seen a forum, blog or comment posting site that has been as friendly as here. And I like it. No flaming arguments just adults discussing.

I would not like to see this site become a competition nor a radical debate site. Please don't let it end up like the R&S section of Yahoo Answers.

@ Jeremy, cute reply.

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Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on March 27, 2012 at 11:41pm

I agree Sandi, and I did not know there was a "top" member section. Competition does not ring my bells, I like ideas, responses, different points of view, and I welcome disagreements ... something good comes out of them over time unless there are personal attacks.

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Permalink Reply by Richard ∑wald on March 28, 2012 at 6:48pm

There's a reason a lot of credible forums remove post counts and "leader boards", often they don't reflect quality content and get turned into vehicles to feed attention seekers who basically flood forums and groups with meaningless platitudes and non-contributory comments, …just to see their own face.

It's called "post whoring", …and it's benign on the surface, but it eats away at the quality and credibility of a site, and it is discourteous as hell.

Same thing with "like" links, …just meaningless fluff that serves no purpose but can cause problems.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on March 28, 2012 at 7:27pm

ditto. I would "like" this but (a) it's not possible and (b) that would be a bit ironic. I prefer to see the site promoting thoughtful and interesting discussions and also fun.

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Permalink Reply by Richard ∑wald on March 28, 2012 at 9:26pm

I like this post, because it conveys meaning as well as opinion. Not just because it's in agreement with my position. This is the thing, I don't need empty affirmation or give it any value, critical affirmation I value as much as critical negation. At least they both contribute something to the dialog.

I like fun too, but …I would like to be able to kill-file those who make the tracking features on this site less useful. It doesn't take long deduce that some people (very few usually) have nothing to contribute other than platitudes.

Another useful option would be the ability to filter out certain groups groups as well.

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Permalink Reply by Joan Denoo on April 12, 2012 at 12:52pm

Thanks for the kill-file link.

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Permalink Reply by annet on March 28, 2012 at 10:00pm

like links can be helpful because it is a recommendation. not everyone wants to post but with like they can still bump something.

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Permalink Reply by Richard ∑wald on March 28, 2012 at 11:08pm

"like links can be helpful because it is a recommendation."

It (like "status") doesn't need to be in the "Top News - Everything" feed on the left hand side. Or, at least the ability to block those who may "like" nothing but frivolous forum fluff… feel me?

I'd rather see actual content in the feed, or at least have that choice to be able to filter out crap.