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What did Lyfbuz do now?

I am a member of the "I Married a Canadian too" club.

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we're exporting you. and charging a tariff.

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My contribution is 81 total, that's 59 stories and 22 poems for 3,465,541 views. 6 Legendary Stories and 51 Famous Stories. 9 Editors Picks and 28 Recommended Reads.

Plus I have no idea how many stories I've verified as a story moderator.

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I like this. I have thought a lot about this, and I had suggested 10,000 for famous at some point (but I don't think in this, the relevant forum). To be fair though, the reason I said 10,000 is that I have a poem that is over 5,000.

I actually have some ideas regarding other badges, and this seems like as good a moment as any to find out if anybody else thinks some of these are good ideas. I tried to do name suggestions for as many as I could think of. I also did a little analysis of some of the stuff I think is good about them and some things I think have the potential to cause hassle, but that seemed like overkill for this post.

Anyway, the list:

• Influencer OR Leader - 100+ followers
• Legendary Influencer/Leader - 1000+ followers

• Conversation Starter - Began 100 threads in the forums.
• Pollster - Began 50 polls in the forums.
• Opinionated - 200 posts in group discussions.

• Versatile Author - Member has written in 50% of Lush categories.

• Lush Elder (???) - Active member for 10 years.

• Voting Booth - 1000 total votes on stories/poems
• Famous Poem - Poem with 10,000+ views
• Legendary Poem - Poem with 30,000+ views
• Six Figures OR Famous Author - 100,000+ story views
• Well Read - Authored a story or poem with 100+ votes.

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Let’s hear it for poetry!

There are currently badges for Famous and Legendary Stories, for 30,000 and 100,000 views. These days, it’s quite hard to get 30,000 hits, let alone 100,000, and only the best writers (or those whose stories have been around for years) can aspire to get the latter.

But poems just don’t get the same sort of readership, despite there being some very good ones out there. The most-read love poem has 100,000 views, but that’s a freakish (and suspicious) outlier.

Wouldn’t it be a great idea to have equivalent badges for Famous and Legendary Poems, setting the bar appropriately lower than for prose? I’d suggest something like 5,000 views for Famous Poem and 10,000 for Legendary.

What do people think?

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funny cos it's true lol

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I hope you did not think I was implying you were crowding the truck ... certainly not my intent. Over the course of driving in excess of 1 1/2 million miles, I’ve had a few tires blow out with a BANG!! ... and it always startled me. But the worst tire caused accident I was involved with was a lady passing me and her RR tire blew out and she lost control and turned over several times. Fortunately she was not severely injured and her teenager son was OK. Their pup dog didn’t survive.

Please give the big rigs all the room you can???. It’s not an easy job. What ultimately made me retire was seeing so very many cell phones texting while in heavy fast traffic. Be safe!!

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Please believe me ... it’s scary for the truck driver too when that happens. I’m was always just happy / relieved when I realized my blown tire was NOT a steer tire as there could be severe control issues to deal with too. Please don’t crowd the trucks ... for your own safety.

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Holy Crap. Just like the movies. Good save.

Reminded me of a time I was driving next to a semi, just a little back in the adjacent lane. A family of geese decided to cross
the highway right in front of the truck. I still have that awful vision of the slaughter and can still hear one goose hit the side of
my vehicle. It happened so fact. If either of us braked, we would have caused a multi-car pile-up. You reacted to avert, we
had to quickly decide not to. Sigh.

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Shared some fries and a coke with my kids after spending a couple hours at a splash park. I didn't hoard the junk food to myself.

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If you really want less drama in the forums, repeating "save your hate" when someone just thinks your suggestion makes no sense doesn't help. There's no hate in my post, just an opinion about what you suggested.

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you took it to mean "drama in the forums" when it could have pretained to chat rooms or private messages. both issues that can easily be solved with a block.

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a block that only blocks people whose name starts with "N". Noll. Nymphwriter. Nicola...

Maybe one for names that end in X as well: Magical_felix, Seax, DamonX ;)

Nah, you'd miss us.