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PMS-Benjamin_Harrison
July 19th, 2008, 08:54 PM
Here, you can ask any question you would like about 1milget, its history, or its fellow members and I or anyone else will gladly answer them as soon as we can, as long as posting an answer is not too time consuming or difficult to answer. You may also offer suggestions. If any of the tips seem confusing, feel free to ask about those also. However, please don't spam in this thread, as your posts will be deleted and possibly your account banned. Tips and some suggestions (very helpful I might add) for posting faster are listed in here, in the announcements and in the current 1milget thread. Here they are:


1. With this tip, you can get alt-s to work in Firefox for posting in the forums, guaranteed to work. Type about:config where you would type in the website you want to go to. Then click yes, I'll be careful. Then, in the search bar, type ui.key.generalAccessKey, then double click that item, then change the value from -1 to 18, hit enter, and then restart firefox. Now alt-s will work for posting in the forums and will open the history tab in the rest of the forums! Another benefit is that this will also help you post faster in any forum that you post in. I highly recommend this method.

2. Try holding down alt-s after you finish typing the post and before ten seconds have passed. Experiment with starting to hold down alt-s right after finishing with typing the post and right before the ten seconds pass to see what works best for you, starting later will help reduce lag while watching youtube videos, but starting earlier will ensure that you post your fastest and reduce how often you have to count.

3. Multitask. It's possible to read an article, listen to music, post in the Profile Chat and post all at the same time and still make a post every 10-11 seconds, it just takes a little practice, the use of two or three windows and the correct arrangement of said windows. You can even have the TV running in the room and watch that while posting at the same time if you want. They have all been done, and multitasking should come pretty easily with some practice if done right. Ben says that he'll have the posting window on the bottom of the screen be the height of the blue top bar and have the top window be about full screen size. While the posting window is highlighted on the bottom, he scrolls in the top one to read, and quickly pushes alt tab to get back to posting whenever he has to click or type in the top window. In the top window, he'll also have a tab for music, and perhaps another window for chatting, in which case both top windows will be about half-size, with one window having two tabs. Experiment and see what works best for you, everyone is different and there is no best way to multitask. You'd be very surprised what you can do with these strategies, both in the forums and in life in general. Now that credits are being given out so plentifully, you'll earn a ton of credits with ease by multitasking, and you'll have thousands of credits before you know it.

4. When posting gets slow as a result of there being too much on the page, try pushing alt-x for advanced post, type in your post (both can be done in any order) and then click post quick reply (alt-s may not work here). This way, FFR will take you to the end of the forum, the page refreshes and you make a post all in one.

5. If you're new, pace yourself. For a new poster, 200 or 300 posts in one day is really good, although if you follow the tips you should be able to get more. If that gets too easy, try pushing it up more (the most experienced posters will often do more than 1,000 posts a day, sometimes 2,000 or more!)

6. Have fun! Posting in 1milget is what you make of it, make the best of it. See it as a good opportunity to strike some conversation, improve your ability to multitask, or anything else you can think of. You'll find that these tips apply in other areas of the forums too.

If you combine tips 2 and 3 and get good at them, you will be able to post faster than ever before while doing multiple things at once. Hopefully these tips will help us reach our goal of one million posts quicker than we ever thought possible. For all you people thinking about joining PMS, it's good to try everything at least once, if we can all post just a little then we could reach our goal in no time! You might just find it more enjoyable than FFR chat, the conversations can get very interesting at times. Experiment, and try what works best for you. Here's a quote I read from an action pistol competition shooting book by Michael J. Plaxco titled Shooting from Within that I think is one of the greatest life lessons you could possibly learn: "Experimentation should be constant, and so should experiences. We learn from both, and both feed one another." I would have to agree with this, if I didn't constantly try to keep myself open and try new things then I would certainly be more devoid of experience.


If you have any suggestions or ideas for anything, please ask, I would be glad to hear them. Together we can all make FFR a better, more diversified environment and add to the community of FFR. ;)


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tl;dr I know the post is pretty long, but still, I recommend reading it even if you've never posted in your life. It took me a couple hours to come up with the tips and make this post. There are useful tidbits in there that will help you, not only in the forums, but also in life in general. They would have never been found if not for many tens of thousands of posts of experience. I bet most everyone would benefit from reading tip 1. I hope you find the quote to be insightful, and I hope you give 1milget a try.

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Breakdown16
July 19th, 2008, 08:58 PM
First of all, those are excellent tips.

Second, does tip 1 also work with Internet Explorer?

TwilightPrincess
July 19th, 2008, 08:59 PM
First of all, those are great tips.

Second, does tip 1 also work with Internet Explorer?

It works with internet explorer by default. For firefox, you have to do some stuff to make it work.

Breakdown16
July 19th, 2008, 09:00 PM
It works with internet explorer by default. For firefox, you have to do some stuff to make it work.

All right, thanks a lot for the information.

PMS-Benjamin_Harrison
July 19th, 2008, 09:00 PM
Edit: Twilight, the first tip tells how to get it to work in Firefox, no one has had a problem with getting it to work so far.

PMS-Benjamin_Harrison
July 22nd, 2008, 12:39 AM
Now 154,525 credits are being given out for increasing your postcount. All it takes is 100 posts and you can win! If there are any questions, please ask.

Djshox Edit: Now it takes only 3 posts to win.

PMS-djshox
July 22nd, 2008, 02:19 PM
The credit amounts have been updated, now you can win even more credits, and everyone is eligible! Also, using multiple accounts IS allowed! Go ahead and use 5 accounts at once if you want!

Edit:
The credit amounts for the 500 and 5,000 postmarks for each PMS member have just been QUADRUPLED! Now, posters can receive 1,000 credits for each multiple of 500 posts made and 5,000 credits for each multiple of 5,000 posts made! Hurry, before Ben and I run out of credits! See the announcements for more info, and feel free to ask questions and make suggestions here!

PMS-djshox
July 27th, 2008, 03:11 PM
Changed the thread title of this thread so noone would miss out on all the credits.

Adamaja456
July 27th, 2008, 03:26 PM
Truthfully, i never thought someone could do something else while posting the 1mil get.
Now i know you can :)
Nice little bit of information you have here. <3

PMS-djshox
July 31st, 2008, 02:39 AM
Why thank you.

I just deleted pretty much all of the non PMS posts in all of 1milget, which is why the replies for the old threads look messed up. There were 15490 non PMS posts remaining before I started deleting last night. I managed to delete them in 8-10 hours or so, but 21 posts remain from foolface06 in the first 1milget thread because I could not find those posts after a lot of looking. The process would have been MUCH quicker if the search feature for each member would include more than 1000 posts, and TK_Killer and dummyman each had over 1,000 posts in 1milget and it took a few hours just to delete each of their posts one at a time while having to use the search feature with an alternate account to find where their posts were.

If someone could locate all of foolface06's posts in the first 1milget thread and tell me what pages they are on (along with your posts per page setting so I know what pages to check) it would be greatly appreciated.

Edit:
Just updated the main announcement, should be easier to follow. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to make things look better or if you guys would be interested in some kind of special event (like a spontaneous contest for credits, for example).

PMS Spanky Yerbutz
August 2nd, 2008, 09:52 PM
Nice info, really helped me, and not just at posting in 1milget mind you. It reminded me that I need to multitask and be more wise about it, haha. I should try posting more often using these tips, looks like it would be fun....

PMS-Moogy
August 7th, 2008, 01:56 AM
Awesome tips man, I should chill in 1milget more often. I'm impressed. FFЯ crew, Assemble!

PMS-djshox
August 19th, 2008, 11:02 AM
Well I just merged a bunch of threads, but, I couldn't merge threads into being too large. Right now the biggest 1milget thread only has 185,665 posts. It takes too long to process merging too many posts, does anyone know of a way to be able to process a request longer? I said I would merge all the threads near the end, but, that might not be possible....

rzr
August 19th, 2008, 07:59 PM
What's going to happen when you guys do reach one million?

PMS-Breakdown16
August 19th, 2008, 08:35 PM
What's going to happen when you guys do reach one million?

Well, when 1 Mil Get members reach a million, the cash prizes are most likely going to be given out. Most or all of the 1 Mil Get threads might be deleted. However, 1 Mil Get may continue (currently unsure) because of the credit giveaway.

PMS-Benjamin_Harrison
August 21st, 2008, 06:21 PM
Breakdown, 1milget is sponsored by Synthlight. This means we should be guaranteed our money. If we don't get our money then there will be some very serious issues, possibly legal, between Djshox and Synthlight.

When we reach a million posts I'm hoping that either 1milget can continue, or a new one can be made, that way the website benefits from the extra posts, we provide more diversity for the website and all of the PMS members don't have to lose what they worked hard for.

1milget has been a big part of FFR and, in some parts a very interesting read. That's just just part of the reason 1milget should stay unlocked or at least not deleted. If we continue 1milget further, we could generate some serious traffic and continue a tradition that could last for years to come. I think we have more potential to grow as a website if we do continue the tradition and delete nothing. Like BD said, I plan on continuing to give out credits past a million posts.

PMS-Thaor
August 23rd, 2008, 01:11 PM
So you guys are giving out 1,000 credits for making 1,000, 1,500 or 2,000 posts? And 5,000 credits for making 10,000 or 15,000 posts? Very nice tips here, i'll be sure to use them. I'm impressed, I didn't even know about the alt-s trick until I read this.

PS Suggestions: Have a 1milget recruiting thread, have a post nothing but content hour, have a post nothing but content day, have a post nothing but pictures hour, have a who can make the most posts in five hours contest, and update the Statistics thread. For the contests, someone automatically loses if they post something that doesn't fit (ie words in the picture contest or gibberish in the content contest). I just thought of these suggestions off the top of my head, i'll see if i can come up with more.

PMS-Breakdown16
August 23rd, 2008, 01:56 PM
So you guys are giving out 1,000 credits for making 1,000, 1,500 or 2,000 posts? And 5,000 credits for making 10,000 or 15,000 posts?

Here's how you earn credits:
1. First three posts - 100 credits (Main account only - no alts)
2. First one hundred posts - 250 credits (Main account only - no alts)
3. Every 500 posts - 1,000 credits (Every account)
4. Every 5,000 posts - 5,000 credits (Every account)

Everything about winning credits are found at the "1 Mil Get Announcements, Rules, and More" thread or look for every first post in the most recent threads. There, the credit system is also explained.

PMS-King Of Queens
September 27th, 2008, 03:40 PM
Nice tips man. Right now I don't really need credits, but if I did, this would be a true life saver. That alt-s trick is pretty sweet, it works!