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It's not likely that you could post 500 replies that were not contributive and relevant, the abuse would be too much...lol . . besides I think management has last word....

I would discount the whole labeling thing on here, if I were you. Many GAs are given for answers that may be good repartee but have little to do with the subject at hand.

Well, then, I could settle for All-Seeing, All-Knowing Diarrhea Mouth.

How can you say that???

#13

Say what???

Maybe they wanted until you had 500 GOOD posts.

I'm fine with things the way they are. We have these discussions periodically, usually instigated by a newcomer who wants to incorporate their ideas of making it a "better" forum.

It ain't broke, it don't need fixin'.

Cheers.

"It ain't broke, it don't need fixin'."

Shhhh! I'm trying to land a government job!

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[btw, I'm not a newcomer, really. There are two of me here (perish the thought). Bad karma. My earlier incarnation is User-Deleted-13. Member 2273]

But I thought the government WAS broke!

I wouldn't know. I wear a tinfoil hat.

Actually, I wear a hat fashioned out of DU, not tin foil.....

That way, the Aliens can't beam their thoughts into my noggin'!

[BTW, why isn't there a "tin foil hat" icon? Moderators????]

Yes, but what about all those neutrons flying about so near your brain? Like cellphone usage do they make you blonde?

I prefer plutonium foil. Alpha particles. Can't even go through a sheet of paper (just don't wad a bunch of it up or it'll self-heat and catch fire). That's what powers Curiosity, btw. A couple of kilos of Pu inside a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG). Same thing that powers Cassini, New Horizons, the Voyagers, etc. They last 20-30-40 years and no moving parts.

Ohhhh heaven forbid I turn blonde and forever endure those sick "blonde jokes"! LOL

Quite possibly my hair will just fall out and I'd be a cue ball like Mr. Clean, eh?!

I thought the threshold was 500, but maybe GlobalSpeck is running WinDoze 3.0 Server and it just woke up. Who knows?

Nah, Guru status is an honorary title decided by a vote by the council of Gurus on CR4 held after every 13 CR4 anonymous posts regarding busbar sizing. Why do you think CR4 still has anonymous poster status and a private messaging system!

As a side not your complementary tinfoil hat is in the mail.

Ouch.

Well, welcome to the Guru status club, not that it matters much! LOL

Hey, my mouth (or "hunt & peck" typing fingers) runneth over non-stop....making too many off-colored comments etc every day, with no aim at racking up a score of GA's. Like who cares about GA's anyhow as they basically irrelevant!!!!

I'm still laughing about the new Mars rover pic though! That was timely, and funny!!!!

Well, now that I've attained 'guru' status, I suppose I should make an appointment to have my sense of humor surgically removed. You know, so as to better fit in with certain other 'gurus' here who've done likewise? On the plus side, I suppose, like them, it's much better to be right than happy. Bog knows why, because a lifetime of that and $2.25 will buy you a Latte Grande at Starbucks and no one at your funeral.

Maybe CR4 could just allow us to list (consenting) people we like as 'friends', Facebook style.

Click on 'Subscribed Discussions' and the word 'My' has been added at the header for the list that appears. Well, I'm fairly sure that's only recently happened. The process has begun.....

Randomized member titles would be fun. Everyone gets a new and suitably daft one each day. It would at least pontedly add to the levity of what the titles are. I'd play every day in hope of getting 'Apostrophe Abuser', though 'Gob*****' would suit me just as nicely.

Oh for pete's sake, go for broke!

Oh! Hi Kris!

Mizuti said 'right now'.....that seems to imply its being worked on !!! Square the rigging and man the forecastle, it be full steam sail ahead !

While yer at it, Mizuti, can I have 'Excessive Exclamtory' as well ?! I promise youll get my 'Favorite Admin' vote .

I cant believe my eyes. You actually spelled forecastle using all of the letters. Funny, until I came here I thought forecastle meant chess before sex.

(far be it from me to quote a damn thing)

Or, is that sex before chess? Inquiring minds want to know!

And what about "foreplay"? What's with that anyhow? Golf? Brrahhhhahahahahaaaa!

How many daft titles do you know? Will they require automated assistance? A daft-title generator app, iDaft?

Groom of the Stool is particularly loathsome. Don't tell Mizuti.

Haha, if I had the capabilities right now, you'd all have unique titles. _{^{For better or worse.}}

At the moment though, they're automatically generated, so we don't have access to finicking with them just yet, but the idea has been mulled around to change it. It would be fun to give someone the title "Sent to the naughty step"

I have the naughty step reserved permanently.

There's a waiting list already.

"Sent to the naughty step"

Brilliant ! Perhaps it could be combined with some sort of flag system like in football/F1 - eg yellow flag = teachers looking stern, amber = teachers flexing the ruler, red = sat in corner banned from speaking. It could be balanced with some positive reinforcement...white = hasn't done anything wrong yet, green = some good posts (but may be mischievous), gold = Delworthy .

Sorry, Del, I couldn't resist .

Delworthy... ?
Sounds like a character from Carry On Film .
Ooooh matron should I change Mr Delworthy's Daffodil?
Del

Hellooooo, Mr. Bean?

"you'd all have unique titles"

That could get interesting.

Henry has his hands rather full right now, but he knows plenty. Mostly unprintable.

The mechanism is already in place with that quote for the day feature at bottom of page (in quiet moments I like to sit clicking refresh' until I get a pleasing one). Going with the theme you suggest, howsabout CR4bot - I'm on autopilot most days, so would be quite happy to score that one.

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A few professional titles, to get things rolling...

Tonsorial Artist (barber)

Banana Ripener

Slubber Doffer (wtf?)

Bread Scientist

Social Media Rockstar (meh)

Foot Health Gain Facilitator

Odour Judge (Bread Scientist: "All rise!")

Erection Engineer

S&M Administrator

SExpert (Systems Enterprise Expert)

Expert (ex = has-been, xpert = drip under pressure)

Vision Clearance Engineer

Shaft and Tunnel Manager

District Beaver Leader

Dreams Fulfiller

Male Specimen Courier ("Run, Forrest, run!!")

Chief Hooker

Change Catalyst

Cool find . Some of the real ones are pretty far out.....

There has been the occasionally Country Member too.
Del

I think we need an "Urgent Response" generator, too. For all the weeinies who wait for the last minute to ask us to do their homework.

Both you and I have heard this one for sure: "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part," therefore I say let's just feed them whatever comes to mind. If they get an F for our 'work', let 'em. They certainly don't deserve better. If it's clear they're planning to use what we give them to cheat (as in them posting here a series of related questions such as might be found on a take-home test), give carefully-planned, highly plausible bollocks to hand in. (I don't care much for cheaters, obviously. )

Me too. I've actually spent time on the afore mentioned Naughty Step for some of my admonitions to lazy students and lazy, gainfully employed wanna be engineers.

There's one fellow here who, in the past, appeared to be getting paid for consulting jobs which he gets designed for him by us, usually by posting them as questions asked under the guise of a uni student. He has a website which I have visited on and off in years past. Some of 'his' products (read, "our work") were featured there a couple of years ago. I don't know if he still does this and I don't care. I once got threatened with the Comfy Chair for cleaning his clock over his alleged (PC) duplicity, back before my earlier incarnation became user-deleted-13. He's still here AFAIK. It's theft, really, when you come right down to it. We're doing the work, he's getting paid for it.

More over lyn, there's enough room on that "Naughty Step" for both of our fat a$$es! I've chastised enough of them myself the past 3 1/2 years! LMAO