Trying to be valued

I thought I only needed 200 posts to be a valued forum member but sadly it seems to be 300
A very high level of disappointment here.

Oh well - I guess one day I will have my precious green bar

"We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious."
"It was tricksy, precious. Very tricksy. "

Hi Ford,

it looks like the Join date is in 2013 !!

Pete

I probably joined then didn't post much for a long period - I'm sure I can post a little faster than my average

4 today and 5 yesterday - that's like 9 weeks work in two days!

Originally Posted by xladept

Well scottiex at least your posts are high quality.
BTW - Sometimes I sign my name as Orrin the White

Yes, they have to be high quality otherwise I'll only be valued in name

Orrin... that sounds like some sort of Nordic god ! Makes for a decent knights name or a lord of the rings character too though.
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I've been a member here for a few years though not really what you'd call a regular. One day I wondered what the rep points were for, so had a look into them. To my surprise I found that I had 150 odd of them at the time. I didn't know I had any until then.
I still don't see the point in them unless you're job involves using excel and want to impress your boss or something similar.
I've seen people come on to the forum, beg for brownie points at every opportunity, get a whole heap of them and my cat still knows more about excel than them. Then "Poof" they disappear from the forum never to be seen again. I'm no expert with excel, I've been using it regularly for about 3 years, prior to that I knew nothing about how a spreadsheet worked.

Phil,
it is a bit of a joke, I just thought it would be cool to be 'valued' as opposed to an 'unvalued' contributor.

I understand even the guys with huge numbers of posts and rep don't generally use it to get jobs. But there is that little bit of extra respect I have when i notice a person has a given rank on here.

Aside from that it gives one something to aim for, like how one aims to achieve something in a computer game despite the game not really offering you anything other than the achievement itself and the mental exercise involved in getting that achievement.

BTW good to see yet another Aucklander - there seem to be a few of us here!

Originally Posted by xladept

I use my Guru status on my resume, but it doesn't seem to matter

Those foolish employees don't know how awesome such a title is !

If I was a boss hiring someone in an area I had limited expertise (and hence limited ability to determine myself how skilled they were) being a guru with 7976 posts on one of the leading forums would count for quite a bit. But I also know that bosses aren't usually all that rational with their hiring.

There you are, there is a use for them if you work with excel as part of your job.
I'd better hurry up & get lots of them so I can be a guru, but at the rate I'm going it'll be the next life before I get any benefit.

Yes Scottiex, there are a few Aucklanders on here & other forums

Originally Posted by Crooza

Wow. This is the first I've ever seen setting this out. I've got my points and time up but looks like I'm going to have to start posting pointless posts. This can be the first

Haha the curse of making posts that are so helpful !
Unfortunately I don't think your pointless posts in this section of the forum count

(it also shows if you have no life and spend way too much time in here )

That has crossed my mind when I've seen people with a gazillion post count lol

lol.. No I wasn't meaning anything by that. I don't look at that sort of thing normally but when I do see the high post counts I sometimes wonder how the person has managed it.
One of the gurus or moderators for example (not sure which) I've seen online in the afternoon my time, he lives in the UK, when I convert to his UK time, I wonder if he ever gets any sleep.

Yesterday I reached the milestone of 5000 rep points, and it is very rewarding when people who I have helped show their appreciation in that way.

I tend to check the forum before going to bed (often about 2-3 am, which is probably mid afternoon in New Zealand), but I've never needed much sleep so I'm usually on-line again in the morning.

Pete

Hi Pete

It wasn't you I was thinking of, it was another with I think, more than twice as many posts as you

It was probably Trevor then (TMS), who announced recently in this thread:

http://www.excelforum.com/the-water-...-the-fish.html

that he was planning to give it all up.

Pete

I'm thinking even with my couple of hundred posts and couple of hundred rep points I've added some significant value to various users (time saving etc) in there somewhere - now if I had tens of thousands of posts - it'd be like.... millions of dollars of value!

Of course no way to clip the ticket on all of that, but 0% of a lot is better than 0% of nothing...
maybe

Originally Posted by Pete_UK

It was probably Trevor then (TMS)

I wasn't going to mention any names, but yes, that's the one lol. Sorry to see him go.
If he lives in northern UK then I can understand staying in the house all the time, especially in winter

Originally Posted by xladept

Bob Dylan had a line "It's nothing - it's something I learned in England"

Ned Kelly's last words before they strung him up were "Such is life"

It's where the saying is supposed to originate

Hi Trevor,
The battle to give up this ugly addiction has not even last a week. You can not easily get rid of this addiction from your system. It requires lots of will power and support.

lets see, am I valued? 300 posts and all...

As Olly once said

I am now officially VALUED

How splendid!!

Well, that's 70 days since you started this thread and you've added 100 posts - well done for becoming "Valued". Next stop, "Expert".

Pete

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Originally Posted by xladept

I think he's saying that Guru status isn't actually special, being one, I disagree

Yes that's how I read it initially.
Excel Gurus are, after all, a made up concept. So i started wondering where the massive undiscovered 'guru mine' is where gurus can be scooped out by the ton. Maybe some sort of an undiscovered internet forum?

But now I think I was overusing the principle of charity

so i need 209 rep points and 723 more posts for the next level

i think I can do that by posting with 1/3 my usual excel based brain power

It'll still take quite a while though!