Honeyelf, I think your assessment of Cortese's use of "Meissen" is right on the button. Or lips. Or cheeks. Or complexion. :)

Thanks, Bunnie, for your answer. And enjoy the film! :)

OT about public ratings of recognition...

Bunnie, I didn't even learn what the green boxes were for until a few weeks ago, when I asked here in The Faculty. "Reputation points! Hunh!" I didn't even notice there was such a thing as "negative points." I'll bet I've got some, too, since I have posted swoony pics in here before. :D (And took them down after any negative comment, or in anticipation of one. :) ) But I never knew to even look for "negative points." I'll have to go see how many I've had. It makes me feel sort of pleasurably reprobate to think of it. Just as long as they don't kick me off the thread! :z: ;)

Anyway, I can't say I really like this "reputation" thing you have here, now that I know about it. Unlike the thicker-hided of you, I am both insecure and vain enough to care about my little green boxes, now that I know what they mean. :rolleyes: For example, one of you nice K-D-er's added one to my tally of green boxes, right after I asked what they meant, and I thought, "Look! Oh, goody, goody, goody! Another green box! Now I have as many as A! (*happy face*). Oh, but, look ... (*sad face*): I still don't have nearly as many as B. And, oh, dear! -- now I have more than C, and C's posts are consistently better than mine" (*wrings hands in guilt over having received undeserved green-box-glory*).

To be honest with you, this is not a part of my character that needs encouraging. :cool: As I lurk here and elsewhere in LotR fandom, I have read the comments of many who say they are immune to whether or not they receive public strokes for their contributions -- whether in the form of comments, little green boxes, awards, reviews, or having their work posted at this or that desired site. Sadly, I am not. I know it is silly and counter-productive, but both the granting and the witholding of public recognition do have an effect on me (mostly not to the good, I am afraid).

I can't be the only one who is vulnerable in this way. As I lurk in threads here or in LJ's, weeping and the gnashing of teeth seems to erupt regularly from both those who feel slighted (in terms of public recognition for their contributions), and those who feel put upon to have to acknowledge the work of others. Perhaps because I am reading the HP books, finally, every time I notice the little green boxes now, I am thinking, "Ten points from Gryffindor!" or, "Fifty points to Slytherin!" ;)

When it comes to the little green boxes, I much prefer what they have done at TORc, which is simply to put little symbols up to represent the number of posts. I think this is supposed to recognize folks for their time spent posting regularly. If someone's ideas get singled out for special comment (negatively or positively), other posters do that right in the threads, in relation to the particular idea or argument -- whether affirming or controverting. They do have annual awards for recognizing posters in a wider way. This is not to imply that things are ginger-peachy over there, either, of course (as anyone knows from its massive bleed of its posters last year, over the "Board 77" debacle :( ).

Anyway, Bunnie, I look forward to seeing your caps over in the swoon department. :k

~ Mechtild

Honeyelf
Mmmm, Naaaah. That's a person who studies languages, or knows language. I'm looking for a word for people who love words. "Graphologist" isn't quite it; that describes someone who loves hand-writing (I'm one of those too). It's probably some sesquipidalian, ungainly word that I'm looking for...

No, you're right, linguist isn't it, ( means, specifically, an expert at differant languages ) and nor is graphologist ( means a handwriting expert ) ...

Well, the nearest that the Oxford English Dictionary ( that bastion of correct English usage ) can come up with, is the word 'lexicographer', which means a person who is SO interested in words and their meanings,that they spend their whole time compiling dictionaries and the like !! :D

I'm not sure that that is exactly what Elijah means when he says that he loves words, but I reckon we could brand him as a lexiphile, or something like that...lexi meaning word, and phile meaning a lover of..
What do you think ?:D

Mechtild
I, too, am not really sure what I feel about these little green boxes...reputation points can be off putting for anyone who is a little sensitive about what other people think of them...not myself, personally, but I know of at least one other person here who definitely doesn't like them at all, and was, at one time, considering leaving because of them....I, myself, don't really take much notice of them really...I tend to forget that they are there...
The system used at Tolkien Online is good, I think...at least you get a real sense of achievement when you get another horse or another shield to add to your collection...although, personally, I regret the loss of the wonderful array of swords when you hit another hundred number, but that may be just me... :rolleyes:

negative reputation points for posting that Flipper screencap.

For a screencap? Most odd...


To be honest with you, this is not a part of my character that needs encouraging.

Well, keep in mind that anyone who posted to the "Rep points" thread in Announcements generally racked in the points right well - and a lot of people there said they flung points at random after hitting their pals. So they're not always that meaningful. :p Didn't like the rep points when they showed up (don't like that threads can be graded, either), but I like that I can compliment someone on a post without filling my PM box (I don't get a lot of PMs but I'm really lazy about cleaning it :p ). I couldn't give them for a while and got out of the habit, though.

I'm waiting for someone to start the new thread so I can once again delude myself into thinking I'm keeping up...

Sheryl

The system used at Tolkien Online is good, I think...at least you get a real sense of achievement when you get another horse or another shield to add to your collection...although, personally, I regret the loss of the wonderful array of swords when you hit another hundred number, but that may be just me...
I loved getting my "horsey." It was so cute!

Shilohmm, thanks for those comments. You are right about the reputation boxes being a quickie way to comment favourably on a post, now that I have tried doing it. Except you can only do it once for each person, dang it all! I wish I could make a comment that way on people's posts all the time, even if they didn't show up as little boxes in their signatures. It is very easy and informal and brief.

For the first year I was here, I didn't know about the little boxes. So, TORc-style, I have told people right in the threads how much I appreciated their views or the quality of their writing. Then, as soon as I understood what "PM's" were (at TORc it just means a Paid/Premiere Membership, LOL), I began to pay my more extended compliments that way. Right in the thread or in a PM are still my favourite ways for telling a poster how much I liked her post.

One more time about Bunnie's cap. I didn't find it odd that someone didn't like it. Images posted in the thread never please every single person. I was only surprised that disfavour was shown by taking away a point. Again, it reminded me more than a little of the taking away of house points (in the Harry Potter books).

~ Mechtild

P.S. Shilohmm, how does one start a new thread????

I'm not sure that that is exactly what Elijah means when he says that he loves words, but I reckon we could brand him as a lexiphile, or something like that...lexi meaning word, and phile meaning a lover of..
What do you think ?:D
Wendy - that could lead to snarls. Imagine all the Elijah fangirlies who will take the term lexiphile for the *literal* proof that Elijah had a love affair with Lexi (Alexander). Hmpf! ;)

So, TORc-style, I have told people right in the threads how much I appreciated their views or the quality of their writing.

I'll do that if I'm posting anyway, but I feel funny using a whole post just to praise one person. I always think, "Oh, but I can't ignore x, and y's comment was too excellent to ignore, and..." If I'm short on time just throwing out points with a comment is a better plan for me. :D After giving points to ten (twenty?) people, you can give it to the same person again - although not to the same post (which I have been known to try... :rolleyes: )


how does one start a new thread????

Down at the bottom of the index for "Community Cafe" there's a button that says "New Thread" - after that it's just like a regular post, except you must be sure to title it (and you can't change the title once you've posted, IIRC).

Sheryl

Edits:

whiteling:

:lol:

I kind of liked lexiphile, myself...

Mechtild:
I thought it was odd that a screencap got grief, because on some level I think of this as a thread that discusses EW's acting, so anything he's acting in is fair game. Makes less sense now I write it out. :o :D

Sheryl

Oh, c'mon... We've got enough Tolkienites here to know what you call someone who loves words! A philologist, of course (the Professor was a professor of philology). Uses the "logos" root.

I always forget about the reputation points until I have to go into my control panel for some other reason and see comments sitting there. By now, I'd think any points given out in this thread would have to be from a lurker or from someone who throws points around all over the board. You have to give points to 20 other people before you can get around to the first person again, and I don't think there are any regular posters here who I'd be allowed to give a point to at the moment. I'll admit that, never having given any negative points myself, I don't know whether they're included in that rule. Besides, that screencap wasn't swoony -- it was pretty. I hope this won't throw a wet blanket over the pic-spamming soon to come (we're 7 posts over already!).

A philologist, of course

:eek:

But that's another whole syllable!

:D

Lexiphile is definitely easier to say...

Sheryl

OK, you philolinguolexiphiles.

I'm going to start that new thread. With plenty of pics.

Cross your fingers and hold onto your little green squares! :cool:

~ Mechtild


Edited to add:

It worked!!! :p

Here's a link to the new thread, The Faculty Lounge -- An Ongoing Elijah Wood Discussion x10:


http://www.khazaddum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3826

:)