# Post count meaningless? Bollocks! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 13, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379 "2002-12-13T00:46:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/41 "2002-12-13T05:51:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lel \* > \*\*For the sake of fighting ignorance and all that, **SmileyDeath** , read the first post (or better yet, all of them) in the [FAQ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103503). Lets hope it slows down your drooling of mindless drivel (keeping some posts with content is okay, however). \*\* I haven’t even finished my first night here. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/42 "2002-12-13T05:52:29Z")
Post :o ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/43 "2002-12-13T05:53:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*I haven’t even finished my first night here. :rolleyes: \*\* And with 52% of your rolleyes-smiley quota burned up for the year already, you’re in for a long dry spell. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/44 "2002-12-13T05:57:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*Post :o \*\* Content Heh, I’ll post more informative stuff… later. ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/45 "2002-12-13T06:02:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*I haven’t even finished my first night here. :rolleyes: \*\* It’s going to be a long night. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/46 "2002-12-13T06:04:45Z")
Isn’t it a school night? Don’t 14 year olds have to be sleeping already? ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/47 "2002-12-13T06:05:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lel \* > \*\*It’s going to be a long night. \*\* Why, are you going to start a topic about me here? ---
**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/48 "2002-12-13T06:07:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*Why, are you going to start a topic about me here? \*\* No, because owlofcreamcheese [already has](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150063). ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/49 "2002-12-13T06:12:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lel \* > \*\*No, because owlofcreamcheese [already has](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=150063). \*\* Hahahaha. That’s priceless. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/50 "2002-12-13T06:23:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lobsang \* > \*\*I say it’s bollocks. > What do you say? \*\* Never mind the bollocks. Here come the Sex Pistols! I always liked the Revolting Cocks. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/51 "2002-12-13T06:31:27Z")
> [@](#): > > If a person has a high post count then they have likely been through the sdmb-mill. they have become at least a little bit more diplomatic, tolerant, respectful than they were before. I haven’t. (I’m either changeless or in a rut, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/52 "2002-12-13T06:37:16Z")
Post counts don’t matter a jot now I’m not stuck on 38:D ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/53 "2002-12-13T07:03:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iampunha \* > \*\*::cough:: > > Post count, other than figuring out if someone is new to posting or not, is usually not much of an indicator of anything other than how many posts a person has. \*\* Or that the first week they were here they got heavily involved in not one, but two, really silly threads that went into 20+ pages and posted like a Kiki the ferret on a sugar rush and flirted a lot and pretty much posted the first thing that came into their head before they got a look at how fast they were racking them up and just what image they were projecting and thought “WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING!?” :smack: :o ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/54 "2002-12-13T07:06:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hegel \* > \*\*I wish they’d be erased, myself. Keep the date of registration, but the post count–gone. \*\* I STRONGLY disagree. I need something to look forward to. That something is a higher post count. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/55 "2002-12-13T08:26:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*I’m lkely to have more than a thousand within a month. \*\* Um. **Serious caution:** Don’t. Okay? Trust me. After a couple more days of 75 posts-per-day, you are gonna be dragged back into the Pit by your elders and betters, and your 14-year-old baby ass will be handed to you on a platter. That Pit thread that Owlofcreamcheese has going now, it’s a Sunday School picnic compared to what’s in store for someone who truly pisses off the SDMB. This is not a game website, SD. This is not the Pokemon forums, okay? My son hung out on the Pokemon forums for a while, and trust me, this is not the same thing, no way. This is a message board full of some of the wittiest, sharpest, smartest, and also _crankiest_ sons-a-bitches in the Civilized World. And some of the things they can come up with in the Pit may be hilarious, but they also can be pretty vile. People can get REALLY ugly here, REALLY fast, and they have LONG memories. It will take you a loooooong time of sensible posts for people to forget that you’re the teenager who blasted a hole in the SDMB with 75 posts-per-day his first week. Okay? A word to the wise. Signed, MOM ---
**Author:** ![SmileyDeath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SmileyDeath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmileyDeath)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/56 "2002-12-13T08:36:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*Um. > > **Serious caution:** > > Don’t. > > Okay? > > Trust me. After a couple more days of 75 posts-per-day, you are gonna be dragged back into the Pit by your elders and betters, and your 14-year-old baby ass will be handed to you on a platter. That Pit thread that Owlofcreamcheese has going now, it’s a Sunday School picnic compared to what’s in store for someone who truly pisses off the SDMB. > > This is not a game website, SD. This is not the Pokemon forums, okay? My son hung out on the Pokemon forums for a while, and trust me, this is not the same thing, no way. > > This is a message board full of some of the wittiest, sharpest, smartest, and also _crankiest_ sons-a-bitches in the Civilized World. And some of the things they can come up with in the Pit may be hilarious, but they also can be pretty vile. > > People can get REALLY ugly here, REALLY fast, and they have LONG memories. It will take you a loooooong time of sensible posts for people to forget that you’re the teenager who blasted a hole in the SDMB with 75 posts-per-day his first week. > > Okay? A word to the wise. > > Signed, > > MOM \*\* Dude, give me a fucking break. I’m not going to be hanging around at “pokemon” forums. I’m more mature than that. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/57 "2002-12-13T08:45:52Z")
Yeah? Prove it. The correct response was, “Thanks for the heads-up!” File for future reference. And it’s “Mom”. Not “dude”. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/58 "2002-12-13T10:12:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Dude, give me a fucking break. I’m not going to be hanging around at “pokemon” forums. I’m more mature than that. “Wise men don’t need advice… and fools don’t take it.” ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/59 "2002-12-13T10:21:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*Dude, give me a fucking break. I’m not going to be hanging around at “pokemon” forums. I’m more mature than that. \*\* “A tree is known by its fruit.” — Jesus ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2002, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379/60 "2002-12-13T11:40:25Z")
Usually you can check the registration date against the number of posts and get a pretty good idea of the people that are just so excited that they’ve found somewhere to post that it doesn’t matter how stupid or ignorant they appear, they get to POST. You overlook those people and pretty much stop reading what they post after about the first two weeks. Some are so thick that it doesn’t matter how many times they get pitted or how many times they are told that they are idiots it just doesn’t sink in. Then you have some that just keep it up and it gets to the point where no one can stand them and won’t reply to any of their posts, and they still keep it up. As always there are exceptions to everything. But you seriously need to look at your life if you can post more than 10-15 posts in a 24 hour period EVERY day. And that’s a pretty high post count per day. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-count-meaningless-bollocks/142379.md?page=4)