Post counter
i have noticed that there is no post counter. In my opinion the post counter doesnt promote spamming and i think it actually makes the message board more fun. I have been on other messag boards where if you spam you will have your post counter sent to 0 or banned for continual spaming, i think you should give the post counters another shot at least for a little while. And if it dosnt work out you can always take them off. please take this into consideration.
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It's a case of "Been there and done that", unfortunately. I, for one, don't mind post counts, but they do promote spamming, regardless of how they are used. Since we decided to get rid of post counts a couple of years ago, things have been much nicer around here, as I'm sure the Knights will agree. Besides, people come here for discussion, not to see their post counter rise.
Nice suggestion, though.
"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless,
uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"
Plus, in ANY kind of situation, I could all be like "Shut up, Rainecloud, my post count is higher than yours." And rest assured, I would. So don't do it, for the sake of everyone else, and me.
We've been over this around here a lot of times. I kind of like post counts, but I'm outnumbered.
People often argue that post counts aren't accurate anyway, since the board was reincarnated a couple times and old posts get pruned.
SILENCE! Post counts are useful to us as a scapegoat to distract the public from their REAL problems, like our crippling newbie shortage, and a corrupt government of incompetent Cid's Knights.
It has been my experience that post counts promote childish competitiveness. I know two guys on boards I posted on (or own, in the second case) who actually used their admin power to augment their post count so that it'd be higher than my own (I was the highest poster on both forums). Tell me that's not counterproductive.
How about we just ban everybody who cares about post counts?
There is a post count.
Just go into someones profile and click the little "All posts by this dude" thing.
I am happy to say that I have [strike]1030[/strike] 1031 posts.....BAM!
Can't I have a custom rank now?
Citizen Bleys, you sly dawg, you have over 2000! so does Shlupquack!
Last edited by TasteyPies; 07-23-2004 at 11:56 AM.
That isn't accurate either, TastyPies. Everytime the board is pruned, posts are lost.
Yeah. All that really matters is that I have the highest post count at all times, and I do right now (by just shy of 2000 posts), so all is well with the world. Once you come down to it, the fact that I post a lot in the Site Staff forums is what gives me my huge edge. If you want to compete with me, you have to do a lot of work. It's true, it's true. And I only just found this out now! I thought I hadn't been posting much lately. Guess I was wrong. Oh well.
But yeah, as RSL said, post counts actually don't mean jack. I don't care if they're put back or not, but I also think it would have just as many downsides as it would upsides. If not more. Then there's the politics involved with resetting post counts, and people get all snarky, and we have to shoot them.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
I bet everybody who doesnt want post counts would want post counts if you could click a button and the count read your post count out for you.
Vun hundred and tventy vun!
<3Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Wouldn't we allI bet everybody who doesnt want post counts would want post counts if you could click a button and the count read your post count out for you. :smasher:
Vun hundred and tventy vun!
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I hate post counters with a passion...Never leads to good so why bother. If you stick around long enough you will know how people post and who is a vet. and all. The custom rank thing kicks post counters a%$!
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I have barely over 3000. If they were accurate, Bleys and I would both have easily over 10000.
Yeah, I doubt that I have more posts than some of the people that I'm supposedly "ahead" of.
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