Individual Deletion of Post Count?

[Horacio]

You'll always get cliques on a large messageboard. Most, like the hivemind, are non-exlcusive, harmless and can be ignored.

So we are a non-excusive, harmless and easily ignored clique...

 

[garyh]

So we are a non-excusive, harmless and easily ignored clique...

Did Horacio just say something? Oh well, I'm sure it was harmless, and I could find out if I really wanted to.

 

[Dragongirl]

So we are a non-excusive, harmless and easily ignored clique...

Concidering the large number of new people showing up consistantly now in Hivemind I don't even think we are a clique. Come one, come all to the grand show of Hivemind, not that you have any choice, resistance is futile.

I think we have enough people of all kinds that new people are not going to be put off by people with high postcounts ( as long as we keep Crothian away from them at first ) . I agree with what has been said above, postcount matters or doesnt according to each person. If someone judges you on your postcount then that is their problem.

:: removing my nosey nose ::

 

[ColonelHardisson]

I want to clarify; I wasn't against high post counts. I was concerned about the perception that they were important.

EDIT: Let me clarify my clarification: I wasn't worried that people would look at post counts and be put off; I was more concerned that people would see high post counts, see a corresponding interest in having a high one, and be put off. It may seem like a fine point, but it's an important difference to me.

 

[Horacio]

I want to clarify; I wasn't against high post counts. I was concerned about the perception that they were important.

EDIT: Let me clarify my clarification: I wasn't worried that people would look at post counts and be put off; I was more concerned that people would see high post counts, see a corresponding interest in having a high one, and be put off. It may seem like a fine point, but it's an important difference to me.

Colonel, please take no offense, but your member title really suits you, you worry too much

There will be always people who will be put off for the most innocent things, no matter how gentle or friendly you try to be. If it's not postcount it will be OT posts, or too RPG posts, or avatars, or signatures, or the grammar errors I make when I try to write English.

It's their choice to be put off, at least in my not so humble opinion. YMMV, of course.

 

[Sixchan]

I don't think many newbies are put off by other people's high postcounts. there are more than a few people who registered in December who have a higher postcount than people registered since January who only post occasionally. On most forums, as far as postcount goes, there are a few jokes about spammers, a few about newbies with tiny postcounts (more often then not these jokes serve to bring someone into the community than scare them off) and that's about it. The only two times postcount ever usually matters to anyone, newbie or long time member, is when you have 666 and 1337 posts. I don't think newbies are scared off, so there's no need to worry. Am I havering? I just got up, so this probably makes no sense.

 

[Mark]

Using the famous wors of the inmortal Crothian, "Postcount means nothing"

Crothian mentions that so often you'd think I'd remember it by now...

 

[bondetamp]

There's no danger in altering post counts, other than that you might be opening yourself to further requests (which, bepending on number, might be a pain in the ass. ). I've done it on my board, and another forum I'm at uses post count reduction as a punishment for spamming and other mild offenses.

 

[alsih2o]

another forum I'm at uses post count reduction as a punishment for spamming and other mild offenses.

this would have opposite the desired effect imo, it would MAKE postcount important...

 

[Psionicist]

Hello.

I'm an active member in around a dozen message boards right now (all computer related except three, heh), where I am not only considered a regular, I also do occasional admin stuff for a couple of them, and I'm a moderator at one (Sweden’s largest computer related message boards for the record). I have the following things to say: Postcounts are a problem. I have not read a single message board where postcounts "doesn't matter", even the hifi-forum I read where most members are around 40+ years old, there are comments about spammers, spamming, if anyone just wrote that reply to add one to his postcount, whether or not to trust those with higher postcounts, where most people believe that those who write lots of one-liners are more important than other members, just because they are seen, where most members who are just active and helpful (like the colonel) are threated as spammers by other members who cares about the number (now that's a long sentence).

I don't really have an opinion in this particular question for this particular forum, but based on my experience with message boards, usenet, irc with stat bots, BBS', postcount do create problems. So, I understand why ColonelHardisson wrote this message, and I understand why he wants to get rid of it.