RM Power Rankings: Week Ending March 24, 2024

[Alex]

1. Tragabigzanda: It's an exciting time for Pearl Jam fans as the fandom is treated to two new songs in a short time. With new songs come new discussion, and with new discussion comes more incisive analysis from Tragabigzanda. Do you have an opinion about Dark Matter and Running? If so, your opinion has likely been tried and tested by this poster. Indeed, in this time, as in many others, this poster reigns as RM's premier musicologist, with well-thought-out assessments on songwriting, musicianship, and, last but not least, production technique. This poster has risen to the occasion and earned the top spot, outgunning even the most seasoned Pearl Jam experts, such as stip.

2. Jorge: In a time of General Discussion desolation, Jorge's "credible threat of violence" thread is a beacon of hope. It has mystery. It has accusations. It has lively discussion. Simply put, it has it all. And it has given a jolt to the sleepy landscape of General Discussion. Can this poster deliver a satisfying answer to the speculation this week? Only time will tell. The poster's mastery of thread creation could only come with experience, and the "violence" thread displays this understanding in abundance.

3. tree: Just as Dune is 2024's smash hit, the Dune thread is the Arts and Entertainment sub-forum's most animated single-item thread. Tree's critical assay of the Dune series is pushing this thread forward into exciting and unknown territory. Is Paul Atreides indeed a hero, or just a villain in hero's clothing? The unanswerable question has found its answer, but not without pulling an entire sub-forum into an exciting discussion.

4. stip: A time of more Pearl Jam is a time of more stip. In spite of tragabigzanda taking the top spot by similar methods, stip has continued doing what he does best: definitively ranking Pearl Jam's output. While we've only tasted two official new songs, there's no doubt that this seasoned veteran will guide discussion of Dark Matter. Where it leads remains to be seen. But if the past is any indication, stip's assessment will be etched into RM lore.

5. tommy: This poster, primarily associated with A&E and Other Bands, made a strong showing in General Discussion this week with the "How bad would it be if you shit your pants right now?" thread. The thread is just the right mix of puerile, relatable, and humorous to be a GD mainstay, embodying this poster's own traits. But tommy's real value comes from his voluminous, continued contributions to the A&E and OB sub-forums. It is hard to imagine those sub-forums without him.

6. VinylGuy: The difference between tommy and VinylGuy comes down to GD contributions. But in spite of this poster's lack of a strong GD showing this week, VinylGuy continues to be a critical part of the engine that powers A&E and OB. Without this poster, countless threads would drop down the pages of the sub-forums, only to be in need of bumping. By watching and listening to so much material, and subsequently enlightening the Red Mosquito community with his findings, the A&E and OB sub-forums continue to thrive.

7. E. H. Ruddock: This poster has been busy. Between making his usual solid contributions across a variety of sub-forums, he's been doing plenty of non-moderating moderating. Between fielding abuse requests and coordinating the merging of threads, this poster has been active. RM would not be what it is without E.H. Ruddock's keen eye and steady hand. Peace and harmony comes at a price, but this poster is willing to do what it it takes on the battlefield to achieve it.

8. spike: This veteran jack-of-all-trades poster continues doing what an adept poster does: making small, but meaningful, contributions across a variety of sub-forums. New Pearl Jam song? spike's got a post for that. Big news in News & Debate? spike's got a take on that. New release in OB? spike's listened and has something to say. Not to mention the steady and humorous GD contributions. This poster is the embodiment of RM's idiosyncrasies, but with just the right measure of old school "real talk".

9. 96583UP: This poster casts such a long shadow in GD that no poster can escape it. The tone, style, and content of the sub-forum have belonged to this poster for so long that one can hardly imagine a GD without them. Couple this performance with a strong showing throughout the other sub-forums, namely the Pearl Jam forum, this poster's prowess earns a spot in the top ten.

10. Mickey: How can a poster who has not posted in two weeks be atop this week's rankings? Simply put, this poster's absence looms more largely than many posters' presences. Mickey set RM alight with his startling revelation that he might stop posting if certain circumstances bear out. Now the board waits--will he or won't he?

[VinylGuy]

I would like to add

Mrs Harmless and Rock Pusher for their PJ contributions and horror thread in case of MrS Harmless and Liebzz because of the work in the live albums and Stones thread

[BurtReynolds]

Please remove ruddo because of his heavy handed moderating.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Can’t believe you left Burt off

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[The Argonaut]

wow, what a week this was

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Argo another notable omission. His PM’s about finding love in the factory are gold

[96583UP]

i am just pleased to be in the top ten as i have been pretty light on posting this week

was not the goal but just got crazy busy

also extremely pleased we have top tens again

extremely, extremely pleased

forgot these existed

RM has lost it's way

but it can fight to get it back again

yeahhhh yeahhhhh

[The Argonaut]

Argo another notable omission. His PM’s about finding love in the factory are gold

lies!

[BurtReynolds]

Can’t believe you left Burt off

It's traumatizing to see ruddo rewarded while his victims (me and Alex) get nothing. I need time to process this. I hope I can channel this into something positive.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Can’t believe you left Burt off

It's traumatizing to see ruddo rewarded while his victims (me and Alex) get nothing. I need time to process this. I hope I can channel this into something positive.

A credible threat of violence seems appropriate.

[coptheriotact]

a good power ranking.

what about the night watchman? anders?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Please remove ruddo because of his heavy handed moderating.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Can’t believe you left Burt off

It's traumatizing to see ruddo rewarded while his victims (me and Alex) get nothing. I need time to process this. I hope I can channel this into something positive.

And I don't even drive a Corvette!

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Incredible, the time you've put into this

[tree_]

I'm used to feeling like an outsider. This is weird. But it's always nice to be recognized and win an reward as prestigious as this. Cheers, Alex.

[Alex]

Incredible, the time you've put into this

the words flowed through me. i was a mere vessel channeling the spirit of General Dee Scussion.

[spike]

How long will it take Anders to crack these after the grilled cheese thread debacle?