:-O VMS is on "top members"

[Ian Miller.]

"create a user just to collect points from congrats threads in *all* forums and see how far you can get."

I think this has been tried and stopped. See
http://forums2.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=938335

[V. Nyga]

@Ian

no - that user did no congrats.
He only created 2 user id's or had one friend and answered to the other thread 101 times. So he got 1010 pts.
As Cheryl explained - the thread was erased. The user id not (yet).
But Merijn excluded it from his stats.

V.

[Antoniov.]

Ian,
look at http://forums2.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=296
that's the main page of your link. You can see BFA1, BFA2 and BFA3 id; they are banned identity and are showed after recently ITRC software upgrade.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Galen Tackett]

Uwe,

You've been a tremendous help to all the VMS ITRC forum community. Thanks from all of us for that; and from me individually, thanks for your comments and suggestions in response to my own questions.

Looking forward to observing your continuing rise up the charts--

Galen

P.S. As one who has benefitted in a small way from posting congratulatory responses--

I think a small recompense of this type is good to help maintain the best cooperative spirit on the forum. It might be nice if there were some way a moderator-type person could easiy watch for abuse though. (Or is there?)

I will certainly do my best to contribute a proportion of helpful comments (vs. congratulations) to keep things balanced: even with points from my congratulatory remarks, I still stand far off the bottom of the chart at a humble 134 points.

[Antoniov.]

Galen,

I will certainly do my best to contribute a proportion of helpful comments (vs. congratulations) to keep things balanced: even with points from my congratulatory remarks, I still stand far off the bottom of the chart at a humble 134 points.

you have 140 points :-D
LOL

I'm with you: congratulation help maintain the best cooperative spirit on the forum.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Jan van den Ende]

"create a user just to collect points from congrats threads in *all* forums and see how far you can get."

"I think this has been tried and stopped."

Yes, and Yes.

The 'congratulator' had just reached 'Magician' on congrats alone, but all at a sudden (s)he was gone, and even the pointers to those postings I have been unable to find again (not really sought very hard though).

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[comarow]

Keep up the good work.

It is only because VMS is great and the customers are loyal that it has survived the
days since Palmer who said to run NT on Alpha. (Of course we know what happened then).

VMS continues to be the most secure system in the world. And, we can do things at the OS level instead of using mouses and destroying our hands.


Bob

[Antoniov.]

Bob,
vms is gr8 and secure.
However I think mouse can't destroy our hands.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Jan van den Ende]

Sorry Antonio,

but the Medical people agree with Bob on this!
(surely you heard of RSI sometimes?)

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Antoniov.]

Jan,
in this moment I don't remember RSI. May you help me about this?

Antonio Vigliotti

[David B Sneddon]

Antonio,

RSI is "repetetive strain injury" (or similar)
which comes about by using muscles in a repetetive
manner. Users of keyboards, mice, even production
line employees and musicians are susceptible.
It was very "popular" years ago and resulted in
the introduction of various ergonomic designs for
office furniture and the like. There seems to be
little publicity of it of late but it is still
"out there".
It is usually associated with muscle actions that
are repetetive and restrictive i.e. not using
the muscles to there fullest extent.

Dave.

[Jan van den Ende]

Atonio,

the "popular" name for RSI is "mouse arm".
That should tell enought.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Antoniov.]

It sounds like a bad thing (in Italian language I tell "bad beast"). I try to avoid that playing to five side football (I'm Italian man!) as goalkeeper. I don't know if thi help me, but it's more funny than M$ windows.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Peter Barkas]

This forum is a superb knowledgebase and usually a posting receives a number of high quality responses in a short time. However, one fears that awarding points in this type of thread may undermine somewhat the otherwise professional nature of the ITRC OpenVMS forum and possibly demean the value of the points accumulated by the many worthy posters.

[Ian Miller.]

you can assign 0 points.

[Uwe Zessin]

My feeling is that many high-quality answers in many forums do not get rated at all - in the end it should 'level out'.

[David B Sneddon]

Peter,

Once you have been around ITRC for a while, you will
find those that give 10 points for *any* answer and
those that may seem to be very mean with their point
allocations and those that don't bother to award
any points at all, even when they get "good" answers.
As Uwe said - in the end it should 'level out'.

Dave

[Antoniov.]

In my mind different forum can be compared and they are level out.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Jan van den Ende]

Peter,

there is also a bit of socialising involved.

You will notice that especially the frequent visitors (who tend to be also more answering and less asking) DO like to get to know each other some more than just purely the technical level.

At least I know that _I_ enjoy some bantering on the side, and I know some regulars to be no different.

Kind of makes us look human after all...

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Peter Barkas]

OK, fair points ;-) there is so much that is good here, a bit of fun is not a bad thing.

[Antoniov.]

Uwe has a lot of point because he's a fast man. Look at here
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=940030

Antonio Vigliotti

[Marc Van den Broeck]

Uwe moved to 24 already.
It took him 6 days.
So within 23 * 6 = 138 days he will be first.
Too simplistic thinking maybe? :D

[Uwe Zessin]

Not too simplistic, but too optimistic I am afraid.

I do appreciate your trust into my ablities, though :-)

[Antoniov.]

Uwe,
may be Marc is not too optimistic.
Look at ITRC statistics
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/index.html
you are #2 in fast movers and you are always in this special rank.

Antonio Vigliotti

[Uwe Zessin]

It took me 1Y5M to get from 0 to about 12500. Clay is currently at 62691. Do the math, but don't overlook that most if not all nice & helpful people "in front of me" don't stand still either.