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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Dennis, I see "Premium Members" are now called "TP Advocates". I know this is your site, and you can call us anything you want (but late for dinner as Kenny Thompson would say), but I'm not so sure calling us "TP Advocates" is, well...proper/correct/accurate?
If you look up Advocate on google it is really a very old legal or law term, which is in basest form means: "to speak for another". Are we really speaking for someone else?
Uh-oh. Me thinks me has a new title and it still starts and ends with an "A" and an "e" but the middle sounds like "soul" 
But I'm jis' askin'
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Dennis the word "argue" to me doesn't fit--it's still a legal term mainly implying a courtroom situation. And the word carries a conontation of superiority or authority or expertness---and I don't think any of us would honestly say we're are an expert or an authority. Key word here is honestly.
Granted, some of us like(d) to argue for the sake of arguing hahaha. And some THINK (haha) they're experts (not really), but there are plenty of others to set the record straight, if need be.
I dunno---that said...at first blush the word that comes to mind is "Contributor". But I do have to say IMHO that having classes or levels of contributors or even members is probably not a good thing. Personally, I don't need recognition on any level or a title (exception: unless it involves a raise. tehehe)
I'm here for a cup of coffee around the pot belly stove and good conversation with some old buds---that I've never had the fortune to meet.
And let's say a person's level/title depended on the number of replies/postings they need to make to attain a certain level of membership/title---a threshold or quota. There may a tendency to willy-nilly make wholesale comments/replies that don't necessarily add value but count to their quota.
Again, I have no problem having no recognition on any level.
I'm curious as to what others have to say.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
IMHO whenever you apply a name or title, it begs the question: at what point did/do you earn that? How about someone new--do they have to join/register/sign-up/become a member to post a message? If not then we're all "contributors" in some sense.
TP Veteran. Hmmm. How/when does one become one? Using Greg's ideation criteria of "TP", I've been one for quite some time--especially around the holidays! Yummm!
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Murf you and I are about the same age...back when we were in 9th grade or Grade 9 eh? there was supposedly the same nonsense about "everybody going metric".
Ain't gonna happen.
Look at the automotive world for example: they tried it a little with much resistance from every side. Essentially gov. gave up. You can buy most anything these days and it has both standard and metric fasteners on it.
But I'm jis' sayin' as a veteran TP advocate contributing member with tractor icons.
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Dennis We re now TP Advocates errr
Rankin, so at what point can one attain and E or W direction if their only option is S at the top?
And was that magnetic or polar North? If magnetic, pretty sure your statement doesn't apply. I don't know for sure though. Edjumacate me.
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Rankin: (honk!) what do you mean (honk!) clown (honk, honk!)?
I wuz jis' askin' ---geeeeez
Okay, time for a group hug?
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