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Getting to know the Grail

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	one more time. when a newb arrives and makes his first post, we now have a system which does not give a clue that it's his first post. so he is much less likely to be welcomed to the asylum - an old tradition here - and referred to the faq for info about the asylum, where rules, pills, posting, are discussed. yes, we can tell someone is new if we are frequently out of our cells and reading through the forums, but that first referral to the faq introduces newcomers to it's contents. we know that people frequently overlook the faq because of all the referrals made to it when responding to question asked by inmates. also, [b]as long as a count is being taken (maybe not yet coded), why not just post it where it can be seen rather than in our profiles?[/b] as for the roman numerals, a waste of time and effort. when a rank indicated number of posts, the top rank was lunatic no matter how many posts an inmate made. a lunatic had been around awhile, maybe frequently maybe not. there was some celebration when a new high was made by some inmate, so what? did that indicate some inmates were posting useless nonsense? no. useless nonsense was posted by those with both high and low post counts, but is the occasional laughter (lol, rofl), nods of agreement really useless? does it in fact not add to the conversation? sorry, i seem to have gone off on a tangent here. the roman numerals now do what rank used to do. they tell us if an inmate has been a frequent poster or not. why the redundancy? only very occasionally have we gotten someone in here who was so eager to raise his rank, he added his comments to very old threads that caught his attention. which obviously caught the attention of those who frequent the asylum forums... a little admonition and questioning of motives usually stopped that activity. the suggestion that some people only post to raise their rank holds little water imho. [small](Edited by [internallink=1009]velvetrose[/internallink] on 05-26-2004 04:51)[/small] Loading...
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