How do people get so many posts?

[Professor James]

I've been here for almost 3 years now and I haven't even cracked 1000 posts yet. Yet I seen members here who have been here half my time have almost triple my posts. And I'm pretty sure I've seen a member of two with posts in the 20000s and several in the 10000s. How did people get such a high post count. Do they argue a lot? Is it from chatting in user groups? Playing forum games?

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

You hit the nail on the head there. Forum games and user groups. That's really all there is to it.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Having a really boring but well paying office job for several years boosted my count quite a bit.

 

[Sassafrass]

I personally sacrificed goats to the dark lords and prayed daily for a giant e-peen. But if we must be serious here, it was forum games and user groups. That plus unemployment and a buggered sleep pattern.

 

[Thaluikhain]

The R&P thread, mostly.

Oh, and if I'm quick, posting on a Yahtzee video with an inane comment the mods don't recognise as "first post", though usually it'd be at least fourth.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

I have like a little over 2000 posts in the forums. The rest I got from chatting in user groups. I got the majority of my posts when I was in the MLP group, since it's one of the most active groups on the site. After I left the group, like nine months ago, I haven't gotten posts as fast as I once did. I think forum games are inane and meaningless, so I rarely go there. Still, one post left for me to cross 30 000.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

People do say R&P and User Groups, but personally, I don't use them. I have around 14,000 posts, and truthfully, at least 12,000 of those posts were here, in the forums. I don't hang around any User Groups anymore (TF2 usergroup is pretty vacant, MLP usergroup lost me because I wasn't into the show, my usergroup sadly hasn't had a post for months), I've never posted in R&P because I don't see the appeal.

It's just dedication. Lots of posting in the same threads, day after day, for nearly four years.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Simple, make several comment in the threads (not just Off Topic) that interest you with a hint of Forum Game per day and stick to it.
I got to where I am by making a minimum of 10 comments per day, granted there are times when I don't have time to vist the forum or there were little interesting threads about.

Granted I did used to role played in the Role play section but most of comments made in Off Topic and gaming.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Having a really boring but well paying office job for several years boosted my count quite a bit.

This, right here.

I think less than 1% of my post count is from user groups. Never spent any time in forum games at all.

It's amazing how many posts you can pile up when you're killing time during a boring stretch at the office. If I only checked the forums from home I'd have a tenth as many posts at best.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I don't think I've ever been on the Forum Games and I really don't post in user groups all that much.

99.99% of my post count is just from being here on off-topic and gaming discussion. Just a big nerd posting a whole lot.

 

[Quaxar]

I find cheating to be the most convenient way.

You can do it either by breaking into the Escapist servers and using difficult command lines to raise your post count or, if you're not that tech-savvy, doing it the old fashioned way and kidnapping Kross' loved-ones.

 

[shrekfan246]

Uuuuuuuser groups for me. I'd probably be about 9,000 posts lower if I weren't part of The Brovengers. They do stack up pretty quickly.

I like to think I post fairly frequently in the forums, but I also try to avoid the flame wars when I can, and since they've been happening more and more often lately it's caused the inverse to happen with my posting rate. Of course, I also generally only post in threads that actually catch my interest, and that's been happening with less frequency lately too. Combined with the fact that I like threads that are below 20 responses...

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

You hit the nail on the head there. Forum games and user groups. That's really all there is to it.

Not quite all. I got almost my entire post count from off topic, gaming, and the news articles/featured content. Some of it's from R&P too, but none of it is from forum games or roleplaying, and I don't think I've posted more than 50 times in user groups, most of that in things like the tech team group.

I'm really unusual in getting a post count this high without being a usergroup/forum games whore, though.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Do they argue a lot? Is it from chatting in user groups? Playing forum games?

All of the above... though to varying degrees depending on user.

Most of the uber-high post counts (like with V, mPara, xmbts, Red, bob and that crowd (though I haven't seen V in a few years now)) went the way of Forum Games. Others, like Topaz, live in some of the usergroups. Others yet still, live in the various forums (including Daystar before the Brovengers rose... then fell) so post whenever they can in virtually every thread going. Some guys are R&P hermits...

Me? I'm a combination of all of them: started out in GD; went on to FG; settled in OTD for a while; and now most of my post count comes from user group chat. I reckon about a third each of my posts come from the main forums/games/user group fairly equally.

 

[DoPo]

You hit the nail on the head there. Forum games and user groups. That's really all there is to it.

Eh, never posted in Forum Games and I've not got that many posts in usergroups - just about 1k right now. So if we remove those, I have about as much posts as you - 6316 (not counting this one and not counting deleted threads, butI don't have many posts in those - 1% of my posts, at most or around there) from forum posts alone. GD and OT mainly, I also post in Advice but not as much and occasionally in content comments - other posts come from threads being moved to different forums after I post. So, here is a breakdown of my posts by forum as shown in my user profile:

Advice: 120
Featured Content: 22
Forum Games: 13
Gaming Discussion: 2958
Off-topic Discussion: 3117
Religion and Politics: 46
Role Playing: 1
The News Room: 40
User Reviews: 1

And by this pointless waste of time, I aim to show that I just have too much time on my hands.

Also, I just noticed that if you sum my breakdown, you'll come up with 6318 posts, which is 2 more than I should have. By not going over and correcting my mistake, I aim to show I can't really be bothered.

 

[Frezzato]

What I don't understand are the people who have been registered on this site for several years and have under 100 posts.

Even more perplexing is that some of those users will make inflammatory remarks or low content posts and receive warnings. How could they not know? Maybe they just don't care?

The biggest head scratcher though, is the people who are both long-timers and have tons of posts...who end up getting banned. Maybe that's just the natural progression of things on the internet.

 

[sanquin]

Spam, forum games, user groups, that kind of thing. When you use a forum as if it's an instant messenger, the post count goes up very quickly.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I post on any thread that looks interesting pretty much. I think I manage it by derailing threads into random conversations that have nothing to do with the subject matter constantly. I have way too much free time as well, I don't spend much time in the user groups. I only ever post in the SMT one and even then it was to make Tizzy stop being an idiot and use the stick instead of the D-Pad in Persona 4 Arena...

Sadly all the threads are kind of meh at the moment. Only so many times I can make Xbox 180 jokes before they get old.

 

[Weaver]

Just make a controversial thread on feminism then reply to all the quotes you get.

 

[Legion]

Having a really boring but well paying office job for several years boosted my count quite a bit.

In a similar vein, being out of work for a while contributed to about two thirds of mine quite easily. I got around 6000 posts a couple of years ago, and the remainder has been since then.