Stupid question but how do peoples aquire qualifiers like "Ghost in the Machine" or "Great Dragon" ? Is it only by posting, posting, posting?

I looked at mine and I'm still a moving target... Is there a way to know how many messages will I have to post before becoming a shooting target ? ^_^

Is there a list of all qualifiers?

This is the first time I've actually noticed that..

Some titles come from experience, others if my sources are accurate, were bestowed in return for significant donations in a server hardware replacement/upgrade fundraising drive.

Target is a new member, Moving Target is IIRC 50 posts, Running Target is a much larger number of posts.

Any other titles are either from a server donation drive, as indicated, or because someone is some level of admin.

most of them, like immortal elf and great dragon, are just postcounts.

... says the sixth most-prolific poster on DS.

Quantity doesn't always reflect quality. j/k.

what's scary is that Fortune, whose most recent post was last November, still has more posts than me.

I don't know how many posts you have, but he can stay away for a long time and not be in danger of you passing him. For reference, he has nearly 4,000 more posts than I do, and I'm ahead of you.

Also, remember that the Doc would probably beat us all combined were he not the man of many names.

~J

haha, well, if my own name hadn't changed, i'd probably be up a few thousand myself.

I must, I must, I must increase my bust... err post count

I would have several hundred more ... which might put me into running target at least.

Fortune use to reply to every topic ever posted and many times in each one. He does it on all forums hes part of. Hes been AWOL since last November.

It does, as well as posts from the Jive forums.

~J

Oh, right. That'll do it.

Some threads then to be hotter than others and people post more on them.

Chargen threads tend to be good, so are "who's balls are bigger" threads like the Horrors vs Humans and Dropbears, gun threads are popular too.

Gun threads definately. Just look at austere, he joined after I did, but he has surpassed me.

And what happend to Fortune?

Yep, some of you guys just run at the keyboard a lot more. It looks like emo has 2000+ posts already.

Oh yes, and those "I am right and come sing my praises or you are a dork" thread then to generate a lot of posts too.

And posts about how many posts you have is always good.

Don't forget the posts complaining about the posts bragging about the postcount.

What title?

so, like I should be "running" by now if not "dodging, evading & returning fire".

Also; any freelancers get a nifty title as well.

I´ve been lurking since 2003 , IIRC. I felt compelled to reply on something which i can´t really remember right now and only then i registered. Since then i´ve managed to post less than 20 times, i bet.

I'm still a Moving Target, aren't I? Or did I upgrade to Running Target?

Bleh, I lost count.. I can't wait to be Shooting Target, though.

Well, that didn't take long. ((I actually think the post above was the one that bumped me up,

That puts "shooting target" somewhere around 1650.

EDIT: except no... i'm only 1500-something, and I'm a shooting target, too. When did that happen?

Maybe the requirement for shooting target was lowered?

They had a couple charity drives a while back for server repairs/parts so people that threw in a few bucks for that got titles as well. That and their Group titles got changed to Dumpshocked.

The headache never really goes away…

~J

Funny, I've been here for 3 years, posting regularly, and emo is already two pages ahead of me in regards to post count... Some people certainly are... ambitious.

Welcome to my world

Hey, I'm number 60 on the all-time massive poster list thing. I will admit I tried to get to "Neophyte Runner".

Who didn't?

How many posts does one need to beomce a "Runner"?

Apparently a pantload more than I have...

You're only 6 pages ahead of me.

The gap between posters grows at an almost exponential rate once you get to the top 100 posters.

Anyone want to graph it up and do a curve fit for us?

How do you get it to show the actual number of posts? I went to Members and Sorted by Post count, but it didn't display actual numbers.

I used to try and figure out thresholds for the different lables by clicking on the "all posts by this member" button, then counting the number of posts per page and multiplying by pages shown to get a rough number.

However, this breaks down because some of the higher postcounts are not accurate due to crashes and system changes. (counting the old forums' total posts plus the current total posts).

You can get your own numbers in My Controls. To get anyone else's numbers, you need to trick them into sending you a PM—the numbers are displayed there.

~J

It's also wrong, because it doesn't contain posts in the Lounge or on the Jive forums

~J

I could have sworn I just said that out loud. What am I? Inaudible?

You did, but Tanka proposed it again. I figured he'd probably missed it and it needed resaying.

~J

Thanks for the explanation.