Annoyed about posting for one's post count: is it just me?

haiiro said:
I'll second TW's comment on the "I killed the thread" feeling. I de-lurked in December, and I still seem to have the magic ability to make threads sink like a stone.
See, and I thought it was just me who had the ability to kill a thread discussion. :rolleyes: I don't hit the General Discussion Thread that often and it's usually just a case of my jumping onto a thread when the discussion is just about finished. And now that each forum only shows 25 threads rather than 40 I imagine I'll start missing discussions altogether unless I go to the effort of digging back a few pages.
 

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BardStephenFox said:
TW - I will take your words of advice and not worry too much about it. If I am being an idiot, somebody will probably point that out, right?

Mythusmage - Yes, I do find the IM style of posting to be somewhat annoying. :)

I do too. And I did it today because I needed to talk real time with someone about a technical thing and I couldn't get into my email, and that person wasn't on AIM.

I felt really dumb.

Really. Really. Dumb.


Another thing is what TW said. I often post in the "fun" threads because I am relatively new to gaming as a player and where I tend to just read and not post in the On Topic threads; I want people to know I'm here and I'm interested and what I'm about. The more comfortable I feel with other ENworld people , the more comfortable I feel asking them an On Topic question...and I think getting to know people in the *fun* threads is a good way to do this. And lately I've been psoting in more and more On Topic threads as a result.
 

I wouldn't mind seeing the post count go... I often wonder if people think I just post to post and it there was no post counts then it would not be an issue.

The real reason why I post is that I have a job where I work 12 hours in a row with really nothing to do, well at least on my mids, and this board is pretty much one of my forms of entertainment. Usually I ramble on for quite sometime so it's not like I'm posting to say "Hi and then bye" and I've also dropped my signature down to almost nothingness and I hope it doesn't bug anyone...

Plus the post per a day is pretty embarrassing when you average over 10 a day….
 


Maybe just make post counts a little more inconspicuous?

What do you think of removing post count from the general fourm-reading screens (like this one), bit leaving it in the user's profile, so it's still there if you want to look at it.
 

MerakSpielman said:
Maybe just make post counts a little more inconspicuous?

I actually miss post count being shown with join date and location. With the new boards, it shows up at the end of the post -- so if it's a long post, I don't notice it right away. To each their own, and all that. :)
 

Baraendur - I agree with you overall. I don't want there to be many restrictions on what people can/cannot post. I stop by here because I like gaming and this is a group of gamers. :) Heck, I might even make some new friends here. My gripe comes from people posting a one line response and annoting the post count, then posting another post with the same thing, then another. I mean, if you could post 3 posts in a row, why couldn't you wrap all of them up into 1 post? In one particular case, it seemed like the line annotating to current post count was more important than any attempt to participate in the conversation.

So No, you are not the person that was bothering me at all. :) The thing is, the person I am referring to has many posts that I found interesting and relevant. It was just this sudden spurt of pointless posts that I started to get irritated at.

Djeta - I think I know what posts you are referring to. I wouldn't criticize you for that. Maybe that is because you obviously had a question for a specific person and were trying to get in contact with them. Maybe it is because you weren't annotating your posts with your current post count.

Brother Shatterstone - Actually, my gripe really isn't about sig length either. I like sigs since many people have interesting information in them. Mine is less than exciting, but I wanted to a) Point out how cool Sialia is! b) give people another nudge toward the story hours. I like the story hours because I get to see how other people construct games and it gives me inspiration. Although, I would probably be better off changing my sig to at least include a link to the story hours. :)
 

in the past the mods have sent emails to posters to "direct" them in the proper etiquette of posting.

i'm assuming they still do this, but who knows.
 


haiiro said:
I actually miss post count being shown with join date and location. With the new boards, it shows up at the end of the post -- so if it's a long post, I don't notice it right away. To each their own, and all that. :)
Something I wish I did when I joined was used my joined date as my birthday for my handle, this way HoE would have an age attached to him. :)
 
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