Kairi
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*I* am in no way a veteran. Nor is Arcanine, Dakota, 22sa or anyone else. We're all the same, the events of our past can be beneficial, but they shouldn't make us part of some "status" people believe they must achieve. "If I can just get 1000 posts..." "If I have been a member for a few more months..." "If I became a mod..." these are things we think will put us in this exalted place. But you know what? IT doesn't change you. If anything maybe you gain more confidence, but that's not an officially anointed thing. All of the above are placebos for some sort of feeling of being left out people may feel. I know the feeling too, often I feel so old and left out of DCC and such these days.
But I don't believe more posts are a different colored name will do anything to that. It's about me enjoying myself and bonding with the people though interaction. Sure there are rules to follow, and moderators to handle things. We often get so caught up in the small necessities like those that they become the purpose of the forum, instead of the original. "Veterans", as I said, feel left out some time too. Surely the way they're glorified "we" wouldn't have any problems like that. Right? Right...?
But I don't believe more posts are a different colored name will do anything to that. It's about me enjoying myself and bonding with the people though interaction. Sure there are rules to follow, and moderators to handle things. We often get so caught up in the small necessities like those that they become the purpose of the forum, instead of the original. "Veterans", as I said, feel left out some time too. Surely the way they're glorified "we" wouldn't have any problems like that. Right? Right...?