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 Post Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:06 pm 
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I was just wondering why we don't have our post counts any more.

Is it because people were faking them or that their was an elitism going on because of the more senior members?

Or is it just because it's too much of a hassle and only a few people care about them anyways?

Suggestions and Comments is the better place for discussions on board policy and issues. I'll move this thread there. There may even be some old post count discussions lingering around there.

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 Post Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:10 pm 
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I believe they were removed to prevent spamming.

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I think I remember this being addressed a while back. The primary reason that I remember is because people on forums with post counts had a highly annoying tendency to junk-post to inflate their counts, and this could often lead to a competition between a small group of posters to get the "high score" by junking up our forums. All told, there's no valid need for the things and only downsides to having them.

Unless, y'know, there's some reason I've never heard of. But I kinda doubt it.

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Only reason I can think of is because we GRPG posters could wear our negative post counts as badges of honor.

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that's pretty much it...
and we reset them every so often anyway so they didnt mean anything, but people would still spam to get their counts up.

we believe in quality not quantity around here! :)

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What if you just got rid of them for the spammers. Sort of as a punishment. Hmm? Hmm?

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What if you just got rid of them for the spammers. Sort of as a punishment. Hmm? Hmm?

They still wouldn't serve any useful purpose. And it's not always as simple as 'spamming' or 'not spamming'. People might not post lots of completely useless posts to bump their postcount, but there'll still be the inclination to post those few extra messages that aren't that useful, to drop in that 'witty' drive-by post that wasn't that witty at all, and just to be less selective about what one posts, and what one doesn't bother with.

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