@ShawnC13
Well the last two pages explains a lot.....what the heck happened here? Do we need another announcement thread to be archived, reviewed and restored? Maybe.....since its already been sliced and diced with the remaining posts left without context and moderated over a report of one post that may or may not have been deemed inappropriate by one opinion.
To my knowledge this type singular moderation was supposed to have stopped.....that posts that are reported are to be archived until the author has been contacted over the post and a discussion had so that if it is offensive or inappropriate a teaching moment can be had......well the teaching moment in this case needs to be with the moderator for overstepping their bounds and imparting their personal views or opinion on community content.
Announcement threads inherently brings up the discussion with newcomers about how the community reward is calculated and speculation as to the weight of each element in the secret formula. I put some levity into it and asked a mathematical question to help another member get an idea of the "numbers" required to reach the top 1%. He made a light hearted joke. Another member posted an answer to the algebra of community rewards. Yet another got a better answer to its not as easy as you think to cheat your way into the top 1%.
But everything was just a little bit of pun until a moderator came along and took all the fun intended out of it with little or no explanation given to the parties involved. Then @ShawnC13 you come along and break up the "party" bringing up that bravos are getting thrown around and they shouldn't count because its an announcement thread? This narrow opinion oracles have of what should or should not count and what belongs in the lounge or in the main forum needs to lighten up.To complain about threads going on and on.....there's a reason for that and if you were here more often you would know why? That's not a comment on your personal participation.....everyone have lives we can't all be here all of the time.
There are fewer and fewer issues that customers need help with....most nights go 10 or more hours without a single new post. Any thread can get a lot of replies.....regardless of whether a bravo is given to only help based answers a healthy vibrant community is essential and forums that balance help and the sense of "community" are successful ones. Participation is essential and members need to feel welcome to do so and bravos play an important part in that! (#wts) Should we have no community if no help is needed? Are we all to congregate in the lounge peeking out behind frosted glass to see if some poor soul wanders into the main forum looking lost and pleading for help so we can stampede in offering our help and only our help......on here's how you contact a moderator?
Had everyone left well enough alone in this thread it would have just petered out to 5 or 6 pages of uninspired "Congratulations everyone! Keep up the good work!" posts that earn 15 to 25 bravos so that those in the know get enough bravos to pad their stats for $1 or $2 reward....til next month. And repeat.
So despite purposely not posting this month's top contributor's list because of the shenanigans going on..... I will to answer my original question that caused so much interference and turmoil.... "So who ended up on top?" .....as inappropriate as that question is I will also answer that other burning question......"Where would the member who has been questioned ended up?"..... Neither on the bottom or the top but right where they are right now....the 700 odd bravos made no difference to their badge level.
Congratulations to our ever dwindling list of top contributors. Keep posting, helping and bravoing! Try to spread them around so everyone feels appreciated for their efforts.
A special shout out to the consistently high contributing community member @z10user4 who quietly surpassed the 1000 solutions mark and only the second member to achieve this a mere 3 months after @computergeek541 passed that monumental milestone. At this rate @z10user4 will hit 20,000+ posts, 30,000+ bravos and 1000+ solutions in a couple more months.....
Thank you for all your dedicaton, helpful advice and on occasion irreverently humorous posts!
Top contributors
Top 1% : softech, darlicious
Top 5% : esjliv, z10user4, hTideGnow, Triguy, Blueb, macsal and S--S
Top 10% : hairbag1, dabr, JK8, LurganleUK, BKNS27, AE_Collector, Nezgar and BearFBI
And we must not forget the 9 oracles not only help customers but also keep the community clean and organized through editing, archiving, moving threads and assigning solutions.
Oracles: Computergeek541, Dunkman, Lieux, popping, mimmo, Luddite, NDesai, ShawnC13 and will13am
Keep up the great work everybody! The community is only as helpful and knowledgable as the members that get help, give help and share ideas.....
Oh yeah and go get your 1st and 2nd shot! After this announcement's thread going sideways I need a shot tequila?!!
And then there were nine....
