The audacity, your Royal Supremeness, to approach the Pharoah with the paltry offer of purchasing his cat with your trophy points he granted you as a mere Serf.
No, it is 200 points which is a combination of all kinds of trophy points, years a member, birthdays, number of posts, post to like ratio, and number of likes. I should be at 213 trophy points but still stuck at 193.
I could but I won't. I refuse to beg for something I have earned by time served and contributions made. I refuse to play games, become a spam poster, avoid male-dominated topics that I am knowledgeable about, or agree with parrot information I know to be unscientific just to get likes. It peeves me when I make a well-thought-out post and it is basically ignored, but reply post with no content other than popular parroting get multiple likes. I think why am I wasting my time and I feel unappreciated. Things like original memes get little likes but a meme that has been published all over the internet thousands of times gets multiple likes. It seems to me that original ideas written up in my own words are less appreciated than parroting others' ideas using words that one might only hear at a Harvard linguistics reunion. Original thread ideas get little replies, yet the same thread topics seen on other senior forums seem to be the most popular. Many times the very same people reply on all the forums with the very same post. A simple copy and paste. This method allows for several hundred posts a month on several forums. One-line posts of a few words seem to generate more likes than an original and informative post. Forum software programming is set up to award activity and I understand it has no way of judging the quality of a post. I submit that the "likes" feature is not a good way to judge the quality and even of lesser importance is how many posts one has made. Cliques form and you like mine and I will like yours prevails. Forum administrators find this helpful in encouraging activity. Even old folks like us enjoy recognition even if it is just a virtual trophy. Perhaps awards for seniors need to be less juvenile and of a higher standard than what the software suggests. .
I guess I don't give my posts a lot of thought. I just post like I speak and I often respond with a one-liner or a joke. Threads are like conversations; some interest me and others simply do not. Topics such as electronics, construction, rodeo, etc. do not interest me, and usually I skim over long posts. I'm sure most people couldn't care less about my cancer saga and are happy to skip over that in Recent Topics, which is fine. "Take what you need and leave the rest." I use the forum Default Style that does not show the "popularity statistics" under the avatars because that's not something I care about or pay attention to. I don't know what my Trophy Points are because I'd have to make an effort to find them.
. OK, I just changed my default setting and I still see my and others' forum ranking. Is there any way not to see what others rankings are?
Yes? That is the part that penetrates my thin skin I just refer to the other stats only because that is what determines that status. I was puzzled why I haven't received a veteran's status after well over two years with over 2500 posts and over 4100 likes, so I went to the page that shows what points are awarded for what out of curiosity. I think I will go with the non SOC default as you suggested because I won't see when someone joined or how many likes post etc and will not wonder how they achieved their status.
I once felt the same but have gotten over it. Sometimes threads get buried over time and when someone doesn’t spend a lot of time online like myself, they get missed. Take joy in your creation. Was it not yourself or someone else who brought up the question about the word “whatever”? I’ve learned to use it.