5. You anxiously follow the adventures of Gerald the Gnome and worry about him as if he were a real person.

4. You get fired from your job for spending all day in the forums, and think, “Great! I’ll have more time to work on my entries!”

3. You tell your kids to make their own dinners; you need to finish this entry before the deadline. Your kids are 1 and 3.

2. You tell someone who pisses you off to go to New Jersey, not the hot place.

1. You see a building on fire and take source pictures instead of calling 911.

1. You turn down a weekend away with friends because you will have a contest active and don’t want a “no vote.”

2. You overhear two guys talking about “curves.” You try to listen in because you might get a good hint on improving your photographs.

3. Your sister shows you her vacation snapshots and you tell her she needs to find better sources.

4. You remember the Worthdays of your online friends better than your own family’s birthdays.

5. The Worth trivia thread is the most interesting thing you have read in weeks.

5) Your children create accounts so they can talk to you more often.

4) Most conversations you have with your family include at least one Worth reference.

3) The site crashes and you click the refresh button on your browser until it comes back.(Then go to bed; without doing anything on the site, knowing that all is right with the world.)

2) Something really nice happens to you and you can't wait to share it with your friends.(So you rush home and start a thread about it in the Sugar Shack.)

1) You take pictures at your family gathering, and try to shoot them to fit the most current photography contest theme.

5-You choose campgrounds with wireless Internet so that you can “Worth” by the campfire.

4-You pass on offers that you shouldn’t refuse: “Honey, I’ll take that massage another day. Go to bed without me, I’m busy Worthing.”

3-You conjugate the verb “to Worth” as if it actually exists.

2- You’ve convinced your executive assistant to discreetly inform you of rank and score changes in live contests when you’re in a meeting. Nobody has cracked the code yet but some coworkers think you’re having an affair.

1-You’ve developed a fear of monkeys or have become one.

5. Your co-workers comment on the interesting names your friends have.

4. You have pictures of your chopped, “mangafied”, and drawn Worth friends on your digital frame.

3. The last person you hugged was in the Sugar Shack.

2. You forget to respond to your real life name. You sign regular e-mails with your Worth name.

1. You have participated or organised a Worthmeet… in another country.

1) You’ve changed your trophy case more than twice
2) Your Karma is bigger than your social security number
3) You can name more than 30 people by just seeing their forum Avatar
4) You’ve spent more than 2 hours fine-tuning the blending on your source image’s edges
5) You can now click away from Worth1000 in less than .0023 seconds if a co-worker walks by

5) You know what 5 of the top 20 recently updated threads are, because you contributed to them.
4) You know exactly how many replies “Caption This” has had.
3) The fact that two game threads are constantly on top so annoys you that you start a thread just to move them out of the top spots.
2) “Sugar Shack” is 100% of your bonding efforts with other people.
1) One word: “Bevissimo”

5) You notice your average daily comment count is closing in on 10.
4) You notice your average daily entry count is closing in on 2.
3) Your second place finishes have all scrolled off the mantle because of lack of room (I should live so long).
2) You know your overall average to all 4 decimal places at any time.
1) You actually care whether your online/offline status is correct.

5) You have been plushified so many times you collect Worth Plushies the way some people collected beanie babies.
4) In the last MSWars contest there were at least 5 different entries about you - by at least 3 different people.
3) You made a pink bunny suit popular - on a guy.
2) People wonder who came in second after you in the latest contest.
1) You have more than one chop featured over on Snopes.

You know you're spending too much time on Worth when:

You want your friends to rate you using 10 gold stars.

You log on at midnight to see the new competition.

You think that bad things will happen because you lost karma points.

You tell your co-worker that their work needs to be flagged.

You take your friends out for drinks because you have won a gold medal.