T2W - they suck you in
:!:
First off, they belittle you by labelling you a "rookie". "Junior" member isn't much better. Then you become a "member" (what the hell was i up to this point
).
Then it gets interesting, as you gain recognition as a "senior" member. You gain credibility as a "veteran" member. As a legendary member, you gain (some peoples) respect - the 1000 post barrier.
After this, you are always going to be a legend, no-one can take that from you. But u have to have goals. The on-going aims then become two-fold;-
1)
Reputation Points. RE:
Pip Junkies/Pip Slaves -
You try & make each post as good as possible, and hope that someone will find it useful and reward you with some pips. So your goal is to accumulate the green & gold squares & reputation power. Mwuhahahaha
.
You may set yourself individual post challenges to see how many people approve of any one single post of yours. My current PB is 3.
Often, you make good posts, and no one reps you - You Can't Believe It! You wonder why
, & work harder & smarter at being a crowd pleaser - the art of gaining rep points.
Some T2W-aholics become slaves to the T2W-pip game, and u spot them a mile away - as they try so, so, so, so hard to impress and collect their pips - (they are deluded & imagine they are Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan - collecting their black-belts with gold tags, black-belts 1st dan etc. etc. with every square of rep gained
) and u decide not to rep these mercenaries - IT'S FOR THEIR OWN GOOD :smart:!
Their motivation might even be something like - to get
just one set of pips from that longstanding member who has never given them any. Any source of motivation will do.
Some T2W pip-slaves solicit other T2W members, in the hope of becoming mutually beneficial "
pip-buddies"
.
2)
The Member List. RE:
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairiest of them all?
You look at the member list, and suddenly you're in the top 30, on the first page (of the biggest & best trading website in the world :smart:!). And place by place you find yourself in the top 25, top 20, top dozen, top 10 etc. etc.
When you get to around 3000 posts, you think - "Now i'm here, (if i play my cards right, play the long game, and don't get banned like poor old
SOCRATES), should i make a run on the top 5? i can even see old chartman on the distant horizon :clap:. Do i want to get to the top 5? does it mean anything? will it make me any happier? will it ease my addiction?....Well, there's only one way to find out!"...........
so you start posting absolute ******** - wasting your time & everyone elses into the bargain. You don't even need to write anything, as a smilie will suffice
.
It all helps to fill the void of being a solitary trader. But creates a new void - as your thirst for the top spot, more rep points and more rep power - Mwuhahahaha
- continues....
B4 you know it, you are spending your days with one eye on a chart, and the other on T2W, endlessly flicking between the VIEW NEW POSTS button, and the USER CP (checking for pip deliveries
!)....
Some days you make market pips, and don't make T2W pips. Other days you lose market pips, but at least you gained T2W pips. BOTH types of pips are equally important to the T2W-aholic (AKA T2W pip-junkie/T2W pip-slave), and can balance out the sense of achievement on any given day
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