Liking the idea of just deleting it all together from the side of posts. It's pretty dang useless, apart from telling how active someone is. Activeness doesn't show experience some people can get hundreds of posts in a very short time. I think it should, however, be kept for the member list and for a members profile.
I've done a little research and so far there's no way for me to make a single thread not add to your post count, so for now the general chat thread won't be changed. From what I've seen so far, the change to the forum games area is welcome by the far majority. I'll wait a few days and talk with the staff about it to see whether this becomes permanent. So far there's no intention to alter post counts to take away those made in the forum games section, and personally I see no reason to. What's done is done, no need to change things for a change in the system in this case. As for removing it altogether... I see no reason to change it either way, but that's just me. I'll keep you guys notified if we need opinions!
This, I never really saw post count as a measure of one's quality or participance so why it matters if they get posts from forum games escapes me. Still I have known other forums to do this, for one reason or another. So you're not alone. Sent from my GT-I9000 using Tapatalk
Post count is something of a more personal thing for me- I do like knowing how many posts I've made as a sort of barometer of how people are going to view me initially-but my main basis for comparison is White Wolf where I HAVE made enough posts to get close(or over, I dunno now) 1000 posts-where post count is only available on profiles. It's nice and it does create a sense of how new people will look at you, but, well... On the whole, it's not really important, as I think there are plenty of people who post a lot and never say anything and then there are people who say very little but try to include substance. I like to think that the people worth listening to are readily apparent, so post count on every post is a bit superfluous. On the other hand, I tend to think of myself as one of the latter and get bothered by the junior member title even when it's perfectly true, so my opinion may be skewed. EDIT: Oh yeah, as for the original issue-this forum may do a lot of brainbarfing, but the forum games are a step too far.
I personally think that post counts give a user something to strive for, but most people go about it wrong. Spamming isn't the thing to do and people do it anyway. A high post count SHOULD show that you're active and contribute to alot of conversations. Instead it's pretty much people posting one word responses or posting "I dont know" posts that dont go anywhere. No one should be without something to strive for, but the rules should be more strict about how long a post can be or what defines it as useless. Only post if you're contributing.
So I'm sure this has come up somewhere in this topic, but I'll just ask it anyways. Since no one's post counts changed, does that mean that forum game posts no longer count to post counts starting now, but all previous forum game posts still counted? Either way it doesn't really matter to me. A post count is a post count. Doesn't mean all that much.
SUDDENLY DRD has 3 posts. :Trollestia: I'm joking of course. I was expecting this to come for quite some time now.
Maybe Lupr will play some games now that they don't count anymore. ROFLstomp. -- Sent from my Palm Pre using Forums
I would be perfectly fine with forum games no longer counting toward posts, myself. Perhaps now we'll see more posts in other areas on the network.
