I am afraid this is really not a rant- as i do not think Euty was completely serious. In a recent “Request from the Moderator” thread in MPSIMS, Euty had some good suggestions-EXCEPT for the part about “post-count parties” being a waste of time. 1st- just about the entireity of MPSIMS is a “waste of time” by definition. Next- post count parties are not really to brag about your number of posts- but to give your freinds here a chance to chime in, and maybe a little flirting. Post-count parties & such are what makes the SDMB a community, instead of “just another message board”.
So there= 
I think we should ban post count parties only for post counts that end in “00”.
That way, people’d have to get creative… “Hey, my post count is an 11-digit prime number! I rock! Who wants Guiness?”
Daniel,
MPSIMS is fun, and mundane, but even still you have to draw a line somewhere. I don’t mean this as any disrespect to anyone, but do you really have to celebrate 100 posts? it is great that you are happy to post here, and get involved, but should you not hold off until you reach a big milestone?
Posts should be about quality, not quantity.
Please don’t think I’m preaching or anything. I know I have contributed my own fair share of waffle over the time. but with 12,000+ members, quite a considerable number of threads and columns, and a high daily hit rate.
anything that they may suggest that will help with our ability to access the board will only add to the experience.
Our community will not be deminished by reducing post parties.
IIRC, it was the pointless threads, like “posting to a thread to be the last person to post” type threads that were the main cause of the “message from the Moderators”
Just MHO,
John
Also, those kinds of posts were probably more acceptable when we had fewer posters. But now, we are seriously slammed with posts all the time and resources can be taxed.
I do my fair share of posting complete useless drivel in MPSIMS and I understand why some of those kinds of threads are not looked upon too fondly. Heck, I have had a post count party myself. Anyway, it’s the never-ending threads that are the worst. I think the post count parties were just lumped in there because there’s really nothin to stop someone from starting a whole new thread just to say, “Look! I posted twenty-seven times since yesterday!” and that can degenrate into people having post count parties for any old number at all just because they can.
Better to only post for a post count party when you either each a really high number or better still, when you have something else to share, you can just throw that little fact in there.
Somehwere in a Chicago attic, an ancient server is trying to process all this crap, Daniel. Smoke is rising up from the poor little thing as it pushes yet another post to LlamaFucker’s “Woohoo!! 200 Posts, Baby!!” thread into the world.
We’re trying to keep things in check. That means making a shift from the pointless towards the mundane, I’m afraid. I for one tend to think of PCP’s as pointless rather than just mundane.
And for fucks sake, it’s not like you can’t flirt in any damn thread you wish. Lord knows it happens with alarming frequency. :rolleyes:
No, no, no, GOD no. You can ask just about any question about any field of knowledge in GQ and usually get the answer (or a highly educated WAG) in 24 hours. We have eloquent members of every political and social perspective discussing the all the Big Issues in GD. And you think post count parties separate us from the rest of the internet? Ugh.
If anything, crap like post count parties make this board look lamer than it is. We recognize the SDMB community, but at some point we have to take out the trash.
We have people at the SDMB who dissect the very fabric of the universe, the very notion of Truth. 24/7. Meanwhile, some people still bounce around, completey apathetic to the Cup of Knowledge that sits before them because they are too busy having Homecoming Parades for themselves.
Omnia vanitas.
And, as one of the people who take out the trash, the PCPs are next in line. Right now I’m working my way through ATMB, mostly, removing old test threads that were mainly about UBB software.
Don’t forget, Euty HAS to read just about every thread in MPSIMS, and this sort of thing can take a toll on a person. And our servers are being pushed to the max. So no, I don’t think that Euty was joking at all, but I’ll let him speak for himself, if he’s so inclined.
Coldfire said:
You’re so cute when you get angry. 
Okay, who thinks Coldy’s mad because no one flirts with him?
No one’s flirting with Coldie?
My God, did I wake up in Bizzarro World?
I came in here with the express reason of flirting with Coldfire. I’m stalking him around the boards, trying to pump up my post count, (as well as my favorite moderator)
jarbaby
If you think I’m in it for the nekkid horny chicks: you’re dead wrong.
I took this job because I’m a powerhungry communist bastard, waiting to opress the masses with my fascist thread moving and socialist post editing.
Mind you, I am pretty sexy as far as communist bastards go.
I am with you on the truly ‘useless’ postings. The ‘last post’ threads and the post party threads.
And, as it’s early morning, and as I’m feeling especially foolhardy, I have an additional suggestion.
As to the flirting thing, I’m no prude, and it’s not like it’s a huge issue or anything but, you know what? I could really live without it, in any thread.
I was hoping when this first came up someone might suggest that an actual flirting forum be developed. I really dislike when I’m following along some interesting discussion and then someone starts flirting.
Don’t misunderstand me here, I’m not talking about the one line inuendo with a smiley. I’m talking about when it goes back and forth. Enough people, get a room. There are literally a million outlets for that sort of thing on the internet. Do we really need it here?
I admit, I’d like to see it limited to a specific forum or thread, instead of in the midst of all and sundry discussions.
I’m not losing any sleep over this, or anything. But I confess to, whenever it breaks out, thinking the posters are surely prepubescent. (Even though I know that can’t be true.)
I know, it’s probably only me, but that’s how I feel.
What do you think?
Growwwwl. Oh my god. I’m sweating.
jarbaby
I’m hijacking this thread and turning it into something truly meaningful since the OP is entirely incorrect.
Welcome to my 669[sup]th[/sup] post count party!
Yeah, post count parties are a lovely idea. :rolleyes:
I, however, am in it for the nekkid horny chicks.
But here’s the deal, and a little history lesson.
This site and this board is set up to fight ignorance. To this end we set up the various forums : the comments, general questions and to a lesser extent, great debates. Because we learned our lessons back in the old AOL days, we also set up MPSIMS and the Pit so that people who wanted to participate in that kind of atmosphere could, but so that people who wanted to avoid it could also. They were intended as outlets for people who were regular contributors to the main reason for the board itself.
However in these last days, MPSIMS seems to have become a raison d’etre in and of itself. Looking at the counts at this very moment, GQ has 18496 threads with 225350 posts. MPSIMS has 19068 threads with 390831 posts. Anyone new coming onto the board could look on those figures and erroneously conclude that MPSIMS was the main area of the board.
So, yes I was being completely serious about post-count parties and post-padding. To be honest? We’ve gotten to the point as to whether we should let people know their post count at all. It leads, as we’ve already seen, to people posting basically garbage strictly in order to increase their post count which frankly, in our eyes, means nothing. Or it leads to newbies thinking that this is the way to go and get all excited and want a party when they reach frigging 100 posts!
Some, I can forgive. Falcon earned the party when she hit 4000. That’s a real milestone. And we’re really not that upset about the flirting that goes on. God knows I do enough of it myself, although I’ve yet to get any actual sex from it. (hint, hint…) But when people start posting without having anything to say and do it just to see their name on the board or get an orgasmic thrill when they put a new notch on their post count, especially when the three of us have to slog through every single word of this nonsense is not an unrealistic request.
And just to put my own post count on the line, I’m about to hit 1000. I will personally hunt down and kill the first person who starts a post-count party in my honor.
Also, since this is the Pit, but since I am the nice one here, darn you, Daniel!!
hint hint???
Not OUR Euty! Come now, youre above all that!
Above, below, whatever. Just as long as I’m in there somewhere.
smooch Thank you, Euty. Purp and I wondered whether it was going to be a problem. And I would have understood if y’all would’ve yelled at me. 
Re: PCP’s. I would like to point out that I was one of the Luddites who railed against putting members’ number of posts in with their each submission, way back when it was done.
See what you hath wrought?
Not to toot my own horn, but … honk.