Senior Users...?
 

I noticed a few folks have the title "senior user" adjacent to their sign-on avatars.

What gives with this ?

Do senior moments come with the title...? [img]wink.gif[/img]

Or is this a south-of-the border thing...?

Regards,

Pete... <img src="graemlins/yltype.gif" border="0" alt="[typing]" />

I believe that as you post or blather on, that you hit a imposed "senior" user title, I think it is at 500 posts, but I am not positive.

And, then, depending upon the 'quality' of the blathering, they become "Moderators".

Actually Wes,

Some of us moderators got "volutneered" in the first days just after our new Forum opened...

Pete... <img src="graemlins/yltype.gif" border="0" alt="[typing]" />

Pete,
I had to have a reply to Ed and the blathering bit.

But wasn't blathering such a good word to use, it can be taken many ways [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

Just to set the record straight about "Senior Users" They are not "old" people like me... they are those USERS that have made at least the arbitrary number of posts that the discussion software had set for a default... I think it might be 500, but I would have to search the admin control functions to find out...

Initially there was also a Junior User category, but we (admin folks) didn't think that appropriate so we just deleted it and everyone starts in the "User" category...

There is no other progression to any other "status" as far as I am aware.

The current crop of moderators were chosen to serve their current "sentence" in this capacity when we changed from the open format to the current discussion format. Some were volunteers and some were volunteered [img]biggrin.gif[/img] like Ed Tinker and Pete Ebbink.

We don't have any shortage of moderators at the present time, but those interested in serving as a moderator for an individual forum can send me a Private Message with an explanation as to why they feel so inclined, to be accompanied with a note from their psychologist where appropriate [img]smile.gif[/img] , those with no note from a psychologist will be encouraged to have their head examined...

I can guarantee you long hours, no fringe benefits and you will get paid twice what John D. Dok, and I get, (but the last time I multiplied it out, two times zero is still sero.)

What is the proper etiquette to use when addressing a "senior user"? I want to observe the proper decorum when communicating with such esteemed individuals. Would "Your excellency" be correct?

John S, <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" />

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An old time Systems Engineer should know better than deviding by "ZERO". <img src="graemlins/yltype.gif" border="0" alt="[typing]" />
I did once on the NASA APT Numerical Control System, Back in 1966, and that resulted in a "Core Dump" <img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" /> of the STAR System at Langley.
That was the cause that brought about Supressing Core Dumps as a automatic failure diagnostic.
Such can only be obtained by command by a Sys Eng like you for diag use only.
The printed stack of 0's and "1's was a foot deep.
Viggo <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" /> <img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" /> <img src="graemlins/offtopic.gif" border="0" alt="[offtopic]" />

Aaron, the proper etiquette would include "Your Excellency". But wit will allow you to incorporate titles such as:
Imperator,
Autokrator,
Emperador,
Basileus,
K�¶nig,
ErbgroÃ??herzog,
Comte Heredetaire,
Herzog,
Markgraf.

[quote]Originally posted by ViggoG:
<strong> The printed stack of 0's and "1's was a foot deep.
Viggo <img src="graemlins/roflmao.gif" border="0" alt="[hiha]" /> <img src="graemlins/c.gif" border="0" alt="[ouch]" /> <img src="graemlins/offtopic.gif" border="0" alt="[offtopic]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

Wow that dates you (of course - my answer might date me [img]smile.gif[/img] .... That was machine language in base 2, to program and debug the Z80 CPU. Great language, but somewhat troublesome if a "0" slipped into a "1" slot...

Been there - done that, as Machine Language was my first programming language - well before PLC/PL1, Fortan, C+, Cobol, VB, VBS, Java, (I could go on)........ [img]eek.gif[/img]

REALLY <img src="graemlins/offtopic.gif" border="0" alt="[offtopic]" /> I can beat that date John D. The first computers I worked on were designed in 1947, the same year I was born. They were rack mounted and used vacuum tubes and memory cores. The function they performed was secret...but I was trained to install, operate and repair them down to the discreet components... They don't teach core theory to too many folks today...and the school was 8 months long just to learn how to keep this one piece of equipment functional...

The memory was measured in bits, not bytes, not kilobytes, or megabytes or gigabytes or terabytes... working voltages were greater than -250 volts and speeds were less than 200 timing cycles a second. I could measure the timing by manually counting the cycles on an ocilloscope.

Computer programming back then was accomplished by writing the code out by hand on 80 column sheets of paper and then punching cards to match the coding.

And the equivalent of today's messages were transmitted and received manually on punched Baudot code tape. Know what a transmitter-distributor is? How about a reperforator? Have you ever seen a TT-4 teletypewriter? AN/FGC-58?

Well enough of a core dump for tonight... see you guys tomorrow if the Good Lord decides I am supposed to open my old eyes in the morning...

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John & John & Viggo,

I've not used any of those, but I've used a manual typewriter, and I slept at a Holiday Inn last nite. <img src="graemlins/bigok.gif" border="0" alt="[thumbsup]" />

You OLD foggies!

okay, I know the truth every time I comb my gray hair. (that is more than one Hugh).

Wes, I don't think those are all words, and if they are, not appropriate if I have to get a dikshunnary out [img]biggrin.gif[/img]