Debate: Post Counts

[Pokemaster10000]

What about those that browse the boards a lot but just don't post?

Pokemaster10000: yeah I am particularly fond of the funny green dinosaur avatar. XD

Hmm, they'll seem to know a lot also.

Funny green dinosaurs...wow.
I think I've seen a lot of those in fairy tales. :P

 

[Dizzy]

Exactly what I meant.
Did you like my idea about switching post counts to "active counts" it shows how active we are.

Au Contraire :)... 22sa and frostweaver have around 4000-5000 each and both arent as active.. but it shows how active they arent on the member lists.. No One cares about posts.. If DT was here he would back me up on that one.. But Alyssa knows.

 

[Pokemaster10000]

Au Contraire :)... 22sa and frostweaver have around 4000-5000 each and both arent as active.. but it shows how active they arent on the member lists.. No One cares about posts.. If DT was here he would back me up on that one.. But Alyssa knows.

Yes, so uhh. that means you like my idea right? :P
To me it seems like the perfect idea.

 

[Kairi]

FT, we?ve been wanting to have this debate for a long time. Serebii has nothing to do with it?they are in much deeper trouble than us at the moment.

 

[Flaming Torchic]

Moderators take care of the various forums. You don't need to post 150 messages a day to be able to do that, or even be a popular/respected member of the message board.

How did this move on to moderator recruitment anyway. [Doi]

Whoever said that they had to post 150 times a day? Holy over exaggeration. >.>' What I mean is that if they aren't active and atleast post once in a while, it is nearly impossible to tell how active they are.

Whatever you say Kairi, and indeed they are. =\ But anyways this isn't to talk about SPPf.

 

[Haruka]

Yes, true....

The S - P - P - F Acronym is very clever... indeed. ^_^

 

[Lucifer.]

Whoever said that they had to post 150 times a day? Holy over exaggeration. >.>' What I mean is that if they aren't active and atleast post once in a while, it is nearly impossible to tell how active they are.

It was, err, pretty obvious I was over-exaggerating. It didn't need to be stated.

Anyway, you've hit the nail on the head there. It's impossible to tell how active someone is by postcount alone, so it shouldn't come into consideration when judging whether or not said member is seen to be 'active' or not, for whatever reason.

 

[Flaming Torchic]

Yes, but why would you want members as moderators when they don't even get involved at all whatsoever? It's not about having a high post count, it's about posting and atleast sharing your thoughts. Think about it, would you mod someone who doesn't even post on the forum? I understand that it isn't about post count, but if you don't post at all and just browse the forums then it is impossible for the admins to tell if you are eligible to be a moderator. They need to know if you SPAM, or if you flame, and it is impossible to tell that if the member doesn't post atleast once in a while.

I think the topic of this thread is changing, so let's end this. My opinion is, keep post count unless post count becomes a huge problem.

 

[Lucifer.]

Personally, I would only mod someone who's sensible, and has a fairly good grasp of the English language. There's nothing worse than a forum leader who speaks like a five year old, acts like a five year old, and expects you to respect them for it. I believe we had one of those around these parts last year sometime. "Lord" something. He was quickly de-modded for being nothing more than a power-hungry, illiterate brat.

Being both active and knowledgeable may be nice attributes for a moderator to have, but there are other, more important things to take into consideration before that.

This subject isn't so far off-topic that it should stop being discussed. :\

 

[Hikaru's Twin]

For the most part of this debate, i agree with Andy (Arcanine) in keeping the postcounts, i think his reasons are pretty valid and some of them could end up being the ending result of terminating the post counts.
It's hard for me to express any decent reasons as to why i'd like to keep the post counts as most of them have been taken and argued against--or even agreed with and i see no point in causing repetition.
Looking at the removal of post counts as being a way to reduce Spam, i find myself disagreeing with that slightly, i can't say i've really ever heard of or seen a tidal wave of Spam in order to increase anyones posts, here. All i'm saying is that there have been spammers here and although their reasons for Spam were outwith post count increase, those spammers are nothing that PC has not been able to handle....so why should we let this bother us, and be one of the reasons to take away post counts...

 

[Sakura and Espeon]

Well wait... if SPPF Removed postcounts, that means it will make Spammers stop posting.

I think it won't help at all, they would just spam anyway because postcounts don't count anymore. so with or without postcounts, the spammers will still spam.

 

[Flaming Torchic]

Well wait... if SPPF Removed postcounts, that means it will make Spammers stop posting.

I think it won't help at all, they would just spam anyway because postcounts don't count anymore. so with or without postcounts, the spammers will still spam.

Exactly, because some of them SPAM to deliberately annoy the members of SPPf. We have some members that do that just because they hate SPP, and occasionally PC is a victim of those kinds of spammers as well.

 

[bna_li]

I dont see how it would help. People who spam dont care about post counts. What they care about is making people pi****. Or they have a bad day and want to pi** others off. Or they have nothing better to do. That is why getting rid of post counts would not make anything better.

 

[Geometric-sama]

I think you're right, Bruce. In all my time on the Internet, I've only ever met one person who spammed to increase post count, and I managed to get her out of the habit.

 

[Arcanine]

Like the ones before me. Getting rid of posts will not stop a spamer. When we got spamers from other forums (PE2K is I think the only forum we got spamers from) then they was not real spamers what made there post like "jdhgiehroaejnkf" they went around PC saying "PC Sucks, Join PE2K" yes that is spam but they wanted to tick members off (think about it does any one think them members got any one from PC to join there after that?) and having there post counts or not having it would do nothing for them. They will not say "Ok I made ten spam posts so I will stop now". Spamers come when then want to have a kick of wantching people get mad (that's why the best way is just leave the thread and get a Staff Member to do something about it).
So the way I look at it getting rid (or hide) of the post counts will do nothing on spam. It will just make some lose cannon members (we do have them but most of them stays in one forum that comes to mind) get mad and spam.

 

[Dizzy]

Like the ones before me. Getting rid of posts will not stop a spamer. When we got spamers from other forums (PE2K is I think the only forum we got spamers from) then they was not real spamers what made there post like "jdhgiehroaejnkf" they went around PC saying "PC Sucks, Join PE2K" yes that is spam but they wanted to tick members off (think about it does any one think them members got any one from PC to join there after that?) and having there post counts or not having it would do nothing for them. They will not say "Ok I made ten spam posts so I will stop now". Spamers come when then want to have a kick of wantching people get mad (that's why the best way is just leave the thread and get a Staff Member to do something about it).
So the way I look at it getting rid (or hide) of the post counts will do nothing on spam. It will just make some lose cannon members (we do have them but most of them stays in one forum that comes to mind) get mad and spam.

Remember that Time when we had the porn spammers? What was that about?

 

[Flaming Torchic]

Remember that Time when we had the porn spammers? What was that about?

Don't worry, they are just people who have too much time on their hands, we get those occasionally at SPPf *coughhSSJMASTERcough*

 

[Teara]

Meh! Talking about getting rid of pozt count?? B-but...I juzt hit 1000, I waz zo proud of myzelf-_-'''

eee...porn zpammerz? Now that iz juzt Zcrewd Up!

 

[Hikaru's Twin]

Don't worry, they are just people who have too much time on their hands, we get those occasionally at SPPf *coughhSSJMASTERcough*

Yes, i remember that. I really wish i didn't though! What he did was really really horrible! It makes me feel ill and i want to forget it but i just can't...

I agree with you Teara, it is screwed up.

 

[Kairi]

If there?s any good, free resource for use, people will find a way to corrupt it or make it less useable for those will good intents. That?s why there are mods, to get rid of it and try to keep it as clean and enjoyable as possible.