Reputations

[Lalwendë]

Not to stray very far off, let me bring your attention to the event of Lalwendë joining ranks with seven squared squadron of runners up to His Majesty Eight Squares davem Congrats

Lalwende offers her thanks and a most gracious bow to H-I (bowing being much more her cup of tea than a mere curtsey). Though I doubt I could have got there without the encouragement of His Majesty Eight Squares davem himself (and I can see him laughing at that right now)

I log on at work too - and before anyone mutters about taxpayers money, my job is weird and sometimes I can be so utterly busy I miss my breaks and lunch and get apoplectic with stress, while at other times I face endless hours of ennui. Still, a quick look at the 'Downs is no more of an interuption than chatting with colleagues and as I am shunted into my little dark corner this is not easy.

Edit: And congratulations to Boromir88 for his new 'sparkler' - it now says 'Boromir 88 would be welcome at Aragorn's court' - well, this is true, but would Boromir version 1 be welcome?

[The Saucepan Man]

Is that totalizator of yours still up, SpM?

Seems to me that it would take a brave person to bet against ol' eight jewels at the moment.

Congrats to Lalwendë and Boromir88.

I log on at work too

Tsk Tsk. All these slackers! That is something that I would never do.

And third - there was this chap, who had 'won repute beyond reputation' and had 11 squares.

Having spent a short time myself viewing that sight (a short time being as much as I could stomach), a high reputation there is most certainly not something to be proud of (although sadly he probably is). It is a truly repellent site and one that no self-respecting Tolkien fan should wish in anyway to be associated with.

[Boromir88]

Thankyou Lal and SpM

Sit now says 'Boromir 88 would be welcome at Aragorn's court' - well, this is true, but would Boromir version 1 be welcome?pM[/B].

I would sure hope so, of course, .

[Sapphire_Flame]

Congratulations to ye, Boromir88! *gives gold stars and glitter to Boromir*

Interesting thing to find out, Heren. Who else is thinking that davem is going to be the first here to get to eleven?

Nearly to my fourth jewel! *green*

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[Boromir88]

Thank yee Saphy, woo I love glitter!

Nearly to my fourth jewel!

Seems like you just got to it .

[davem]

Well, I've been away for a few days & I have to respond to Lalwende & H-I for their kind words - particularly to the Fair Lalwende for making me get off my backside & post something today, which got me a bit more rep - i'm looking for a bigger place in which to keep it all

Of course, if the aforesaid Lalwende hadn't pestered me to post I'd probably have continued to daydream & done nothing & that would have given others more chance of catching up ....

So, if you want to blame anybody for me being so far ahead you can all give her a load of negative rep - & serve her right...

(She dared me to do that, so I did..she doesn't scare me!)

[Lalwendë]

So, if you want to blame anybody for me being so far ahead you can all give her a load of negative rep - & serve her right...

But if you do that then davem gets the spiders (or worse) and he'll run for the hills...

(She dared me to do that, so I did..she doesn't scare me!)

I do scare him, because I have my little arachnid friends...they got away when he went to stomp on them, and I feed them off all those rep points he thinks he's kept hidden secretly away. He really ought to find a bigger place because I've found them.

[Sapphire_Flame]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Thank yee Saphy, woo I love glitter!

You're welcome. Glad you like the glitter.

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Seems like you just got to it .

So I did! *pokes the jewel* Thank you, person-whom-I-shall-not-name!

Lal, could I borrow one of those spiders? Shelob is getting very lonely...

Abedithon le,

~ Saphy ~

[davem]

Originally Posted by Lalwende

I do scare him, because I have my little arachnid friends...they got away when he went to stomp on them, and I feed them off all those rep points he thinks he's kept hidden secretly away. He really ought to find a bigger place because I've found them.

Actually they're the fake poisoned ones - they'll kill all your spiders so NERRRR!

[HerenIstarion]

Originally Posted by SpM

Seems to me that it would take a brave person to bet against ol' eight jewels at the moment

hmm... for a modest contribution (you call it bribe? I call it gift of respect!) to my purse (hey, I have to repair my car for my holidays...) I can arrange that... mwa-ha-ha.

I reckon I'll loose my second in givers, though...

But, if you noticed, we are engaged in outright chatting.

Let us bring in some speculations (well, no data, just guesswork), but let it be on topic:

I don't remember it for sure, but I suppose Pilgrim's Progress up to now went along the following pattern:

10 points - 1 square
50 points - 1 square (different title)
100 points - 2 squares
200 points - 3 squares
300 points - 4 squares
400 points - 5 squares
500 points - 6 squares
700 points - 7 squares
900 points - 8 squares

Assuming that my previous 'spied upon' data is more or less true, and assuming that my speculations are based on sound reasoning, I may utter a guess as to what will follow:

1200 points - 9 squares
1500 points - 10 squares
2000 points - 11 squares

Having our leader past 900 points in 10 months since the introduction of the system, and allowing for holidays and mysterious dissapearences off the board for a while due to requirements of Real Life and other chances, I guess that somebody will get to 2000 points by next Christmas. During another year thence, the main bulk of the rest of us will get there two.

So, by Christmas 2006 everybody who is an actively posting member now (assuming they won't fall off posting) will have 2000 reputation points (gosh!)

What happens than?

cheers

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

The system collapses and we all get lost in the impending darkness...

Maybe.

But anyway, this reputation system has entered my dreams. Last night I had a wonderful dream that I received hundreds of approving comments for one particular caption. (It must have been pretty damn funny.) It pushed me up to third place in the reputation list.

Alas, even in my dreams there are some people I cannot beat. I am considering making accusations of dream-manipulation against a certain two people. Well, I think they may be clever enough...

[Firefoot]

Eomer, I had a similar dream a couple weeks ago - except it was an RPG post instead. And it wasn't hundreds, just a lot. Enough to make me very very happy. Someone here must be maniuplating dreams...

Maybe it's the spiders.

[Boromir88]

Now I'm just starting to get creeped out. Anyway, there's another thing that will fall under Lal's "Barrowdown's products." Ok, who bought the dream-manipulater simulater?

[Lalwendë]

Alas, even in my dreams there are some people I cannot beat. I am considering making accusations of dream-manipulation against a certain two people. Well, I think they may be clever enough...

Well, if you're thinking of who I'm thinking of, he does have particular dark powers you know. But he won't be having anything to do with spiders; that's my job...

Maybe the rep system will be like the universe? It can only expand so far before it all collapses again, and then it will grow again and so on. Maybe there are even wormholes in it? Maybe we could get rep points for future posts we don't even know we have written? Or rep systems could collapse in upon themselves causing Green Holes? What's that noise? It's just the men in white coats coming for me again...