ok, so I haven't explored our forum nooks and crannies much since the upgrade, but apparently, I'm notable now, and we have a page rank to prove it. As such, in an effort to keep my posts notable, I've decided to bring cake. https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?members/
Welcome to the club. A slightly closer review of the list reveals the fact that almost half the names are either defunct or inactive. That means you're poised to jump into the Top 10.
Well, Jennifer, now that you're an author, you've joined the ranks of people who are of high authority and regard in nontraditional education. The only way to increase your status from here is to get sued, which, I believe, has only happened to John Bear, Rich Douglas, and me. But I wouldn't wish that one on you and, since you don't spend your time trashing degree mills, I wouldn't anticipate such an action in your near future. I find it interesting that, after a year or so, Rich is still in 4th place on the list. I find humor in that because, if he were to apply for a position and his prospective employer were to find his posts and look some of them up from the most recent backward, the first ones they would pull up are the psychotic diatribes that got him banned. It's a good reminder that what we post today can come back and bite us in the butt years later. I also find it interesting that, despite posting in excess of 11,000 times, Rich has only one "like." How, um, appropriate. Meanwhile, I see that I haven't even made the list since, after all these years, I still have less than 1,000 posts. I'm quite satisfied with that, and will continue to go for, um, quality versus quantity.
I haven't been sued but the Innocence Project recently referred to me as a "so called expert" and "inadequately trained." That's got to give me some street, I mean, forum cred.
I'll try my best to stay out of the lawsuit club for as long as possible I don't generally stir the pot, which prompted me to do a new calculation. Thinking about the "likes" am I remembering correctly that our old platform didn't allow for likes? For some reason I think that was only activated under our new platform, which would explain Rich's situation a little bit - or why some high posting members have zero likes. But, because I have 18 more minutes left on my hair-dye timer, I decided to calculate the likes as a percentage of each Notable's post count.... just to see how likable a person really is. I also calculated yours - and you're the winner! 17,092 Kizmet 2.1% Likable Moderator, from East Coast Messages: 17,092 Likes Received: 360 Trophy Points: 83 13,714 Ted Heiks <1% Likable Moderator and Distinguished Senior Member, 56, from Ottawa County, Ohio Messages: 13,714 Likes Received: 30 Trophy Points: 48 11,810 SteveFoerster 1.9% Likable Resident Gadfly, from Northern Virginia & Dominica, West Indies Messages: 11,810 Likes Received: 226 Trophy Points: 63 11,356 Rich Douglas <1% Likable Active Member Messages: 11,356 Likes Received: 1 Trophy Points: 38 9,651 Bruce <1% Likable Moderator, from Boston, MA Messages: 9,651 Likes Received: 21 Trophy Points: 38 8,512 Abner <1% Likable Well-Known Member, from Cyberspace Messages: 8,512 Likes Received: 67 Trophy Points: 48 7,772 Randell1234 Not Likable Moderator Messages: 7,772 Likes Received: 0 Trophy Points: 0 6,445 SurfDoctor Not Likable Moderator, from California Messages: 6,445 Likes Received: 0 Trophy Points: 0 6,438 Maniac Craniac 1% Likable Moderator, from punoɹɐ ƃuıƃuɐɥ ʇsnɾ Messages: 6,438 Likes Received: 67 Trophy Points: 48 6,395 Johann 1.9% Likable Well-Known Member Messages: 6,395 Likes Received: 125 Trophy Points: 63 6,344 John Bear Senior Member, Male Messages: 6,344 Likes Received: 36 Trophy Points: 48 6,263 uncle janko Not Likable member Messages: 6,263 Likes Received: 0 Trophy Points: 0 5,781 decimon 3.5% Likable Well-Known Member, Male Messages: 5,781 Likes Received: 202 Trophy Points: 63 5,688 BillDayson Not Likable New Member, from California, USA Messages: 5,688 Likes Received: 0 Trophy Points: 0 5,424 me again <1% Likable Well-Known Member, from USA Messages: 5,424 Likes Received: 31 Trophy Points: 48 5,092 Ian Anderson <1% Likable Active Member, from Colorado, USA Messages: 5,092 Likes Received: 5 Trophy Points: 38 4,406 Bill Huffman <1% Likable Active Member, Male, 67, from San Diego, CA, USA Messages: 4,406 Likes Received: 5 Trophy Points: 38 4,402 RFValve <1% Likable Active Member Messages: 4,402 Likes Received: 7 Trophy Points: 38 4,272 nosborne48 <1% Likable Well-Known Member, 64, from Las Cruces NM Messages: 4,272 Likes Received: 25 Trophy Points: 48 4,142 cookderosa 1.4% Likable Resident Chef, Female, from Illinois--> North Carolina Messages: 4,142 Likes Received: 59 Trophy Points: 48 936 Steve Levicoff 3.6% Likable Active Member, from East Coast Messages: 936 Likes Received: 34 Trophy Points: 28
I'm very pleased to see that Uncle Steve, that old curmudgeon, is the most likeable. Mostly because his curmudgeonliness (is that a real word?) is actually bigger than my bitchiness. And so maybe that means I have some wiggle room for increasing my, ummm "personality?"
Jennifer calculated everyone with the highest number of posts. Then, she threw in Steve out of courtesy, but he's not on the list of people with the highest number of posts. If you switch over to notable members by likes, FTFaculty has a better likes to post number ratio. Phdtobe is also higher at 5.17%. There's also a list of notable members by points.
That's bizarre, because my colleagues don't seem to like me very much. Just barely got through six year review by a single vote (vote of the senior faculty in my department). Evidently, 38% of my esteemed colleagues think I'm an intolerable bleeping bleeper--on the bright side, 62% think I'm a tolerable bleeping bleeper! : )
Those academic trolls are a bunch of bleeping bleepers. Send them my way because I've got a surplus of bitchiness at my disposal and I know just how to use it!
Wow, maybe you just need to get to know me better. You might have voted to have me tarred and feathered!
I don't doubt you could carry it out! So here's the back story. Most of my colleagues, I love--fine people, surprisingly sane for academia. Just this one person, a tenured full prof, who's gone completely off the rails the last few years. This is not the same person I first met when I started here many years ago, that was a happy, decent person and a much-loved professor, high student ratings. Solid as a rock. But now their student ratings are tanking, have dropped at least a standard deviation in the last few years. Used to be a family person, but the last few years (after 20 years of stability) has churned through a spouse and several significant others and then now, is suddenly starting to get tatted up, multiple tats (Now, I have NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING against tats: dad had a tat, step-mom had a tat, so nothing against that (I swear, Abner!), but when a middle aged person suddenly starts getting multiple ones after always being conservative in style, there's something going on there...just the same as if a person is all tatted up and loves their body art, but then suddenly, in middle age, decides they hate them and pays big bucks to have them removed--when that happens, something's going on). Anyway, this formerly decent person has suddenly started: 1). getting sauced at the office parties and making passes at colleagues, 2). churning up spats with others at the university, 3). deciding that they just hate two people: the department chair and me. So this person, who's all smiles to my face, is now trying to destroy me behind my back, and I'm wondering what the heck is going on? Doesn't like my style? Am I too casual? Resents the fact that I have all this family round me and this person is now an empty nester with no significant other (because they ran them all off, ahem)? Jealous of my higher student ratings? (heck, if they are, why don't they just change back to the way they were, this person used to be so good, did such a bang-up job before this sudden drop off the cliff). Maybe it's just a really severe midlife crisis. I went through a period of perfect blankety-blankery about a decade and change ago, so I know how it can happen. I don't know. But long and short this person tried to destroy me at my six-year review and nearly succeeded in swaying the vote. The chair told me all about it, told me what was said. It was untrue, I swear--but I wasn't there to defend myself. All I know is the dept chair told me, in so many words, "I can't control this person, they're a loud backstabber, make sure you have another person in the room whenever you talk with them, watch out, watch your back, I can't help you because this person is a full prof and has ingratiated themselves with the dean and just keeps going behind my back doing the same thing to me that they're doing to you." Anyway, I, a mere junior faculty member, survived the attack of a full tenured prof. Thank God! To those who got this far, thanks for putting up with my rant! : )
Well, as long as he also hates the department chair you're good. Sit back and watch him craft his own fate. You won't even have to do anything.
A tenured full professor? Unfortunately, I'd bet that his fate will be to keep making others miserable until he either retires or dies.
