Post count Userbars?

[King Gumball]

So there are some user bars for being a Mod/Admin, and being a PC supporter, and Event Organizer but how about userbars that change with post count? Kind of like what Serebii does. For users like me who dont have anything under their usernames, it looks so empty and blank, and having the post count userbars would encourage users to become more active and post around a bit more.

 

[Ninja Caterpie]

Um yeah not really. It makes people with more posts look superior to those without (i have a better userbar!) when they've got nothing above them at all. Might not sound like a lot, but people are really immature.

 

[The 100 Mega Shock]

Sounds more like it just encourages rampant non-content posting and internet popularity contests to me.

 

[Aurafire]

I think I remember something like this being suggested already...Or maybe that was for the user titles. *shrug*

Anyway, a postcount userbar seems redundant when you can just look at someone's postcount in a thread on in their profile. And besides, postcount doesn't matter at all. You shouldn't need a userbar saying how many posts you have to feel encouraged to post around.

 

[Sydian]

A staff member/supporter has done something to earn their userbar. Just posting isn't really earning much of anything and therefore doesn't deserve its own bar.

 

[Ho-Oh]

We could always get "member" userbars but that'd kinda have no point. But yeah, don't really like postcount userbars. For example, someone who is staff, a supporter and an event organiser with a lot of posts is gunna have... a really long userbar :(

 

[King Gumball]

I dont mean that it says how many posts are on it. It just changes with post count. Or even just creating a selection of userbars would be fine.

 

[Spinor]

No no no >__> Unlike the greedy noobs people at Serebii, postcount is a trivial matter here. Userbars are for the people who did something worthwhile, which is truly donating, being selected as staff, or hosting events during get-togethers. That's it. If you want rewards for having high post counts then the only thing you need to symbolize that is that number in your profile and blog permissions (5000+)

Besides, that'd make Admin-Supporters-Event Holders-Ridiculous Postcounters have 4 stacked userbars o_0' If Forever made it to 40,000, became an admin, and hosted 3 events she'd be freaking uber in this area XD

 

[Livewire]

I dont mean that it says how many posts are on it. It just changes with post count. Or even just creating a selection of userbars would be fine.

In the context of what you mean, your user title (If left unchanged) basically does everything the userbar would do anyways.

 

[countryemo]

So like
10 post = Boulder Badge member
25 post = Cascade Badge member?
so on so on..

Really rather pointless really, plus the real userbars
Staff/supporter/event show whos in "charge" of stuff, or yeah. if everyone had them itll be kinda messy. And well im done.

 

[Eliminator Jr.]

I'm not a big fan of the idea. Userbars are there to show some sort of achievement. Post count is shown literally like 15 centimetres or so away from where userbars are, so all this is encouraging is some members making less meaningful posts to up their post count, and besides having a high number of posts speaks for itself that you're a regular in the community. You don't need a userbar to back that up.

 

[Aquacorde]

I just feel like this would be way too much effort for such a little thing. :(
What increments of postcounts would we do, anyway? Every hundred? Thousand? Ten thousand? Combinations? How many would we have to make to match, say, Forever's postcount? Which is still increasing pretty fast since she's so active.
Just looking at it from a practical point of view... I don't thing it would be the best idea. :/

 

[King Gumball]

No no no >__> Unlike the greedy noobs people at Serebii, postcount is a trivial matter here. Userbars are for the people who did something worthwhile, which is truly donating, being selected as staff, or hosting events during get-togethers. That's it. If you want rewards for having high post counts then the only thing you need to symbolize that is that number in your profile and blog permissions (5000+)

Besides, that'd make Admin-Supporters-Event Holders-Ridiculous Postcounters have 4 stacked userbars o_0' If Forever made it to 40,000, became an admin, and hosted 3 events she'd be freaking uber in this area XD

I see your point, but Forever wouldn't have one as she would have her own Moderater/PCtier bar. Same goes for Doners and event organisers. I just thought it would be worthwhile getting everyone's opinions on this :)

 

[Pablo49]

I was on a gaming forum once, and it had a ranking system. Everytime you hit a set amount of posts you became a different popular video game character. For the a lot of people it became all about getting the next rank. I almost wish you couldn't even see post count at all on posts. The number of posts made means nothing. You can have a million posts and still be noobish or have five posts and be just as valuable as every other member. It isn't an accurate way to determine anything.

 

[Gerri Shin]

So like
10 post = Boulder Badge member
25 post = Cascade Badge member?
so on so on..

Really rather pointless really, plus the real userbars
Staff/supporter/event show whos in "charge" of stuff, or yeah. if everyone had them itll be kinda messy. And well im done.

I had implemented an Idea like this on another forum I had helped Administrate, however instead of userbars cluttering up the postbits, I tied it into the Award system (the equivalent of the Emblems here) that way you were automatically awarded a new badge based upon the number of posts, but in order to see it you would have to visit the person's profile.

 

[Platinum Lucario]

So there are some user bars for being a Mod/Admin, and being a PC supporter, and Event Organizer but how about userbars that change with post count? Kind of like what Serebii does. For users like me who dont have anything under their usernames, it looks so empty and blank, and having the post count userbars would encourage users to become more active and post around a bit more.

Userbars for members?! Are you seriously kidding me? xD

Not to be mean or anything, but should we really follow the exact same things as what Serebii's Pokémon Place forums do? We honestly... shouldn't be following the exact same things as what SPPf is doing, like having a userbar that changes every time you get to a certain number of posts in your post count. To be honest, this isn't really a good idea, because this could totally ruin the charm of what PC is like today. I would more prefer if members really didn't have userbars... because that really gives you that basic feel and that you're just a regular member. ;)

Having a userbar... really wouldn't make you feel like you're a normal member anymore... it would totally make you think "this userbar would show how much I've got in my post count". And honestly... this would make PC more of an identical twin forum to SPPf, this is why we have to be different from other forums. And really... does post counts really have to matter? This is why here at PC... we don't want to worry about our post count or anything like that.

So yeah, it's just something that we do not want to have. :x

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

Yeah, let's not do this. It's only going to trigger more SPAM, clutter everything up, and remind me of that place called Serebii that I hope never to return to. And trying t implement a code to handle it is likely going to put even more strain on the servers.

 

[Mew~]

Honestly like everyone else has said, this isn't needed and is just kinda a thing people can show off, without earning it.

There is the usertitle thing, im pretty sure it changes the more posts you have. Most people haven't noticed it because more poeple like custom usertitles...

 

[Gardenia101]

Well, you get a blog after you get so many posts (5,000, I think), so I think that is probably enough regarding post count.

 

[Nick]

So like
10 post = Boulder Badge member
25 post = Cascade Badge member?
so on so on..

Really rather pointless really, plus the real userbars
Staff/supporter/event show whos in "charge" of stuff, or yeah. if everyone had them itll be kinda messy. And well im done.

I actually wouldn't mind that, to be honest. When I read the original idea, I thought of a badge like staff and supporters have, but using actual badges from the series would really tie in and make PokéCommunity more Poké-like, in my opinion. But, I do have to agree that some users here would abuse that since they'd probably work up to want a specific badge enough to spam to get it. If members were a little more controlling of themselves and didn't spam to get to a specific post count, then I would agree to this completely. Then there's the fact that we have a DCC full of spam posts...

I don't see anything wrong with members caring about their post count, though. I do think it's a pretty stupid thing to worry about since there's so much more important things in the world that you should be spending your worry on, but that's their prerogative and to some people, post count does matter. So that argument ("it'll make it look like we actually care about our post count when we don't!!!"), to me at least, doesn't hold up very well.