Thë Børkën Cøølnëss Thrëåd...

dalecosp

Well, I shan't say much about the causes, nor the effects, but it was certainly kèwl to see the community involved in the Brøkên Søúrcê movement that evolved into thé Børkìnåtør, Børk, ånd Børk++ ...

Here's the place to bråg about your contributions to Børk. We'll begin by establishing a system and use the power of the PHP poll to determine whether or not the system is fair ...

Dètèrmînîng yøùr Børk Kèwlnèss Fäctør (BKF)

Give yourself 2 kewlness points if you wrote the Børkínätør®...
Give yourself 3 kewlness points for creating your own version of the Børkínätør® or any similar script ...
Give yourself 1 kewlness point for contributing code to the Børkínätør® as it exists now ...
Give yourself 2 kewlness points for creating Børkèn graphics...
Give yourself 1 kewlness point for using Børk in your .sig ...
Give yourself 1 kewlness point for using Børk in your other CP options (title, location, etc.) ...
Give yourself 1 kewlness point for using Børk in your avatar (graphics)....
Give yourself 1 kewlness point for starting a thread regarding Børk or Intellitext...
One point for each post containing Børk, whether in code blocks or content, but exclusive of quotes of other posters ...
Finally, 4 kewlness points go to the person who can point to their own post as being the earliest post with a Børkèn character in it ... post MUST be after July 1, 2003 ...
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Now, for the poll, and your comments ...

Once we've decided what's fair, we'll total up our scores. I expect BuzzLY and Weedpacket will rank 1st and 2nd in some combination, but there were a lot of people who had a "virtual hand" in this ...

Moonglobe

how about one point for all php comments writen in Børk?

dalecosp

Done ... can't believe I forgot to give points for actually using the language ... :rolleyes:

Weedpacket

Two points if you børked in your .sig or other user info.

dalecosp

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Two points if you børked in your .sig or other user info.

cf. #5 & #6 ... I have them seperate ... should they be together?

Weedpacket

Urk; read those, then promptly forgot them.

Too much schnapps.

Elizabeth

Looks like I get a point for the swedish chef av, but as a moderator of the EL I tried to stay as politically correct as possible 🙂 My Swede was my silent protest against the ads. And I guess that puts me at the bottom of the list, but that's ok- I'm used to being there LOL

-Elizabeth

Weedpacket

/me posts just so that Elizabeth isn't at the bottom of this particular list...

dalecosp

Originally posted by Weedpacket
/me posts just so that Elizabeth isn't at the bottom of this particular list...

That's worth some points with her, for sure ...

BTW, it's nice to have someone of your stature aboard the "Be-Nice-To-Elizabeth" movement, as well ... 😉

BuzzLY

Originally posted by Weedpacket
/me posts just so that Elizabeth isn't at the bottom of this particular list...

:eek: Did WEEDPACKET just bump a thread?????

THIS is definitely the B.O.Y.!!!

As for the Børkínätør® point system... seems you picked things that give you, dalecosp, the ultimate in points... I don't think you should be able to score points for posts that you went back in time to Bork up... 😉

piersk

Originally posted by Elizabeth
My Swede was my silent protest against the ads.

How?

Elizabeth

OK so maybe not so silent 🙂 but I wanted to at least support the Borkinator cause with my av.

-Elizabeth

piersk

Originally posted by piersk
How?

dalecosp

Originally posted by BuzzLY

THIS is definitely the B.O.Y.!!!

As for the Børkínätør® point system... seems you picked things that give you, dalecosp, the ultimate in points... I don't think you should be able to score points for posts that you went back in time to Bork up... 😉 [/B]

That's valid. We'd need a time threshold, though ... I suppose it'd need to apply to everybody ...

dalecosp

OK, the time threshold will be July 25, 2003, 6 PM GMT.

And, to show BuzzLY my honesty and trustworthiness, I won't accept kewlness points for posts prior to the first verifiable mention of the idea ... which may have been <insert someone's name here...>

So I'm thinking that regardless of the 3 trolls who are now in the db forum :p, it's time to tally ...

dalecosp

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// of the top of me head, more to follow...

eoghain - 1 kewlness point for starting thread "In Message Advertising", cf. #8
s_shrum - 1 kewlness point for starting thread "What the sam hell...", cf. #8
BuzzLY - 2 kewlness points for "the B&oslash;rkinator"

# ...

BuzzLY

Dammit... this is the 99th #$^@#& time I have posted a message and lost it because this #$^@%# site wouldn't load. Why the hell should I spend the time responding to a thread if I'm just going to lose my post????

#@$#@%@%#@$@%#!!!!!!

The jist of my post (although the original was much wittier):

I wrote the first Borked post, but I really don't care about the point system. I'm not looking to be the "best." I'm just happy to be here.

Or I was, before I lost my @#$%&! post! $@#%@!!!

dalecosp

Hey, BuzzLY ...

I just wanted to waste some time having fun. If you're taking this as some kind of personal inference that I have a low opinion of folks here, or you in particular, please let me say that wasn't the idea.

OTOH, if you just wanna flame your ISP, I'm all for it ...

🙂

BuzzLY

As I said... my original post was much wittier, and was tongue-in-cheek. Just chuckle a bit, smile, and say "oh, that BuzzLY. What a card." That would have been your response had it @#$#$ posted correctly 😃

Weedpacket

Okay, are scores being tallied now? I think that gives me fourteen:

Seven Børked posts;

Wrote Børkinator ][, which employed stealth technology (and used it on occasion, but it was made redundant before publication);

First to Børk a post (26 July, the Un-Intellitext thread:p).