asked the same question when i was accused of neffing for ranting against cg.com. the answer given me was that, "once upon a time, long ago, there was a user with the name nef or something like that, that repeated a login message enough times in order to move up the pecking order. gold,platinum, whatever. so, useless repetition of posts has become to called "neffing". or so i was told. and so now the totally hipcooldudes know the answer and we marginal types dont.