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How does one break their TR addiction?

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by nz_justice

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I hate TR, I think it is one of the crappiest forum sites out there, every other forum you can get better more useful information and they are more interesting. But I just keep coming back here. mainly because I'm procrastinating doing work. That and when I purchased some Oreilly books from TR I had to become a member. I get an email telling me I have 500 points. I think to myself, what the fuck did I get those for. then I start answering questions, and an answer gets accepted and I get more points. (at this stage I didn't care about my rating), then I started having fun just going round answering Q & A. Then after I while I notice my rating has gone up, then I think hey I have a chance to make my rating better, so I decide to go to the forums to get my rating up, my first two threads are failures (including this one) then people reply to some thing I said, and I think omgod some actually read something I typed, then I see top members in this topic and think hey I could get up there, I just have to reply to a lot of forums, then I get tired of my second thread and change it to this, now I can't get away from spending time in the TR, I get shakes and withdrawal symptoms, my works falling behind. Blah blah blah. Any comments?

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by jdclyde

first of all, chicken spawn, when you reference a different discussion, it is customary to LINK to said discussion.

Second, chicken spawn, most people don't refer to themselves in third person tense.

I ASSuME that you are refering to your Hal post?

Glad you amused yourself!

Carry on, chicken spawn! B-)

by jdclyde

A chicken and an egg are laying in bed.

The chicken is smoking a cigarette.

The egg says "guess we answered that one!"

:O

by jdclyde

and after that he earned his new name of chicken spawn, after his references to the egg in the other discussion.

Time for him to change his user name! :D

That is ok though, as I am not the most serious person in the world often either. as long as he is amusing himself and not leaving any spent love on the backs of peoples seats, things are fine. :O

by maxwell edison

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Start a discussion about the war in Iraq or President Bush -- criticize or praise, either will get the same results. Or perhaps one about how great the United States is, and how everybody in the world would be speaking German if not for us (U.S.). And make sure you chastise Canada for being a bunch of cowards. Or better yet, start a discussion about Intelligent Design versus evolution, and especially how ID should be taught in science class in the public schools.

Make sure you post a reply to every message, and you'll be number one faster than you can say bang bang.

But you have a loooooong way to go before you can make such claims as being a "TR addict". Don't be silly. I've answered 2,251 questions, with over half of them being accepted. Heck, maybe a few of them were even right! I've started 88 discussion threads myself, and posted 5,188 discussion messages. I've taken the surveys, rated the articles, and subscribed to more tech-mails than I could possibly read in an entire lifetime. I've given away more points than I have; and I still have over a quarter-million of them. And then consider this: I'm a mere light-weight around here!

You have a long way to go, fella. And not only that, but you'll have to show your real stuff and tangle with the likes of Oz Media and "yours truly" before you are even considered worthy to wash the stars on the TR cyberwalk, much less get one of your own.

But keep pluggin' away. With a few more years and a few thousand more messages behind you, we might consider giving you your very own "TR addict" star on our cyberwalk in front of the water cooler.

Welcome, by the way.

And a hint about interpreting my messages is this: You can be absolutely certain that they can ALL be taken seriously or not -- ALL of them -- just as they are intended.

by jdclyde

that is why it doesn't match up anymore.

Along the lines of going on and on about some "egg" that started another post, that then kept replying to his own posts. He was this "egg", hense his name of "chicken spawn".

The other discussion was about how Col is freaking him out with the eye avitar.

In other words, you didn't miss much. Just poor posters etiquette.

by maxwell edison

I read only two of his messages. This one, the one I replied to, and the one where I gave him the explanation on Colin's eye photo.

by jdclyde

It is bad form chicken spawn to go back and completely change a post, especially after other people reply to it.

If you have something new to say, post something new.

If your embarrassed about a past posting, a simple retraction is acceptable.

by nz_justice

Is that a new function of the TR Discussion part, where do I click? And how about that etiquette, I didn't read it nor do I plan too, or is it one of htose things that every body jsut knows.

by jdclyde

Just take out anything that offensive or stupid, (we all have done that at one point) and then post a note along the lines of "content edited after a change of heart" and let that discussion die.

Then go and start a new one fresh.

Just tips, as etiquette is rules of MANERS for behavior. Not required, but unless you want to be the new Lobo (laughing stock) of TR, simple things to follow and they do make a difference.

Also, just because you don't get a lot of replies, doesn't mean people don't read what you type. MANY members are silent members. They come and read, but either don't feel they have anything to add, or just like to read what we put here.

They see, and they remember. You are being judged by your actions.

by jdclyde

one thing to remember, the people that come here WORK. As they get chances, they come out and play. It can often take a few days for a discussion to take off, depending on everyones schedules.

Also, being a new poster and not on the "contacts" list for many yet, it takes longer for anything you post to get found in the first place, where the "regulars" around the water cooler DO see right away when one of us posts. Point in case, I was the one to break this, but I do the same to find where the contacts I have are posting.

They are people that I know have something to say that I want to hear, and I look at the "posts by your contacts" before I look at the "new" or "hot" discussions.

So once there are a few posts, if you go back and change what people are replying to, the new people coming in see this and will question if they would want to discuss with you and have the same happen to them. You can see how MAX was confused by reading MY valid replies to you.

You are defining who and what you are to the other members right now. How do you want people to see you?

That is what the big deal is.

by nz_justice

This is the only forum site I belong too( That I currently remember anyway). And I am addicted to it. The navigation is poor, and some professionals seem to take every thing I type as a personal attack against them (which ironically isn't very professional). I love posting feed back here and there and I like answering peoples questions in the tech Q & A, regardless of the points. And with 'Jaqui' working for the tech republic the site will improve in no time, see https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=96&threadID=188170&start=0 and navagate to the reply post from 'Jaqui'.

I'm number one because I would rather be active in the TR then surf porn. Thus is my addiction and thus it has control over me.

PS When I typed this "professionals seem to take every thing I type as a personal attack against them (which ironically isn't very professional). " I am not, I repeat I am not calling anyone unprofessional, I am just saying there is irony in taking something personally when you are a professional.

by nz_justice

the key word being activity. If I posted answers to T Q & A over a long period of time say 1 a month I could answer a thousand questions and still not make the top one hundred, but because I have been active continually on the site for a period of about 23 days I am now currently number 1 and each day I continue to be active on the site it goes toward my rating. The rating is concurrent, you could easily surpass me, just ask me to log off and stop contributing to the TR site and I can go back to doing normal stuff like sleeping, having sex, surfing porn, eating food, my job and other nefarius activities. ;D

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