Beancooker
Oakley Expert
Does this forum have any rule against post whoring? 500 ish posts in three weeks, and most are bullshit? It's annoying to see a thread taken off topic, or have a conversation started in it when it has nothing or very little to do with that thread. Nothing lamer than seeing a for sale thread with "GLWS" posted in it five times, or one member that feels the need to post that in half the for sale threads.
I know some members are n00bz, obviously to forums in general, but why does this go on? I am probably guilty of some lame replies with lack of content, but not 500 of them in three weeks. Do these n00bz feel that if they have a really high post count that they will be taken more seriously? Or is it just rampant perpetual post whoring to get to the magical 1500 mark to get to change your user title?
There was a point in time on a different forum that I had the ability to change issues like this. When I would run into a rampant post whore, nothing was more enjoyable than resetting the post count to 20. Then you would receive an email saying "I lost my post count!!!" A simple explaination that it was reset to reflect the valuable content that was provided, and the 98% that was BS are no longer reflected in your post count. This usually ended it immediately. Just my 2¢. /rant
I know some members are n00bz, obviously to forums in general, but why does this go on? I am probably guilty of some lame replies with lack of content, but not 500 of them in three weeks. Do these n00bz feel that if they have a really high post count that they will be taken more seriously? Or is it just rampant perpetual post whoring to get to the magical 1500 mark to get to change your user title?
There was a point in time on a different forum that I had the ability to change issues like this. When I would run into a rampant post whore, nothing was more enjoyable than resetting the post count to 20. Then you would receive an email saying "I lost my post count!!!" A simple explaination that it was reset to reflect the valuable content that was provided, and the 98% that was BS are no longer reflected in your post count. This usually ended it immediately. Just my 2¢. /rant