ColonelHardisson
What? Me Worry?
No, it means nothing.
Way back when Eric ran his site, it was discussed from time to time about giving titles to each poster. As the poster population grew, I imagine that titles would have to be automatically given upon certain numbers of posts. The general thinking was that such titles, and especially titles based on post count, would encourage the kind of negative poster competition seen on other sites, and would tend to discourage newbies from hanging around long.
Since the question was asked, I'll give my opinion, with no offense intended to anyone: imparting any kind of importance to post count is pointless, in my opinion. Quality is more important than quantity. There are plenty of posters whose posts I seek out who have relatively low post counts, and some with high post counts whose posts I often find myself automatically skipping over, due to what I perceive to have been a lack of relevant content in the average post by that poster (basically, a high signal-to-noise ratio). Again, no offense intended to anyone. I mean, I guess some would think my post count is high, but I don't think I'm particularly important because of it. I'm just my regular ol' dumb self.
Way back when Eric ran his site, it was discussed from time to time about giving titles to each poster. As the poster population grew, I imagine that titles would have to be automatically given upon certain numbers of posts. The general thinking was that such titles, and especially titles based on post count, would encourage the kind of negative poster competition seen on other sites, and would tend to discourage newbies from hanging around long.
Since the question was asked, I'll give my opinion, with no offense intended to anyone: imparting any kind of importance to post count is pointless, in my opinion. Quality is more important than quantity. There are plenty of posters whose posts I seek out who have relatively low post counts, and some with high post counts whose posts I often find myself automatically skipping over, due to what I perceive to have been a lack of relevant content in the average post by that poster (basically, a high signal-to-noise ratio). Again, no offense intended to anyone. I mean, I guess some would think my post count is high, but I don't think I'm particularly important because of it. I'm just my regular ol' dumb self.
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