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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on June 02, 2009, 02:23:19 am

Title: Ok......
Post by: Kosh on June 02, 2009, 02:23:19 am
Is it my imagination or have some people's post counts totally exploded while others have remained the same? I could have sworn mobius did not have 10,000+ posts just a couple of days ago.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Dilmah G on June 02, 2009, 03:43:49 am
I always remember him having 10,000, as far as I remember (which is not long in the lifespan of this forum).
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Mobius on June 02, 2009, 03:51:09 am
A couple of days ago I had pretty much the same postcount...

Oh, by the way, the title of this thread is... familiar...
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Kosh on June 02, 2009, 09:00:24 am
Right. Well I've been out of touch with the forums recently, totally lost track. My bad......
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: BlueFlames on June 02, 2009, 12:10:22 pm
All I know is it's been eight years, and mine is still under 300.  Oh, shi-.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Goober5000 on June 02, 2009, 12:36:08 pm
Mobius's postcount was set to 0 at one point.  Someone probably did a post recalculation.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Mobius on June 02, 2009, 12:40:24 pm
Skippy set my postcount back to the real value.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Knight Templar on June 03, 2009, 12:44:02 am
post counts are serious business. apparently someone deleted 8,000 of mine a while ago.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Kosh on June 03, 2009, 02:12:14 am
post counts are serious business. apparently someone deleted 8,000 of mine a while ago.


No, they are still there. They decided general discussion posts wouldn't count towards it.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Kie99 on June 03, 2009, 05:12:26 pm
I never really got the rationale behind that one.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Rhymes on June 03, 2009, 05:31:14 pm
GD is unrelated to FS, maybe, and this is the largest FreeSpace site on the internets?  Might that have anything to do with it?   ;)
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: haloboy100 on June 03, 2009, 05:32:54 pm
Post counts are post counts. I don't see how posts in general discussion aren't posts by some arbitrary designation..
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: iamzack on June 03, 2009, 06:22:09 pm
If GD posts counted, I would look like I contribute something to the forum.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Kie99 on June 03, 2009, 06:25:35 pm
GD is unrelated to FS, maybe, and this is the largest FreeSpace site on the internets?  Might that have anything to do with it?   ;)

Yeah, they're unrelated to Freespace, but this site isn't dedicated entirely to Freespace, and as far as I know, it never was.  The tagline is "Bringing Modders together", a general discussion forum helps to do that.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: NGTM-1R on June 03, 2009, 06:34:43 pm
Post counts are post counts. I don't see how posts in general discussion aren't posts by some arbitrary designation..

On one hand, GD has some of the longer and more insightful posts.

On the other hand, it contains most of the utter garbage.

The two cancel out.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Col. Fishguts on June 04, 2009, 03:22:24 am
Post counts are e-penii, and while most of us agree that they really don't matter, every now and then some n00bs start comparing theirs and therefore start posting a lot of nonsense to increase it.

Since GD is the place where one can post the most wihtout being called a spammer, its posts were excluded from the post count to discourage that behavior. It was only partially successful, since some people have since then started to post mostly irrelevant blabber in virtually every other subforum.

Thus endeth the story.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Dilmah G on June 04, 2009, 03:32:24 am
If GD posts counted, I would look like I contribute something to the forum.

 :lol:
Post counts are e-penii, and while most of us agree that they really don't matter, every now and then some n00bs start comparing theirs and therefore start posting a lot of nonsense to increase it.

Since GD is the place where one can post the most wihtout being called a spammer, its posts were excluded from the post count to discourage that behavior. It was only partially successful, since some people have since then started to post mostly irrelevant blabber in virtually every other subforum.

Thus endeth the story.

I thought that was the reason... I read something similar a few months ago.
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Topgun on June 04, 2009, 11:06:25 am
my post count sucks for the time I have been here.
what are you guys complaining about?
:P
Title: Re: Ok......
Post by: Nuke on June 04, 2009, 12:49:31 pm
are we doing this again? initiate lockage!

the first rule of post counts is you do not talk about post counts.
the second rule about postcounts is you do not talk about post counts.
third rule, make your posts look useful
fourth rule, reply to every comment, reference, or flame to your post
fifth and final rule, if i catch you doing this, i will nuke you.