what? started on the cig’z again?
hope not (J/K)
Hey lets do it, but i wonder if people really post on random just coz they wnat to increase their post count…it worked means people actually stopped spamming?
yeah, and loads of people started posting useless stuff in the D&D section.
i still lurk the forums a little, not as much as i used to though.
But, I think that post count should be deactivated for when you post in random, i have noticed a lot of post that just have like “haha” but nothing to add to the overall conversation, which in return, it just clog’s up everything. Also, a lot of threads go off topic before they start. lol…
Either that or just to return the fun learning enviorment and not just a race for the highest post count, just disable post count all together. But its not my decision. 
but that’s just my 2 cents…
spamming pays off…Look at Dippy we started **** near the same day, and he has like double my posts now he is a mod :lol: J/K Dippy has helped a bunch of folks as well as his skills have grown. I think long as you throw in some worth while advice and help then hanging out in random aint all that bad…
ahahahaha…the title “POST WHORING” is hella funny to me.
I dont got many posts:P
i vote kill post count in random
Fine by me… I have several hundred posts in the test forum 
:lol:
There is nothing wrong with posting a lot on any of the non-help forums. The post counts are really just a number. If you see somebody blatantly spamming with a whole page of HAHA or w00t posts, then a mod or I will deal with it.
Also, post counts don’t help in becoming a mod. What you actually do with those post counts do.
So, if you all feel like relaxing or posting in Random and the other talk forums, feel free to 
very true kman 
Funny that you mention this Kirupa as I just donated a portion of my post count to the less fortunate “Kids Helping Kids with Post Counts” association. I also printed out a few hundred of my random posts and used the paper to create paper mache animals with the old folks at the home. I also spend my free time using my posts to educated the world about hunger and the environment.
See ethan - the world needs more people like you setting a good example about what to do with your posts
Sounds like Disco Stu has post envy…
TD
i don’t understand what’s this big deal with post counts. I’ve been a member for 3 years and all i have is 800 somthing posts. the main reason for people haveing so many posts is probibly their ither Double Posting(like i have seen 1000 times before) or just running on the word association thread
now if you want spam… the Halo K-Team is 98% Fat Free Prime Grade SPAM!
I remember seeing this forum, and I’m sure many have it, that had a ranking system using credits/points. I think the way it worked was: people who you helped would give you a certain amount of points.
In other words:
> Someone posts a question.
> I answer their question.
> In the process of thanking me they also give me a fixed number of points (5 for example) for me to display proudly under my username. Of course, the points accumulate.
So instead of people being ranked by the number of posts they have, they are ranked by the number of points which only other people can give.
I think something like this would be a good idea, unless its been tried :ne: .
LOL. Sorry, no Freudian stuff today for me, thanks. 
I’m not complaining, I just stated that it seems like there is some hardcore useless posting going on. People don’t need to post “Hah!” posts.
I agree though wizard. Some sort of “helpfulness” or “productive” rating would be pretty cool.
I think that would be just as meaningless as post count. Some will give you feedback, some won’t. Sometimes your friends on the forum will pump up your rating just to be nice or whatever.
Something I saw that was useful on the Macromedia Cold Fusion forum (and is probably on their other forums?) - there was a checkbox to mark the particular post within a thread as the answer to a question. That particular post would then go to the top of the thread. Of course, this wouldn’t work in something like the resizing slide show thread but might be useful in other places when someone finally gets something figured out. This feature would be nice for certain forum topics, like MX, ActionScript, MX2004 etc. but wouldn’t be necessary in the Talk forums etc.
Just a thought.
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Lunatic, that sounds really cool. You wouldn’t need it for every post, but you could turn it on, poll style.
I think most people who spend a bit of time on the forum know which people are good to go to for help and those who just have high post counts. I don’t think that any large actions need to be taken.
I post about once every four days now…
eigth grade is stinky :*(
