[T*]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Who has left, or is considering leaving because (mostly) spam posts do not count towards their total?

I was talking about if the post count was completely gone...
All I'm saying is there's probably loads of newbies that have already faded away because the forum already lacks features seen commonly on other ones and I'm not Ben saying that to be spiteful- it's probably true.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I mean I do understand why you may not want 'spammy' posts to count, but the point still stands - it isn't a post count unless all of the posts you've made count towards the total.

I have never got the 'it encourages people to spam!' argument though. Does anyone really do that? Does anyone really care that much? And if they do, spamming is against the rules anyway so just infract and/or ban them? That seems a lot easier that discounting entire subforums which essentially renders the 'post count' pointless

.....

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ashley.

Well you'd be surprised at the amount of times I've seen "20K posts? Get a life." or something along those lines in the year that I've been here.

[armand.kay]

Actually I don't want c&g to count because mods will start getting pressed when I make random pic threads

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

Actually I don't want c&g to count because mods will start getting pressed when I make random pic threads

Not Niamh jealous of your wit?

[Ammi]

...but yeah, what Marsh says really..I'm not really bothered either way/if we have post counts or not...

[T*]

I don't really care anymore
I was only trying to be helpful

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Tom*

I don't really care anymore
I was only trying to be helpful

Yeah, well, we have Ammi on our team so back t'fuq down pal.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Tom*

I don't really care anymore
I was only trying to be helpful

Don't take it so personally Tom, someone suggests this almost every off season

[T*]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Don't take it so personally Tom, someone suggests this almost every off season

...Usually me.
Never comes to fruition though

[Shaun]

I'm indifferent about the post count because I secretly don't want C+G to be implemented for fear it turns out my actual post count is something like 180,000

But yes to moving the off-topic stuff up the page a bit. Some of the subforums near the top need tidying up anyway, there's a handful of redirect links that look a bit messy. (BB1-16 series; CBB1-16 series, in the top section)

[Ashley.]

Originally Posted by Tom*

I don't really care anymore
I was only trying to be helpful

Nobody's shunning your idea, it's not a bad idea at all and I get where you're coming from, but I think people are just saying that if someone cares that much about their post count and/or uses other people's post counts against them, then that's not the fault of the forum but a fault of themselves x

[Ammi]

...as a compromise and to acknowledge those who run games and their effort and time...maybe a set amount post count addition could be added to the game host after the game or some kind of award/star/acknowledgement type thing given to them..?...

[T*]

Right so clearly people don't care about the first one so can we bring more attention to my second idea that I actually had the nerve to think was a good idea

[Ammi]

..some kind of acknowledgement in the avatar like with game awards for winners would seem like the thing, other than an added on post count...?...

[Shaun]

Or just move forum games to another section that does count? idk it's really of no concern to me though

Because I know fine well that forum games have a tendency to have main threads that're also used as chat threads 70% of the time rather than actual tasks/competitions. And I also know I've been guilty of setting lazy "post count" tasks which really would be considered spam/unnecessary by the forum rules.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Tom*

Right so clearly people don't care about the first one so can we bring more attention to my second idea that I actually had the nerve to think was a good idea

..I think that it's a really good point to acknowledge and encourage game hosts, Tom...maybe not through post counts, though...

[Marsh.]

Your second idea isn't a bad one considering you always get people wandering into the chat threads saying they had no idea they existed so some kind of banner at the top or something making its existence known at least would be good.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Your second idea isn't a bad one considering you always get people wandering into the chat threads saying they had no idea they existed so some kind of banner at the top or something making its existence known at least would be good.

..llama guides would be good, keeping members in the right direction...

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Tom*

Right so clearly people don't care about the first one so can we bring more attention to my second idea that I actually had the nerve to think was a good idea

Jeez Tom, why are you getting so touchy?

I like the second idea

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..llama guides would be good, keeping members in the right direction...

Here for it.

[T*]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I think that it's a really good point to acknowledge and encourage game hosts, Tom...maybe not through post counts, though...

I agree here - game hosts need a little something back
Like
You put so much effort in and you get some people who don't even respect that and insult you whilst they're playing your game... It's bizarre

[Ashley.]

I don't think the other sections are that hard to find, if people genuinely cared about the other sections then they'd post in them but I imagine a lot of people who visit during on-season are those that only really care about the site when the show is on, and there's no changing that.

[reece(:]

Regarding post count stuff, IMO keep it as it is.

[LeatherTrumpet]

It took me about 4 days before I realised what the Powell thing actually was




Also if we just ban Tom* would that not be a simpler and less complicated way forward?