Post Count

[Siri]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

Yeah..... They do like Diamonds though

Diamonds...

Post counts

[JJ]

Originally Posted by Blu Haze

My life is ruined how do i get my posts back? I c u above did

The same way I got all of my posts back. They still owe me .28 of a post though.

[jkwest]

I'm beginning to wonder if the mods just did this post trick to corral all of us silly people in here...an then shut the door on us!!!

We might be stuck in here forever!!

[Clark Kent]

As a reader of this forum I think removing the post counts is the wrong move. Making information easily accessible to all readers is what forums thrive on. Of course there are the posters who go overboard looking to artificially inflate their post count, but one can gleam relevant information from knowing a poster's total. I don't think the signal to noise ratio has gone down recently and I read the forums everyday. If anything the signal to noise ratio has gotten better since HD DVD died and with it much of the trolling.

The post count provides a little context to what the person is talking about. I'm much more likely to pay attention to a poster who has several thousand posts because it shows they've stuck around a while and have made some type of contribution to this forum. I'm not planning to click through every time I think the post count might be relevant as it simply will take too much time.

And while I have the moderators' attention I bring up a sidebar to this discussion. I brought this up in another thread in feedback but I will reiterate it here. The trading score line in our posts should disappear for people with a trading count of "0". It's truly a useless piece of information that adds nothing and visually distracts while reading posts, especially now that the post count number has also been taken away. Thank you for listening and have a good day...

[Caligula]

I can see people creating hilarious profiles and this will make mod's job more work browsing members profiles to see if it was appropriate or not. our profile is gonna be visited often to check post numbers.

i guess they have time for that. i think this was a wrong move too. IMO.

Originally Posted by McHairy21

[Show spoiler]we should do away with smileys, avatars, sigs, spoiler tags, join dates, and names! That one German guy did something like this one time and it worked out pretty well. What was his name? Hitler?

[Caligula]

with no post count, will the new member can able to create thread with their first post?

[rubberghost]

what post count? did i miss something? i've been on planes all damn day?

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Caligula

with no post count, will the new member can able to create thread with their first post?

The post count isn't actually "gone", it's hidden to normal members.

[JeremyPiven]

Other forums have done this in the past. Most get rid of it to stave of the issue with people complaining about "post *****s" and the like.

Once post counts are gone, people complain that it's a bad move and blah blah blah. Usually the ones complaining are the ones with post counts in the thousand + mark and are also the ones that really don't care about much other than "post count status".

Most times, the post count stays hidden permanently. Sometimes it comes back. It all depends on the board.

[Marquoz]

Never saw how post count was good or bad, to me it was just an interesting number to see who posted the most compared to how long they've been a member. Didn't make much of an impact other then that.

[KingLeerUK]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

As a reader of this forum I think removing the post counts is the wrong move. Making information easily accessible to all readers is what forums thrive on.

Reasonable opening statement and logical assessment of what the forums are designed to do.

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Of course there are the posters who go overboard looking to artificially inflate their post count

Sadly, there are a TON of these sorts here.

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

but one can gleam relevant information from knowing a poster's total.

The only relevant information you can determine from a members post count is the number of times they have posted. That's it.

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I don't think the signal to noise ratio has gone down recently and I read the forums everyday. If anything the signal to noise ratio has gotten better since HD DVD died and with it much of the trolling.

The trolling aspect has certainly tapered off a bit, but there is a certain contingent, I like to think of as "The MySpace Brigade", that has latched on to this community and used it as their personal sounding board. Instead of discussing things with relavance to Blu-ray, we get endless posts about "What colour socks are you wearing today?", "My Sweet-ass Blu-ray Collectionl, Praise ME!" and "Dear God I Need Attention Or I Will F'ing Die". I don't want to be one to try and dictate the value of content here at the forums, but no doubt MANY will agree that there is a ton of absolute rubbish posted here with frightening regularity.

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

The post count provides a little context to what the person is talking about.

It does not. As already stated, post count is purely an incremental number that represents the number of times a person has posted. It says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the quality of an individuals posts. Trained monkeys could sit and keyboards and input "+1" [SUBMIT] all day long and rack up post counts into the millions, but they would still be monkeys, crapping on the table and complaining about post counts.

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I'm much more likely to pay attention to a poster who has several thousand posts because it shows they've stuck around a while and have made some type of contribution to this forum.

The problem is that much of the "contribution" of members with multi-thousands of post is embodied by the following:

+1

While it's certainly fine to agree with the opinion of a previous poster, some token effort should be made to qualify your agreement. The "+1 Syndrome" screams of immaturity and laziness and is very often used to pad post counts.

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

I'm not planning to click through every time I think the post count might be relevant as it simply will take too much time.

The post count should never be relevant. The content of the response is what is relevant. If we had a way of qualifying the content of contributor responses you would have a useful measuring stick on which to base the veracity of what you are reading.

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

And while I have the moderators' attention I bring up a sidebar to this discussion. I brought this up in another thread in feedback but I will reiterate it here. The trading score line in our posts should disappear for people with a trading count of "0". It's truly a useless piece of information that adds nothing and visually distracts while reading posts, especially now that the post count number has also been taken away. Thank you for listening and have a good day...

I do agree that the trading score should not be a part of the "default" user information presented to each user. If you are interested in trading with another member you should be wise enough to look at their profile details page and THAT is where the Trading Score should reside.

[Marquoz]

Originally Posted by KingLeerUK

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The post count should never be relevant. The content of the response is what is relevant. If we had a way of qualifying the content of contributor responses you would have a useful measuring stick on which to base the veracity of what you are reading.

Reading through a few threads tonight, I realize how much I used post counts to validate some peoples comments. Excessive post counts and I would ignore the person assuming they were a post *****, low post counts, I would read it a bit more to see if it was something that needed correcting based upon my limited knowledge.

There needs to be something put in place like a validation system where people can rate up or down comments that is a persistant score in that persons mini profile so we can glance at it to see if that person is knowledgeable or just a blow hard posting just to post.

The comment about persons socks, I think I know who that is towards, but that is all in the off topic section, which I always assumed was basicly a free for all about utter nonsense. Some of those threads were interesting to learn more about the people that we are interacting with on a daily basis on here, and learn more about their views to understand other comments they make that are pertinent to Blu.

[McHairy21]

Originally Posted by KingLeerUK

Reasonable opening statement and logical assessment of what the forums are designed to do.


Sadly, there are a TON of these sorts here.


The only relevant information you can determine from a members post count is the number of times they have posted. That's it.


The trolling aspect has certainly tapered off a bit, but there is a certain contingent, I like to think of as "The MySpace Brigade", that has latched on to this community and used it as their personal sounding board. Instead of discussing things with relavance to Blu-ray, we get endless posts about "What colour socks are you wearing today?", "My Sweet-ass Blu-ray Collectionl, Praise ME!" and "Dear God I Need Attention Or I Will F'ing Die". I don't want to be one to try and dictate the value of content here at the forums, but no doubt MANY will agree that there is a ton of absolute rubbish posted here with frightening regularity.


It does not. As already stated, post count is purely an incremental number that represents the number of times a person has posted. It says ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the quality of an individuals posts. Trained monkeys could sit and keyboards and input "+1" [SUBMIT] all day long and rack up post counts into the millions, but they would still be monkeys, crapping on the table and complaining about post counts.


The problem is that much of the "contribution" of members with multi-thousands of post is embodied by the following:

+1

While it's certainly fine to agree with the opinion of a previous poster, some token effort should be made to qualify your agreement. The "+1 Syndrome" screams of immaturity and laziness and is very often used to pad post counts.


The post count should never be relevant. The content of the response is what is relevant. If we had a way of qualifying the content of contributor responses you would have a useful measuring stick on which to base the veracity of what you are reading.


I do agree that the trading score should not be a part of the "default" user information presented to each user. If you are interested in trading with another member you should be wise enough to look at their profile details page and THAT is where the Trading Score should reside.

Just So Everyone Knows, I Am Wearing Black Socks Today, My Sweet Ass Blu Collection Is In The Collection Thread, And I Need Attention Or Else I Will ****ing Die!

[jw]

no need saying stuff to get suspended over?

[McHairy21]

Originally Posted by jwbbud

no need saying stuff to get suspended over?

Was Angry, Edited It

[jw]

why is everyone so angry about the dang post count being removed?
12 pages of nothing here

[tommyboy81]

Originally Posted by jwbbud

why is everyone so angry about the dang post count being removed?
12 pages of nothing here

I think my posts are insightful. Need a badass meter.

[Blu As Hell]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

I think my posts are insightful. Need a badass meter.

Badass meter...that would be hot!.

[jw]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

I think my posts are insightful. Need a badass meter.

I learned alot reading all this I held out

[tommyboy81]

See. Have this site be unique. Badass meter. Meter ranging from DA to BA. other members rate how cool you are.