<p>While I wasn’t looking, I became a Senior Member. I already am a Senior in some other respects.</p>
<p>Does CC offer any Senior discounts?</p>
<p>Congratulations, dad! I believe you now qualify for the Early Bird Special over in the Alley. Of course you’ll be leaving early, too – I understand seniors can’t stay awake all that late!</p>
<p>A special just for seniors: Hold the Ctrl button down and roll the scroll button on your mouse. Screen print is suddenly readable! (Just be aware that none of the links are then in the right place.)</p>
<p>Unfortunately none of our wisdom in the cafe counts toward Seniordom.<br>
OTOH, that means I’ll be Forever Young…</p>
<p>I wish all promotions came so easily!
Congrats. I may make it someday. If I can get out of the political forums. It gets hard though, when D1 has graduated college now, and D2 is in her sophomore year at a very small LAC where, in their thread, very few questions get asked. I don’t feel like I have much to offer anymore.</p>
<p>dad, congrats. I’m getting closer…</p>
<p>Actually, I’m joining you up on the dias of cool people. (or people who spend way, way too much time on CC!!!)</p>
<p>Astrophysicsmom: I think the latter description is more accurate. Especially since it took you a lot less time ti reach this pinnacle than it did me (LOL).</p>
<p>Posting for seniors costs half what it costs everyone else.</p>
<p>An achievement to inspire the juniors of CC who have been thinking of abstaining and (obviously) failing. I am grateful to all of you for your thoughtful, helpful and often uplifting posts.</p>
<p>yep, dadofsam, guilty as charged…</p>
<p>CBB: I was in the Alley when it began but it quickly evolved into a social thread among a group of women discussing topics of no interest to me. So Early Bird special or not, sorry, but I won’t be going there.</p>
<p>Operamom: I dunno. Usually try to be helpful or at least thoughtful. Don’t know about uplifting,; spirituality isn’t my game, but if anything I have posted has that effect, it’s fine with me. Just don’t want to be held responsible for any results, whether positive or negative.</p>
<p>I feel like a fraud. :o</p>
<p>I was bumped to senior member with my 4 bazillion posts that I never made.</p>
<p>I’d love to know how to get my “real” numbers back- I look like a freak!</p>
<p>Well, you certainly have a lot to say. When have you found the time? I am humbled.</p>
<p>Cronie, at least now we know that Senior Member is the highest status attainable; I was thinking there might be a category called “Omniscient Member” or the like.</p>
<p>Cronie - I have the same number of posts as you and have no idea what happened! Maybe it’s actually for all the wonderful comments I’ve read from everybody and never had the nerve to post in the past.</p>
<p>It’s crazy! Well, we must have shocked the system with our awesomeness! :D</p>
<p>I gotta admit, over four billion posts in two months is pretty amazing. That comes to over 800 posts per second. What speed and endurance!</p>
<p>It also happens to equal one less than two raised to the thirty-second power, so it appears that the data type of the register that counts posts is either not consistently defined across all of CC’s software, or else a problem with a conversion between data types has happened. Might you guys have made your very first post in one of the areas like the cafes where posts are not supposed to increment your total? Better yet, did you have a post that was erased for some reason when you post count was still 0 (moderators see fit to remove individual postings or entire threads on occasion.) Did your post counter ever work, or has it always been maxed out at the current number.</p>
<p>I had around 70 posts, I think, when my number flew off. My first posts were in the Parent’s Forum, not the Cafe. One of my posts may have been erased with a thread…but not when the post count was zero, as the Parent’s Forum counts, and my first few were there.</p>
<p>Cronie - I like the “awesomeness” explanation! However, I think it might have been my very first post, other than a couple in the Parent Cafe. I’ve been lurking for years. I never had a post erased.</p>