Because despite what some people may say, post count at AGN - as in all other message boards - is an integral part of the social caste system.
Be quiet, though... no need to give Shadowblazer any evil ideas.
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Because despite what some people may say, post count at AGN - as in all other message boards - is an integral part of the social caste system.
Be quiet, though... no need to give Shadowblazer any evil ideas.
Members may just post for competition...if we eliminated it, the spam rate may go down logically, wouldn't it? The gamefaqs board is popular and it doesn't have postcount.
testing my stars :)
But it has Karma. Yes, Karma is different from Post Count, but it nevertheless serves the same purpose.Quote:
Originally posted by System Error
Members may just post for competition...if we eliminated it, the spam rate may go down logically, wouldn't it? The gamefaqs board is popular and it doesn't have postcount.
The "Spam Rate" on AGN should supposedly be 0, since the moderators here do quite a good job banning spammers.
You're right on that one...perhaps almost too good of a job. And you can only gain one Karma a day, and there are "Free Karma" topics there which the mods at gamefaqs never bother to shut down.
Post count is tracked because it does matter, as a statistic. It shows how active a member is and how much they've contributed to the boards, discussion-wise. In that regard, it is a valuable guage of a person's standing in the community, or at the very least their notoriety ;) A member with a high post count is obviously vocal and well-known.
Problems arise, however, when people take it beyond the "statistic" level and become obsessed with raising their count just for the sake of raising it, as if it's some sort of game and by raising that number, they can "win". The way I see it, if a member starts replying to threads not to add to the discussion, but because they want to make that little number go up, then their post count has essentially become worthless. It's no longer displaying how active that person has been in the community, merely how many times they've managed to click on the Reply or New Thread buttons without spamming themselves into a ban.
Well today alot of members hired their rank and knocked me down a bit. I don't think it was because if lots and lots of posting I think it was the fact they all posted a few more times which knocked me down a bit. There will soon be two people with 4 stars. I think he/she has around 9,600 posts.
Good job SB, I love the new system.
ah i just noticed when u hovered over it you get post # :P thx system. Yea i like this idea of stars/colours/and the like. It makes it more of a community where people understand what they stand for and mean. I doubt people would spam if their wasnt a post count but that is no reason to get rid of the post count entirely.
Nice set up. I love my grey stars.