How Popular Are You?

[Deandra]

Maybe instead of post count we can assign ranks to people by how many friends they have on the forum.

[Nova]

IRL: I have a lot of friends, 6 of them being in the circle of my close friends.

Forums: You people are too awesome for me to pick my favourites

[Wolf]

@Mars: I like you, Mars. Quite a bit.

@Avron: I've missed you. This was actually a rather veiled attempt at a discussion thread. I knew someone would question the concept of popularity, and I stretched the term to include "number of friends" simply because I knew it was a bit of a contentious definition.

[Avron the S'wit]

Missed you as well, my dear. Although I do have a something-something headed your way!

[Nova]

I am only as popular as others allow me to be.

So, really, really popular

[DikaSmausha]

Just because you are popular doesn't mean you have friends, and just because you have friends doesn't mean you are popular.

[Velvet LeChance]

I have eight or nine close friends, but have people I would still consider friends even though I may not talk to them that much. There's one hundred and fifty people in my school year and I'd say I get along fairly well with them all except for one or two. Saying this I wouldn't consider myself really popular I just generally get along well with everyone.

On the forums I rarely post in the General banter section and rarely talk out of character in roleplays, so I haven't really got to know you's well enough yet.

Facebook says I have 258 friends and I know them all IRL.

[Derp53]

I have my friends and it makes no difference as to who might dislike or not dislike me, I try not to be offensive I but I feel like I've failed at that many times

[Argonanza]

Irl friends? My social life is virtually non-existant. Though people I've never met greet me by name at school for some reason.. I guess I'm some kind of obscure legend or something.

E-friends? Well, people seem to enjoy my jokes and all, but I don't really think I have any super close friends.

You can call me Captain Loner, lord of occationally entertaining weirdos.

[Br3admax]

Irl I have about 12 people I would call close friends,
but on uesp, despite what I might say or act like

Spoiler:

I LOVE ALL OF YOU GUYS!!!!!

I can be as nerdy as I want here.

[Br3admax]

Irl friends? My social life is virtually non-existant. Though people I've never met greet me by name at school for some reason.. I guess I'm some kind of obscure legend or something.

E-friends? Well, people seem to enjoy my jokes and all, but I don't really think I have any super close friends.

You can call me Captain Loner, lord of occationally entertaining weirdos.

Oh god yes. So much. It's a tad worrisome, really.

Tell me about it.

[Will Zurmacht]

...which of the UESP forum members you like the most.

Mmm, using a strong version of the word like, there are maybe ten... fifteen if I'm being generous, and including inactives. Almost half of that tenacious ten never leave the ES sections, though. The only criterion I have is the quality of posted content, whether in terms of the posts being funny, informative, or thought-provoking.

If a poster kept a high average of humor, helpfullness, and challenging thoughts, well, they'd be the best poster. The kind of member that keeps you clicking that yooieaespie bookmark button. Andere, say, whose every post is a gem of one color or another.

[Stormborn]

Maybe instead of post count we can assign ranks to people by how many friends they have on the forum.

That is just mean. I'd end up being banned.

[Nocturnal]

I should add:

I can't be in large groups. Being in a place with many people makes me feel sad and alone. Unless it's a party.

It's the same with me but even in party situations I went to a wedding and I never felt so out of place. Got out as soon as it was polite to do so.

[Believe]

I should add:

I can't be in large groups. Being in a place with many people makes me feel sad and alone. Unless it's a party.

It's the same with me but even in party situations I went to a wedding and I never felt so out of place. Got out as soon as it was polite to do so.

Drink more. When you're drunk, everyone is a friend.

[Nocturnal]

I should add:

I can't be in large groups. Being in a place with many people makes me feel sad and alone. Unless it's a party.

It's the same with me but even in party situations I went to a wedding and I never felt so out of place. Got out as soon as it was polite to do so.

Drink more. When you're drunk, everyone is a friend.

I don't drink very often and then it's usually a tiny glass of white wine.

[MARS]

I should add:

I can't be in large groups. Being in a place with many people makes me feel sad and alone. Unless it's a party.

It's the same with me but even in party situations I went to a wedding and I never felt so out of place. Got out as soon as it was polite to do so.

Drink more. When you're drunk, everyone is a friend.

Believe gives the best advice.

[I_am_one]

I think I can count on one hand how many close friends I have, and even then, I don't talk with them a lot, unless they text me first, or we're in the same room talking about whatever.
I have other friends that I only see in class, and I don't talk with them much.
Then there are people who know me just because of my long hair, who I've never seen before.

Here, I don't have any friends, since I hardly post. I prefer talking to people in real life than online, so I'm just a lurker on every forum I visit.

[Deandra]

That is just mean. I'd end up being banned.

Once again my sarcasm doesn't translate well. I can't stand anything that feels like a popularity contest--getting through middle school once was already bad enough.

[Eltee]

Everyone can rest easy knowing they're surrounded by dweebs, geeks and recluses.

[Br3admax]

Everyone can rest easy knowing they're surrounded by dweebs, geeks and recluses.

Hey, don't forget nerds, we represent all here.

[philfredobob]

Though people I've never met greet me by name at school for some reason.. I guess I'm some kind of obscure legend or something.

Me too !!

i think its my family name
people know my brothers, who had a lot of friends and were usually sporty ... and now the wheel turns upon the next of the Sartawi ...

[Travalanche]

I don't have any friends but I'm close to some of my family, I know that sounds lame but it's just that I personally stopped trying to make friends after High school for some reason and never stayed in touch with any from back then either. I wouldn't mind having friends but they aren't as important as family for me so I don't really bother. I use forums such as this if I am feeling lonely and it tends to help me feel connected I guess you could say.

I'm by no means depressed or anything, I actually like the seclusion where I live for some reason, it's calming you know? I would love to have people that I could invite over to drink a few beers with and play video games or go fishing with but I haven't met a person I could do that with yet in my life.

When it comes to dating it's kind of the same, it's not much of a priority and I actually avoid it to an extent for financial reasons, I wouldn't mind having a casual girlfriend that I could go on dates with when me and her feel like it (say once a week or every other week) but I don't think I could stand having to call/text the person every day or go on dates daily, etc... that would drive me crazy, I don't even own a phone lol!

I guess you could say I'm a 23 year old hermit?


@Believe Yeah, whenever I drink I become excessively social, I used to live in a small town in Colorado called Woodland Park and would get wasted every weekend at the bar and would occasionally even attempt Karaoke but nobody laughed because everyone was usually as drunk as me lol! Plus, I get waaaayyyy too friendly when drunk if you know what I mean?

[DarkEastwood]

Ummm well I'd say I'm pretty popular around my area. I have roughly 8-10 really close friends, and numerous friends that I just regularly talk to. I dunno though what you'd consider friends though... Like I know a lot of people on Facebook who friend request people who are just acquainted with each other, but I find that pretty ridiculous. I really just friend people who I'm... Well, friends with.

As for social situations, I guess people consider me naive and optimistic. I'm pretty outgoing.

And if you've ever met me on chat, you'd know I'm friends with everyone

[Kerr]

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