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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5631313" data-attributes="member: 54877">My rule of thumb is that post counts are often inflated by people who had nothing to say on a topic, but didn't let that stop them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />&nbsp;The ratio of posts that meet the criteria for this rule, versus those that do not, varies across person, board, subject matter, and the particular mix of posters in a given topic.&nbsp; (When silly season cranks up, all posters in the topic are temporarily so afflicted.)&nbsp; &nbsp;My tentative intuition--arrived at by the same observation that led to the above rule of thumb--is that any post count above about 100 is useless as a marker for anything.&nbsp; (Below that is only useful in a, &quot;Hey, you haven't been here long, have you?&quot; way, in that long-time lurking before posting seems to be gradually going out of style.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5631313, member: 54877"] My rule of thumb is that post counts are often inflated by people who had nothing to say on a topic, but didn't let that stop them. :p The ratio of posts that meet the criteria for this rule, versus those that do not, varies across person, board, subject matter, and the particular mix of posters in a given topic. (When silly season cranks up, all posters in the topic are temporarily so afflicted.) My tentative intuition--arrived at by the same observation that led to the above rule of thumb--is that any post count above about 100 is useless as a marker for anything. (Below that is only useful in a, "Hey, you haven't been here long, have you?" way, in that long-time lurking before posting seems to be gradually going out of style.) [/QUOTE]

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