What's with all the new folks?

[Desdichado]

You're all wrong!! Its an ooze reading a book.....

Oh, I know. I'm one of those l33t guys who remembers when you starting using that avatar.

 

[barsoomcore]

Hey, somebody let me know if pogre posts to this thread, okay? Oh, and can the mods provide the ability to put every poster with less than 1K posts on my ignore list? Thanks!

 

[sniffles]

I visit many online message boards, including computer game forums where the average member is 16 years old or something like that. I dont know how it happened or why, but ENW is by far the worst forum I know of when it comes to post-count-centrisim (if thats a word ). There are more discussions about post counts, more threads about "hey, look at my post count", and more jokes about members with high post counts on this forum than any other I've seen. On the other hand, ENW is better in all other areas and respects such as friendliness, intelligence, language etc.

I beg to differ! I'm a member of several other forums, and by far the worst is not this one. Every day of the week there is a thread about someone's achieving "posting freak" status. Of course, that forum is much smaller than this one, and those threads are generally in a humorous vein. I think that even if the post count was removed, people would be looking for some way to differentiate themselves from other forum members. Screen names and avatars never seem to be enough, and there is a natural human tendency to want to have some kind of superiority to others.

As an aside, I'm a relatively new member here and I seldom look at anyone's post count, including my own.