# Post Counts Meaningless? Bollocks, says Lobsang! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 23, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565 "2005-02-23T18:19:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/61 "2005-02-24T18:03:44Z")
Bro chill out, you’re going to raise your post c…er, blood pressure. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/62 "2005-02-24T18:06:32Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > do you want to know why I’m pitting you instead of myself, **Q.E.D.** or **NoClueBoy**? Because you won’t fucking shut up about post counts. It’s a fucking _number_. It _doesn’t_ _matter_. We get it. Why can’t you? This _reeks_ of, “Guh, we’re, like, so totally over that. Hello.” ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/63 "2005-02-24T18:18:04Z")
> [@Uvula Donor](#): > > What’s the greatest nation in the world? _Urination!_ If you’re American outside the bathroom, what are you inside the bathroom? You’re a-peein’! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/64 "2005-02-24T18:18:35Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > Bro chill out, you’re going to raise your post c…er, blood pressure. 😛 I’m cool. I wasn’t yesterday. I said in ATMB ‘I don’t want to get into that debate’. Less than a minute later there’s this thread in the Pit. Not only had I specifically asked not to debate this, but the accusations were weak and false. I could have done without this stupid pitting to my name. But I’m chilled now. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/65 "2005-02-24T18:21:00Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > It might be more like a sentiment of Satan. Meh. Can we talk about something less boring? This issue is so vanilla. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/66 "2005-02-24T18:23:38Z")
…huh? Preview? What preview? I don’t need no steekin’ preview! Durned **Wilson** … ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/67 "2005-02-24T19:27:56Z")
BTW **Amazon Floozy Goddess** sorry if I was a little snarky with you yesterday. I didn’t mean to be. I was worked up. And that last bit (where I quoted my first post) was directed at the thread in general, and not you specifically. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/68 "2005-02-24T19:56:29Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > BTW **Amazon Floozy Goddess** sorry if I was a little snarky with you yesterday. I didn’t mean to be. I was worked up. > > And that last bit (where I quoted my first post) was directed at the thread in general, and not you specifically. Noprob. I took no offense. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ed)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/69 "2005-02-24T21:05:57Z")
I thought this was one of the few places that didn’t care about post counts. Maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/70 "2005-02-24T23:42:35Z")
You do realize it upsets the youngsters when the old folks fight? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/71 "2005-02-25T00:03:31Z")
> [@Futile Gesture](#): > > You do realize it upsets the youngsters when the old folks fight? Waaaaaaaaa! Mommy and Daddy are fighting! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/72 "2005-02-25T00:42:56Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > This _reeks_ of, “Guh, we’re, like, so totally over that. Hello.” I have no idea what you’re trying to imply but I’m happy you think so. > [@Lobsang](#): > > Less than a minute later there’s this thread in the Pit. Not only had I specifically asked not to debate this, but the accusations were weak and false. I could have done without this stupid pitting to my name. Three minutes, not one, and I didn’t see your post as you seem to be trying to imply; the search feature is so slow that it probably took the software that long to even cough up the search I did on your name. > [@Lobsang](#): > > None of the accusations thrown at me in this thread have stuck. I stand by my very first post in the thread I’ve not really tried to make anything stick. As counterintuitive as my posting a pit thread about it would make it seem, I don’t really care _ **that** _ much and was just scratching at an itch, so to speak. With that being said, your continuing insistance that counts mean anything has been shown to be pretty flimsy, at best, and it _is_ annoying so I’ll ask – politely, even – that you try to be mindful of it in the future and try not to mention it as often as you yourself offered. It would be much appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/73 "2005-02-25T01:23:00Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > I have no idea what you’re trying to imply but I’m happy you think so. > > Three minutes, not one, and I didn’t see your post as you seem to be trying to imply; the search feature is so slow that it probably took the software that long to even cough up the search I did on your name. > > I’ve not really tried to make anything stick. As counterintuitive as my posting a pit thread about it would make it seem, I don’t really care _ **that** _ much and was just scratching at an itch, so to speak. > > With that being said, your continuing insistance that counts mean anything has been shown to be pretty flimsy, at best, and it _is_ annoying so I’ll ask – politely, even – that you try to be mindful of it in the future and try not to mention it as often as you yourself offered. > > It would be much appreciated. **Aesiron** I already told you I’ll be mindful of it in the future. I also apologised for any percieved persistence in mentioning post count. I have long since given up arguing with the statements of yours with which I disagree, but I am perfectly willing to drop this issue and consider you, once more, a friend. In hindsight I probably overreacted to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565/74 "2005-02-25T01:53:18Z")
So, if my post count reaches 5000, I _don’t \* become a_\* Level 2 Doper\*\*? ☹ Aww nuts… I was hoping to multi-class too… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-counts-meaningless-bollocks-says-lobsang/291565.md?page=3)