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| boydegg |
Posted - 02/17/2007 : 20:01:04
The mysterious MERPs.
Who are they? Do they know each other? How do they get appointed? Do they get to vote on their own reviews? So little is known!
Well, it stands to reason the MERPs are regular FWFRers. They are also probably long time members of the site, and therefore quite prominent on the top 100 ... people you often see submitting FWFRs, posting on the forums etc.
Yet they remain shrouded in mystery!
From time to time, a debate springs up about the MERPs. How does their process for accepting or declining reviews work etc ... and during those debates, most regular forum users chip in with their thoughts.
Now ... I'm thinking the MERPs themselves use such debates to help keep their identity secret. They bluff us. So a MERP (it could be Foxboy. It could be Bife. It could be Baftababe ... we just don't know)sees the thread, and adds a comment along the lines of "Gosh, yes I wonder how the MERPs decide what counts as too generic"
Well their little bluffs aren't fooling me. After careful observation of the forums over the last 12 months, I now have a complete list of every MERP. 
And before someone asks ... NO ... I'm not one of them.
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Boydegg 
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| Tori |
Posted - 02/21/2007 : 22:46:54
quote:
Originally posted by redPen
MERPs is as MERPs does. Don't envy 'em the task, plus the obligatory grumbling. I do admittedly add to the grumbling. . . . Just to feel like part of the team, you understand. 
Tori, is that you in the pic? If not, who's the hottie? 
Ha ha, yeah it's me but it's an old pic. My hair is really dark now. :) |
| MguyXXV |
Posted - 02/21/2007 : 18:08:13
I heard that anyone can MERP, provided they drink a lot of carbonated beverages.
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| randall |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 23:11:00
quote:
Originally posted by redPen
MERPs is as MERPs does. Don't envy 'em the task, plus the obligatory grumbling. I do admittedly add to the grumbling. . . . Just to feel like part of the team, you understand.
Tori, is that you in the pic? If not, who's the hottie?
That, my friend, is the one and only Tori. She and Em are my longstanding fwiffer celebrity girlfriends. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 20:49:04
Conspiracy theories?!  |
| Chris C |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 19:24:12
When you wish upon a MERP...
I don't know who they are, nor do I want to. As Turrell says: "I put them in they get approved I move on." What more do you need? |
| redPen |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 08:06:17
In space, no one can hear you MERP.
Be MERP. Be very MERP.
A long time ago in a galaxy MERP, MERP away . . . |
| redPen |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 08:02:29
MERPs is as MERPs does. Don't envy 'em the task, plus the obligatory grumbling. I do admittedly add to the grumbling. . . . Just to feel like part of the team, you understand.
Tori, is that you in the pic? If not, who's the hottie? |
| turrell |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 06:48:59
Kissing arse aside - I thought it was interesting but not overly useful in any way and I'm not going to pester anyone for approvals - I put them in they get approved I move on - this is a site for fun everyone should learn to not take it all so seriously. |
| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 02/20/2007 : 06:30:50
That's funny, the MERPs all emailed me last week and said... oh... nevermind. |
| boydegg |
Posted - 02/19/2007 : 18:14:56
"It doesn't matter who they are - they do a great job and are obviously overburdened by all of us - knowing who they are buys you nothing - it does potentially leave them open to scrutiny which isn't really fair."
The MERPs all emailed me, and told me you're their favourite of all the FWFR members, Turell. They added "if only there were people like him on FWFR ... but sadly there aren't." |
| Tori |
Posted - 02/19/2007 : 17:33:30
A MERP fourum is a good idea. That way they can consult each other. It's not so heavy handed. |
| silly |
Posted - 02/19/2007 : 16:53:18
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
quote:
Originally posted by turrell
There was a time when the fourum was broken and a MERP category exposed to us mere mortals
I didn't know about this. So you know who they are but we don't? Isn't that an unfair advantage?
I remember that, but don't remember (too many) names.
Not caring, actually, to know their Secret Identities, because that may interfere with their abilility to stand for Truth, Justice, all that stuff. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 02/19/2007 : 12:23:14
quote:
Originally posted by turrell
There was a time when the fourum was broken and a MERP category exposed to us mere mortals
I didn't know about this. So you know who they are but we don't? Isn't that an unfair advantage? |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 02/19/2007 : 12:21:58
quote:
Originally posted by boydegg
Who are they? Do they know each other? How do they get appointed? Do they get to vote on their own reviews? So little is known!
The criterion was that at the time when they were established, they had to have 500 reviews. I think there were under 50 in that category at that time. There were, I think, 11 MERPs: these were just everyone eligible who volunteered. Benj rejected the idea that they should not know each other's identities (or those of people submitting reviews), so I assume that they do. I have no reason to think that they can vote on their own reviews. |
| Ali |
Posted - 02/19/2007 : 12:21:14
I wish I knew how to quit MERPs.
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