"Amoore100" (amoore100)
03/23/2016 at 01:05 • Filed to: Good Night, Truck Yeah!
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"Amoore100" (amoore100)
03/23/2016 at 01:05 • Filed to: Good Night, Truck Yeah! | 7
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I am now part of the 100+ stars club! If you haven’t seen it, !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! stating that the VW Crossblue testers carried the same badges as the Tiguan testers back in ‘08, thus confirming that it is likely a Volkswagen. For this relatively inconsequential observation I made from my phone with a rather poor image as evidence, I somehow gathered 136 stars and counting. This may not sound like a lot to anyone else, but for me it’s quite an achievement. That and I am now officially ungreyed on Truck Yeah! I guess I am gradually becoming more adapted to the world of Kinja!
Please note, this post was not meant to be ego-boosting or showing-off in any way, it’s just that I was genuinely astonished to notice that so many people were interested in something as tiny as a shared badge that I happened to notice. Have a good night, Oppo!
Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
> Amoore100
03/23/2016 at 01:08 |
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At one point I was un-grey on all of the FP based sub blogs. But since I don’t go that way often, I’m usually back in the grey somehow.
TheHondaBro
> Amoore100
03/23/2016 at 01:11 |
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This is the most stars I’ve ever gotten on a comment.
http://jalopnik.com/how-about-stan…
Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD
> Amoore100
03/23/2016 at 01:11 |
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Lucky! I’m still grayed on Jalop an Truck Yeah! Congrats though! That’s really awesome!
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Amoore100
> TheHondaBro
03/23/2016 at 01:17 |
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Wow! That’s pretty amazing! Nowhere near your level yet, I’m afraid, but we all have to start somewhere. Also starred it so now it’s 457 ;)
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Amoore100
03/23/2016 at 01:34 |
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In my experience, stars are inversely-proportional the the length of the message.
Snark also attracts stars.
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Amoore100
> Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap
03/23/2016 at 01:50 |
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Haha, I’ve got Truck Yeah, now I’ve got to head over to Jalop. Outside of those two I’m not too concerned as most of it can be a bit out of my league...
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Amoore100
> Iheartmy365kHonda - Car enthusiasts do like FWD
03/23/2016 at 01:50 |
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Haha, thanks! It’s my first real interaction on FP so it makes me feel a bit special to be finally ungreyed. Still have to target Jalop though, but it’s not a top priority right now.
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Amoore100
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
03/23/2016 at 01:56 |
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Hah, a far cry from my English teacher last year who used to quote, “Some say less is more. I say more is more.” Also, I try to be as generally unbiased and subjective when commenting, but snark definitely has its moments :D
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Amoore100
03/23/2016 at 02:00 |
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In the real world, less gets read and more gets ignored.
I believe my highest star ratings were quick, snarky, low blows that I made right after something was posted...
scoob
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
03/23/2016 at 06:32 |
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One of my comments with just a picture and no words at all had a couple hundred stars, so yeah I’d say you’re right.
traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
03/23/2016 at 06:37 |
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TractorPillow
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
03/23/2016 at 07:20 |
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Yep, timing is most of it.
jariten1781
> Amoore100
03/23/2016 at 07:53 |
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Haha, fire that English teacher that’s horrible advice. There’s occasionally successful exceptions (Faulkner...ugh) but the vast vast majority of successful writers across all genres from technical writing to poems to plays are adept at conveying their message with minimal wording. I'm horrible at minimizing my length and wording, but I'm well aware that it's wise to do so.
Generally, the fewer the words that fully communicate or evoke the intended ideas and feelings, the more effective the communication.
-Mark Twain
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> traderQAMobileTestAutomationMobileBoostOn
03/23/2016 at 09:15 |
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You’re too late to win with that.
However, that's a great short and sarcastic post. Nice job.
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Amoore100
> jariten1781
03/23/2016 at 10:32 |
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I concur, but generally her assignments were just super long study guides (e.g. for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar we had one 12 pages long, single space, 12pt font) that she told us not to skimp on and to elaborate as much as possible. I can see her viewpoint considering most students just half-assed their way through the assignment (which was pretty pointless if we’re honest) but yeah, tenth grade English 2 Honors now has a reputation because of her. That and her teaching style generally involved everyone sitting there and listening to her preach her ideas about certain books and stories (she apparently has a Master’s in Arthurian Literature).
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jariten1781
> Amoore100
03/23/2016 at 11:00 |
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Eh, I guess I can give her a pass if it was in the context of a tell me everything you know about X assignment, just a terrible general rule for composition.
Also, the ‘thou shalt write a paper of a minimum of Y length on standard spacing’ is such a weird little artifact of academia. It’s completely counter to what the vast majority of writing in the real world is like. It’s mostly ‘you need to get all this information in this tiny little space’. Those type of assignments ingrain terrible behavior...I can’t even count the number of new hires that I have to send back to the showers because their documents exceed the length I gave them and are full of superfluous adjectives and inefficient sentence structure.