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.
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.
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
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.
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.
What are you talking about?
He’s said before that he can not do that, but if he could, then he would.
Ha, well, I disagree but you just answered the original poster’s question…if a high post count means that much to some people, then that’s probably why people want a high post count.
I still don’t really understand what IRC is and what it has to do with useless threads but that is besides the point.
There is a reason I did not include Most Replys in my original post. the key reason is that it is a thread that has evolved to have many uses (basically a chat-room) and also the first post states
so it was started as a place to chat instead of a place to boost post count.
The new threads, not so much.
That is not to say that there is not post boosting going on in MR or conversations started in the other post boosting threads once they are started but there is a difference.
This is not an attack on MR or an attack on community members with high post rates (unless they are mostly from posts for the purpose of boosting post count) but I can’t see any reason to have a thread specifically for the purpose of boosting your post count.
I concur!
As for post count boosting in the Most Reply thread, we do actually have a specific rule against “turboposting”, which is that a user cannot post more than twice in a row, unless they are all in reply to separate previous posts…so for example someone is not allowed to just post “hello” thirty times in a row.
I too have thought that all the “nth person to post” threads are dumb and a waste of space, but I haven’t spoken up because it won’t change anything…so I just ignore them.