Classifications - please put me out of my misery

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(walks past innocently, whistling. la la la....)

LOL to all of this. Dinosaurs sound great but keep the birds. Maybe a backwards evolution could be implied with the series....

^ like regression - very topical

Ooh! What's my next level?

I vote with Ali. She started all this!

One criticism levelled at forums like WP is that in the Social Media age they are becoming obsolete (like the dinosaurs), so maybe having them as post-count symbols would be grimly appropriate....

I think if we did have such designations every 10,000 posts or so, we might see certain people 'counting to infinity' every minute of the day in the games section, in order to become a Brontosaurus or something.

Can we play Questions now, instead?

Yes I can see that. A drawback if ever there was one.

Yes

Out of curiosity; why veteran? That's so out of place compared to the rest (I know you might not necessarily know, but your quote was just handy at the time and reminded me of my gripes with it. Apologies).

i am very sorry if i am necroposting, or out of my place as a forum newbie, but well, 2 sorts of dinosaurs do look a bit out of place in a breed of birds^^ there was something about "more awesome flying thing", but those dinos are not flying, and also the conception of awesome, or ausome, can vary))) not to devalue the effort that was put into those lists. i'd rather be hummingbird than get yellow-bellied something xD no offence, please)

^ you are not necroposting , this thread is a baby and not a month old yet.

I'm actually not sure what denotes a necropost or necrobump - 6 months , a year , 2 years or 5 years ?

varies in different places. somewhere, a week without updates is considered archived)

The list IS kinda whacky.

Its basically birds. But includes non birds that are related to birds by occupation, but not by blood (butterflies), but it also includes creatures that are related to birds by blood, but NOT by occupation (flightless dinosaurs). Doing either thing is a stretch. Doing both is going too far IMHO.

The two dinosaurs are both raptor type dinosaurs which are related to the small feathered non avian dinosaurs that evolved into modern birds back in the Mesozoic. So even though they didn't fly they are related to birds. However the list includes "butterflies" which DO fly, but are NOT birds and not even related to birds. So to my mind, you could include raptor dinosaurs and not flying insects, or you could include flying insects but not include raptors. Do one, or do the other, but not both.

Have the list start with the emu egg, and include a butterfly here, and a bat there, but be mostly flying birds, go through ever bigger flying birds, have the penultimate be eagles, and culminate with "condor".

So "phoenix" got dropped? And you now go directly to "veteran" at 500?

A couple years ago a new member thought that that "phoenix" title meant that the person came from Phoenix Arizona, and the person freaked out at why some many folks on this site were from his hometown.