The Numbers Game

[Alan Medic]

In case anyone wonders why sometimes one or two people may post a number on a thread as it reaches X numbers of hundred posts, it is because one or two people are silly enough to think it's a game (not invented by me I might add).

Please don't be put off by this or feel you are missing out on something. You're not.

Thank you for reading.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Twot

[Alan Medic]

I had to look that up Michael. According to the Urban Dictionary it's a female pussy. Doesn't specify which type of cat. Elsewhere it says Total Waste of Time. If that's what you meant then why did you (waste your time)?

[steveo]

The

War

Against

Terrorism

[Salsaboy]

5

[aquarius moon]

I can't really see why a particular poster seems to have a problem with a couple of people getting excited about playing their game.

It's harmless & not hurting anyone.

[uncleglen]

I guessed that

[Loz]

8

[Jeremy]

100

I win.

[????]

there used to be more of us.......

[Robert Poste's Child]

Can I ask what the issue is with it, Alan Medic? I thought you did a few yourself over Xmas but maybe I've misremembered.

[Seabag]

Isn't med's an accountant or something numeric?

They don't like numbers being messed wiv that lot

[Loz]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> 100

>

> I win.

You reckon?

Mornington Crescent.

Ha!

[Alan Medic]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Can I ask what the issue is with it, Alan Medic? I

> thought you did a few yourself over Xmas but maybe

> I've misremembered.

Dear RPC, I think you have misunderstood something.

[Alan Medic]

Everything.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Hence my Q... Please enlighten. Brain full after a difficult couple of weeks I afraid.

[Alan Medic]

It wasn't me questioning the merit or otherwise of the numbers game. I've been a participant. You need a curry to set you straight.......where do you go for that?

[Robert Poste's Child]

Still confused.

Do they do a diazepam tikka masala?

[Alan Medic]

Try the Curry Club for questions like that.

[DulwichFox]

The numbers game is for people that never have anything Positive, Constructive , Interesting, Relative

to say in any thread. It's a vague attempt to hijack any thread they feel they do not belong in.

Certainly in the Curry Club thread which Michael Palaeologus started some 8 years ago does not benefit from

people playing the so called Numbers Game.

The Curry Club is not a Clique. It is not even a Club as such.

The Curry Club open to all. People are sometimes nervous about asking if they can come along.

Seemingly inviting themselves to a private event. ?

Having a couple of Muppets doing the numbers bit may well intimidate potential new 'Members'

who will not have a clue what all that crap it's all about.

I can well understand Michael Palaeologus's annoyance after 8 years of dedication into organising

the Curry Club events each month. It is probably the most successful thread on the forum.

DulwichFox

[Alan Medic]

Foxy, that opening sentence of yours is pure bull poo.

[Michael Palaeologus]

What Foxy said.

Having spent some years in organising an open and welcoming event, it is annoying to have people who have never and may never attend, post in a way which conveys a sense of clique and ownership that is simply not valid.

It displays a lack of respect (which I think a thread/ event of 8 years has earned) and a sense of attention seeking, entitlement and ego that can be expressed elsewhere without causing offence.

[JohnL]

Key of the door

[Robert Poste's Child]

I know it can be a bit annoying if it's a thread that's important to you but is it such a big issue? I don't find it particularly off-putting. In fact I can imagine that if it were to stop, in a few years' time someone will say it was one of the things they miss from back when the forum was good.

[Alan Medic]

I thought you had finished commenting on this yesterday Michael. What happened since?

In the space of two posts 'numbers' people have been accused of:

Never saying anything interesting

Never saying anything positive

Never saying anything constructive

Being muppets

Hijacking threads we don't belong in (vaguely)

Attention seeking

Lack of respect

Entitlement

Ego

Is there anything else you would like to add? Perhaps you would suggest threads it's ok to post in without causing offence?

PS this thread is open to anyone to comment on anything not related to numbers such as curry or the Mayor of East Dulwich.