What is a post? Well you have to consider what a "post" is. Some may consider it one thing and others another thing.
Even if a reply is spam, it's still technically a "post". I guess I just didn't understand the relevance of his statement, unless he was trying to be funny.
I took it to mean some people here think a post has to have "value" to people reading it and other people just type whatever they want to up their post count. Such as the Pocket God threads..
Okay, now that I understand and agree with. The only problem is, who's to judge whether a post has "value" or not? Clearly some are obviously pointless (the rash of "+1" posts that frequent some threads is ridiculous), but there are other times that it might not be so clear. The original comment that I didn't get about what defines a post is a prime example of that, in fact.
There's no possible way to create criteria and then monitor what a post is. Why is it so hard for people to just let go of the titles and post numbers? I can understand titles for moderators and developers, but otherwise, the rest of this is really snowballing into something complicated and useless to the objectives of the forum in the first place.
The problem is that it's an "out of sight, out of mind" sort of thing, and since they aren't out of sight yet... Really, though, the irony of all this is that pretty much everyone in the thread is in agreement that the titles / post counts are pointless, so there's almost no point to the thread
That's ironic isn't it? It's almost circles back to the "value of the post" and seeing as there's no point to this thread, that would make every post in this thread worthless. I'm some philosopher could have some fun with this.
I am curious Arn's view.. since it is possible to turn off the post count I wonder why he wants to keep it.
Well as some have stated that devs look at these when searching for people to give promo codes to. I'v been pm'd a few times and my post count did sway them to leave a promo code and I would be wary of a first/second time poster asking to trade promo codes, etc. So for this its helpful......but as for a seniority point system........not sound!
Confucius say, "you can lead a member to Add Reply, but you can't make him think" Can you have one without the other? Maybe leaving the post count but turning of the labeling system would at least be better...
Yes I do understand what you mean after reading my own post. We all already know that the post count doesn't mean a whole lot with membership WITHIN TA but does reflect some to devs. My thought never included removing it but as for a point system I think its worthless. As you said.....possibly leave it the way it is. Maybe Arn's been through all this already and came to the same conclusion.
