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Come on.
You are a newbie. You enter the forum. You ask a simple question. Someone with post count 20 gives you an answer. Then Na_th_an, with almost 4500 posts gives an answer. Who do you pay attention to more?
If you've been around long enough to post more than 500-or so posts (provided you didn't post only single-smiley, one-liner "ok, cool" posts, which, incidentally, nobody really has yet. Some have, but not ALL their posts were like that), it kinda proves that you do know something about QB. I'm not saying that the only people that know enough to answer questions about qb have more than 500 posts. Certainly not. But almost all of the top 20 posters can answer questions.
Some of the most knowledgable people here: LooseCaboose, Na_th_an, Moneo, Oracle...they all have a considerable amount of posts.

I would pay attention to whoever gave the answer that made the most sense. People don't walk around with a "spoken word count" glued to their forehead; why should it be any different online?

I don't think I've ever looked at the post count when reading replies, I read the name, and depending on the person posting I decide how much I should value hi's response.

Ex. TBBQ has a large poscount. In one thread I asked for a non-recursive deltree function without using SHELL (for anything but DIR). TBBQ replied with: SHELL "deltree folder" (or something simillar)

The postcount don't really mean anything. If you understand the answer someone gives you, and it works, who cares if the guy who posted it has 10 or 1000 posts? Do you?


Like Plasma said, I've never seen anyone with a "I've spoken x sentences" tatooed in their forehead.

Zack, do I count less cause I only got ~100 posts? And what about honor? Do I have less honor? Wut?

Silly me for thinking about quality and not quantity, I'm going to start spaming right away.


You could look at it like this: A Newbie enters the forum, he sees that some poeple have like 2k+ postcount, he also notices that they tend to do some weird replies (no-sense-offtopic-wtf-are-you-talking-about, kinnda replies) so he goes, "Hey, if I post a lot and get a high post count people will think I'm a great dude and I will get loads of respect......"

So what do we do?, Ban him? for what? He just did what a lot of other people do, come on, have you NEVER posted a silly oneliner? or a dumb comment? There are 10 forums here, if you reply (and by reply I mean give a fruitfull reply that actually helps someone or makes a valid point, not just: No you are wrong this is better. flamewar!) 2 times to each one of them per day that gives you a total of 20 posts per day, wich is (20*7=140) 140 posts per week, wich is 7280 posts per year. Now, how many of you make 20 posts per day? Na_Th_An has a daily postcount of 6.0.

TBBQ has a daily postcount of 7.4, and you tell me that most of it is good stuff, not just ramblings and/or offtopic diskussions?


I say kill the postcount, whos with me! *raises arm*

(Note: The names I used above are just examples, no offense intended, do not bash me for the choise of names/persons)


Ohh and BTW Zack, don't read this post, I've only got ~100 posts, so it's not worth you'r attention

Quote:You are a newbie. You enter the forum. You ask a simple question. Someone with post count 20 gives you an answer. Then Na_th_an, with almost 4500 posts gives an answer.

If both answers are correct, but the person with a count of 20 gives you a slightly more in-depth answer, then aren't they more helpful. A high post count in no way means that your answer will be more correct or even correct at all either.

Quote:If you've been around long enough to post more than 500-or so posts

Ive been here a month less than na_th_an and almost a year longer than you, however my post count pales in comparison to both of yours. I would like to think that people will base their acceptance of my help on the help itself, not on how many posts I have.

i accept help no matter who says it.
look this is one of my first posts
http://forum.qbasicnews.com/viewtopic.ph...ght=#15153


(btw: is 'I dont understand?' a valid oneliner?)
edit: but if people argue it's kindof funny =P

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Like I say: Post counts don't matter. Look at loosecaboose or plasma. Two of the most knowledgeables people in this forum.

A high post count only tells that you are a very regular poster, which can be positive. If a very regular poster replies your newbie question you have some kind of special feeling that if you ask again he will answer promptly, but nothing else. My 4000 whatever posts doesn't mean that I know a lot about everything. For example, if I reply on a PHP thread please don't read my post 'cause I know 0.2%.

In other kind of forums post count may be important, for example in pixellation, a forum which is really moderated and that 90% of replies to thread are on-topic critiques. In that case, a high post count means that someone is a knowledgeable pixeller which has been around for a long time and that knows what's what. It is not the case here. Z!re couldn't have said it better: If I wanted, I could go and reply to every General forum thread and get 20 or more new posts a day.

I'm for free speech and forums are great mediums for that. I think that if someone wants to say "Forkle Donk" in one of their posts and end it there, go for it. Posting never hurt anybody. But I also understand the other point of view. If we allowed radical free speech, there would be a saturation of junk posts that we would have to wad through. Maybe there should be a totally free speech forum out there where anything said is fine. I say keep technical forums clean with purpose with the intent of answering or posing questions while keeping the comments meaningfull and on topic.

Z!re, Nath, Loose, you're missing on of the vital points: pretty much all really high posters are good QBers. Not all low-posters. And what I mean by that is that there are certainly excellent coders here that have only a few posts, don't post often...In fact, more than there are high posters. But that's because there are really only 20-or so high posters.
Z!re, read the above post. You're not a high poster, Doesn't mean you aren't worthwhile.

Guys would you just drop it? Enough of the clobbering. I think its dead already :rotfl:

Get back to some productive posts!

TBBQ: This is productive... Otherwise it wouldn't have lasted this long.

Alright... if it will help the forum do better, and make everyone feel better, I think we should kill the postcount field, but that is not saying that it's necessary. Personally, I do look at the postcount of someone, but it helps me to build an opinion of the poster himself, not his knowlege. If someone has 4000 posts and posts something helpful, well, I know who to go to when I need help. If someone has 4000 posts and replies with bullshot like "i hop u get an anser ", then I'll go through the remainder of my foruming beleiving that he's a retard, and I will never listen to him in my life... ever.

The postcount is not the problem, though. It's the posters. There are some people who are still beleiving that gaining the highest postcount is the key to being a good forumer. Sure, I'm up for a competition with someone to see if I can get a higher postcount, and stay ahead of them on the Top Posters list, but I'm not going to gay people's threads up with one-liners to do so, I'll simply look around quicker for topics to reply to, and give them help or whatever they ask for. I'm tired of seeing people post separate replies so that they can do retarded things like "laugh" at someone's joke on the internet. If you thought it was funny, then laugh in real life, or whatever you do. Don't post crap like

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Or at least if you're going to do that, say something along with it that's useful.

As I've said already, post count isn't the problem. I've seen other forums where people can add a post to a user's "reputation". So that when their profile is viewed, certain posts that have been added to their rep can be viewed, and people can get an opinion of the poster from that. Instead of a silly number.

And while using the example of "People walking around with word counts on their heads" would seem to apply, it really doesn't. When I ask a question to a group of my friends, a bunch of them might say tons of irrelevant things, and possibly carry the subject off to a completely different topic. But a forum is different. When people ask questions, you aren't going to respond with "Uhhh", or "I don't know". And if you do, then you're one of the people that's behind this problem.

But, that's my viewpoint on the whole thing. If the postcount is really that annoying, kill it. But it isn't the problem. The problem is that some of the posters here need to stop denying that they're some of the ones behind this, and they need to instead, spend time getting their act together. I don't really want to see the post field taken off, but if it will increase the forum's quality, then so be it.

...just make sure you replace it with the birthdays. -_^