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Mithalwen · 10-27-2004, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by mark12_30

The 'fangirl' list might be amusing, but I don't think it's a big risk here. You do have to hit nine others before you can repeat. Anybody consistently swooning over the same ten people? (And do you leave your name?)

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I don't keep a record of who I rep but quite a lot of time I get told to spread it around... so while I don't swoon, it does seem that if I find a person's posting enlightening / amusing once, I am likely to find other of their posts enlightening/ amusing. I also tend to spend most of my time in the same areas - so that is why I think this can be seen very positively as a reminder to look further afield. Particularly since I have benefitted so much from the encouragement of longer established downers, I am trying to make the effort to encourage good new posting when I come across it. This is a very serious forum at it's highest level and even though I have been reading Tolkien on and off for over 20 years, it was quite daunting starting to post here; receiving a few points was a real confidence boost (sorry Fordim

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Fordim Hedgethistle · 10-27-2004, 11:43 AM

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(sorry Fordim

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Erm. . .for what?

Mithalwen · 10-27-2004, 11:59 AM

Use of the word boost ( other than in the sense of intending to permanently deprive someone of something )

Bêthberry · 10-27-2004, 12:04 PM

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Mithalwen posted:

I don't keep a record of who I rep but quite a lot of time I get told to spread it around... so while I don't swoon, it does seem that if I find a person's posting enlightening / amusing once, I am likely to find other of their posts enlightening/ amusing. I also tend to spend most of my time in the same areas - so that is why I think this can be seen very positively as a reminder to look further afield.

Well, I'm not swooning but I do want to rep a post of Esty's and I had recently given her a rep. I have been looking over old threads for posts to rep so I can again rep her but each time I try I still get the message to 'spread it around more'. I guess I should start counting the reps I give out.

I know that I really value the reps I receive as often I think I have a slightly off-base way of looking at Tolkien and so it is good to know that not everyone thinks I'm off the wall. Well, not my friends at least.

Mithalwen · 10-27-2004, 12:10 PM

I would second that.. often a post will cause a new (to me) thought to occur and I post it without taking it away for careful examination first. So if I find a rep or a PM the next day it shows I haven't merely "gone off on one". And it isn't the points ... the comments of those who have no points to give are valued.

The Only Real Estel · 10-28-2004, 09:10 PM

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Well, I'm not swooning but I do want to rep a post of Esty's and I had recently given her a rep. I have been looking over old threads for posts to rep so I can again rep her but each time I try I still get the message to 'spread it around more'

Yeah, that has happened to me a few times. A little annoying at times that you have to search for posts to rate just to be able to rate a post you really liked, but not to bad. Besides, I understand the reasoning behind it-this way two school buds can't plot to vault eachother past Fordim & Davem.

Boromir88 · 10-29-2004, 04:34 AM

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A little annoying at times that you have to search for posts to rate just to be able to rate a post you really liked, but not to bad.

Tis very true.

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This is a very serious forum at it's highest level and even though I have been reading Tolkien on and off for over 20 years, it was quite daunting starting to post here; receiving a few points was a real confidence boost (sorry Fordim ).

Quite true, Mith, when I was bored one day so I just went looking for my very first posts I made on this forum, and now I look at what I'm posting today, wow. Same with, that I've been into Tolkien for some 20 years now, and I only started to reread them just now, since it's becoming more popular. I didn't have the pleasure of seeing my first points lol, I didn't discover I had a User CP until 6, or even less months ago, lol.

HerenIstarion · 10-29-2004, 04:56 AM

Well, you've read the title and are warned. On with the matter than:

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Originally Posted by Boromir88

I just went looking for my very first posts I made on this forum

Um, that'd be an advice: in case in some distant or near future, when you're well past your 500th post, you feel the urge to see your first post again, make bookmarks of them now, as the software we are now employing on the fora does not allow to search for more than recent 500 of any user's posts.

On topic:

alas, nothing to add. Or, no, wait! Yeah, um... ahem... fangirls, you say? Where would one, um... look, er, for them? I'm sure you don't think I need any, that for my friend's sake I'm asking, um, and he's, it should be added, he's...er... curios out of, um... scientific interest, yes, nothing more, definitely...

Or was that off-topic as well?

10-27-2004, 11:59 AM	#3
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Use of the word boost ( other than in the sense of intending to permanently deprive someone of something ) __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

10-27-2004, 12:10 PM	#5
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	I would second that.. often a post will cause a new (to me) thought to occur and I post it without taking it away for careful examination first. So if I find a rep or a PM the next day it shows I haven't merely "gone off on one". And it isn't the points ... the comments of those who have no points to give are valued. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace