Why do people want to boost their post count?

[saskatchewanian]

Threads like “last one to post wins”, “100,000th Post wins” and “42nd one to post wins” keep coming up with no subject matter and as far as I can tell their only purpose is to boost post counts.

Why do people want to boost their post counts? Do you want recognition and think that people are more likely to listen to you because you have 700 posts written under your name but have a join date that was only few months ago? I have found that people with a lower post per day count have much better, more thought out posts compared to the turbo-posters.

Is it just me or is the huge majority of useless posts in useful threads posted by people with a high post count per day. Sometimes I wonder if these post happy members of our little community actually read the treads they post in.

edit: wah, I am over 1000, how did that happen?

[dudewithasock]

'Cause it's cool.

[hansc]

Originally Posted by dudewithasock

'Cause it's cool.

Seconded.
And people find it hard to use IRC, resulting in "subject less" threads. At least that's my theory.

[saskatchewanian]

IRC? I googled but I don't really get what it is, would all internet forums be considered IRC?

[Pdougherty]

Originally Posted by saskatchewanian

Is it just me or is the huge majority of useless posts in useful threads posted by people with a high post count per day?

Yeah I definitely agree with you there and it's getting rather annoying. Like I said in Billy the Mountain's thread about JC being closed to members with less than 200 posts, it appears that it's the members who are more comfortable with more posts are the ones posting more pointless threads. Where as the majority of people without a huge amount posts don't seem to be pouring fuel on the fire for pointless threads. Just my 2 cents but that's kinda what I see happening.

[The UniSLAB]

Yeah well, I don't like really like those threads either but you can't do much about it. All of them are started by little kids who don't understand their being annoying. So you just have to live with it

[Jerrick]

I dont try to boost my post count. I just post a lot, in RSU, in JC, in other sections, getting into conversations and debates, so it all adds up. I never go online here and think "Im going to go spam around to get my post count up, cause the higher it, the better."

I think its funny that lots of people think that a lot of us are trying to get a high post count, and that we really think it means something.

Some of us just post a lot.

[dudewithasock]

Originally Posted by saskatchewanian

IRC? I googled but I don't really get what it is, would all internet forums be considered IRC?

No. IRC is Internet Relay Chat. Forums are...well, forums.

[jamessd]

It's a number, c'est la vie.

[kington99]

To make them feel like they've achieved somehting with their lives.

[gkmac]

Originally Posted by The UniSLAB

Yeah well, I don't like really like those threads either but you can't do much about it. All of them are started by little kids who don't understand their being annoying. So you just have to live with it

Another forum I frequent (with more sub-forums than this one) had similar problems in their "conversation" sub-forum, albeit not quite on the scale seen here.

Ironically, in that forum the "highest posts per day" users were also the ones who complained the loudest when their total posts suddenly dropped in number. That coincided with the admins' decision to make users posts in "conversation" not count towards their total.


Rather than blanket-blacklist posts in "Just Conversation" from counting towards total posts, I'd like to see it limited it on a thread-by-thread basis, so that "Most Replys", last one to post wins and other silly threads would not count.

Or perhaps even separate out those threads into a "Fun & Games" forum with non-post-counting threads put there and any similar threads started in "Just Conversation" moved into there.

At lease that's what would happen in a properly moderated forum.

[UniDudeDX]

Originally Posted by kington99

To make them feel like they've achieved somehting with their lives.

haha....it makes me feel that way.....

[jamessd]

Originally Posted by gkmac

, so that "Most Replys", last one to post wins and other silly threads would not count.

It's hardly fair to call Most Replys a silly thread. People use it for conversation rather than IRC. But obvioulsy the line had to be drawn somewhere, and it is evident that all these last one to post wins (etc...) threads aree made by the people who don't have the maturity to introduce themselves in MR, where it's all at.

[Into the blue]

Originally Posted by gkmac

Rather than blanket-blacklist posts in "Just Conversation" from counting towards total posts, I'd like to see it limited it on a thread-by-thread basis, so that "Most Replys", last one to post wins and other silly threads would not count.

Most Replys?
Silly?
Tsk.
I shall be writing a strongly-worded letter to my local newspaper about this intolerant attitude.

In varying colours of crayon.

[James_Potter]

Originally Posted by gkmac

Rather than blanket-blacklist posts in "Just Conversation" from counting towards total posts, I'd like to see it limited it on a thread-by-thread basis, so that "Most Replys", last one to post wins and other silly threads would not count.

Gilby has already said before that if he had the ability to do this, he would.