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This is a good thread. This is the kind of thread that drew me in when I first started lurking here. The sense that this is a community and not just any other forum attracted me. I didn't realize how much of that has been lost until I read this thread.
Or maybe it hasn't been lost, maybe I just don't notice it as much anymore.
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Sorry to bring the thread back on topic, but my landmarks have always been when I've actually had something to say. My first was when I was talking about being far away from my home, and planning on going back, and that it was going to be a life-changing experience for me. I skipped 2000, I had nothing to say. 3000 was the results of having come back, and how it really did change my life. 4000 was about my cousin's death. And 5000 was my sister's birthday, and my reflecting on how fast she grew up, and how I was not ready for it to be her bat mitzvah yet.
I agree with you, PC, that landmarks should be something real, and not just "1000 posts!! Wooohooo!" I think you have a definite point. And I generally respect landmarks of the monumental kind a lot more, and their posters as well. Though not as a rule, I guess.
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Well, I wrote this thread during the big landmark fad. Not that landmarks aren't important, but a lot of people were posting landmarks all the time. Quantity was job one (to make another FIF reference).
If anything, the fact that this is really no longer the case, one could say an improvement in the "community" as a whole has been achieved. I think the hatrack that we see now has a different set of problems. I would say that, rather than fluff being a huge distraction for hatrack, ego is now the reigning power and the "cause of all our problems."
Whatever that means.
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