# Do you feel like you have made an impact here? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349 "2004-11-23T20:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/21 "2004-11-23T22:42:14Z")
I don’t think I’ve made an impact here. ---
**Author:** ![MrFantsyPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MrFantsyPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrFantsyPants)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/22 "2004-11-23T22:45:04Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Damn I was the one right above that and I didn’t even get a mention. See what I tell ya. sorry Loach, you weren’t there when I hit reply. Here ya go… **Loach** : NameRec: High, Impression: Funny and decent in general, Baffling and frustrating in some GDs ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/23 "2004-11-24T00:00:47Z")
Impact? Nah. That’s okay, though. I’m not looking to change the SDMB world. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/24 "2004-11-24T00:36:46Z")
I think my impact is is pretty slim to nill. Some posters recognize me, but 90% of the time it’s some of the few I’ve met at the one dopefest I went to, or the few posters I talk to outside of the boards. I think my very brief, non-threatening, easily forgettable name has something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/25 "2004-11-24T00:42:19Z")
If I haven’t by now, there isn’t much point in trying any more:) What’s more important to me, though, is helping even a few individual people here, rather than have X% of people say “yeah, I know your screen name and don’t have you on my ignore list.” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/26 "2004-11-24T00:59:47Z")
Well, if you want to make a (positive) impact, it helps to have a few specialty areas of expertise which are of common interest to many, but which you have _at least_ above average knowledge, along with bona fide experience to combine with it. And you should be willing to share it in a way that’s not too snotty. It also helps if you have strong enough ego functions to be able to handle it when you’re shown to be wrong by the Teeming Millions. Also make sure to participate in threads in which you have interest, but no particular expertise, and solicit information from the members here, in general and by name when appropriate. Do that steadily for about a thousand posts, and you’ll generally get remembered in a good light, and get mentioned by dopers seeking your input. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/27 "2004-11-24T01:04:45Z")
Who the hell posted all that common sense. Here in Doperstan. Don’t get much of that around these parts. Seems like a nice enough fellow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/28 "2004-11-24T01:16:32Z")
Yayyy, I recognize the last 5 posters. 🙂 Impact? Not really. I usually don’t say anything important. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/29 "2004-11-24T01:26:10Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Well, if you want to make a (positive) impact, it helps to have a few specialty areas of expertise which are of common interest to many, but which you have _at least_ above average knowledge, along with bona fide experience to combine with it. And you should be willing to share it in a way that’s not too snotty. It also helps if you have strong enough ego functions to be able to handle it when you’re shown to be wrong by the Teeming Millions. > > Also make sure to participate in threads in which you have interest, but no particular expertise, and solicit information from the members here, in general and by name when appropriate. > > Do that steadily for about a thousand posts, and you’ll generally get remembered in a good light, and get mentioned by dopers seeking your input. QFT (if you’ll forgive me for bringing a convention from another MB to the SDMB) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/30 "2004-11-24T01:35:45Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > QFT > > (if you’ll forgive me for bringing a convention from another MB to the SDMB) Quick Fourier Transform? Quantum Field Theory? Quantitative Feedback Theory? Queen’s Film Theatre? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/31 "2004-11-24T01:40:27Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Quick Fourier Transform? > Quantum Field Theory? > Quantitative Feedback Theory? > Queen’s Film Theatre? Quoted For Truth. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/32 "2004-11-24T01:41:50Z")
> [@MrFantsyPants](#): > > okay, can I suggest an exercise… > > Take the last ten posters in this thread, and for each, note how much name recognition they have, and what your overall impression of them is. No going back looking at their posts, and understand that unless Name recognition is high, impressions may be based on mis-rememberances. I don’t want to do that but I did look over the thread and out of everyone that posted, I recognized all but three and have a definite opinion on ten of them. The others that I recognized but don’t have any real opinion on, I still have an impression of. Guess I pay more attention than I thought I did. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/33 "2004-11-24T01:43:50Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Quoted For Truth. Ah. Thank you [sup]2[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/34 "2004-11-24T01:47:51Z")
I _know_ I’ve had an impact, because every time there’s a discussion about the board’s funniest threads, my telemarketer rant is either nominated in the OP or within the first ten posts. However, nothing else I’ve posted here has elicited much comment outside its original thread. There was a minor blip when my staff report was published, and every so often somebody will reference my (sadly stalled) website, but that’s about it. So it’s kind of a mixed bag. If only, if only, if only I had larger tits… ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/35 "2004-11-24T01:53:59Z")
Well it takes me a long time to make friends on message boards so I don’t expect anyone to know me. I know that I don’t have any particular style and I don’t post a lot. Even on a small board, I have to keep posting a long time before people remember me or see a pattern to my posts. A lot of the people who posted in this thread and said they aren’t noticed are noticed by me. I am at the stage on this board where I am starting to know who is who but almost everyone I ever recognize has a high post count or a high post count relative to register date. ---
**Author:** ![Abbie\_Carmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Abbie\_Carmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abbie_Carmichael)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/36 "2004-11-24T02:18:08Z")
**Qadgop the Mercotan** , your post full of suggestions has one itty bitty flaw: TOO MUCH WORK! Tone it down a bit, willya? We can’t all be overachievers 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/37 "2004-11-24T02:23:09Z")
Naw, I don’t think so. But it was never my intent to make an impact. I mostly pop in and welcome people, or send supporting thoughts for people in distress. I was truly touched with the support memebers gave me when my dad passed last year and again when I had my operation earlier this year, so those posters certainly made an impact on my life. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/38 "2004-11-24T02:55:29Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > If only, if only, if only I had larger tits… Yep. I’ll remember \*\*Cervaise \*\* now. She’ll be the Doper-girl-who-wanted-bigger-tits. 😛 > [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Also make sure to participate in threads in which you have interest, but no particular expertise, and solicit information from the members here, in general and by name when appropriate. And in keeping with **Qadgop** ’s advice: So **Cervaise** , how big are your tits now? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/39 "2004-11-24T02:59:47Z")
Having met **Cervaise** , I must say she is one of the ugliest women I’ve ever met despite enjoying her company. Goatees on women just aren’t attractive. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349/40 "2004-11-24T03:00:14Z")
> [@Keapon Laffin](#): > > Yep. I’ll remember \*\*Cervaise \*\* now. > She’ll be the Doper-girl-who-wanted-bigger-tits. > 😛 Sadly he is male, so I expect whatever bonuses big boobs would bring him online, might be trumped by potential negative consequences in RL ;). - Tamerlane [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-like-you-have-made-an-impact-here/276349.md?page=3)