General questions for Sophia......

[TrustAndObey]

Sophia, I could've asked these in PM, but I figured there might be someone else in here curious about these things too. It never fails that when I raise my hand to ask one of my fearfully "stupid" questions in class that someone later thanks me because they were wondering the same thing and were just too embarrassed to ask.

When I first came back to CF my "health" was at 71% and I noticed another member of our forum is at 16%. If your health hits 0 does your character get deleted?

Also, if a poster is unable to come to the forums for an extended period of time, do the CF moderators eventually "purge" people if they haven't been here within a certain amount of time?

Burning questions from the inquiring mind! HA!

Thanks,
~Lainie

 

[tall73]

I am not Sophia But here goes.


From the FAQ:




There is the CF Health Bar that appears below your Reputation jewels.

It is similar to the Health that you see with CF Pets.

Does this mean you need to "buy" food to "eat"?

No. You need your 3 meals a day, but you do this by making 3 posts per day on average. Each post you make is like your "meal" to maintain your CF Health. If you average 3 posts per day or more, your CF Health will remain 100%. If you average 1.5 posts per day, your CF Health will be 50%. If by chance you are not very active and your Health drops to 0%, don't worry, nothing will happen. Your account won't be canceled, you won't "die". This is just a fun feature.

The Health percentage is not calculated each day, but is based on your total post count divided by the total number of days you have been a member. In other words, this is a graphical representation of your posts per day (as seen in your profile already) with 3 posts per day being the standard. So if you haven't post for 99 days, and make 100 posts in 1 day, you will still average 1 post per day.

You can hover your mouse over the CF Health Bar to get more information. Essentially, the more the more blue and less red you have in your CF Health Bar, the better.

There is an option to hide your own Health Bar in your User CP, Options, Privacy for those who do not wish to show their Health, or you may even choose to Disable All Health Bars in Threads especially if you have a slow connection in your User CP, Options, Thread Viewing.

Please bear in mind that this feature is meant to be FUN and is not to be taken too seriously.

Emphasis mine.



Accounts are pretty much never deleted here. Some are banned, but not deleted.

Besides, CF is one of the biggest boards in the world, and having more members gets them noticed!

 

[thecountrydoc]

Hi Lainie,

Thank you for asking what you may call "a stupid question." It certainly didn't sound stupid to me. I have wondered what 'health' is all about too. However when you're probably the slowest person in the world on the keyboard there are some things that you just don't take the time to ask.

Tall73,

Thank you for a very clear answer.

Just a couple of observations: I notice that there are many post that are no more that just a few words. Would it not be better to rate health by the quality of post rather than just the quainity of post?

Lainie, there are no foolish questions, just foolish answers.

Respectfully,
Doc

 

[TrustAndObey]

The reason I asked is because I know people that haven't been on the board in a REALLY long time and won't have the chance to be on here for a while still. I was worried that all their user info, PMs, etc would get deleted. I'm glad to hear that's not the case!

Thanks Doc, as always, you're a sweetie!!