To be “established,” you had to have joined in 1999.
Thanks for the compliments, but there are some jungles even I won’t venture into.
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I think only an established poster should do it.
As I mentioned upthread a few years ago somebody with data mining and script writing skills collected pertinent data (join date, number of posts, date of latest post, and others I’m forgetting) into a spreadsheet for easy sorting, grouping and the like.
From such data it would be relative easy to collect a list of potential candidates for the designation of “established poster.”
However, the idea that each of us (established or otherwise) has some mental list of qualifiers might best be explored in the list(s) I suggested before. Extracting the common names would then build a list we could all relate to.
I’m not qualified to do the data mining but I do have a list of users who ought to be considered. But I’m just one of hundreds with such a list in mind.
Joined date earlier than me? Established. After? Newbie.
#6. When you post a reply in a thread and people respond with “Yes, yes, we know, we know! Will you shut up about it already?” because you’ve expressed that opinion more often than is strictly necessary.
#7. Off-board interactions with multiple persons. Not just Dopefests, but other interactions, be they in meatspace or cyberspace.
#8. People consider you an expert in some subject. Getting paged to a thread is a good indicator of being “established.”
If you’ve ever received a PM alerting you that you are the subject of discussion, debate and degradation on that other board (you know, the camelopardalis types).
This one is a little gross, so, click if you’re not eating:
If the words “paper towel tube” make you want to retch.
If you get a mention in the bi-annual “Who’s Your Doper Crush” thread.
In all seriousness though:
If you experience a big storm or a natural disaster and immediately jump onto the Dope to let everybody know you’re all right, and to check if anybody close by needs help.
IMO, it takes at least 15 years and 24,000 posts to become an established poster. I should be there in about 5 months.
In all seriousness, I think it is the point when people start associating your user name with specific content, even things that you wrote years or more before, and can refer to it from memory. I don’t really want to be associated with some of it in my case but I wrote it so it is a fair target.
Pretty much what I was going to say.
I would add you can always take the silenus shortcut to doper awesomeness and establishment
Bring a bottle of scotch for a door prize at your next dopefest
I don’t know if I meet no. 6, but I do have my pet topics that you’ll always see me opining about. Though I do try to keep it varied, lest I be known as a one-note johnny.
The only Doper (besides my sis) that I’ve ever met IRL is Hippy Hollow. I’ve never done a Dopefest. So I don’t meet no. 7.
I’ve never been paged to a thread before either. I have my specialty areas, but I guess I’m not passionate enough to be an expert in them–unless someone’s just being really loud and wrong. Then I can’t help myself.
Just to see if I could find it, I located Another look at “active users” at SDMB from 11-26-2011 through 12-28-2011 (121 posts when I looked just now) that may pose more new questions than it answers old ones.
But there it is…
What do you think of these criteria:
- 5000+ posts
- Join date oder than 3 years
- At least 1 mod note or warning
That should narrow the field a little, right?
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If you can be described to someone’s SO fairly accurately (without resorting to base canards and generalized insults) when they ask who you’re talking to/what is making you laugh/cry/so pissed.
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For a general feeling of “established,” if a large number of posters have any feelings about you whatsoever. Positive or negative. (The exception to this is the knee-jerk hatred and loathing of spammers, trolls, racists, jerks and Scientologists.)
The vast majority of posters have no mod notes or warnings. Many of the best known and most prominent posters don’t have any. Getting a note, and especially a warning, is a rarity. It would certainly narrow the list, but it would in no way indicate posters who are well known on the board. I don’t know why you would include it.
And the file that ntucker/spinky created can be found at this post!
Katy, bar the door!
Same here. I don’t feel established yet. For better or worse some of my threads are memorable. Quite a few are better left in the past. What was I thinking?
I battle insomnia and posting helps pass the hours.
It was one of the first things mentioned - post#3. And then in the same vein a lot of comments followed such as needing to get pitted to be established, being on ignore lists, and being talked about on another board; I think most of it was half-serious though. Also, was I supposed to say high Opal? There’s some rule about lists is there not?
Anyway, in all seriousness what metric(s) would you propose?
Any day now…
…stares at phone, drumming fingers…
You asked what we thought of your list, so I told you.
Yes, like the other those are tongue in cheek. They don’t apply to most well established posters.
Please don’t. That one was worn out more than a decade ago. It’s something that mostly marks a newbie who is trying to fit in by parroting a poorly understood board meme without understanding that it’s long obsolete.
I wouldn’t, other than the quality of your posts. Some posters are well known within a few months, while others that have been around for years still poorly known.