i never figured it out actually but i think it has to do with some sort of rating playing games:-)
eric
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no that activities like leaving comments and ... .now i commented on your forum and earnt 1 point
k thanks everyone
Stigmatisert wrote:
Earns points each time posting?
That explains a lot about the quality of the fora around.
Why do you keep saying "fora" where you really mean 'forum' ?
Apparently, fora is a plural form of forum.
also the plural for forum, as we know, is forums.
Stigmatisert wrote:
kco wrote:
Stigmatisert wrote:
Earns points each time posting? That explains a lot about the quality of the fora around.
Why do you keep saying "fora" where you really mean 'forum' ?
(It's so cool of you to ask about words and language in a public forum. Better than attacking bad spelling )
I don't mean forum, when writing fora. In Latin "fora" is the plural of "forum". (You may look at Pain in the English for more specific information).
I guess you find the same pattern in medium (plural: media).
The best part of that article are the comments saying its pretentious and condescending. Learning the correct way is always good, though.
ClavierCavalier wrote:
Stigmatisert wrote:
I don't mean forum, when writing fora. In Latin "fora" is the plural of "forum". (You may look at Pain in the English for more specific information).
I guess you find the same pattern in medium (plural: media).
The best part of that article are the comments saying its pretentious and condescending. Learning the correct way is always good, though.
"Correct way" is a bit overrated. I used to be an orthograph-nazi too, but language evolves, and it's hard to say that sticking to the past is good per se.
For instance, the French for media is medias (even if it is already a plural), but none complains. ("medium" is only used in the meaning of "psychic", the -rarely used- singular being media)
it's every post you post. when i post this, i will get 1 point. my goal is to get to 100 points before i leave for camp a.k.a. 100 posts/comments
Pretentious? Moi?
Stigmatisert wrote:
kco wrote:
also the plural for forum, as we know, is forums.
From your posts on Chess I've read, my perception is that you may not be a native english speaker either.
I'm Norwegian and I know it shines through all my writings. By your grammar, I've wondered if you are from the "so called" Eastern Europe.
Where are you from?
You're being rude just like your pal Schachkaempfer forget it.
ChessRocks112 wrote:
when you click on profile then click about me, there says points on the bottom right conner what are they meant to mean what are they for?
They are earned by every post in a thread, posting a blog, etc. and they are useless, except as a marker of how trollish you are. A good indication of the trollishness of a user is his ratio forum points / number of games played. When this ration reaches infinity, the correct name for such a user is "sockpuppet".
A very long time ago, chess.com used to offer T-shirts to those who reached 1000 points (or something like that). After the for(ums/a) were trolled to death when some people started abusing the system (posting long analysis lines earns one point, as well as posting "lol", but one of them takes more brain time), they stopped doing it.
I have posted something on chess.com 508 times :Þ
509 with this
but are flora and fauna the plurals of florum and faunum?
kco wrote:
Stigmatisert wrote:
Earns points each time posting?
That explains a lot about the quality of the fora around.
Why do you keep saying "fora" where you really mean 'forum' ?
What's worse is people using forums when they mean threads.
Everywhere else on the internet, a forum is a collection of topics, and the threads are the individual topics.
Yeah.
Or more like Normal = Forum>Sub Forum>Thread>Post
Chess.com Forum>Forum>Forum>Forum post.
when you click on profile then click about me, there says points on the bottom right conner what are they meant to mean what are they for?