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bobkad
6 Jun 2006, 05:08
Should bring back forum posts/register date...not that important, but it's a standard feature..

Pigbuster
6 Jun 2006, 05:32
No we shouldn't.
There's no real reason to have them.
Maybe register date, but not # of posts.

Plasma
6 Jun 2006, 08:16
Maybe register date, but not # of posts.
I was thinking the opposite.

thomasp
6 Jun 2006, 08:39
They were removed for certain reasons (check the 'Announcements' forum), and as long as Sel is webmaster here, they'll stay removed.
I personally think it's a good thing - why do we need to know how many posts everyone else has. If you want to see how "old" a member is, hover your mouse over their username or avatar and look at the address in the status bar. The smaller the number at the end is, the older the member.

Reaperz
6 Jun 2006, 09:40
Really, for telling how long someone has been a member, that is inadequit.
I say bring register dates back too.
Post counts are always nice, but there are times they are more trouble then they are worth.

thomasp
6 Jun 2006, 09:47
Really, for telling how long someone has been a member, that is inadequit.
I say bring register dates back too.
Post counts are always nice, but there are times they are more trouble then they are worth.
But it does tell you who has been registered longer than someone else.
For example, your userID is 15 474, while Plasma's is 22 847 - therefore you've been registered longer.
Mine is 600, which suggests I joined relatively near the birth of the forum.
Maybe Sel will put registration dates in our user profiles, but I don't really see much use for them - we have been getting on perfectly well without them for exactly one year as of tomorrow :D

Metal Gear
6 Jun 2006, 11:17
Well, to be honest, all post counts do is give people something to aim at, and therefore, they spam

Star Worms
6 Jun 2006, 13:09
Post counts are useless, they just encourage spamming.

pilot62
6 Jun 2006, 16:53
Yes, also it encouraged elitism.
Elitism is bad.

Plasma
6 Jun 2006, 17:02
Yes, also it encouraged elitism.
Elitism is bad.
How did it encourage elitism?

Muzer
6 Jun 2006, 17:28
I still think we should have join dates...

pilot62
6 Jun 2006, 18:13
How did it encourage elitism?
Well there was a certain amount of 'I'm better than you because I have a higher post count/earlier join date than you', or people making assumptions based on post count and join date. There's still elitism now, but not as much as post counts/join dates aren't immediately obvious.
I was against it at the time, now I think it was probably a good thing.

UnKnown X
6 Jun 2006, 18:17
You can still check the post count for people with less than 500 posts by searching through all their posts, and for the rest you can browse the member list by post count.
Post counts are pointless, though.

Plasma
6 Jun 2006, 18:19
You can still check the post count for people with less than 500 posts by searching through all their posts, and for the rest you can browse the member list by post count.
Post counts are pointless, though.
You can also do it by the 'search members' method.
Which is how I know mine (sig)

Star Worms
6 Jun 2006, 18:33
And that's exactly why they were got rid of. Stop showing off to all the newbies "Look I have thousands of posts, I'm a top poster, therefore I'm brilliant, worship me". Unless you have a better explanation for having it in your sig.

Plasma
6 Jun 2006, 18:56
And that's exactly why they were got rid of. Stop showing off to all the newbies "Look I have thousands of posts, I'm a top poster, therefore I'm brilliant, worship me". Unless you have a better explanation for having it in your sig.
To boost my ginormous self-esteem!
...
Yeah, I should remove it...

Error404
6 Jun 2006, 19:35
You can always check the first message ever posted by a specific user... usually that's pretty much around the date he got registered... ;)
And i guess the registering date could be displayed on the user personal stats and not under the avatar on every post. That way it'll serve the purpose without being a reason for elitism, since people hardly go visiting every user's personal stats...
But i'm against elitism so i guess it's fine the way it is... :)

bonz
7 Jun 2006, 00:01
the date he got registered
You can check a user's register date too, by using the join date field in advanced search.

Pigbuster
7 Jun 2006, 00:32
If you look at the source code for a thread that you have posted in, you can find it.
For instance, I have 1,378 posts now.
While I do like to see how high up the "BIG POSTA" list I get, I'd rather keep all that to myself, really.
Seeing how high up the POSTS/VIEWS column my art thread gets is easier and more meaningful, anyway.

bobkad
7 Jun 2006, 01:57
Alright, I'll buy your reasons for not having a post count..but register date? That's just stupid. I have NEVER seen a single forum that didn't include a register date with the posts, or at least on the users profile.

Cyclaws
7 Jun 2006, 09:29
Alright, I'll buy your reasons for not having a post count..but register date? That's just stupid. I have NEVER seen a single forum that didn't include a register date with the posts, or at least on the users profile.
Does it matter? Does the function of the forum cease to work because you can't see the date you signed up on?

Sel
7 Jun 2006, 10:01
Should bring back forum posts/register date...not that important, but it's a standard feature..
This won't be happening, things will be staying as they are. Sorry.

Horigan
7 Jun 2006, 11:06
Alternatively to Pgibuster's method, just go to the profile of the member in question, or even your own, and do "Find all all posts by <member's name here>" and see how many results are returned.

thomasp
7 Jun 2006, 11:47
Alternatively to Pgibuster's method, just go to the profile of the member in question, or even your own, and do "Find all all posts by <member's name here>" and see how many results are returned.
Search results are limited to 500, so that won't work with anyone who has more than 500 posts.

Plutonic
7 Jun 2006, 14:26
They were removed for certain reasons (check the 'Announcements' forum), and as long as Sel is webmaster here, they'll stay removed.
I personally think it's a good thing - why do we need to know how many posts everyone else has. If you want to see how "old" a member is, hover your mouse over their username or avatar and look at the address in the status bar. The smaller the number at the end is, the older the member.
hmmm, how did i not ever think of this....
Just found some interesting facts:
The first 21 users are T17 Staff
3 of which no longer exist
The first public user is banned (Spectre1337)
The first user still here is MrLee
There are only 3 'active' users before me.... if u can count infestedworm as active. MadEwokHerd being the 2nd.....
which essentually says that 90% of the first 50 members are gone or are T17... odd

Paul.Power
7 Jun 2006, 14:42
If you look at the source code for a thread that you have posted in, you can find it.
For instance, I have 1,378 posts now.
Apparantly I'm past 6000, now. Fun.
EDIT: Ye gods, Akuryou's just hit the 8000 mark.

WORM1234
7 Jun 2006, 14:49
I'm at 318 now. Geez I had no idea I posted that much.

Paul.Power
7 Jun 2006, 14:55
Heh, now you've reminded me of the days when 300 posts really was loads. Think I was the second person to get it after Nutter (why yes, I was a bit of a spammer back then, how did you guess?).

bonz
7 Jun 2006, 18:16
Hmm, viewing the source is indeed the most convinient way to get your postcount.
I'm (still) #9 in the "ranking".
I'd like to know how many times I posted "www.nanacide.com/wahelp" because someone was to stupid again to look at the sticky posts or use the search function.
Thank you, all you newbies and numbnuts for 4,541 posts!

Paul.Power
8 Jun 2006, 17:45
Hmm, viewing the source is indeed the most convinient way to get your postcount.
I'm (still) #9 in the "ranking".
I'd like to know how many times I posted "www.nanacide.com/wahelp" because someone was to stupid again to look at the sticky posts or use the search function.
Thank you, all you newbies and numbnuts for 4,541 posts!
"www.nanacide.com/wahelp" is too long a search term, alas
"nanacide" gives seven, "wahelp" 36.

bonz
9 Jun 2006, 03:58
"www.nanacide.com/wahelp" is too long a search term, alas
"nanacide" gives seven, "wahelp" 36.
Well, thanks to SPAM (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5627694446211716271) then?

Breffni
10 Jun 2006, 13:00
the problem I've seen with forums with post counts is that there's always a traget and a much more likelihood of spamming to happen.

Plasma
10 Jun 2006, 17:35
http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=508359&postcount=290

Preasure
10 Jun 2006, 21:53
Not all forums cause postcount spamming. Admittedly, when they're there one feels a greater 'need', shall we say, to post, but it all comes down to the attitudes of the forum and its members.
As for elitism, if you've got a forum with many pre-teen or young members as well as older ones, then there will always be cases of older, more mature members looking down, as it were, on those younger and less experienced as them.

Plutonic
12 Jun 2006, 03:46
on wormscc i just introduced a rank system. I was always against the whole posts = rank so I made my own. While it uses postcount ,if you make lots of small posts your rank actually goes down faster than it goes up and posts are woth less the more you have.... couple of other things too. More importantly though, other than that its not 100% posts based I just havent told anyone exactly how it works it all out so theres no real way to spam your way around it :D

Xinos
14 Jun 2006, 00:32
Post counting generally doesn't encourage spam, it just tells people how known that user is. However, at a already spammy place like this forum I can see how it does more bad than good.
I think we could have some sort of status thing that isn't affected by activity but how long one has been here. Say one point per year registered?

pilot62
14 Jun 2006, 16:28
But, since when has your maturity or spamminess depended on how long you've been registered?
Ok, so most of the more mature, active members have been here a long time, and vice versa, but its a huge generalisation to make.

bonz
14 Jun 2006, 23:01
I joined this SPAM forum in SPAM December 2003, and SPAM I SPAM never spam SPAM SPAM SPAM.

Pigbuster
18 Jun 2006, 03:57
However, at a already spammy place like this forum I can see how it does more bad than good.
I think that I've said that same thing before.
But...
Now that I think about it, this is one of the least spammy forums I've seen anywhere.
...And "least spammy" sounds terrible. It shall be replaced by the word "SPUNTLIEST"
It is done.

Preasure
18 Jun 2006, 21:40
There's spam, and then theres spam. it depends whether spam counts as posts that are totally offtopic, or have no topic at all, or the 500th 'I like worms lots' or 'What will worms 5 be?' threads.
But you're right, there's not much about here. You get other forums where the sapm forum is bigger that all the rest put together, and the whole place gets crazy with silly pictures and nonsense. Nothing like that here, the only thing is the avatar fads, heaven knows where they spring from.

Iguana
19 Jun 2006, 02:32
Nothing like that here, the only thing is the avatar fads, heaven knows where they spring from.
That and the duck thread. And "I lol'd at Aku". And everything else. :p

SupSuper
19 Jun 2006, 03:12
I've seen forums with much less spam than this. Heck, some have so few, they have "SPAM ALL YOU WANT" days when postcounts are activated (as in "posts count in this forum", not "postcounts are visible") and you can post all you want purely to increase them!

Plasma
19 Jun 2006, 13:38
I've seen forums with much less spam than this. Heck, some have so few, they have "SPAM ALL YOU WANT" days when postcounts are activated (as in "posts count in this forum", not "postcounts are visible") and you can post all you want purely to increase them!
Just because spam is allowed, doesn't mean it's not spam.

SupSuper
19 Jun 2006, 16:41
Just because spam is allowed, doesn't mean it's not spam.Only in one day, plus it's all kept in one huge thread. In any case, there's not even some sort of "Spam Forum" like most forums have. Heck, I'm a Global Mod there and I hardly have to do anything.

*Splinter*
19 Jun 2006, 17:06
Only in one day, plus it's all kept in one huge thread. In any case, there's not even some sort of "Spam Forum" like most forums have. Heck, I'm a Global Mod there and I hardly have to do anything.
He speaks of the promised land! Lead us, O mighty leader!

SupSuper
19 Jun 2006, 17:11
NEVAR!!!11 *runs*

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