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[Relique du Madde]

That damn sidebar only cements my opinion that the XP system is a popularity contest. If it wasn't why would we have to be reminded who has the most on every single page?

Watch... sooner or later we will see a "who posted the most side bar." Which will be funny since everyone on that or at least most of the people spend a few months in the hive.

 

[hafrogman]

Watch... sooner or later we will see a "who posted the most side bar." Which will be funny since everyone on that or at least most of the people spend a few months in the hive.

Huh. Didn't someone get banned for post count obsession? Funnily enough, it wasn't Crothian.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Huh. Didn't someone get banned for post count obsession? Funnily enough, it wasn't Crothian.

Yeah, I think it was NightFall (the "Orcus" one). If i remember correctly he was limited to 10-15 posts a day max since he would reply to basically everything that was said within a thread.

EDIT: Weird. I found a "Nightfall" in the member list but it shows 0 posts and last activity was in 2005. I wonder if banned members have their post count destroyed or if his posts was eaten in the great db crash.

 

[hafrogman]

Well, the search turns up Nightfall as having 18,000+ posts, up until August 1st, 2007. So the member list is wonky.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Weird. This computer must be 'tarded. (Logging in at school)

 

[Dog Moon]

I miss Nightfall.

 

[Relique du Madde]

*Pats Moondog on the back*

It'll be alright.

 

[CleverNickName]

Obsessing about an internet message forum's post count?

Wow.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Yeah. He wanted to be number one. I remember he even once posted a message that basically stated how many posts he had to make in a day to catch up to the number of posts Crothian had at the time and how long it would take for him to reach that number. Then he would place the number of posts he made in his sig.

That might have helped lead to the ban.

 

[Dog Moon]

Yeah. He wanted to be number one. I remember he even once posted a message that basically stated how many posts he had to make in a day to catch up to the number of posts Crothian had at the time and how long it would take for him to reach that number. Then he would place the number of posts he made in his sig.

That might have helped lead to the ban.

See, I don't get how that would have been ban-worthy. I mean, we have TONS of meaningless posts in the Hive [don't deny it, you know it's true!], so talking about postcount in different places doesn't seem so bad, unless he was doing it in the middle of like a Homebrew Class thread or something. I mean, responding to everything isn't necessarily a bad thing UNLESS he was completely disruptive about it and maybe I missed a lot, but I never saw that occur.