# Is your post count important to you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 29, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286 "2000-07-29T00:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/21 "2000-07-29T07:07:36Z")
Doesn’t matter to me. ---
**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/22 "2000-07-29T07:09:41Z")
At first, a healthy post count looked impressive. Now it’s only of passing interest. I get more enjoyment from participation and especially from getting responses to my opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/23 "2000-07-29T07:15:38Z")
I don’t care at all, really. _Yay! Another one! WOO!_ * * * Yer pal, Satan _I HAVE BEEN SMOKE-FREE FOR: Three months, two weeks, six days, 5 hours, 15 minutes and 3 seconds. 4448 cigarettes not smoked, saving $556.09. Life saved: 2 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours, 40 minutes._ Visit [The Fabulous Forums of Fathom](http://fff.fathom.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/24 "2000-07-29T07:48:34Z")
This is the best example of sarcasm I’ve seen yet. I wonder what the prize is if your post count equals the current world population (over six billion now). I say your nickname should be engraved in the sidewalk outside the Chicago Reader’s main building and your sig is read on WGN. Tapes and pictures can be mailed to those who aren’t Chicagoans. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/25 "2000-07-29T13:18:07Z")
Nope. Assumptions can be made, but that’s all they are. Does a high post count in a short time mean the poster is babbling, popular, enthusiastic? Does a low post count for a long-time member mean that the poster is wise and thoughtful, reticent, or slow on the uptake? Something that I **have** looked at recently is a reasonable post that sinks like a stone, with no responses. I wonder what that person did to warrant the cold shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![tethys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@tethys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tethys)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/26 "2000-07-29T13:45:02Z")
Nope. (I’m too busy securing a lifejacket to AuntiePam’s last post.) ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/27 "2000-07-29T14:55:06Z")
I care. I know that I am not a truly worthwhile human being without a high post count. I accept the truly American concept that “quantity is better than quality.” It matters to me more than any of you can possibly imagine. It kills me to think that a bunch of people I’ve never met and probably never will might not pay attention to the things I say because the number under my name on a message board isn’t high enough. My self-esteem depends completely and utterly on y’all’s opinions. I can’t imagine anyone posting on these boards and NOT realizing that their post count may very well be the most important statistic they leave behind them when they die. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/28 "2000-07-29T22:40:05Z")
I thought that it was Lenin that said quantity has a quality all it’s own. That said a man’s 49th post is an inportant milestone in his online life. I am happy to share this milestone with all my friends here who wait breathlessly for my latest pithy post. ---
**Author:** ![theuglytruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@theuglytruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theuglytruth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2000, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/29 "2000-07-29T23:08:06Z")
Oh my god yes! Everytime I post a new thread and I get only a couple repsonses, I feel like a total geek and loser. But when I get over 10, I know I am a good person and can look myself in the mirror. Either way, however, I desperately need to get a real life. ---
**Author:** ![tomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tomas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/30 "2000-07-30T04:20:24Z")
Garsh! I actually hadn’t noticed that they kept count! What have I been missing? ---
**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/31 "2000-07-30T04:38:27Z")
Doesn’t really matter to me. ---
**Author:** ![Moonshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Moonshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonshine)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/32 "2000-07-31T14:02:01Z")
Not really, though I use a really low post count on a new thread as an indicator that somebody may be trolling, especially if its a really dumb question or the poster doesn’t agree with any of my opinions 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/33 "2000-07-31T14:12:46Z")
Moonshine, you beat me to it. I don’t care what my post count is. And for all the people that have high post counts, I probably know their UserNames anyway. I check out post counts when reading a post that is off-topic, or really stoooopid. i.e. If I read a really weird bizarre post, then I saw it was from Satan, I’d think… “That Satan, really cracks me up”. Otherwise I might think… “Friggin Newbie, he’ll learn”. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/34 "2000-07-31T14:16:32Z")
Nope. A high post count isn’t important to me. I don’t even know what my post count is. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/35 "2000-07-31T14:20:13Z")
I look at the post counts, but it doesn’t really mean that much to me. I see some people who have been here for a year and have about the same post count that I do, and some people who have been here for less time than me and have huge post counts. My post count will probably rise dramatically over the next month while I stay home, doing as little as possible, and then stagnate when school starts back up again. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/36 "2000-07-31T14:35:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mangeorge \* > \*\*First, I gotta send some "wise guts"after AWB. Then I gotta tell everybody about it. Lotsa times. > Ain’t really worried about capacitor yet, but he better watch out. 🆒 > Peace, > mangeorge \*\* Sorry, I don’t need no wise guts. :D:D ---
**Author:** ![RavingMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/edb3f5/32.png) [@RavingMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RavingMad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/37 "2000-07-31T15:23:02Z")
Yes, but in an opposite sort of way than what you’d expect. I’m proud of my _low_ post count. It means I have a life outside of this board and post only when I have something worthwhile to say. I shudder when I see someone who’s been here a month or so and already has upwards of a thousand posts. I have to wonder what kind of life these people have to spend it all on an anonymous posting board. I mean, I’ve been here over a year and have fewer posts than some people a week old. Not a popular opinion, but mine nonetheless… ---
**Author:** ![DarkHeart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@DarkHeart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkHeart)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/38 "2000-07-31T16:09:48Z")
I don’t think it’s very important. It’s what you have to say not how many time you have said it. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/39 "2000-07-31T16:11:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kilgore Trout \* > \*\*i find it really silly when people put the importance of a post count over the importance of a quality post. > > post count padding is for the birds. \*\* In that case, tweet, tweet. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![fredicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/779978/32.png) [@fredicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fredicus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286/40 "2000-07-31T19:25:22Z")
Gotta check the count … Gotta check the count … gotta check the count… Nuts I’m to busy to haunt more than two or three boards for fun, two others I use for proffesional reasons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-post-count-important-to-you/27286.md?page=3)