Richard (Ryszard) makes a good point that new posters sometimes do not realize: the forum software assigns the ratings/titles under our names automatically. It's based only on the number of posts we make.

We can't even be a self-appointed 'expert' or 'beginner' around here; we are only what the forum software says we are. Even those titles that we have are skewed, because PG Music changed the forum software in 2000, and we long-timers started over with post counts of zero.

One recent positive change is that we high-count posters are no longer "Team PG - whatever" which I consider to be a good change since nothing I ever said represents PG Music. Now I'm just a 'veteran', even though I'm not a veteran. Oh, well.

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