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Muckraker  Posts: 350 Joined: 6 Mar 2008 | |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 60 Joined: 11 Apr 2008 | In many forums I've been on... the post counter has been treated as a dick hat of sorts. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1360 Joined: 4 Nov 2007 | I won't deny that the post count isn't something I notice but I'm just as likely to respond to someone on their 10th post as their 1000th. The only exception to this is when I already know someone, which is a result of chance, their avatar and their activity (which obviously means a higher post count). So I have no problem with post counts as they don't change how I deal with people, barring stupidity; a silly post from a newbie is much more likely to be a flame or troll than from a veteran. Besides, any feature that shows me just how much of a post whore Purps is gets my thumbs up. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1113 Joined: 10 Apr 2007 |
I actually think the opposite, with the joined date being right below the post count. If the post count is ridiculous for someone that recently joined, I think 'this is a person who just posts on the slightest whim, and doesn't make sure they really have something to say'. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2392 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | It is a good thing, mainly because we can see how well people have posted in the past. Look at GEMS. He was a troll. He had over 200 posts in his first two days. Most of which were inane and pointless. It allows people to see how long someone has been on this forum, and how seriously they can be taken or trusted... If someone jumps on, posts a thread and is locked within a day, we know what to expect from that person in the future, like GEMS, or if someone like myself, who jumps on, makes a lot of posts in a short time (I think I got my first 200 in 3 days) but doesn't say inflammatory or inappropriate things, it shows that they are interested in taking part in the discussions. Yeah, I post whore. But at least I am not a troll about it 99.90% percent of the time... |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1658 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 | Quiet you BeatWriter. I am a Gone Gonzo meaning I am better than you. Nah, I'm joking about the rank thing but I do look at the join date to see if the person has been a long time member or just jumped on because of the Yahtzee fad. You can usually tell what the person will be like by the join date, usually. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 62 Joined: 10 Mar 2008 | I actually like it, it does help to see if someone is a routine poster or if they are just a creepy troll who has no life but to post online. I can't believe it but I actually agree with Cheeze-pavilion, and boy is that scary :)JK. I also enjoy the tongue in cheek titles we all get based on the total posts. Being that I am a lowly paperboy and am in no hurry to jump the line it still entertains my small mind. Maybe when I have hit a large number of posts it won't mean as much but for right now it is not a harmful thing. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1891 Joined: 29 Nov 2007 | Number of posts and join date are good tools. High post count, low days on board, someone who just wants to randomly type. You know, the fun stuffs.....Plus, nothing wrong with a metaphorical dick hat. Wink. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2419 Joined: 2 Dec 2007 |
So I hold the biggest dick hat of all. I like it. It can tell you how long people have survived the sway of the banhammer. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1393 Joined: 24 Apr 2008 | *grumbles* those who know know |
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Muckraker  Posts: 281 Joined: 9 Nov 2007 | so what are people with an early join date and low post count? I think I know; Lurkers :) I do wonder how much time people spent on boards per day though. I mean, I only reply to threads when I have read most of the discussion. Which means that in a popular thread i read for an hour before posting something. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1797 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 | I've heard this argument before many times. There's a number of good things that can come from a post count; rather than e-peen; which have already been shown here. It tells the Purple Rains from the "ohmygodfirstpost" crowd :) |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1173 Joined: 13 Dec 2007 | I like knowing when it's someone's first post. That's about it though. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1113 Joined: 10 Apr 2007 |
Heh--the forums used to be a lot less active earlier on. Things seemed to heat up with the format change from webmagazine to website with feature content/the infamous _Fallout_ thread, and then especially since Zero Punctuation came around. Seriously--three pages of comments used to be a long thread at one time... |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1745 Joined: 21 Jan 2008 |
Hey, Purple, you seem to forget mr cheeze (I'm sorry if I got the username wrong)... Oh, and I kinda like the post system. It makes me feel like I've been on the boards for a while... no-one notices me though... |
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Paperboy Posts: 29 Joined: 14 May 2008 | Where's stompy? I can't see him... Oh and by the way I've been reading the website for quite sometime I only joined recently because I noticed the roleplay threads... something I have intention of getting into, when I have more than five minutes of free time a day. |
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Muckraker  Posts: 234 Joined: 22 Apr 2008 | It's a good feature. Gives people an easy way of who should be taken seriously and who should be listened to with a grain of salt. Post/time ratio and all that. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 1797 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
Awww...we all notice you stompy, we're just ignoring you ;) |
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Press Junketeer  Posts: 402 Joined: 22 Dec 2007 | As long as people don't use their post count to measure their e-penis it's fine. |
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BANNED  Posts: 37 Joined: 15 May 2008 | Post count only bothers me when illiterate dumbasses rack up 500 posts and when you've got maybe 17, they rub their e-penises away and repel sweet beautiful logic with "well ur new". |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2392 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | What? Who has ever done that? We always pride ourselves on being open minded enough to know that a first time poster may have enough intelligence to not only be worth reading, but actually have valid enough points to make us reconsider our previous thoughts on an issue. I know I have thought long and hard about some issues we have debated on here, and some of the time the person was only in their first 25 posts... |
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BANNED Posts: 37 Joined: 15 May 2008 | I'm not saying this forum specifically, I mean the concept itself has had many a dumbass think they're somehow more important simply because they can't learn to use the edit button. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1931 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | Doesn't really do anything. i don't care for it, but i do like having a nice shiny badge below my name. It makes me feel special. Maybe Escapist should add the feature of being able to change your rank name thingamabob. I'd like to change my rank back to something latin, like Ignus Justorum. |
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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1179 Joined: 13 Sep 2007 | I remember a time when I was pretty much in the top ten for highest post-count, back when Yahtzee was just getting started here... I'm falling behind now, but I'm still high enough that I like it. I hold power, and that can never be a bad thing. |
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Staff Emeritus  Posts: 1124 Joined: 7 Jul 2006 |
Capable of thinking before they speak. |
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Copy Clerk  Posts: 108 Joined: 7 May 2008 | To be honest, I don't usually look at it, until you mentioned it. |
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Paperboy  Posts: 33 Joined: 10 May 2008 |
I do the same thing, and Moebius, I saw you on another thread, I think the Guys have questions... etc. thread, flaming someone because they only had 3 posts. |
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Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 658 Joined: 13 Jan 2008 | seeing as my computer screen is screwed up, i cant actually see the post count or join date, or hell, even peoples names (if you must konow i have to move the slide bar all the way to the right to see comments) so i have to judge people by their comments, not their post count. though i do like seeing people with a high post count for some reason. i have discovered that if you do something like, post a sub standard review people seem to attack people with less posts more. maybe thats just me |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2392 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 |
No, I was flaming her because my girlfriend and I had been talking to a guy about building his confidence, then she came in and said that everyone was wrong and that she was the only one with right answers. I got a little excessive, but my main point remains true to this day. We weren't wrong, we gave general advice based on personal experience (My 32 relationships, and my girlfriend being a girl) with the explicit written advisory warning that it wouldn't work in every case, but in 90% of the times... I wasn't flaming her because she had three posts, but because she assumed she knew more about asking a girl out than everyone else. And then she didn't say anything that was very different from what we had been saying anyway. She was being a troll. I responded in kind, and then let it go. |
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Anonymous Source Posts: 3 Joined: 15 May 2008 | If you see someone with an eariler join date and higher post count your expecting that they are regular posters and know the community. Be a handy thing to know if your ever looking for advice.... |
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Paperboy  Posts: 35 Joined: 5 Nov 2007 | I am used to anonymous messageboards, and therefore not used to nicknames or postcounts. Seriously, if you can't tell if the person you're reading is being honest or not, you might want to read a bit more on the topic you're discussing yourself. |
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Paperboy Posts: 33 Joined: 10 May 2008 |
Ah fair enough then, sorry man, I mis-understood you. =] |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 710 Joined: 9 Jan 2008 |
WHY?! This is getting ridicules. Dick hat is no longer a word. It, like many other words is getting far to close to my name. |
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Gone Gonzo Posts: 2392 Joined: 26 Feb 2008 | To Scarpy: It happens. As I said, I DID get a bit excessive with her. But it wasn't because she had three posts. |
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Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 785 Joined: 22 Aug 2006 |
The glory days indeed. I can't wait for Fallout 3 to actually come out, because then maybe we can do it again. Per long threads? I'm just amazed they set up the recent posts home page widget to handle post counts over 1000. Whodathunkit? On Topic: Post Ratio is an excellent thing in helping gauge the other person. The apparent race to see what is above "Gone Gonzo"? Not so much. |
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What do you guys think of the little feature on everybody's posts that says how many posts total they've made on the Escapist forum? Have any of you ever felt that you've been discriminated against (like in a debate or something) simply because you have a lower number of posts than your counterpart? Do you feel like there is any sort of elitism amongst those with higher post counts?