Is it me or are are there more gold members than blue members?
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I didn't notice until just now but it seems like there are more golds than blues posting in any given thread nowadays. Are less new members registering or something?
help i'm being repressed
i think it also depends on where you post
if you post in chat threads you have probably been here for a while and is a part of the community, therefore you'll encounter a higher amount of goldmembers who have posted a lot and been here for long. If you go to help/rust/server advertisement sections where people sign up and throw away their accounts you will see a lot more blue members.
Gold membership is a highly contagious disease. Awhile back there was a huge outbreak of it. That's why you're noticing more gold members than blue members.
A lot of people were buying gold when it still was in Boostar
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48793467]really thou
all of the old users are coming back and most of them we're probably blue members so if they had 5 years and 2k posts they got auto gold on their join date
it would be really interesting to see a graph between banned users + gold users and blue members
should show the last 28 days just to see how much of a ratio it is[/QUOTE]
2k posts, how does one even write that much
I swear i read somewhere that Gold Membership got removed from being bought after they wacked up the price to something huge ($500 or something) thinking nobody would buy it, then someone did and Garry was just like "oh fuck" and removed it completely.
[QUOTE=greeley;48793931]I swear i read somewhere that Gold Membership got removed from being bought after they wacked up the price to something huge ($500 or something) thinking nobody would buy it, then someone did and Garry was just like "oh fuck" and removed it completely.[/QUOTE]
it was $999 and it came back a while after Monkey_123's greatest post. I can't believe people paid to be gold.
[QUOTE=mikerocks;48793954]it was $999 and it came back a while after Monkey_123's greatest post. I can't believe people paid to be gold.[/QUOTE]
Ahhhh that was it.
I can't believe someone actually paid for that.
Blue members from 04-06 are like bigfoot sightings.
Eons back, glod is given out to people who fulfilled certain prerequisites such as being here for a couple years and had a bunch of posts (I think 2 years and 2000 posts in 2007/8 and 5 years and 50 posts in 2010. Correct me if I'm wrong).
Gold was also given to you for being good poster (or was that only respected member?)
There were cut offs at certain years. You could also booster for it way back but it was stopped temporary after raising the glod price to $999 and a kid gone and actually bought it with his parent's credit card.
Booster returned at some point later.
So the only posters who cared enough to stay around tend to be the people who spent the most time here i.e. gold members + some tsukkomi blues.
The rest of the blues abandoned ship probably. You'll mostly see the few people who post a lot compared to the many who rarely post at all.
History is fuzzy. Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
The 2 years, 2000 posts thing was introduced at the end of 2009 I'm pretty sure. I got it right as it was added and I joined in november 2007 so. Was changed to 5 years and 100 posts like a year or a year and a half later I think.
i got someone to buy it for me
Just got it one day, neat.
[QUOTE=Mastermind of42;48794313]Eons back, glod is given out to people who fulfilled certain prerequisites such as being here for a couple years and had a bunch of posts (I think 2 years and 2000 posts in 2007/8 and 5 years and 50 posts in 2010. Correct me if I'm wrong).
Gold was also given to you for being good poster (or was that only respected member?)
There were cut offs at certain years. You could also booster for it way back but it was stopped temporary after raising the glod price to $999 and a kid gone and actually bought it with his parent's credit card.
Booster returned at some point later.
So the only posters who cared enough to stay around tend to be the people who spent the most time here i.e. gold members + some tsukkomi blues.
The rest of the blues abandoned ship probably. You'll mostly see the few people who post a lot compared to the many who rarely post at all.
History is fuzzy. Again, correct me if I'm wrong.[/QUOTE]
And more recently Robotboy has changed it to 2000 posts and 5 years to achieve Gold.
[QUOTE=glennman94;48794380]Just got it one day, neat.[/QUOTE]
Likewise.
I just jumped on one day and boom, gold. This was when they gave gold to a lot of veteran FPers for free if they've been here for x years and made y posts.
I got gold like 2011 or some shit? idk
its ok
There's plenty of us blue folks around, just gotta look for us!
[QUOTE=Riller;48794659]There's plenty of us blue folks around, just gotta look for us![/QUOTE]
yeah, us blues still exist, we blues are so cool guys
I'm blue. :v:
[QUOTE=.Vel;48794781]I'm blue. :v:[/QUOTE]
but if you were green you would die
[QUOTE=J!NX;48794788]but if you were green you would die[/QUOTE]
I'm going to be green soon, from drinking brown stuff
[B][I]Day 1460[/I][/B]
The gold members still haven't realized I just bought a title that says "Gold Member".
[QUOTE=Alice3173;48793509]Gold membership is a highly contagious disease. Awhile back there was a huge outbreak of it. That's why you're noticing more gold members than blue members.[/QUOTE]
For context and in relation to the post below Alice3173's, a few years ago a former member spoke elsewhere on the internet that if you wanted a then very lucrative key to try the Alpha version of Rust you had to buy a gold membership.
The result was the forum was swamped in toddlers registering, buying gold and then running around screaming because they did not get a rust key. Postal famously banned so many new members in one particular sweep it completely filled the [url=https://facepunch.com/fp_events.php]event log[/url]. There was at least a solid week after where the site was being heavily DDoS'd by these massively butthurt children.
For the last two years Garry has been mass unbanning everyone on his birthday and so a lot of the kids who had grown balls in the meantime came back and now you see them browsing around.
Green's are the ones you should watch out for.
[editline]30th September 2015[/editline]
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[I]I love gooooolld.[/I]
damn ive been here for 8 years
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You beat me to it.
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