I see no reasonable purpose for post counts. Frequency of typing has no bearing on quality, and as for people being familiar with board conventions, most seem to pick it up quickly, a few don’t and go out in a blaze of idiocy, and a few fall somewhere in between - odd, yet bizarrely entertaining and long lived.
“Say, did you know that I’ve had over a half million conversations since I learned to talk? That’s right!” To what end does this counting serve?
i post on another board where this crap is encouraged – the mods start post-padding threads!
disgusting.
I was looking forward to breaking the big 1K, but when the server was taken down a few months back, my total changed from ~450 to ~250, so the current number is meaningless.
I’ll just try to keep my sarcasm and irony levels consistently high.
Why of course we need post counts! I only ever read the posts of anyone with a higher count than myself. How on earth do you decide which of the dreck to leave out?*
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*Please note that if your post count is less than 2255, I shall not be reading your answer. You should still post it though in order to get closer to the day when I may bless your posts by reading them. Thankyou for your attention in this matter.
How about if they gave us little animals instead.
0 would be a bacteria.
1-10 would be a little kitten.
11-25 would be a little puppy.
26-100 would be cat.
101-500 would be a dog.
501-1000 would be an elephant.
1001+ would be a whale.
Then they could feel like there was a post count but never really know where they were. And once they reached ‘whale’ status it would be over. Nothing more to change and they can focus on quality posts.
Or maybe rust, tin, bronze, steel, silver, gold, platinum in little hoops.
Or red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet in colored circles.
Or pluto, neptune, uranus, saturn, jupiter, mars, earth using their symbols.
Of course you wont be reading this but perhaps this is what Handy is up to. Why, the board must be a breeze to read without having to bother reading all those posts by the lesser posters.
It would make more sense if you weighted posts by forum.
ATMB = 0 (being largely technical issues)
CCC = 10 (on the theory that if you dare to think you can add something to one of Cecil’s columns, you deserve significant credit)
CSR = 9
GQ = 8
. . . And so on down the line, with posts to MPSIMS being worth one point.
And posts in the Pit would be worth minus 10 points.
Well I must be going insane, because this isn’t a bad idea. You are right though, people would be going for negative counts.
Well I must be going insane, because this isn’t a bad idea. You are right though, people would be going for negative counts.
Well then, I know which forum I would post my post-padding thread in.
I like Osiris’s color idea, but it should be completely random. No need to follow the rainbow. That way it would be completely meaningless unless you knew. And maybe shuffle it up every month without telling anyone what the scale is.
Well, I’ll confess, I do look at post count on occasion – it’s handy for seeing if the Pit post I’m reading is really from a newbie or just someone with tongue-in-cheek. I just don’t understand why some folks seem to use it as some sort of a measuring stick.
I thought they closed it because all the mods are evil CommieNazisTM and they’re part of an evil plot to take over the world?
Yeah, that’s what I thought too.
We could have MORE numbers! Posts posted, threads started, threads killed, other peoples’ posts in threads posted, posting rate, times spoken to directly by God, list items posted, Hi Opals posted, requests for bannings by you/against you, Hitler mentioned (Godwin ratio)…
Maybe I should put this in another forum? (Don’t worry mods, we don’t really want this to happen)
… number of people who have plonked you, number you have plonked, percentage of posts of one line, percentage of double posts, Gaudere coefficient…
Thanks for all the input from the people who weren’t posting to pad their post counts.
Kamandi, any thread I managed to get closed would spawn at least one more ‘why was this thread closed’ thread. Instead, I’ll just “bitch” about it here once, and never mention it again.
White Lightning, I’m happy to dispel some inner turmoil. Glad to be of service.
Colibri, and everyone who agreed with you, that would be the ideal situation. I don’t know the specifics on this BB system, but it has been stated that they won’t modify it beyond it’s normal customization. In other words, if they can’t turn it off in a preferences file somewhere, it won’t get turned off. Even if it can be, I doubt it ever will.
<evil nazi/commie moderators>Plus, the mods all have high post counts, and I bet they would petition to keep them. Even Cecil participated in a post count padding thread.</encm> 
So, the only question left is this: did I deliberately wait so that this post would be my 300th?