Pendraken Miniatures Forum

....And then on to 2,000  :)

Cheers - Phil

Huzzah!

*fingers crossed*

I've got some friends who may join - Canard-boy, Eider-lad, Goose E Gander, Bill, Web-foot Willie and Ryan Gosling.

:D

There are an awful lot of (ahem) members waiting to join.......But I'm pretty sure they're all spambots.
(Maybe a couple are real.  :-\)

Cheers - Phil

We could do with a couple more Field Marshals about the place......  :D

Quote from: Tawa on 20 March 2016, 05:17:07 PM
We could do with a couple more Field Marshals about the place......  :D

Well most of the ones we have are going to die off soon  ;)

IanS

 :o :o :o
Two thirds of them are mere striplings.  ;)
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: ianrs54 on 21 March 2016, 05:57:59 AM
Well most of the ones we have are going to die off soon  ;)

IanS

For they are jolly good fellows,
for they are jolly good fellows,
etc etc.....

Promotions in the post,
promotions in the post.......

Quote from: Techno on 20 March 2016, 03:46:18 PM
There are an awful lot of (ahem) members waiting to join.......But I'm pretty sure they're all spambots.
(Maybe a couple are real.  :-\)

Cheers - Phil

Well I WAS a Spambot but achieved sentience late last June - so there may be more than you think.

Gentlemen I give you a short war and a bloody battle.

IanS

We've got 46 members awaiting approval from this weekend, I'll bet 44 of them are spammers...!

EDIT: I was wrong... they were all spammers.  >:(

 X_X

I thought there was a chance of a couple of being real.

Having said that...There are a few 'bots' that I'm beginning to recognise now......They turn up so damn regularly.......Barstewards.  >:( >:( >:( >:(

Cheers - Phil

If nothing else.....We've reached 12,000 topics , now.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 22 March 2016, 07:45:25 AM
If nothing else.....We've reached 12,000 topics , now.

Cheers - Phil

That's a lot of hazelnuts and even more Squirrel S*&^ :)

Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 22 March 2016, 11:01:54 AM
That's a lot of hazelnuts and even more Squirrel S*&^ :)

(https://40.media.tumblr.com/a0c8f8168729a39f13307c3074bb30c8/tumblr_mmckvhbwOo1qcwss4o1_500.png)

Good grief ! :o

Leon's found a real person  amongst the spambots !
Two to go. ;)

Welcome, TSmitter  :-h

Cheers - Phil

Shouldn't we wait until a member posts before welcoming him/her ?

IanS

It's just so  nice to see a real person amongst all the dozens of Spambots, I thought I'd celebrate..  ;)

Cheers - Phil

He's posted now ... so ... "Hurrah!" :)

One to go !  :)

Cheers - Phil.

But of the 1800, how many are

a) Active?
b) Inactive?
c) Lurkers?
d) No longer around?

I did think of doing a poll, but of course it would come up with 99% active, and 1% idiot.

Not a clue, Nobby !

Cheers - Phil (Who has only JUST noticed the latest line on your signature....Loved that  !  ;D ;D ;D ;D)

Quote from: fsn on 29 March 2016, 04:36:00 PM
(...) and 1% idiot.

Someone called me ?
:P   :P
:D

Quote from: fsn on 29 March 2016, 04:36:00 PM
But of the 1800, how many are
a) Active?
b) Inactive?
c) Lurkers?
d) No longer around?

Of the current members:

- Around 250 have logged in within the past week.
- Around 350 have logged in within the past month.
- Around 700 have logged in within the past year.
- Around 200 have never logged into their accounts.  They still receive the newsletters though.

- 700 have never made a single post.
- The top 16 most prolific posters account for over 50% of the total posts made on the Forum.  Gobby gits...!

:D

Oh....Do tell.  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Shall we do the top ten. Pop Pickers ?  :P :-[

Cheers - Phil

Leon
Me
You
FSN
Nik (guilty in absentia)
Nosher
Ithorial
Orcs
Sunjester
Mollinary 

Tawa, FK, Chad and dGuy in reserve on the bench!!!

Forbes, Jack and our illustrious Kiwi contingent of Paulr and Pierre are waiting for medical inspection

There is a Stats button on the home page...

Hertsblue
Leman
FierceKitty
IanRS
Steve J

round out the list

Nosher, Ithorial, Orcs, Sunjester, Mollinary aren't there. And other than FK non of the subs.

You need a good 4.5k posts to get into the top 10.

Bizarrely, can't access that!

Quote from: fred. on 29 March 2016, 08:41:05 PM
There is a Stats button on the home page...

Which, alas, I am not authorised to use. Presumably only the forum Illuminati get access to this secret knowledge. Cue conspiracy theories  :)

Clearly I know the right way to click, or is it the secret click...

But we all know it's not just about quantity.

Westie, though not in that top ten regularly adds a certain je ne sais quoi to the forum. Like duck flavoured ice-cream.

Tawa posts with stiletto efficiency. It goes with his fish-nets.

D_guy and jimduncanuck (?) come in with some wrong-side-of-the-pond wholesomeness. One can almost scent the wide open spaces in their work. I do think D_guy once posted the word "gee" which makes my point exactly.

Bigjackmac deserves a place on the contributors for his recreation of Tom Clancy novels in 10mm, and his novel use of pipe cleaners. (Does anyone use pipe cleaners to clean pipes anymore?)

Dave posts but rarely. However, when he does, the entire forum comes to a respectful hush until it has read and digested the prognostication of the Darker Lord.

Some of us though, can achieve both quality and quantity



I feel an awards ceremony coming on.

Quote from: fsn on 30 March 2016, 07:33:24 AM
jimduncanuck (?) come in with some wrong-side-of-the-pond wholesomeness. One can almost scent the wide open spaces in their work.

"MacDuff: Stands Scotland where it did?" - Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3 :)

Where?

Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 March 2016, 08:24:34 AM
Where?

Somewhere in The Americas apparently!

Quote from: Ithoriel on 30 March 2016, 08:56:09 AM
Somewhere in The Americas apparently!

Just so:
http://www.mapquest.com/us/ct/scotland-282905729

More specifically not

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh,_Indiana

:)

In this country, with that size population, Edinburgh, Indiana, would be a village. Bet they pronounce it Eedin burg.

Well, stick that in your caber and toss it!

 :o :o :o :o :o (That's for 'Bob')

But........Huzzah !!  :)...Another real person has taken us up to 1800 members !!  <:-P :-bd <:-P

Cheers - Phil

Hang on though. There have been some snide insinuations that Duckman is not a real person. If this is so, then we're back at 1799, and we need to take the Marengo Prize away from whoever's just joined and give it to the next person to join.

Quote from: fsn on 30 March 2016, 07:33:24 AM

D_guy and jimduncanuck (?) come in with some wrong-side-of-the-pond wholesomeness. One can almost scent the wide open spaces in their work. I do think D_guy once posted the word "gee" which makes my point exactly.

Which side of the pond do you think I come from?

We just took a head count over here and Jim didn't answer when his name was called. Not absolute proof since we were short about 217 but a good bet he is not from here. Hope this helps clear things up!

Yah! 1800 (unless fsn makes a formal request for a re-count in which case I know some folks in Florida can help with that).

Quote from: d_Guy on 30 March 2016, 08:49:32 PM

We just took a head count over here and Jim didn't answer when his name was called. Not absolute proof since we were short about 217 but a good bet he is not from here. Hope this helps clear things up!

I'll be over in 31 days but am only staying for 28 days this time.

Jim, I think some people are under the impression that you are a Canuk rather than a Scot.

Quote from: Leman on 31 March 2016, 07:46:07 AM

Jim, I think some people are under the impression that you are a Canuk rather than a Scot.

I noticed.

Quote from: Leman on 31 March 2016, 07:46:07 AM
Jim, I think some people are under the impression that you are a Canuk rather than a Scot.

That's just not cricket!


"Ey....."

Or baseball!

Not Hockey either....

I believe my member number was/is 1800! This is probably the most helpful and resourceful forum or website re wargaming that I have encountered.

I'd look around a bit more if I were you.  :P

The forum does seem to jump around between the better parts of the History Channel, Discovery, Red Hot Girls and Tots TV - with a dash of the Open University in the mix.   

I think anyone with a membership number 1800-1815 should be forced to take the name of a Napoleonic Battle. From now on, you, CarlLeyland, should be known as "Marengo".

Quote from: fsn on 05 April 2016, 11:25:03 AM
The forum does seem to jump around between the better parts of the History Channel, Discovery, Red Hot Girls and Tots TV - with a dash of the Open University in the mix.   

You say that like it's a bad thing!

Quote from: fsn on 05 April 2016, 11:25:03 AM
I think anyone with a membership number 1800-1815 should be forced to take the name of a Napoleonic Battle. From now on, you, CarlLeyland, should be known as "Marengo".

Just as well you're not into cookery too or he might wind up as Chicken Marengo! :)

Besides, 1800 - he should be Hyksos or Troy VI!

Since CE/BCE can't be resolved there is another ominous portend concerning Carl (Marengo/Hyksos):
6+6+6 x 1000!  I propose "Dark Lord" or "He who shall not be named".

That name is already taken round here...  ;)

Quote from: mad lemmey on 05 April 2016, 01:27:28 PM
That name is already taken round here...  ;)

Quite so! Apologies! Had not thought this through!  :)

We are kind of proving fsn's point here aren't we :)

Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2016, 02:27:20 PM
We are kind of proving fsn's point here aren't we :)

Well I confess to having watched a couple of Biblical Prophesy programs on the Discovery channel - but I wouldn't call that hard proof.

What's in a name?

Quote from: d_Guy on 05 April 2016, 02:38:43 PM

Well I confess to having watched a couple of Biblical Prophesy programs on the Discovery channel - but I wouldn't call that hard proof.

If you think Discovery Channel is bad you want to look at YouTube (that is not a recommendation).

Quote from: fsn on 30 March 2016, 07:33:24 AMTawa posts with stiletto efficiency. It goes with his fish-nets.

I only wear them because you ask nicely.  ;D

Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2016, 12:10:42 PMJust as well you're not into cookery too or he might wind up as Chicken Marengo! :)

Today's Special that is.......  ;D

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 05 April 2016, 02:41:44 PM
If you think Discovery Channel is bad you want to look at YouTube (that is not a recommendation).

Loads of good stuff on YouTube. Certainly more good stuff than there is on TV.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2016, 03:28:58 PM

Loads of good stuff on YouTube. Certainly more good stuff than there is on TV.

OK, the good stuff is good, but the bad stuff is really bad!!

Quote from: jimduncanuk on 05 April 2016, 02:38:53 PM
What's in a name?

Letters.....?  :D

James ......?

Quote from: Leman on 06 April 2016, 03:53:46 PM
James ......?

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/JamesTheBestOf.jpg/220px-JamesTheBestOf.jpg)

Sit down?

Next to me?

It's why I never travel on the bus.

Dammit.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 05 April 2016, 12:10:42 PM
You say that like it's a bad thing!

Just as well you're not into cookery too or he might wind up as Chicken Marengo! :)

Besides, 1800 - he should be Hyksos or Troy VI!

1800 - George III?

I'm waiting for the chap whose 'membership number' was 1815 to post.....He hasn't yet.  ;)

Cheers - Phil

I hope his name is Walter Lieu!

Sadly not, Nobby.... ;D ;D ;D ;D

Cheers - Phil