i dont know if anyone has asked this before... but how come in everyones profile(and i seriously mean everyones) its says that they have 0 posts. it would really be kewl to see how many posts some people have. im curious.
i dont know if anyone has asked this before... but how come in everyones profile(and i seriously mean everyones) its says that they have 0 posts. it would really be kewl to see how many posts some people have. im curious.
There've been problems with it before, where certain members(Not naming any names*) were having post competitions with eachother. It got out of hand, so the staff did away with post counts. We like to think EoFF was improved when the post counts disappeared.
* - Me.
o ok. thanx a bunch. i just think its annoying how its still on there. maybe they can remove the little bar. but if it causes any problems it doesnt bother me that much. but thanks for telling me
I honestly don't think restoring post counts would do a bit of harm to the board now. 'Course, I'd just be able to sit on the top of the list and gloat (except that My-ken seems to have raised her post count to 10,000 or something ludicrous like that), so I doubt I'm exactly unbiased about this.
Judging from the contents of Advanced Search, it actually looks like the counts were never actually deleted. Unne's way down there, which he certainly shouldn't be, and we'll note that he reset his count to zero shortly before EVERYONE'S post counts got "reset to zero." I suppose, through a trial-and-error process, I'd be able to figure out exactly how many posts I'd have had, had post counts not been disabled, but I'd have to be BORED AS HELL to try that.
Post counts aren't really that important, anyway. I'd rather be proud of making good posts than of making lots of posts.
Edit: Maybe there's no invisible post counter after all, because the number of results I got by searching for my name was almost identical to the results I got by trial and error in the Advanced Search. Yet if everyone were listed as a zero-poster, the Advanced Search has to be working for SOMETHING, and I'm pretty sure I'd be at around 5,900 in-database posts or something if we hadn't had that pruning half a year ago or whenever it was.
Gah, I'm not really bored enough to continue this. *leaves*
My advanced search results from the memberlist shows my post count being 16 higher than "Find all posts by this member."
16 quality posts, I'm sure.
Listen to that Audio intro thing for more than entertainment, perhaps?
Post counts are gone, and they'll never be back. NEVER!
*rejoices*Originally posted by Citizen Bleys
Post counts are gone, and they'll never be back. NEVER!
It's because we've all never posted, obviously.
Last edited by Del Murder; 02-25-2003 at 12:41 AM.
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Mine was set to 65000 for a long time. I set it to 0 right before I quit.
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