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Re: Not until I top Spidey!
By:Dean Trexel
Date: 8/2/2000, 5:49 pm
In Response To: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ? (Spidey)

Problem is, people see you on the top ten list, they think you must know something! Which is preferrable: quantity or quality?

I think it's a bit of fun, but not accurate for measuring anything. Lee's at the top, but his messages are generally fairly short and sweet. Paul G. Jacobsen is farther down the list, but some of his posts put the Iliad to shame!

There seems to be a progression on this board:

1) Visit the board relatively anonymously and soak up information from the gurus like a sponge.

2) With the addition of hands-on building experience, you start sharing your tips.

3) Eventually you become a guru and espouse your knowledge prolificly.

4) Eventually you tire of posting, preferring to focus on building, or some of your interest is diverted towards new hobbies. New people start to answer the basic questions and you only comment on topics that are really forging in a new direction.

The other route is:

1) Learn everything you can about the topic without the board and think yourself as guru supreme.

2) Visit the board to make acidic, inflamatory remarks and offer vague fragments of information.

3) Wait 2 weeks and repeat step 2).

4) Repeat step 3).

Dean

Messages In This Thread

Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Spidey -- 8/2/2000, 1:42 am
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Rehd -- 8/3/2000, 1:24 am
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Rehd -- 8/3/2000, 1:28 am
Re: You people are a great bunch . . .
Spidey -- 8/3/2000, 12:35 am
Re: Don't care but . . .
Tom Kurth -- 8/2/2000, 10:51 pm
Re: looks like Hell? COMP *Pic*
Mike Hanks -- 8/3/2000, 11:01 am
Re: looks like Hell? COMP
Kent LeBoutillier -- 8/3/2000, 11:39 am
I Give Up
Mike Scarborough -- 8/2/2000, 7:55 pm
Re: I Give Up
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/3/2000, 1:16 pm
Re: I Give Up
andy clifford -- 8/2/2000, 10:34 pm
Re: 9 to go spidey.......!
lee -- 8/2/2000, 7:52 pm
Re: Not until I top Spidey!
Dean Trexel -- 8/2/2000, 5:49 pm
Re: 23 posts to go! (NT)
Dean Trexel -- 8/2/2000, 6:11 pm
Re: You're cheating. 115 posts to go! (NT)
Dave Houser -- 8/3/2000, 9:04 pm
Re: 22 posts to go! (NT) ;-)
Dean Trexel -- 8/2/2000, 6:12 pm
Re: You're still cheating 114 posts to go! (NT)
Dave Houser -- 8/3/2000, 9:09 pm
Top 10 "peekers"
Vernon Lowery -- 8/2/2000, 4:39 pm
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Dale Frolander -- 8/2/2000, 2:31 pm
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Don Beale -- 8/2/2000, 12:13 pm
Re: The "Top 10", Bios, and Views
Shawn B -- 8/2/2000, 11:41 am
Re: 10 more spidey....
lee -- 8/2/2000, 8:13 pm
Re: 11,,oops NT, OT ,,YOYO,,,,,TTFN
lee -- 8/2/2000, 8:15 pm
Re: The "Top 10", Bios, and Views
Tony -- 8/2/2000, 12:44 pm
Lose It
mike allen ---> -- 8/2/2000, 11:27 am
Add one more post for me :)
Paul G. Jacobson -- 8/2/2000, 3:05 pm
Re: Never even noticed it
Peter H -- 8/2/2000, 11:39 am
Re: Never even noticed it
Robert Palmeter -- 8/2/2000, 3:50 pm
Re: Keep Posting!
Luke Curran -- 8/2/2000, 11:38 am
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
andy clifford -- 8/2/2000, 10:03 am
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/2/2000, 10:00 am
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Roger Nuffer -- 8/4/2000, 12:05 am
Re: Wooden Sea Kayak Club & Rendezvous *Pic*
Mike Hanks -- 8/4/2000, 11:02 am
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ? Not!!!
Ronnie -- 8/3/2000, 7:30 pm
Re: 10 more Spidey...., er Nick
lee -- 8/2/2000, 8:01 pm
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Dean Trexel -- 8/2/2000, 6:00 pm
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Jason -- 8/2/2000, 12:48 pm
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Ken Finger -- 8/2/2000, 8:13 am
Re: Survey: Lose the "Top 10" ?
Dave Houser -- 8/2/2000, 2:50 am
Re: Survey..... Keep on posting!!
Ken Sutherland -- 8/2/2000, 2:45 am