2.200 MEMBER

Sturmkreuz · #1 (**permalink**) November 27th, 2007, 05:04 PM

Our 2.200th Member is Cocoonfx: http://www.ww2f.com/members/cocoonfx.html

Congratz.

Skipper · #2 (**permalink**) November 27th, 2007, 06:10 PM

I wouldn't call him a member. In fact a lot of people register without ever posting or will post one or two questions before they disappear for good. Actually I believe the active members should be about 200-220 now (about 10%)

Sturmkreuz · #3 (**permalink**) November 27th, 2007, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Skipper67

I wouldn't call him a member. In fact a lot of people register without ever posting or will post one or two questions before they disappear for good. Actually I believe the active members should be about 200-220 now (about 10%)

Hope he'll stay active. You should reply in his topic @ New Members.

Skipper · #4 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 08:11 AM

Sorry Sturmkreuz, I'm afraid he still has 0 posts as of today. This happens all the time. Some people register and post for the first time months after their registration or sometimes never. Sometimes they are not actual posters but tracking robots who get discharged immediately

Sturmkreuz · #5 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 09:44 AM

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Hello

I am new to this forum, and i am trying to find out some information on my grandfather. He often told me stories about the war when i was a child but he never went in too much detail.

The army records we have only show where he signed up as a private and i know that he went to Sandhurst and then got promoted to Acting Col was the CO for a Gurkha and Indian company in Burma. He also said that he was on the chief of staffs and report directly to General Slim but i don't know if i miss heard this or not.

I also know he went from the Royal Ulster Rifles signed up in Northen Ireland and then ended up in the Royal Ordance Corp after he broke his ankle in a plane crash.

What i want to try and do is find out some more information particularly why he got mentioned in despatches i think he had something to do with finding the speaker network the japanese had to scare the troops in the jungle. But again i was young and possibly miss heard this.

Any assitances would be wonderful where i could start.

Kind regards
Cocoonfx

I know, hope there'll be more active users.

Peppy · #6 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 01:48 PM

All message boards have their share of non participants. I imagine a few members joined simply to view the attachments.

Frankly, 2,200 members isn't exactly a huge number. What is significant is the percentage of members who have actually made a post and the extremely high percentage of members here that do participate compared to other discussions boards. The quality vs quantity ratio here is really quite good.

Peppy >>> enjoys the quality produced by "the few"

Skipper · #7 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 03:03 PM

This is why I chose this forum Peppy. There are some quality posts and people have a good sense of humor too.

Sturmkreuz · #8 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Skipper67

This is why I chose this forum Peppy. There are some quality posts and people have a good sense of humor too.

True,

!

bigfun · #9 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Skipper67

This is why I chose this forum Peppy. There are some quality posts and people have a good sense of humor too.

humor? there is humor on this forum?!
huh, i'll have to watch for that!

Mats · #10 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 05:35 PM

I wonder who said this?

Never in the field of human life was so much owed (for quality posts), by so many (not too active members) to so few (very active and wise members)!

Thank you all my great favourites!!

Mats :-)

Za Rodinu · #11 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Skipper67

This is why I chose this forum Peppy. There are some quality posts and people have a good sense of humor too.

Tovaritch The Red Rabbi, I want to know exactly what you think you are doing. What is this "sense of humour" talk? You know very very well that this kind of bourgeois subversive thing cannot be allowed exist. So I want on my desk tomorrow at 9:00 sharp your list of the first batch of 20 so-called 'forum members' (forum members my posterior, just a bunch of westernised pseudo-intellectuals who come here to babble!) that are to, you know, 'disappear', and then we'll think of some more later. You know who the 'useful idiots' are, so put one or two of those in the list as well to keep them inconspicuous and to provide notice to the others to play ball, but play ball low.

Leave the whatifers alone as they generate enough hot air to sabotage all the rest so they are an asset. Not a very useful asset, but any asset is an asset, Lenin used to say that more or less. Do you remember him saying that, Tovaritch? Did he say 'asset' or just 'ass'? Quite frankly I'm not sure now, it should be somewhere in his XVI volume of his Complete Works... Why the hell you are saying he only wrote 15 volumes, are you trying to provoke me or what, eh?

And I also want another report on my desk tomorrow on the causes of your neglect, in letting things come to this point. Yes, yes, yes, a bit of socialist self-criticism is just as good as confession to a christian, if such a thing exists which it doesn't, of course.

Be proactive, damn you!

Socialist Greetings,
Za Rodinu.

Peppy · #12 (**permalink**) November 28th, 2007, 06:09 PM

All Rogues should post according to their ability, and read posts according to their needs.