10,000 posts, wooo!

[Ashley]

If you look at your profile, it gives you an estimation of how many posts each user has per day...but somehow, I think you guys meant how many posts we get per day total. Oh, and the nozinator is not available for a while, so we may have to put this on hold.

[Mithrandir]

LOL. You mean, unlike all our other projects going on right now, which we complete in record breaking time, this one will take a while?

[Rashiir]

Millyfan, you definitely should have said that it was root beer.

[MillyFan]

-^.^- LOL, yeah!

[uc pseudonym]

You know, Dee Dee Warren is going to have his name almost immortalized, just by random chance...

[MillyFan]

her name.

[uc pseudonym]

Shows how much I research anything. Umm... is there anything to the argument that unknown pronouns shift to the male gender? It works kind of like that in Spanish...

And hey, her account has disappeared...

[Gypsy]

Wow ... so lost.

[Technomancer]

I don't think there's any rule like that in English. Presumably, if you're referring to someone using the third person pronoun you already know their gender. Of course, you could always rearrange the sentence to be gender-neutral (eg. Dee Dee Waren's name...).

PS. root beer's good, but birch beer's better.

[Ashley]

And hey, her account has disappeared...

Oh, that's my fault. See, I pruninate dead/inactive members every so often to keep things nice and current.

[Gypsy]

Still lost ... and yet so at home being so.

[uc pseudonym]

I don't think there's any rule like that in English. Presumably, if you're referring to someone using the third person pronoun you already know their gender. Of course, you could always rearrange the sentence to be gender-neutral (eg. Dee Dee Waren's name...).

Thou takest me too literally. I was kidding.

Oh, and about pruning dead members. That would explain why the number of members atop the site is different than the number that we actually list. Perhaps the nozzinator can change this whenever he comes back.

[Gypsy]

Just out of curiosity .. why?

[Rashiir]

Well, this is what dictionary.com says:

Usage Note: Traditionally the pronouns he, him, and his have been used as generic or gender-neutral singular pronouns, as in A novelist should write about what he knows best and No one seems to take any pride in his work anymore. Since the early 20th century, however, this usage has come under increasing criticism for reflecting and perpetuating gender stereotyping. ·Defenders of the traditional usage have argued that the masculine pronouns he, his, and him can be used generically to refer to men and women. This analysis of the generic use of he is linguistically doubtful. If he were truly a gender-neutral form, we would expect that it could be used to refer to the members of any group containing both men and women. But in fact the English masculine form is an odd choice when it refers to a female member of such a group. There is something plainly disconcerting about sentences such as Each of the stars of As Good As It Gets [i.e., Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt] won an Academy Award for his performance. In this case, the use of his forces the reader to envision a single male who stands as the representative member of the group, a picture that is at odds with the image that comes to mind when we picture the stars of As Good As It Gets. Thus he is not really a gender-neutral pronoun; rather, it refers to a male who is to be taken as the representative member of the group referred to by its antecedent. The traditional usage, then, is not simply a grammatical convention; it also suggests a particular pattern of thought. ·It is clear that many people now routinely construct their remarks to avoid generic he, usually using one of two strategies: changing to the plural, so they is used (which is often the easiest solution) or using compound and coordinate forms such as he/she or he or she (which can be cumbersome in sustained use). In some cases, the generic pronoun can simply be dropped or changed to an article with no change in meaning. The sentence A writer who draws on personal experience for material should not be surprised if reviewers seize on that fact is complete as it stands and requires no pronoun before the word material. The sentence Every student handed in his assignment is just as clear when written Every student handed in the assignment. ·Not surprisingly, the opinion of the Usage Panel in such matters is mixed. While 37 percent actually prefer the generic his in the sentence A taxpayer who fails to disclose the source of ___ income can be prosecuted under the new law, 46 percent prefer a coordinate form like his or her; 7 percent felt that no pronoun was needed in the sentence; 2 percent preferred an article, usually the; and another 2 percent overturned tradition by advocating the use of generic her, a strategy that brings the politics of language to the reader's notice. Thus a clear majority of the Panel prefers something other than his. The writer who chooses to use generic he and its inflected forms in the face of the strong trend away from that usage may be viewed as deliberately calling attention to traditional gender roles or may simply appear to be insensitive.

[Dee Dee Warren]

You know, Dee Dee Warren is going to have his name almost immortalized, just by random chance...

Dang you guys deleted me

[Dee Dee Warren]

Oh, and about pruning dead members.

I'm not dead yet.

[Jaltus-bot]

I'm not dead yet.

Riiiight.

[Syaoran]

Me and my bro are still strong

[CobaltAngel]

Dude! Somebody dug deep for this one! Holy crap, lol.

[Mr_Anderson]

i no! well, were almost at like 300,000 now.

[Ashley]

Sorry Dee Dee, but we usually prune the list every 3-6 months for those who haven't logged in for that time frame. No offense meant.

[Aka-chan]

Out of curiosity, does that post count include Goof-off posts as well, even if they aren't in individual post counts?

[Kura Ookami]

How many members total have joined in the past then? It's surely moire than the 2000 number that's displayed.

[uc pseudonym]

Out of curiosity, does that post count include Goof-off posts as well, even if they aren't in individual post counts?

This is a question I have wondered about myself, so I cannot answer it.

How many members total have joined in the past then? It's surely moire than the 2000 number that's displayed.

Roughly 4080 total members.

[Dee Dee Warren]

Sorry Dee Dee, but we usually prune the list every 3-6 months for those who haven't logged in for that time frame. No offense meant.

Ashley you need to keep me! I am a slacker but I want to stay a member.

[uc pseudonym]

We also do not delete anyone with a fair number of posts. If you could find something to say one or two more times I think you would escape the pruning and remain a member regardless of inactivity.

Meanwhile, this is quite an old thread, and I do not believe it needs to be bumped any longer. Locked.