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naomi24 | 15:21 Sat 23rd May 2020 | ChatterBank

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Someone was recently whooping for joy that his thread had achieved 100 posts, and someone else has just said something about a poster wanting to achieve 100 posts. What’s that all about? Why is it important to anyone to achieve a specific number of posts?

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johnny.5

probably to do with badges

"we don't need no stinkin' badges "

ummmm

It isn't important, not to me anyway but it seems to make some posters feel popular.

emmie

some people like it, perhaps it makes them feel liked, or important in some strange way. Personally i normally avoid them because there isn't enough time to read all the responses.

Mamyalynne

I think it's just one of those things, sometimes a topic just hots the spot and it's quite pleasing.

Like last night's fun thread on changing Band names that romped to 100 in a little over 30 minutes and then some.

You do feel a bit lonesome if you get no replies on a thread but I have long since got over that.

elliemay1

I enjoyed the changing Band names post, some great answers on there

Mamyalynne

'Hits the spot' oops

Yes, I did too Ellie - a bit of lighthearted fun.

mallyh

i'm happy if I get one reply lol x

Arksided

Yeah Patsy's thread was fun for all, no divisions. reached a century in less than forty minutes.

bhg481

I posted a couple of days ago and only got one reply - it did make it easy to give mally BA.

Peter Pedant

// Someone was recently whooping for joy that his thread had achieved 100 posts,//
oh that was me! here

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1707600.html
and here

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1706944.html

so contribute ad lib. roll up. roll up! the more the better

so why? Bean counters count beans perhaps? Goes back ( writes PP after deep thought) to my dear fathers funeral when there were 200 letters of condolence after his funeral. My dear bereaved mother and recent widow said 200 golly! ( and kept them until her own death)
and a member of the close family - can the reader guess what gender she was? asked as my family do in times of stress, "what she gloating for den? would 400 be better?" Being graceless clearly runs in the PP family(*)
and reader, I forebore from tweeting - "yes actually" and unnaturally kept silent.

Has any reader thrown a party where no one turned up? a friend has. No two frenz have. No three I was one. And I have posed a question where no one replied [it is there some where] so 100 replies I thought was a quantum step ( rather a large quantum step) upward.

Naomis point has been made before - NJ to be exact but of course not so eloquently- NJ's view is that numbers may not mean anything. Unfortunately he was referring to epidemics and dead people ( numbers of). A point he had made before he loudly boasted. I retorted with a typical PP off the point inconsequential, "stupid" remark ( it depended if you were one of them)

Now - by a strange co incidence I have also recently posted on a second unrelated subject - " I find it incredible that on a scientific subject of safety there can be 20 consecutive replies which say absolutely nothing". Can the reader guess which two were at each others throats? as usual. but number we can now see do not matter

Life is often filled more with questions than answers

(*)also attended a funeral where the priest turned around and pointed and said "those two are responsible for the deceasted's death!" - there were no cries of "that is far too few!" from the congregation and er mourners

Peter Pedant

I liked the name change one
didnt get the hang of change one letter tho