Forum suggestion: Hide post count
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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2011-05-16 22:51 in Suggestions and Ideas
*looks*
Hooray, post count thread. Usually these are posted by six-month noobs who think there's some kinda forum cartel. Bill is a great member of this community, so I'll check this thread out.
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I suggested this a few times way back when there were still separate American and Euro forums.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'll be honest, it's something I've considered.
Post counts, to me, can cause divisiveness within a Community and that's something that we, as a Community, are better than. Not pulling the trigger on anything, but it's rattling about in the brainbox. |
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This kinda hearkens back to the whole "forum star" game.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I'll be honest, it's something I've considered.
Post counts, to me, can cause divisiveness within a Community and that's something that we, as a Community, are better than. Not pulling the trigger on anything, but it's rattling about in the brainbox. |
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@ThrillKiller
My post count is significantly lower than it should be, I've been slacking for at least a year 
I guess no one will listen to what I have to say, or follow my decisions!!! Oh Noes!
�Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play!� - Thomas Gray
And here in the most recent server merge thread is someone who finds himself unable to dispute any of the reasons explaining why server merges are bad, so he resorts to attacking post counts and claims high post counts are a sign of anti-social behaviour.
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Really, the only relevant data we have here is from psychology/sociology circles ; humans are social creatures and, save for a few rare cases, generally need to communicate. So guess what the so-called soloer, low-pop loving crowd does to fulfill their social needs? They come on the boards and post thousands of times, including in topics against server merges. Meanwhile, people who socialize more ingame don't need more interaction and post less if at all, including of course in these topics. If you do a search for server merge topics, you'll see that in action. The same forum names with thousands of posts replying against server merges, while the people being pro merges tend to be new names with at most hundreds of posts, and often lower than that. |
While I personally have zero care about post count, I do dislike being governed by idiocy.
We'll never be free of things for people to point to wrongly.
Regardless, I'm not against removing post counts. I just always hate the whackamole game of idiot-proofing things!
(I do not believe this is a case of a slippery slope though, so don't take it that way)
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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*ignores HexGirl due to "low" post count*
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Originally Posted by HexGirl
My post count is significantly lower than it should be, I've been slacking for at least a year
I guess no one will listen to what I have to say, or follow my decisions!!! Oh Noes! |
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
And here in the most recent server merge thread is someone who finds himself unable to dispute any of the reasons explaining why server merges are bad, so he resorts to attacking post counts and claims high post counts are a sign of anti-social behaviour.
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//sees own post count
///ponders opinion towards server mergers
He'd have a point except for the fact that being part of a forum community is a social thing.
Be well, people of CoH.
And it also goes along the lines of that whole... because we're here posting our opinions, our opinions don't matter thing.
@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Well... MINE do, but I'm highly educated, intelligent AND drop-dead sexy.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
And it also goes along the lines of that whole... because we're here posting our opinions, our opinions don't matter thing.
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Be well, people of CoH.
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Haha, I must commend you on the excellent job you do of hiding those three attributes!
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
Well... MINE do, but I'm highly educated, intelligent AND drop-dead sexy.
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@Zethustra
"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Well, you know, humility is admirable.
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Haha, I must commend you on the excellent job you do of hiding those three attributes!
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Be well, people of CoH.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
/reads quoted post
//sees own post count ///ponders opinion towards server mergers He'd have a point except for the fact that being part of a forum community is a social thing. |
That's one of the reasons I couldn't resist posting it over here.
Instead, for every month of subscription time I'm awarded one free make-fun-of-the-powers-team's-tiny-monkey-brains token. And you better believe I'm not stockpiling those.
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