What does post count mean to you?
- Thread starter Torrasque
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lol, I see what you did there.phatty500 said:
I think we all kind of care about post count, but that always translates into caring about the person behind the post count.
For example, seeing someone post something really intelligent seems to have more weight when they have 20k posts compared to 20 posts. The weight difference is so infinitesimal, but it is there. But as others have said, you'd say "That 20k poster has been here a while and I know they usually have good things to say", whereas the 20 poster would be "Hey, welcome to the site! Good post, I hope to see more in the future!"
Hope that makes sense.
Do my eyes deceive me? A thread where I beat Daystar to a comment on it? Huzzah!
OT: Not really much, the more times someone posts the more I recognize them. But that doesn't mean anything, this one guy a couple months ago had like 800 posts within 3 months or so, but half of them were just him being a tool and trolling, and he got banned
OT: Not really much, the more times someone posts the more I recognize them. But that doesn't mean anything, this one guy a couple months ago had like 800 posts within 3 months or so, but half of them were just him being a tool and trolling, and he got banned
It's usually post count combined with join date for me. Just an indication of how active someone has been during their time here, nothing more. Having a big mouth does not necessarily mean you have a lot to say. Usually the opposite in fact.
I see it as a measure of forum activity; someone who's only been around for a couple of months but already has 1,000 posts is much more active in the community than someone who has twice that many posts, but has had an account for two or three years. About the only time I trot out the post counts is if some guy who has been around for ages but has a very low post count starts jumping in on community arguments while acting like they own the place because of their join dateit's happened; I'm talking about things like the minor controversy over Dragon Age II having made the 12 games of Christmas list; there were a couple of early join date, low post count users shooting down anyone who suggested there was something off there, acting like they were more knowledgeable about how the average user felt about the game than the people who had been posting several times a day for the last year.. Other than cases like that that, it's mostly just an indicator of activity; as long as a user who clearly isn't very active isn't claiming to know the community better than those who clearly are, and as long as the poster doesn't make an exceptionally large number of posts in an exceptionally short amount of time, I usually don't notice the post count at all.
