How many Forum members

[Mrs Dak]

How many forum members...


How many forum members does it take to change a lightbulb?

1 to change the light bulb

1 to post that the light bulb has been changed

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how
the light bulb could have been changed differently

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs

27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing
light bulbs

53 to flame the spell checkers

6 to argue over whether it's ''lightbulb'' or ''light bulb'' ... plus
another 6 to condemn those 6 as anal-retentive

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term
is ''lamp''

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and
that ''light bulb'' is perfectly correct

156 to email the participant's ISPs complaining that they are in
violation of their ''acceptable use policy''

109 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please
take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

203 to demand that cross posting to hardware forum, BMW forum,
off-topic forum, and lightbulb forum about changing light bulbs be
stopped

111 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use
light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior,
where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work
best for this technique and what brands are faulty

27 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light
bulbs

14 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post
the corrected URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant
to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group

33 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety
including all headers and signatures, and add ''Me too''

6 that flame them for not using the Search feature

12 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they
cannot handle the light bulb controversy

19 to quote the ''Me too's'' to say ''Me three''

4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ

44 to ask what is a ''FAQ''

4 to say ''didn't we go through this already a short time ago?''

143 to say ''do a Google search on light bulbs before posting
questions about ''light bulbs''

16 posts of two forum members that are exclusively talking to each
other only about lightbulbs and what they did that weekend

1 moderator that comes in and says something about doing it wrong
and that everyone who disagrees gets a warning

1 new forum member to respond to the original post 6 months from
now and start it all over again

[Punky]

i think the last paragraph of this post says it all...

[Zathras]

Doesn't quite work with forums though, tis originally for usenet newsgroups where it rings far truer.

[shiato storm]

oh no, not this old one again...
*looks for actions on above list*
..oh yep there I am there...

[Zak33]

she missed summit


SPAM

[Howard]

LMAO this has been done before... Scroll down and look at the similar threads

[Mrs Dak]

[Skii]

You little kidder you