How many "thanks" do you average for each post. Just divide your number of times you were "thanked" by your number of post you have made and you will get your "TPA"
My TPA is 2.35
How effective are your posts?
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How many "thanks" do you average for each post. Just divide your number of times you were "thanked" by your number of post you have made and you will get your "TPA"
My TPA is 2.35
How effective are your posts?
Your calculation is applying only to the "thanked posts". If you consider your total posts, it is ~0.59 thanks/post. I think that is a better evaluation of post effectiveness.
So you are saying more people thanked you for your posting wit.. than you give thanks to others?Quote:
Originally Posted by mrsamsonite
I see people on here that have never given 1 thanks to anyone for anything.
1.4444444 Ha Ha LOL
I am not saying it but, I guess the data is saying it. Unfortunately this thread is bringing down my TPA.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledge42
ryanw, whoever would like to do a percentage instead, feel free to do so.
Thanks for your interest everyone
I would think there are so many other issues in the world to worry about other than what your "TPA is". It is like the people I saw on other and less grown up forums that would post worthless one word replies on forums to up their post count. In the world today.. does any of that really have any bearing on anything? Do we all get to go to parties and tell our friends "Hey man I got over 800 posts on the SMF?" or "Man you should see my TPA!!"Quote:
Originally Posted by mrsamsonite
Is the "Thanks" relevant. I think it is. I see quite a few people here that have been given great advice on something they asked a question on and don't hit "thanks" -- it takes a millisecond to do so. The post doesn't have to be this life altering post you are thanking someone for. It can be as simple as a "Nice Joke" or "Great response" I think it is a nice tool the admin implemented into the forum. It shows that you appreciate what others are offering to assist you, and in return you are appreciative of the information. It is a two way street. If you have a great post, and people appreciate what you have taken the time to post- they say "Hey.. thanks buddy for the information.. I found that helpful"
Well I guess I haven't paid much attention to my posts or thanks. I will click the thanks button when I see something I like but most of my time is spent reading.
Well, looks like I'm at just under 1.5 thanks for every post, and just over 2.5 thanks in each of my posts that have been thanked... FWIW.
I generally don't take the time to post stuff unless I really have something to say. Also, I confess I'm rather stingy with handing out thanks... not cuz I'm not grateful for all the info here, I just think it makes them more meaningful if you don't hand em out like wooden nickles.
I agree with that 100%Quote:
Originally Posted by auminer
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I think someone has too much spare time on their hands.
Hitting the button is much easier then doing this, then having to go out to the scrap pile to get a different monitor.
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I did not intend to offend or waste anyone's time with this silly thread. I did not expect anyone to take it serious. And yes there are many other issues to worry about other than TBA so, that is why I placed it in the "Off Topic Discussions" section and labeled the title "What is your "Thanks per Post Average (TPA)" on this Forum?". I feel everyone had fair warning that the post was not important.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledge42
Look through the "Off Topic Discussions" threads and you will find threads like "Pie testing", "What is your favorite music?", "Funny Craigslist AD", etc. All these threads I like and enjoy to read but, I know it may not be a serious thread.
And I agree with you on giving affirmation to people that have helped you on this site in some way.
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No prize could equal the awesomeness that is the Sirscrapalot secret decoder fan club ring!
An we have a pie thread?!
Sirscrapalot - Wondering if there is a bourbon pie recipe.
I try to post or comment on topics that I have some knowledge about that may help the other members. I dont do it to receive " thanks" from anyone. I also try to hit the thanks button when I have read something that helps me out or gives me a good laugh. Never paid attention to my ratio of thanks. I would hope that everyone makes posts to help each other which the overwhelming majority do.
Since this was posted in the off topic area I dont think it was meant to demean or point fingers at anyone. It is was it is, just a discussion. If it was taken in any other way then I think some need to grow a thicker skin and worry about more important things going on in their lives.
it's not about thanks , wanting them or, getting them. its about us. me and others when I ask a question. you and others when I give an opinion on an answer to a question, as it should be.
The value of the info on the forum and the members here far beyond the thanks they may get.
Well stated Mike!
I realize the OP mentioned his post was to been in a joking manner. They also made jokes about the space shuttle Challenger.
Fact is, I actually do believe, some would rather cut off their click finger than to scroll over there and click "thanks", and will go to great measures to avoid it. Although I find that rather comical at times, I also believe at the end of the day, what's most important was what you gave, and not just what you got.
There was a university study done not too long ago which documented the differences in obituaries over the last hundred years. They found a hundred years ago the obits mostly spoke of a mans character, the things he had contributed and the deeds he had done, where today they were found to mostly speak of a mans wealth and possessions.
There were also some worthy mentions, in another big book, of an extremely thankless generation, being near the end of our thankless road, and sometimes I wonder just how far away that day can actually be.
Although it is highly visible here, this certainly isn't restricted to SMF or the scrapping community, but goes the world over, and altho it's led mostly by the "developed" countries, if you look at the countries where there is little, and what little they had, has been taken away, such as the recent typhoon victims in the Philippines, and other places where both natural or manmade disasters have ravaged their lives and their world. They'd be thankful for the crumbs that fell from our plates, and that's even more reason to be thankful for what we have, and that we live in such a land as what we do, and not so worried about what's the score, or how much more can i get, before we reach the end of that road.
I truly do believe one day the more important question will be, not how much did you get, but instead, how much did you give.
Well Stated Bear!
Thanks Sledge
RIGHT on the money, KewlBeans!!!! The below has been in the "signature line" of my email, for many years...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
"You make a living by what you GET. You make a life by what you GIVE."
I pray everyday that I can somehow live up to that! Be it by sharing something here, making someone laugh, stopping to help someone who is out of gas, etc...there is not a day go by, that is some way, somewhere, some how, we don't have an opportunity to give!
and I just gave my2...;)
Stage a strike, an you all go off posting quotes!
Good posts tho, Bear an Brojer.
Sirscrapalot - Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is interesting where this thread has gone and has been unexpected. What was originally intending as a light-hearted Joke some have taken as a serious topic about thankfulness. I feel some seem to imply clicking the thank button has some kind of link to a man's true character and how thankful they are in real life, I disagree. Bear seems to imply that if you arent clicking "thanks" you are part of the "thankless generation" or someone that is more interested talking about possessions in obituaries rather than character.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
For the record I am very grateful for this web forum its contents and the people that contribute to it. It has helped me get my business to where it is now. I think that the thank button is a small way to show one's appreciation. I dont use it much and feel that a much better way to show appreciation is to share the buyers you find, new techniques, tools, answer questions that other members have, responding in a timely manner, taking the time to take pictures for your post, share links, make videos, give thorough answers, share new ideas, and give your time to the web forum.
Not trying to speak for Bear here, an hell I've been avoiding even posting in this thread. I think he was meaning more to people who've been here for awhile an not even a single thanks given. or a very low amount. I understand what you intended with this post, hence me not chiming in other then my usual insanity.
It's here. Use it if you want, or don't. It bothers me not. I choose to use it to express my thanks for sharing the advice or just for a useful post, or if your just plain crazier then I am. I'm thanks for all the advice, help, tips, tricks, an laughs you all provide since I joined.
If you choose not..that's your call. I'm not here to judge.
YMMV
Sirscrapalot -Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. - W.C. Fields
mrsamsonite: I want to publicly apologize for starting the rant. I did mean what I said. But I may have come off as really foul about it.. there was a lot nicer way to state my opinion without sounding like an arse! So I apologize.
I concur with other posters that I think the thanking part of it lends itself to a nice "community." I relate the thanking/appreciating from both sides. I really see the thanks as no different than if my neighbor helped me lift a 1000 lb washing machine onto my trailer, or picked up my garbage cans for me just because. I'd just say "thank you" and all of you are my "internet neighbors" You guys give me advice on an obstacle you have already overcome, you give seasoned information for something a lot of people may be very green at. But that is what a community is to me- online or "Main Street USA" The giving of time and information, the sharing, the caring about others- makes a community-- no matter where it sits. I do my best to return that favor. There are quite a bit of guys and gals here that are far more knowledgeable about scrap than I.. and I personally appreciate a place where people don't make you feel stupid for asking.
Alright guys.. put away your tissues now, wipe your eyes and get lets get back to SCRAAAAAAPIN!
TPA may be up but QPP (Quotes per post) are down!
...if u wanna live, u gotta die to your self, someday...
Mr Finds, is there a story behind that catchy avatar of yours?
No worries sledge42, apology accepted besides, its not even officially a rant because there isnt a "rant" icon on the main page. Thanks
hobo finds: Yes QPP are down but, we can save that is for another thread. I figure we let this thread ride away into the sunset.
Yes, I meant my rantingQuote:
Originally Posted by mrsamsonite
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Wait..someone is keeping track of my quotes? Nobody told me!
Can we get a group hug then call the thread over?
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Sirscrapalot - Hobo I'd like a copy of my QPP...just to verify your getting them all.
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Originally Posted by Sirscrapalot
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Originally Posted by mrsamsonite
Mrsamsonite, I believe it is more interesting how you have adapted my message to be a personal attack on yourself, and the forum, when it was purely observational, as I even specified it to be, not of yourself or the forum, but of the world as a whole. You keep claiming that your formula was a joke, but what were your words there? In your original post, this a formula for what??
How effective are your jokes? Maybe we need your formula for that one too.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrsamsonite
I recall many threads discussing one who spoke only in the third party, as you have done here to me, and I could find you plenty of quotes on that if I cared to. I never mentioned you personally sam, or your post, but spoke only in the general direction that the thread had came from and gone.
But since now we're here
There is definitely a thankless generation sam, of which you definitely seem to be a part, and it's your own words which seem to betray you.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrsamsonite
Until your words can match your deeds, sam, don't dump them on me
I felt that this quote from you bear was pretty direct towards me also using third person as well by saying "some would rather cut off their click finger....." But, if you say that it wasn't directed towards me then I will take your word for it and I can just let it go.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
"There is definitely a thankless generation sam, of which you definitely seem to be a part, and it's your own words which seem to betray you.
Until your words can match your deeds, sam, don't dump them on me"
To respond to this quote you gave about me. I stick to what I had said "I think that the thank button is a small way to show one's appreciation. I dont use it much" I feel one's actions play a far better role to show appreciation than just clicking the thank button. The thank button is cool and I use it sometime but, in my previous comment I tell what is a more important way to show thanks for other.
I know where I stand and that I am thankful. I feel the thank button cannot determine what a mans true thankfulness is.
I realize I might not change your mind and I am fine with that. And I think the thread is just about done unless you have something else to say bear.
Our stats speak for them selves sam, as do our words.
From acknowledging your claim that the OP was a joke onward, I went directly into a much larger picture, one which you either fail to see, or don't wish to hear about. Fact is sam, We Are All Too Often Too Thankless. If you insist on taking this as a personal attack on yourself, I can't change that. Whether it's here on the forum, or down on the street, our actions don't come from the clicky button, it goes much deeper than that, but still sam, in either place, it shows, and I can't change that for you either
Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight another day
Bob Marley
This thread makes me sad.
What started as a light-hearted query posted in the "off-topic" section has thoroughly devolved into keyboard sparring & hatefulness.
Hatefulness makes me MUCH sadder than mere 'lack of thankfulness' ever could.
Scrap on.
Where do you see the hatefulness ?Quote:
Originally Posted by auminer
I've got to admit, sam, it just sank in to me a little while ago where you've been coming from. I in no way intended my post to be an attack of any sort, most of all not on you personally. It was, and still is, merely observation, not directed at any one person, but observation about the planet we live on, and what's going on here.
As long as you say it wasnt a personal attack, I believe you and no hard feelings Bear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
I thought that I would take this opportunity to share something I have been checking out. It has to do selling books. I will post a separate thread later when I actually send the books in. Here are some book buyers that I have found. I havent really seen anything about this yet on SMF, perhaps I am wrong.
1. Sell Books Online and Sell Back Textbooks At sellbackyourBook.com Shipping is free and I typed in several ISBN #s and I got any where from .25 to 1.50. I currently recycle books for $30/ton instead of paying to dispose but, if I could make .25- $1.50 per book without the hassle of selling them individually that would be great.
2. Amazon.com: Sell Your Books
this is the amazon book trade-in. You get a little bit for each book on the pricelist but, you get amazon credit instead of cash which works with me. I believe the shipping is free as well.
Has anyone tried one of these two options? I know many have tried using the amazon store or ebay to sell individual books but, this seem to be quick and easy way to make a little more without taking too much time away from other jobs.