At 4/27/07 01:25 AM, gfoxcook wrote: True enough. But it's not just that people at higher levels are less likely to give up. It's also just that there are much less of them, the density is lower. Every now and then someone in the top 10 or 20 exp stops depositing and drops. We just don't notice because there's not as much rankchanging going on as there is down around #200, when someone can jump +5 in a week.
True... are +5 jumps in just one week still all that common in the ~#200 range, though?
The time is not that much IMO, even cumulatively speaking. If you just have one account on NG that you care (or cared) about to the point of needing exp for it every day, you can spend more time brushing your teeth every single day than depositing on NG. To me, that's a no-brainer.
Still. Suppose it takes you a minute to deposit on NG every day; you already have your browser open, but you need to navigate there, check out five movies and vote on these, so I think one minute is certainly not too much.
That's about 6 hours per year, then - so after four years, you've spent an entire day doing nothing but deposit on NG. And that's a full 24 hours, too, from midnight to midnight, without any sleep, no getting out, no eating, no toilet breaks, no doing anything else...
And of course, "it just takes X, that's not much" is not necessarily a real argument, anyway. Yeah, one minute a day might not be much, but is NG the only site you're only staying semi-active on in case you come back some day? Cruft does accumulate, and every ocean is made from individual drops (well, not literally, but you know what I mean).
I often notice the same thing with money, myself; people often say things like "oh, this and that is really very cheap, surely you can afford that", but while they are technically right, the problem is that if I wanted to buy *all* the things that are very cheap and that I surely could afford, I'd still end up paying more money than I actually have. And while no single purchase would be responsible for putting me over my limit, I'd still have to cut down on individual purchases to consolidate my finances.
Time is similar. I only have 24 hours a day, many of which I already have to use for other, more important things, and I can't just do everything I want - and I couldn't even if everything, individually, just took a minute per day to do.
Of course, I myself am still on NG because it still has value to me, but I can also understand people who feel it doesn't anymore, because I've felt (and feel) the same way about a number of other sites and because not wasting time on those every day for years (even if it's just a miniscule amount each day) has made me feel better, too.
They're both fine, but the former is exactly the one I meant seeing too much of. It's the "average anime ASCII smiley," as opposed to the . one, which is far rarer.
*noddles* That's true. I tend to use ^.^ rather than ^_^ myself since I think the former's cuter, but I still like both of them.
Goodness, I remember a time in the early nineties when I used smileys like ":-)" and thought that ":)" (without the dash) looked weird. Things sure have changed...
It's not really offensive or disturbing to me on a conscious level, it's more the visceral gut reaction you can't help if you have it... you just have it.
That's what I meant - you kinda lose that gut reaction after a while. It's still there, of course, but you just become indifferent, to an extent.
At 4/27/07 04:13 AM, Coop83 wrote: Well, as more people seem to be logging more saves per day than blams, it is only a matter of time before more people reach 10k Saves before 10k Blams. You and me are both far too experienced for this to happen to us, but there are others who will find it.
*noddles* Well, who knows - maybe I'll have more saves than blams myself some day, too. :P My ratio at least sure has gone up quite a bit in the last 6 to 9 months or so (and possibly before that, too; I'd have to check to be sure, though)...
What are you whinging about? At least you'll still be an EGSC!
Unless they raise the threshold to 60001 points. >:)
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