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Homerclub Champion Author Idaho Posts:8,814 Points:1,220,285 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: Feb 14, 2013 4:09:52 PM Ignore Homerclub Report Abuse some people I notice post 200 or more posts a day with 500,000 posts or more. Does anyone know the reason for it, they dont get anymore points, and they are all champion authors. Same thing with the people who try to be buddies with every person on gasbuddy.com, i was wondering what their reason is? lots of friends?

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some people I notice post 200 or more posts a day with 500,000 posts or more.
Does anyone know the reason for it, they dont get anymore points, and they are all champion authors.
Same thing with the people who try to be buddies with every person on gasbuddy.com, i was wondering what their reason is? lots of friends?

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Sneakers55 Champion Author Houston Posts:51,849 Points:2,168,625 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Jun 14, 2013 9:17:55 AM Ignore Sneakers55 Report Abuse I don't post 200 posts a day but then I usually write long-winded posts. (Most of mine are longer than this one.)
maxstar Champion Author Chicago Posts:18,680 Points:837,245 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Jun 13, 2013 3:54:46 PM Ignore maxstar Report Abuse This discussion really belongs "Off Topic".
ziyulu Champion Author Oklahoma City Posts:8,635 Points:1,629,620 Joined:Aug 2007	Message Posted: Jun 13, 2013 2:32:35 PM Ignore ziyulu Report Abuse Maybe they are great writers?
SUVFan Champion Author Columbus Posts:14,173 Points:1,661,255 Joined:Oct 2008	Message Posted: Jun 13, 2013 2:21:34 PM Ignore SUVFan Report Abuse >And your degree in psychology is from where jrsva? < Jrsva's posts and other exchanges convince me that he has a doctorate in common sense issued from the school of hard knocks.
plastic Champion Author Virginia Posts:46,989 Points:2,865,450 Joined:May 2004	Message Posted: Jun 13, 2013 1:59:38 PM Ignore plastic Report Abuse >"And your degree in psychology is from where jrsva?" You're more than welcome to look up "represents" in the dictionary.
Homerclub Champion Author Idaho Posts:8,814 Points:1,220,285 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: Jun 12, 2013 7:14:25 PM Ignore Homerclub Report Abuse i guess its harder to post 200 times a day now, since the gas buddy programmers allow only 1 post even if you hit the post message button 10 times real fast. Before if you hit it 10 times real fast you might get 5 - 7 posts, but not anymore. i think 2 posts would be ok when i hit the post message button 2 times real fast instead of one, so we can do our 5 post points quicker.
Homerclub Champion Author Idaho Posts:8,814 Points:1,220,285 Joined:Apr 2009	Message Posted: Apr 8, 2013 4:29:15 PM Ignore Homerclub Report Abuse 10 buddies is good for me
pacecar68 Champion Author Oakland Posts:4,767 Points:888,445 Joined:Jan 2007	Message Posted: Feb 20, 2013 10:31:06 PM Ignore pacecar68 Report Abuse lol...some ppl got nobody else to talk to...
Gas_Buddy Champion Author Maryland Posts:26,197 Points:3,061,500 Joined:Aug 2004	Message Posted: Feb 20, 2013 7:38:05 PM Ignore Gas_Buddy Report Abuse Just an opinion, but I think jrsva meant "obsession", rather than addiction, but, not knowing the time frame a member in which a member has made a half a million message posts, addiction to Gas Buddy might not be a totally inaccurate observation, just as one can be addicted to the internet or to por... Well, you get the idea. I'd have used the word "obsession", but I think jrsva's choice of words is understandable. In my opinion.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:82,171 Points:3,281,170 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Feb 20, 2013 5:11:34 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse "For able-bodied people, 500k posts represents an addiction." And your degree in psychology is from where jrsva?
jrsva Champion Author Virginia Posts:9,999 Points:1,639,950 Joined:Jan 2006	Message Posted: Feb 20, 2013 12:08:21 AM Ignore jrsva Report Abuse Certainly not blaming disabled people; that’s a misreading of my post. Being disabled gives one a reasonable excuse for playing on the computer a lot. For able-bodied people, 500k posts represents an addiction.
MiataPrincess All-Star Author Des Moines Posts:733 Points:126,385 Joined:Feb 2013	Message Posted: Feb 17, 2013 4:21:20 PM Ignore MiataPrincess Report Abuse No reason to blame it on the " physically disabled"...there are just lazy people trying to earn something without putting in the work. Make this process without any incentives and see what happens. Good people will still post to help other identify where the best gas prices are at.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:82,171 Points:3,281,170 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Feb 16, 2013 9:00:22 AM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse "The only vaguely reasonable excuse for these sorts of activities is that one is physically disabled and spends his/her time playing on the computer. Absent that it sounds to me like some form of mental illness." Really??? Now that is one narrow-minded and slightly disturbing view.
jrsva Champion Author Virginia Posts:9,999 Points:1,639,950 Joined:Jan 2006	Message Posted: Feb 16, 2013 12:34:06 AM Ignore jrsva Report Abuse The only vaguely reasonable excuse for these sorts of activities is that one is physically disabled and spends his/her time playing on the computer. Absent that it sounds to me like some form of mental illness.
kwzh Champion Author San Jose Posts:20,790 Points:3,710,915 Joined:Jul 2001	Message Posted: Feb 15, 2013 3:39:10 AM Ignore kwzh Report Abuse In the 1970s, I encountered BORE -- the world's most boring game. When you start it up, it displays a paragraph of text; then the main loop starts. It prompts, you type something and press Return. Repeat. The game ended if you failed to respond within the time limit (5 seconds, I think), or if you entered an empty line; your score was the number of lines you successfully entered. The program took steps to make it hard to automate. The only incentive for playing this stupid game was that when you set a new record, you got to replace the opening paragraph for other people to read. And that was enough -- people did play it and run up the counter. I guess my point is that (a) it shouldn't be surprising that some people's idea of "fun" includes "let's count to a million" (there are endless JFF topics in this class), and (b) some people like to collect big numbers of things, whether it be stamps, Facebook friends, GB buddies, or forum postings.
CampKohler Champion Author Sacramento Posts:9,681 Points:1,584,410 Joined:May 2007	Message Posted: Feb 14, 2013 10:08:29 PM Ignore CampKohler Report Abuse So Homerclub takes GB's advice and sends ten of them a Buddy Request. And he never, ever hears back from them....
ziyulu Champion Author Oklahoma City Posts:8,635 Points:1,629,620 Joined:Aug 2007	Message Posted: Feb 14, 2013 7:55:37 PM Ignore ziyulu Report Abuse Does GasBuddy limit the number of friends one can have? Facebook limits it to 5,000.
Gas_Buddy Champion Author Maryland Posts:26,197 Points:3,061,500 Joined:Aug 2004	Message Posted: Feb 14, 2013 7:30:48 PM Ignore Gas_Buddy Report Abuse Homerclub: "ome people I notice post 200 or more posts a day with 500,000 posts or more. Does anyone know the reason for it, they dont get anymore points, and they are all champion authors." The obvious answer to your question is, why not contact some of those members and ask them why they post so frequently? After all, they're the best people to tell you why they choose to post so frequently. As scoutmaster said, many are simply chatty people. This, the discussion categories, are what they do, what keeps them occupied, it's their hobby. For some of them at least. Check to see what topics they've posted in (and read their responses in those topics) and you'll likely find that most are responding multiple times in the topics that required one word, one number, or one widget responses. And, some, as has been noted in other discussions, have automated their responses in order to post a hundred or more responses per day. (There was (is?) one Maryland member who was proud that he created a program to automate his message posts and could be a leader in the number of entries he posted.) And, it's ego; it's a way to show off that you have more posts than the next person. The "Champion" author is, obviously a deceptive identification; it simply identifies posting X number of messages, and has nothing to do with the quality or substance or their response, or seriousness of the discussion topic. As for people who want to be buddies with virtually anyone and everyone that has posted in a topic in which they've posted, or with everyone who posts gas prices for the area they post prices, or with those who've reached "significant" icon or points levels, it's not much different than "friends on Facebook" or other social network websites. It's not as if they have many (if any) real friends on their list; it's simply "Hey, I've got X number..." or "Hey, I've got XXX number..." of "friends". Bottom line: It doesn't really mean much. What's frustrating is when they post single word responses or "okay" or "hmmm..." or " . " in substantive discussion categories and topics, or when they contact you (personally) to be their buddy, and you have no idea what topics (if any) you both discussed that prompted the other member to want to be your "buddy." Simply said, don't worry about it. They won't go away, and you won't miss anything by not paying attention to them. In my opinion.
scoutmaster Champion Author Pittsburgh Posts:82,171 Points:3,281,170 Joined:Mar 2003	Message Posted: Feb 14, 2013 4:25:04 PM Ignore scoutmaster Report Abuse Maybe they are just naturally chatty people.