A Simple Suggestion

[Ghost Post]

I have a suggestion for this site that might want the people to post more often. I have noticed that the users are either moderators or deadalian member. I was wondering if it would be a good idea if there were more ranks then people would want to post more to get a higher rank (oh sweet vanity).

P.S. I noticed a grammar mistake on the links page, "Brain Teasers: An h..."
Till another day
Kaatar

[Mow]

Kaatar, if you read some of the threads, you will realise the problem is that people post too much! Please read the threads!
PS I didn't notice any mistake.

[This message has been edited by Mow (edited 02-18-2001).]

[CzarJ]

Firstly, Kaatar, my man (or woman...), you're not the first to suggest this. It has been suggested before, and I feel that most shared the belief that creating higher and higher ranks would increase the number of posts posted for no good reason. Most agree that 30 posts is usually a good limit to tell between rather frequent posters and someone who's just posted once.

Secondly, a word beginning in 'h' is should be preceded by 'an', because 'h' is sometimes silent, and that's what some old guy from England decided.

Thank you for your time.

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Basket-Weaving For Donuts. Where You Weave Baskets and Win Donuts.

[Ghost Post]

First you insult my manhood and then you slag my intellegence. All of this after just one post. To get back at you I will barate you with Simpson quotes. And frequently make spelling mistakes.
So what your telling me is that you pronounce it "ilarious"? What kind of crazy fool would do such a thing? So you would pronounce the word "hair" as "air"? Call me a crazy man who likes to eat fish on a Monday morning but I don't pronounce it like that at all. If you want to make a fool of this fish then speak spanish or forever hold it's piece.
Till another day
Kaatar

P.S. "ow airy are ippos"?

[Courk]

Simpson's quotes and spelling mistakes? Are you by any chance Aaron?

[CzarJ]

Geez, soooorry. Go ahead, you can insult my manhood and slag my intelligence. I don't care . I was just sayin' that this has already been discussed, and you'd assuredly get that response from someone else if i hadn't said it first. I'm not making fun of you or anything, it's not like you're expected to know everything that goes on around here (run-on sentence! prime target!) Then I slagged your intelligence. I'm sorry, that was inappropriate.

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Basket-Weaving For Donuts. Where You Weave Baskets and Win Donuts.

[Mow]

There is still some divergence of opinion over the form of the indefinite article to use preceding certain words beginning with h-when the first syllable is unstressed: " a historical document" or "an historical document"; "a hotel" or "an hotel". The form depends on whether the initial h is sounded or not: an was common in the 18th and 19th centuries, because the initial h was commonly not pronounced for these words. In standard modern English the norm is for the h to be pronounced in words like hotel and historical, and therefore the indefinite article a is used; however, the older form, with the silent h and the indefinite article an, is still encountered, especially among older speakers.
So there. You are both right. Now please stop arguing. (although I do enjoy watching a good insult match )