Post count Userbars?

[The 100 Mega Shock]

only if i get to make an alt called Gary Oak who has ten badges.

 

[Hiidoran]

As Nick said, I wouldn't be against little badges somewhere on the post bit or in your profile somewhere. In fact, that sounds like a pretty cute idea. Basing it solely on post count seems a little unfair though. I mean, what about the people who spend most of their time over in Pokémon Trivia? Do they not deserve these badges just as much as any other active member of PC? D:

As for the userbars for anyone other than Supporters/Staff/Event Organizers (Thought we were to disable those once the Get-Together's were over...? XD), I can't say I agree with that. :x It's a neat little system Sppf has, but I really don't think it would transition well over here.

 

[Stellar]

I don't like the idea. :/ It wouldn't be worth the trouble. People should be rewarded based on the quality of their posts, not the quantity of them. Besides, I'm pretty sure there are a handful of emblems that serve this purpose, and unlike userbars they're not an ever-present mark of superiority. It's bad enough that post counts are left visible, but in that case they do more good than harm.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

Hmm...unlike some of you, I am going to think about it...

Ah, got it.

It's a bad idea.

Do you know why Serebii lags? It's all the crap they have on it. Those userbars hurt the site more than you think, unlike PC has only Moderator and Supporter bars. Our site lags less, and has very little problems.

But adding this would make everything worse. People would post less-constructive posts, just to brag how many they've got.

All in all, I think it should be an emblem. Maybe Posting Machine or something if you have 5,000+?

 

[Nick]

Hmm...unlike some of you, I am going to think about it...

Ah, got it.

It's a bad idea.

Do you know why Serebii lags? It's all the crap they have on it. Those userbars hurt the site more than you think, unlike PC has only Moderator and Supporter bars. Our site lags less, and has very little problems.

You clearly don't know what effects lagging as much as you think you do, especially since you're saying they have a lot of images on it. Last I checked, we're a lot more image-oriented here at PC than Serebii is. And if you actually read the thread, you'd know that many other members also said no to this for similar reasons than us. Just because you have a different opinion on something doesn't mean that someone doesn't think it through. I suggest you think things through more in your posts before you assume someone who agrees with an idea you find is stupid didn't think something through. That's disrespectful, rude, and ignorant. I should hope I don't see anymore posts like this of yours among the community and this is just a "I had a bad day" kind of thing...

 

[Gardenia101]

Hmm...unlike some of you, I am going to think about it...

Ah, got it.

It's a bad idea.

Do you know why Serebii lags? It's all the crap they have on it. Those userbars hurt the site more than you think, unlike PC has only Moderator and Supporter bars. Our site lags less, and has very little problems.

But adding this would make everything worse. People would post less-constructive posts, just to brag how many they've got.

All in all, I think it should be an emblem. Maybe Posting Machine or something if you have 5,000+?

Yes, because we don't have 50 billion database errors already.

And posting machine? Sounds way too much like something an adbot or something would be called. We don't want people to be "Posting Machines". No, no, NO.

 

[Ho-Oh]

I do like the idea of a 5000+ postcount emblem, though that never actually went ahead due to reasons either idk or idr. If the idea ~was~ allowed or something one of us could easily make an emblem for it and get it uploaded, so idk the stance on that.

 

[Legobricks]

Actually, one's default usertitle changes depending on postcount (a feature that has been around here longer than the bars). I can't find a list but the highest one is Poké-Perfecto. You can get the default usertitle to appear by trying to enter nothing in the text field.
(My usertitle contains a zero-width space, if you're wondering.)

The way this site is run, if anything I think an emblem per thousand posts would be most appropriate.

 

[インフェルノの津波]

You clearly don't know what effects lagging as much as you think you do, especially since you're saying they have a lot of images on it. Last I checked, we're a lot more image-oriented here at PC than Serebii is. And if you actually read the thread, you'd know that many other members also said no to this for similar reasons than us. Just because you have a different opinion on something doesn't mean that someone doesn't think it through. I suggest you think things through more in your posts before you assume someone who agrees with an idea you find is stupid didn't think something through. That's disrespectful, rude, and ignorant. I should hope I don't see anymore posts like this of yours among the community and this is just a "I had a bad day" kind of thing...

Patchisou, I go on PC because I'm bored, and have some fun. Yes, I know some of my posts or ideas don't make sense, but don't chastise me like I'm some ignorant kid. I'm still learning things about life, and I have a learning disorder. I respect your input, but you're coming off a bit too harsh for my tastes. And no, I don't have bad days.

But I still think this is a bad idea. Like I said, less-constructive posts, therefore Moderators would have to delete even more posts. Not to mention it'll just get plain annoying to some users and Grammar Nazis.

 

[Melody]

Grammar nazis can kiss my rump, I think this could work with one exception. Rather than including some clunky userbar, why not just make it an emblem you can ask for in the discussion thread for emblems? Besides, an emblem is a lot less lucrative to the barefoot n00bs. If you make such an accomplishment award that noticeable then the

stupid

n00bs will spam for it

 

[King Gumball]

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.

The idea of badges sounds cool. As I do see peoples point of it cause some spam and more work for the Admins and Mods, as the bars would be visible to look at on each post, and it may turn competitive. Where as if it hidden in a users profile then people would not be 'as' bothered to check and look, causing less competitiveness . But overall I dont really see any major problems that would be caused from my idea.

The idea of badge emblems every 500 posts would be really cool though, and that is one idea I would really love to come into play. They would be hard earnt ( People think that by posting, you are not earning anything, as read earlier in this thread), as for some users this is very time comsuming and would be available to the really active members that contribute a lot of their time to PC.

But I still think this is a bad idea. Like I said, less-constructive posts, therefore Moderators would have to delete even more posts. Not to mention it'll just get plain annoying to some users and Grammar Nazis.

Some extra hands would easily fix that.

 

[Ivysaur]

We once thought about making postcount badges and we even made a few but... they somehow were scrapped during the development of the emblem system. I'd be okay with reviving that idea, but I'm against this one.

As some people said, giving userbars to pretty much every member would clutter even more the postbits while being redundant (the usertitle already works like this if you don't customize it and the postcount is right next to it! and more up-to-date since people with 1245 posts will keep the 1000 userbar) and really useless to be honest (since the only worthy number is 5000 posts for the blog permissions).

I'd rather give emblems for that, as I said. An userbar for 5000 wouldn't be so horrible since it's already set as a goal and most people who get that number are already staff/supporters either way, but... not my cup of tea.

 

[Germaniac]

It will make people spamming to get more posts

 

[ANARCHit3cht]

I am all for something that will congratulate a member for posting a certain amount of times. I see absolutely nothing wrong with an emblem or postbit that shows this. Just so long as it isn't too clunky.

I am slightly worried about spam, however. It might pick up with a few more members, but there are some that already make spammy posts to reach a certain number.

So, in short, I am for this idea, or something akin to it.

 

[King Gumball]

Yeah... No. If that were to happen, people like Forever would have 20 of them.

Umm so? Per thousand posts sounds heaps cool. Remember there are 40 badges, so Forever would have only been half way there.

Or you could make a 'badge case' where all the badge emblems go, so that you wont have a large list down the page.

 

[Zeffy]

Umm so? Per thousand posts sounds heaps cool. Remember there are 40 badges, so Forever would have only been half way there.

Or you could make a 'badge case' where all the badge emblems go, so that you wont have a large list down the page.

We already have an emblem showcase. And post counts really don't matter anyway. Maybe an emblem for 5000 posts? But per thousand posts? No. But that's just my opinion. n__n