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Novakoala · August 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Just wondering...</div>Is it possible to hide the post count? It's just that I can't help noticing the spam posts recently (I'm not going to accuse anyone or anything, Legionnaired's been there). There might as well have been a thread titled 'Pointless Status Bump-Up'.

I know some people like the idea of a post counter, but it does rather add an element of competition to the forums. Perhaps removing it would reduce the number of pointless posts? The user titles could stay, to give people a rough idea of how many posts someone has made (and since these only change for every few hundred posts, it would reduce competition).

I can't see any special point of the post counter. It shows how many posts we've made. So...? It doesn't especially mean anything. A better indicator of a users experience might be the date they joined the forums.

Does anybody else feel the same way or am I just rambling?

Incidentally, this is not intended as a 'mute the spammers' or 'it was them' thread. I'm not trying to make trouble here.

TychoCelchuuu · August 2002

if you can mute the post count but leave the stars, the group thing, and the date joined, sure. but if you take away more than just that under the name, it starts looking wierd. its just...different.

pielemuis · August 2002

other forums seem to have no problems with postcounts, i don't know why people always keep briging this up ?

Wren · August 2002

I guess everyone is just jealous of my awsome post count. No reason to be shameful because your overshadowed by ME, its just to be expected.

Hot_Soup · August 2002

I humbly bow before Wren the post count god <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>

also look at the announcements forum <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'> getting there

SmokeMasta · August 2002

some ppl (like me) are pretty annoyed by newbies that make 10 posts within their first days of regging to the forums.
99% of their posts are or stupid and have nothing to do with the topic or are 1 lines....
some ppl screwed up some pretty good discussions

Llama_Killer · August 2002

Thats true some newbs came in my idea trend and just started spamming and the whole topic changed there should be a way for topic starters to delete posts made by spamers... wait am I spaming now? **$&@*$*@&$*@

Tactician · August 2002

Whatever. Hiding post counts won't change anything on a large scale.

Wren · August 2002

I like cheese, do you like cheese?

Gencide · August 2002

Wren > All of us

Moleculor · August 2002

Sorry guys. We've been over this particular conversation before, and definitely decided to keep the post counts.

The major problem with the recent spam was not that they were trying to bump their post counts, but that the board was viewed as a chat venue of sorts.

We caught the problem way before anyone else started complaining, and PMed the parties involved around noon time yesterday, and they since promised to try to reduce the hyper-active postage, like good forum-members. We moderators have things under control, don't worry.

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