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GPWizard => GPWizard News & Announcements => Topic started by: Chameleon on August 08, 2007, 09:21:40 PM
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For those interested in the friendly tussle over posting rates between John Bull and myself, here is the latest state of play:
(http://madtv.me.uk/f1insight/images/Stats03.jpg)
John is maintaining a hectic pace and I am finding it very difficult to keep him within the +50 posts range. The race is not over yet, however, as we shall see if we look at the Time on Line figures:
(http://madtv.me.uk/f1insight/images/Stats04.jpg)
I have managed to extend my lead here to about 4 hours - and there's no cheating, I assure you. If you leave the page open while you do other things, the timer stops. Well, yeah, I know that because I tried it - but I wasn't intending to cheat, honest!
Incidentally, a major milestone for the forum approaches - we are very close to half a million page views. Not bad for one so young - we are the Lewis Hamilton of the F1 forums!
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Hey Chammy. Don't depress me. This is rediculous. Most of my posting time is time I should have been working.
Hell, I've spent more than 2 days on here. This is daft. :-[ :-[ :-[
Can one hide one's identity in here?
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Time flies when you're having fun, John. :D
And is time really ever wasted? We have so brief a span, 'twould be a pity to spend it all on work...
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the old timers of the forum Ian,Neil,Rom,Cos,Stig,and
myself had some good posts even after the 2006
season was over.
The off season posts is what brought us closer
together and we became friends,not just forum
members
Almost forgot,you too Wiz and especially Toby
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Perhaps it is natural that those who join the forum at about the same time should become friends. John, David, Rainy and myself and others already knew each other from Pit Lane forum days anyway, so it was especially easy for us to explore the place together. But let us never become exclusive - already I count yourself, Dare, and the others you mention, as friends and no doubt more will join and become a part of the community.
I am especially pleased with the welcome that has been extended to Alianora, who I have known for a while through blogging, as she is truly an asset to any forum. This is another excellent aspect to the GPWizard forum - the easy way it it accepts new members and makes their settling in period so smooth. It is no wonder that John and I spend far too much time here when we should be attending to other things!
Pat yourselves on the back, fellers - you have created the best forum on the net. :)
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thank you Cham for the nice reply,was'nt
trying to separate old and new members,
but letting you know there's life after the 07
seasons ends on our forum :D
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Glad to hear it, Dare. As an F1 blogger, the off season is my greatest challenge - it is not easy to fill every day of those empty months with fresh and interesting material, so I know how important it is to maintain interest and commitment through such dry periods. Coming in here, annoying John and generally making a nuisance of myself will certainly be part of my entertainment in the coming off season! ;)
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I would like to thank everyone for making the settling-in process so easy. F1 forums in general seem to lack the airs and graces of a lot of other places, but GPWizard has been especially good at treating newbies like everyone else. Bravo :good:
As for those of you who are on here when they should be at work or doing something else, perhaps the song "Favorite Waste of Time" (http://artists.letssingit.com/bette-midler-lyrics-favorite-waste-of-time-x56r9qw), would be apt? :D
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One of the nicest things about a community like this is being able to get an F1 "fix" in the off season. Another big thing for folk like Dare and I over on this side of the pond is just being able to disuss the sport with people who have actually heard of it.
In baseball over here, there is a thing called "The Hot Stove League." It refers to sitting around the stove in the winter talking about the game. Pretty much what we do here in the off season.
I'm glad to have such a fine group of people to interact with here. We certainly have become friend, old and new.
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I can only echo your sentiments there Cos....I must say I believe that I have made some great online friends...just good and proper friends.......plus without you guys I would be an F1 mushroom
Rom
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I suppose as one of the oldies - age not time on GP WIZ ::), I should put my 2 cents in here too.
I've said this before and I don't mind being accused of being repetitive. I've been on other fora for years, but this one is head and shoulders above the rest. The main reason I say this is because here at GP Wiz we can talk and discuss, air our views, but we don't get childish and stupid if we disagree with someone elses views.
You listening, you stupid Chammy. >:D >:D >:D
Credit here must go to the members involved, who act like grown up men - and ladies and not kids. We are tolerant of each other's views, unlike some of our politicians.
So yes, this is why I spend so much time on here. I don't like the idea of having spent 2 days sat here at my desk when it would have done me far more good if I were out walking in the fresh air, or something ::).
And of course we're all talking about one of the subjects we all enjoy discussing most. I'm very lucky in the fact that all my family are motor racing fanatics. I stopped racing about 3 or 4 years ago myself, but my brother David, now 58 still races regularly. And of course now my son Josh is into it, and pretty successfully too. My brother in law Alex (also 58) raced for years and is actually building another car as we speak, though whether he will ever get to race it or not, I very much doubt - he enjoys tinkering, as I do. His son Matthew (30) is very quick too, as is our own version of LH young Zak (18) who is Matthew's first cousin, his dad Joseph and his uncle John. Sunday afternoon's are always spent at my sister Joanna's house (married to Alex) and you can all guess what the talking point usually is. Wherever we go hill climbing we take 3 or 4 bungalows in some complex and virtually live together. We virtually take the place over, the garage becoming like a veritable racing stable.
So you see, it's not only here that I talk F1. And even on my rounds of work I always end up arguing F1 with customers.
It's all good, clean fun, and I love it.
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I've said this before and I don't mind being accused of being repetitive. I've been on other fora for years, but this one is head and shoulders above the rest. The main reason I say this is because here at GP Wiz we can talk and discuss, air our views, but we don't get childish and stupid if we disagree with someone elses views.
You listening, you stupid Chammy. >:D >:D >:D
Oh, I'm listening, John, although there's no guarantee I'll take any heed whatosoever. :P
But I do bow to your courage and fortitude in using the correct plural of "forum" - the fact that no-one these days knows that just sticking an S on the end of a word is not necessarily the way to find an English plural often leads one to give in and go with the flow. You are right! It is one forum but many fora!
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So now you forgive me for mixing my threads and treads?
You see I'm into treads all day as my job is tyres. ;)
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That must be very tyring for you, John... ::)
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Its good out here and I do feel at home considering my limited knowledge of F1. Wiz and the others have made it very nice transitioning. It would be nice if we can all hook once a week online and chat too.
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Thank you, johnbull, for providing the correct plural for forum. I honestly had thought it was a matter of sticking "s" on the end - silly me!
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Please take no notice of my occasional linguistic outbursts. English is constantly developing and changing - in fact, that is one of its greatest strengths. It is only dinosaurs like me who remember strange things like the plural of forum and, if anyone took any notice of me and my ilk, we'd all still be speaking the language of Shakespeare.
.oO(Gadzooks, Horatio, 'tis not so unpleasant a thought! Methinks thou impact most squarely this nail upon its veritable head.)
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Fair enough, Chameleon - but I'm a sometime proofreader, among other things. It's supposed to be people like me who maintain the quality of English! If I don't use English correctly (even relatively obscure bits of the language), how am I supposed to expect anyone else to do so?
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Perhaps it is the proofreaders who are all that stand between us and final degeneration of English into a chorus of grunts and textspeak. Although I appreciate that English must always change and adapt itself to the tide of time, it is hard not to think that this current age is doing little but dumbing down (a very expressive phrase contributed by the Americans) the language to the point of incomprehensibility. To spend any time at all in internet chat is to realise the extent of the problem, especially when one considers the fact that these are that small percentage of the population who retain enough literacy to actually attempt communication through the written word.
Is that what they call Ronspeak?
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Thank you, johnbull, for providing the correct plural for forum. I honestly had thought it was a matter of sticking "s" on the end - silly me!
Would the plural of Lotus be Loti? ::)
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:D
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Thank you, johnbull, for providing the correct plural for forum. I honestly had thought it was a matter of sticking "s" on the end - silly me!
Would the plural of Lotus be Loti? ::)
Well, it's less of a mouthful than Lotuses! ;)
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I was browsing through the "More Stats" when I noticed something strange:
Top 10 Posters Top 10 Boards
GPWizard 2711
dare 2052
cosworth151 1640
ian 1556
romephius 1065
Steven Roy 750
johnbull 734
Neil.P 626
Chameleon 520
Alianora La Canta 377
GPWizard has taken the lead in the poster race. Most other people are keeping their relative position, but Steven's just come out of nowhere to leapfrog loads of people. Neil. P and I have joined in the table as well.
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In the immortal words of Sir Winston Churchill, this is something up with which I will not put!
(The Cham sneakily adds one more to his total...)
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Amazing forum. I was on one in Canada a few years ago that although poorly managed was amazing in that you could reply to a person anywhere along the thread, so if you were off for a while, or missed something, it didn't seem out of place suddenly. Unfortunately a small war began on that one, and eventually the powers that be shut it down due to too many complaints (ironically from the very ones who were involved in the little war).
Keep it up Wiz, and hopefully I'll become friends with a few of you (boy, it sure is lonely being in Switzerland)...maybe even sneak over to the British GP this year or next.
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Now that sounds like an unusual setup, ScottyD. That sort of forum structure really confuses me, but if it worked for you, that's great.
Glad you like it here, and hopefully I'll become friends with you. Though I don't think I'll be able to make it to Silverstone 2008 (I've got my eye on Spa...)
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No, it was great, you could minimize or maximize threads, or add new tangents in the threads, sort of the way you can in Windows explorer (or in that case add a new folder).
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actually there in't a stats race that I know of,just post as usual
and they add up
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Competitive natures will make a race out of anything, Dare. ;)
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It's not quantitiy, it's quality that goes down well with me.....
But perhaps I am wierd
Rom
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But perhaps I am wierd
We all are, mate. That's why we're here. :yahoo:
Why else would we stick with F1 through all of the recent shenanigans?
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Because if I didn't have F1, I'd have to analyse proper politics. And believe me, you don't want to be analysing Gordon Brown's activities, because you'd be bored out of your brain...
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f1 is defiantly the best sport in the world this id a really good website and everyone is really nice
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What happened earlier today? The online count quickly shot up to 247 online over a few minutes, hovered there briefly, than dropped back down to round 20.
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That's odd. Is the Wiz giving tours to bus parties?
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I thought maybe Wizzo hung a "Free Beer" sign up on Google. :crazy:
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That's nice. The Wiz is dishing out free beer and doesn't tell us. I bet he told Dare because he is his favourite. :D
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Sorry guys, you're right there was free beer and Dare drunk it all! >:(
Interesting to see so many users today, more detailed stats are available 24hrs after the event so I will let you know what's going on. One things for sure, somebody's watching us.
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Poor ol' Ian didn't even get a look-in on the free beer stakes then. Dare, he's gonna be after you matey :D
Neil.P
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:'( :'( :'( . O woe is me.
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trouble is with the 5 hour time delay by the
time I got there it was over :'(
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Work - The curse of the drinking class!
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Maybe some university student in a computer studies class stumbled upon GPWizard, decided they liked it and sent the link to all his friends...
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Updating the Stats Race:
GPWizard has a clear 385-post lead over Dare, who himself has a 412-post lead over cosworth151. He and ian are well clear of the pack. Steven Roy leads the pack (in 6th place overall) and I'm pleased to see that I'm now 8th.
GPWizard 3627
Dare 3242
cosworth151 2830
ian 2312
Steven Roy 1878
TheStig 1772
romephius 1404
Alianora La Canta 1093
Neil.P 952
johnbull 791
Incidentally, rom and Dare have spent over seven weeks each on GPWizard (even the Wiz has only been logged in for six weeks!), and you need to have been logged in here nearly a week to even make the top 10.
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im on 104 posts already in 6 days so im catching you lot up
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It's the quality that counts..... not the quantity..... Time on the other hand.... look out... lol
Great work everyone... let's make this place not just the friendliest site on the web... but the best source of F1 fun...
Rom
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it certaintly is fun to be on
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Rom's right,there is no stats race.
Posting just for the sake of running
up your post totals isn't what were
here for
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i know i just find alot of topics im interested i didn't know i was near 100 till i checked my profile i thought i was on something like 40 to 50