Hi everyone! I've been surfing these forums for a whole. I never post but learn a lot and get a lot of help without usually posting. I often PM people or email them. I must say that there's both a lot of average people and a lot of very skilled people here and I'm very impressed! I was curious of who is probably the all time most technically skilled member? After reading a lot of posts for months [I try and read them all], I would have to cast my vote for Tim Greer, closely followed by uuallan. Would these boards be the same without their knowledge? I'd feel a pretty big loss and I find them both a big draw. There are other's too that are up there (bitserve, Jedito, cperciva, etc.), but I don't want to have a huge list. Who would everyone vote for? This isn't a member of the month poll, but as in, people that rely contribute insight, instruction, helpful answers to questions and issues we face in the web hosting industry (not just who you like the most). I'm talking the type of people that could do everything from set up to programming and so forth. Just true gurus! I'm only going to post the top 5 I can remember, and I'm sure everyone has someone in mind, but after a lot of surfing and really reading these people's posts, I find them (and a few other's I don't remember of the top of my head) to be the most likely. Please no one else take insult, but out of these people, who would you vote for [and please just vote without commenting why, or we risk making the other people seem as if they are any less in that particular field, etc.] I figure with all the polls, I'm interested to see the outcome of this one!

I'm flattered that you'd consider including me as among the top five gurus, but, err, you did rather mangle the spelling of my name.

Could a moderator s/cerpervia/cperciva/ ?

Originally posted by cperciva
I'm flattered that you'd consider including me as among the top five gurus, but, err, you did rather mangle the spelling of my name.

Could a moderator s/cerpervia/cperciva/ ?

Fixed as requested. Also fixed uuallan's spelling (it was originally spelt uuallen).

Originally posted by cperciva
I'm flattered that you'd consider including me as among the top five gurus, but, err, you did rather mangle the spelling of my name.

Could a moderator s/cerpervia/cperciva/ ?

My bad I jotted down that post, did a spell check and fixed your name actually, then I posted the old pre-spell checked version. Certainly there's other people with skills here and just picking the top 5 in my mind wasn't easy and then to really consider it all was even harder. Thank you and all the others for being around and helping teach us all!

that was a tough choice to make.

I bet I would win the poll for the longest lurker.

by the way what happened to et Lux? (sp)

k

Originally posted by HostQuote
I must say that there's both a lot of average people and a lot of very skilled people here and I'm very impressed! I was curious of who is probably the all time most technically skilled member! Well, for one thing I'd dispute your implied equation of "technically knowledgeable" with "valuable." And your bias, based on your nominees, toward a particular subset of technical knowledge. And the practice of placing value on any user over anyone else who contributes.

There are any number of users here coming from a wide range of technical backgrounds. There are people who can act as authorities on networking, on scripting, on web design, on business management, on certain legal issues, on search engines, on security, and on many more topics related in some way to web hosting. All of those are valuable areas of knowledge, and each of those people is technically skilled.

So I'm pointedly abstaining from voting, even though each of your nominees is technically skilled and valuable. But that's just me; my friends have more than once heard me rail against such topics as "what's your favorite...?" and "what are the top ten...?"

Where's my name? :( jk

Tim Greer and chicken are the one I can remember right now, whom i found very knowledgeable persons. of course there are others I can not remember right now. but I will post it as I remember. ;)

oh yeah, i vote for Tim Greer. :agree:

:beer:

oh yeah, I forgot to mention Tina, very knowledgeable girl. ;) I found her posts very knowledgeable in running hosting biz. forms. :)

Ohh please, I don't consider myserlf a guru, not even close to that, been listed here with Tim Green, UUallan, Cperciva and Bitserve I think that its too much :)
I don't deserver to be in their category.
Anyway, thanks to remind me :)

Originally posted by Jedito
I don't consider myserlf a guru

Judging by the poll results so far, you're more of a guru than I am.

Well.. but both know that you're more than I :)

That is Very Hard...
uuallen
cpercvia
tim_greer all excellent choices!That is very hard to choose from...
(sorry if I spelt anyone's name wrong)

Chris