My XYZth post threads in OT...

[Brother Shatterstone]

We get enough new members around here that it pays to be honest about how we deal with such things around here.

So winking says everything?

 

[Hand of Evil]

You know, the wink says a lot there, and I don't think what it says is something good.

Either postcount has meaning, or it does not. If it doesn't have meaning, you wouln't need the winking smilie. If it does mean something, then the continued pretending that it means nothing is disingenuous.

We get enough new members around here that it pays to be honest about how we deal with such things around here.

In life we keep score, we do it with and without our knowledge, and the acknowledgment of a task has meaning, post count provides that. It tells us we have done something, does it matter what; only the poster knows. I could say that I look at it as hours worked on a project, it does not tell you one thing about what you did on the project but yet because of the number you are noticed. So, I have over 7000 post, I have a feeling that only a few words or topics are even known, so, with a wink, I say post count means nothing, now reviews mean something.

 

[Crothian]

You know, the wink says a lot there, and I don't think what it says is something good.

Either postcount has meaning, or it does not. If it doesn't have meaning, you wouln't need the winking smilie. If it does mean something, then the continued pretending that it means nothing is disingenuous.

We get enough new members around here that it pays to be honest about how we deal with such things around here.

Except not everyone viuews postcount the same. I'm sure some give meaning to it and some don't.

As for the threads, I like the idea of just making one big thread for all of them.

 

[Desdichado]

I disagree with the chorus. Its harder to celebrate when it all one thread. Perhaps a subforum for newbies and PC milestones?

I think the point is that the celebration is getting out of hand. I agree that a big part of the problem is "hey, I just had my 300th post!" Well, are you going to do a milestone post every time you hit a new hundred?

I've kinda lost interest in any postcount celebration posts lately. There's way too many of them, and most of them aren't really anything to write home about, so to speak. I think 1000, or 2000 is something, at least.

 

[Arnwyn]

You know, the wink says a lot there, and I don't think what it says is something good.

Either postcount has meaning, or it does not. If it doesn't have meaning, you wouln't need the winking smilie. If it does mean something, then the continued pretending that it means nothing is disingenuous.

A very strange post - and amusingly 'black or white'.

You don't think that the wink acknowledges that post count will mean something different (if at all) to different people?

In any case, I'm with the minority - I think they should be lumped into one thread (especially, but not entirely, due to the number of insignificant milestones being posted).

 

[Berandor]

Would it be possible to put "post count threads" on ignore?

For that matter, would it be possible to ignore posts with a certain category? That would be cool. Then make a "post count" category, and everybody's fine.

 

[Mark]

Maybe the policy doesn't need to be an all or nothing thing. Maybe there can be a loose rule that says anytime a moderator notices there are a lot of threads about postcount he just combines as many as he sees into one big thread and posts that since he noticed, there must have been a lot of them. I think people would probably not be so inclined to post new threads about it as often if that were the case.

On a related subject, has the accumulation of a high postcount for the sake of having a high postcount become a problem? Do people seem to be doing that and does it unnecessarily drain resources? It seems some people might be bothered by the accumulation as much as by the crowing about the accumulation, or am I missing something?

Anyway, I'm running out of steam. I'm not sure I'll be able to make it to...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Anyway, I'm running out of steam. I'm not sure I'll be able to make it to...

You can do it! Only 68 more to 10,000! 68 more!

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

You can do it! Only 68 more to 10,000! 68 more!

I blew past him like he's was standing still... He's through. (Well not really. He'll be lucky number 13 to 10K. )

 

[Mark]

He'll be lucky number 13 to 10K. )

Care to wager?