About what molec said
Lazysam
Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 101Members
Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 101Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Please your gettin a little ridiculous</div>I think that your last guide line is quite ridiculous, this community has been started in order to help further develop and show general support for the making of ns, now the board should serve as a medium of free expression and if we as a community find ourselves face to face with a situation where a guideline such as the above is made it should be a very clear wringing light that the community as a whole has failed, and the general degeneration of the positive environment of these forums is intact underway and it is time for reassessment of the purpose of its existence,
On a lighter note all this could be amended by simply removing the posts counts, because if it is of any significant importance to anybody involved, maybe that person should be simply removed?
On a lighter note all this could be amended by simply removing the posts counts, because if it is of any significant importance to anybody involved, maybe that person should be simply removed?
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Besides, it's not the job of anyone but the moderators to decide what is 'pointless' and what is not.
And the people who most obviously <i>are</i> concerned about post counts are the ones making comments about "so-and-so only posting this to raise his post count"... or those who want them removed.
I, personally, don't want to see the post counts go... Not something I obsess about or anything, but it did kind of cheer me up a bit today, after seeing my name thingy going from "Dark Minion" to "Dark Queen" <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
And trust me, the vast majority of those 600 posts have been... "insightful"... The rest go to bickering.
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I don't have an issue with post coutns, I just don't like posts that don't contribute anything new to the conversation.
I just say we remove the post count thing, have anyone been to valve-erc?
There they have a nice way of showing post counts, you move you're cursor over to the posters name and the post count pops down,
I mean when the moderators have to make special posts stating that we should not discuss this it has simply gone too far.
We gotta do something about this, and why do we have the post count at all? All it creates is trouble and anger, but we are still keeping it, why?
Now I am asking the moderators, please remove the post count, it just ruins the spirit of the forum boards,
and many newbies to the board might think that people with high post counts are alot smarter and "more worth" then the people with a low post count, (kinda feel myself guilty at that one when I was a newbie on this board some time ago <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo--> )
but now I see that people spamm posts all the time, they might be long and STILL meaningless (maybe like this one I don't know)
but come on guys, we have all seen that this has went waaaay out of hand
* I said "when all is said and done" twice, silly me. *
If someone starts whining about how someone else posted three times in a row, I'd suggest to lock <b>boths</b> account for a few days. This should eliminate the source as well as the reactions in no time.
As for post counts - keep them or kill them , I don't care.
every forum has people that do useless posts so by taking the post count off wouldnt really help the situation
BTW, Raven, the post count is simply the number of posts that you have made on this board. Some people think that having more posts automatically makes them cool or justifies them to act snotty towards other people ("What do you know, you n00b? You only have 50 posts!"). I think they're just full of themselves.
In fact I don't even know how many posts I have done.
when was that, As far as I remember, yes me was on the old boards aswell, noone has ever been treated badly....
I guess my position is to keep the post counts. Hide them if you must, but don't remove them. And the stars and titles definitely need to stay visible, no matter what. <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
I said "Anyone complaining in a <b>public thread</b>".
Note this does not exclude the following:
PMs.
Emails.
The "Report Post to Moderator" link.
If you truly feel that someone is posting useless spam, why not give one of those a try and send a message to us moderators about it? I'd prefer the "Report Post" option, as that is what it is there for.
Titles are fun. If all you can do is complain, stop coming to the forums :\ No harm meant, but I get really tired of people having a lack of respect for others that choose not to base their reputation on the content of their posts.
Hydro, apologies for the Minigun thing, but there's something that you, and others may not have realized (and you've inspired me to add a question to one of the FAQs to address it).
Most of the people on this forum don't like CS, or at least bash it. And they don't like mods that try to copy CS. CS is a weapons mod. They have a TON of weapons, many of which only have small differences. They've got three sniper rifles, four automatic rifles, I can't even -remember- how many submachine guns, and about seven pistols. NS, at least for the marines, has one automatic rifle, one submachine gun, one pistol, one rocket launcher (the mini-nuke) and -maybe- one kind of grenade and... and this is very very iffy.. -MAYBE- a flamethrower.
That's it. One of each kind of weapon. NS is not a weapons mod. It's a teamplay/strategy mod.
(Back to the original topic)
Shoven, you may have a point, and I'm going to add (yet another) question to the FAQ about this.
Post counts do -not- mean an increased chance of getting into the beta. Never have, never will. Look at me, I'm a 2300+ person, and I'm not in the beta. I just know a -ton- about the mod. But what I know is -only- what has been revealed on these forums, and occasionally RR.org. There's still a lot I don't know about.
I play CS so much I can get higher kill counts than the six clan members (of the same clan) on my team do on their own server. And I can go against those same six clanners on the T team with only two other teammates that get fragged SO fast, and yet I always manage to plant the bomb... something the T's can't seem to do otherwise. Yeah, I play CS too. So no, I don't hate you. But I really do hate CS. It's boring. And most of the people who play it are lame (take those six clanners.. they refused to balance the teams... and they also refused to kick the two AFKers off of the server that were on the T team.).
thats my two cents
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A lot of people will post and complain about others posting things that are non-contributing to the community. But the people who do nothing but complain aren't contributing anything either.
Oooh, I'm a Foul Beast <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo--> Didn't even notice.
Its mearly a status statement.
"Look at my post count ... omg, I em kewl bekase I have 1 bagillion million postsesest!"
Give me a break. I've been here since the old forums (and had my post count transfered (Thanks who ever did it(not that I care about it, but the gesture was nice))) and I still have less posts then people who have been here like .. a week.
It means nothing. I only post when I feel the need to express my opinion on a subject (such as this) or when I simply have nothing better to do.
I personly, wouldnt miss post counts, but I dont want to get eveyone else into a little hissy fit over it. If it makes them happy because they have 1337 posts, then let em be happy I guess ...
The only thing that -really- bugs me is when people post just to repeat what three other people have said. One, even. I suppose it could be that they simply didn't read the replies, but... why <i>wouldn't</i> you read them?