ooh man I remember I joined this community in the year my parental unit died and it was only until the next year, when I moved to a new apartment, that I started using this community more. The atheist groups on facebook drove me away as they were obsessed with sexist porn image swaps and that was low tier for me. And this group struck my intellectual fancy

@demifeministgal That's also why I like it. Fun banter, mixed with serious and intellectual stuff, and flavoured with a religion-free veneer.

Recalculate your ppd based on the date you became more active!

@Petter IF you think I made a mental note of the date I started being more active in this forum, you are being silly! XD hehe

You said it for me, shan't bother commenting.

@Fernapple Oh do comment, please! I'm bored of the repetitively serious stuff that sometimes dominates this site. I understand that US politics is at a serious point and that freedom is being stifled in the bible cummerband (That's a lovely, satirical way to point out it's wider than a belt! My thanks to the member who posted that wonderful observation.)

@Petter Yes I know that the same old serious stuff can get boring, hopefully I shall get a life one day soon, and won't need the web any more. But mine is 189 aprox. so yes it looks like I am a fairly sad case in need of treatment. LOL

@Fernapple Actually, analysing the admittedly limited data, I think that any score between 100 and 200 is in the "sane" participant range.
Less than 100 indicates either a busy elsewhere person, a reserved type of person or a person who is not much of a fan of this site.
200 to 500 I feel is a person with plenty of time available (retired?) and a fan of this site.
Scores over 500 indicate either a hacker-robot is trawling the site or person is someone with an addiction/dedication to this forum.

@Petter That is in fact really interesting. Nice to know I am in the sane range. Though it has to be said that my score will be going down soon, since I work seasonally, and as the summer comes near I will have less time to spend on line until the next winter.

@Fernapple Gotta make hay -alias loot - while the sun shines.

Have fun. Calculate it as a mental exercise. (Perhaps those of us who do are mental, anyway.)

@Petter there is a saying "if your not having fun, then your doing something wrong." I'll leave it at that.

May that not be until the grim reaper loses patience with the continual delays you cause him.

Why not? With the threat of Coronavirus increasing, it may soon be everybody's only category of socialising.

@Petter I heard that drinking Corona can help with the virus. Not really, but if you are at home with a beer you are not out and about with others.

@dalefvictor Here in Mojacar socialising is rife. That's why there are so many café-bars. (6 within 2 minutes walk from my house)
They are also cheap to patronise, which helps. I can have a beer for less than half of what I have to pay in England.

Well, since you participated here, it must surely, by your own definition, be of interest?

@Petter, usually I tend to participate more on things about life in general. I like when someone has a good story to tell related to travelling or other experience they might have had. Sports and music will be something of my interest as well. Random bullshit just to get a laugh out of everyone. Although my intelligence and intellect is quite average I like also astronomy.

@Paddypereira Sure beats astrology - what's your star sign?
I do like the odd bit of random silliness and fun.
Also, never forget that humour can be a deadly weapon! (Pompous presidents, for example, can be seriously wounded when made into a figure of ridicule and laughter.) Oops! Did my serious side slip out just then?)

@Petter, if you really want to know (I don't think so but...) I'm a Taurus. So, it's appropriate for... bullshit!!! One of the characteristics is stubbornness... well, I don't know if it's because of the star sign or hereditary (runs deep in my family) but I have it in me... I think we have a lot to laugh about.

@Paddypereira Laughter is cheaper than an apple a day to keep the doctor at bay.
Inspired bullshit is fun. My astrologically mythical sign is Scorpio, and some girls have indeed remarked upon the sting in my tail, but they were probably Taurus.

Yep, 'cause you hit all sorts of points ceilings. Also, to go from level 9 to level 9.1, then 9.2 etc. takes 80,000 points, or something like reaching level 8 just over one and a half times.

1. You must be - or else you're a masochist.
2. With luck, nothing. Too much knowledge is a hindrance - ask any evangelist preacher.
3. Almost certainly, but to do what is debatable!!
4. Once essentials have been attended, nothing, except perhaps calculating your ppd!
   You rate at 392, by the way.

@Petter

How did you figure out my rate of 392? Scratches head.

@ToolGuy Spot on and well done! Award yourself a large, phosphor bronze box for all your high-tensile steel tools. (I would have awarded a gold one, but they scratch too easily, and they're heavy to carry.)

I love absolutely useless items like this. Don't you?

Inconsistent Deb. Your ppd is 88.

Agreed. That's why I go weeks between visits to F.book.
What I love on this site is the easy banter, combined with interestimg links and political commentary, without gratuitous religious references.
However, I also support the points system as a means of restricting scammers. Hence, the level 7 requirement for the Senate, and the ability of group moderators to confine access to whichever level they set.

One isn't supposed to care.
It's a bit of fun. Why socialise without also having enjoyment?
I see you have recently made level 8.5, half way to level 9.

Mr Google informs me that 606 days have elapsed since you joined. When my phone calculator divided 623854 by 606 it sputtered smoke and gasped out:-
*1029.4620462046204"
Then collapsed in shock.
Would you mind awfully if I followed suit?

@Petter My total points have gone up to 624,009 since my reply to you and I haven’t posted anything...just replied to a couple. I hadn’t really paid much attention to my points tally, but since you drew my attention to the subject I’ve compared my points total to the others In the top ten, and I actually have the 4th highest total...and the only person in the top 15 from outside the USA. I don’t think I post a lot, I just post a few songs each day in my groups and reply to other posts...nothing very dramatic...and I do have a social life in the real world too!

@Marionville Rugby posts qualify for a triple score bonus. I'm impressed at your world ranking. I slowed to an almost comlete stop between early July and late December last year, due to a lot of travelling and various medical things. Otherwise, my ppd rate would be quite a bit higher. Probably around 450 to 500.
It is quite an interesting topic to investigate, as long as it doesn't become an obsession. Apart from anything else, obsessively posting for the sake of points lowers the quality of one's posts.

@Petter I totally agree...I only post what I hope will be of interest to others.

@Marionville Of course. The whole world loves rugby, doesn't it?

@Petter Most of my posts are music related...I’m host of 3 music groups!

@Marionville Beethoven, Brahms, Grieg ..... ?

@Petter Amongst many, many others.

I use the phone app when not on my desktop. I'll be travelling again in 8 day's time, but only for 3 weeks. I'm driving from here to Italy and back, to watch a rugby match, but it may be cancelled now, due to the recent spread of coronavirus to Italy.

@Petter My eyes and fingers are too bad to use the phone, so it's the laptop for me.

@glennlab I had a cataract operation which has helped my vision tremendously, and my phone is not exactly "small'.

@Petter

What phone app?

When I try to check Agnostic.com on my phone, it doesn't let me login, even after changing my password at their insistence.

Aggravating.

@LiterateHiker Is it an Android phone? I use Firefox to browse on my phone. Works beautifully.

@Petter

Yes, my smartphone is a Samsung Android.

@LiterateHiker Do you browse with Firefox? (My phone is a Cubot_Power.)

@Petter

Google, baby.

@LiterateHiker That works, but I feel safer with Mozilla Firefox. Google slurps too much data for itself.

Either you have a busy life beyond the keyboard, or you are a slow, slow, typist!

Never have enough. People insist on answering my nuttiest posts, and answering them all takes up a lot of time!!

How do they know what color in size to send

I have almost worn mine out. It's fun to don it before touring a famous cathedral.

@Lorajay On your profile questions, you mention your T-shirt size.

@Lorajay I found out I had reached level 8 when I received a message from Admin. The message asked me for my color preference and my mailing address. I was really surprised and unprepared. I think what happened is that I started posting items and not just responding to other people's posts.

Use your browser to query "how many days since (your joining date)
It will return an exact answer.

@Petter not sure that level of presicion is required here.

@1of5 It's not, but when I was serving a technical apprenticeship, hammered into me was the philosophy "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing properly'

@Petter I agree 100%

The exact date is on your profile info. Then query your browser with "how many days since ??" and it will return the answer. (beats working it out!!)
Also on your profile page is your current points total.

@Petter you are a very helpful guy!

@AnneWimsey Isn't that what people are supposed to be? (unless they are overly rich political figures.)

My days of being a groupie are well past.

@Petter not as a groupie but a moderator.

@FrayedBear I've never been moderate. It's less fun.

So you're collecting 28 thousand points per year. Pity they aren't dollars, eh?

@Petter we could afford that drink in Gib!

It's a bit of fun though, isn't it? Yours extrapolates to around 36,000 points per year.

Were it remuneration, you'd be on 25 thousand a year.

@Petter you got that right
Just to clarify, I've thought about my points total... just never looked at it on a per diem basis
I figure I'll die of old age before I reach the 8.0 required for a t-shirt. In the event I don't die first, then I'll ask to be buried in it

I spend time enjoying the banter and also posting "observations". I like people!

Bit old fashioned, aren't you? Surely you should be frantically tapping on your phone screen trying to book an Uber self drive car!

@Petter Uber? Uber? What is this of which you speak? Actually it's years since I've caught a cab, long before Uber was around. My yamah 250cc scooter gets me everywhere I need to go. fast and cheap!

@MsDemeanour Thought you might saddle up a wallaby and save the planet