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Ghoulfish:
Yeah it is a loonie idea thanx for pointing that out  ;D

Some of my Ideas are good, some are bad it's hard to be perfect all the time  :'(

Maybe someone should create a poll so the admin can see if this is really a big issue or not (personally I do not see why it matters if your a mortal, apprentice or wizard it just shows how new or active a person is on the board)

Valiar Marcus:

--- Quote from: Ghoulfish on July 17, 2006, 07:54:42 PM ---Maybe someone should create a poll so the admin can see if this is really a big issue or not
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Considering no one had posted to this thread in six weeks before today, I'd say it is a dead issue. ;)

Ghoulfish:
For me Dead issues are the best issues  ;)

(I don't check the dates I just post)  :D


I feel everyone is entitled to my ideas - no matter what the circumstances are  ;D

Opalescence:

--- Quote from: Dapper Dan on May 28, 2006, 05:17:27 AM ---
SPAM Guide
SPAM: Stupid, pointless, annoying messages. SPAM can be in many formats:

1. The one-liner: "Yeah, I totally agree!"
2. Excess use of puncuation/smilies: "Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "Say what? ? ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?" or   ;) :) :D :-[ :-* :-* :'( :-[ ::) :( 8) :o
3. The irrelevant post: For instance, say the thread is about any given Movie, and you post with, "My cousin's sister's mother's brother's father's friend's aunt had a friend in said movie."
4. The double-post: Posting twice in a row, without good reason.
5. The double-topic: Posting a thread on something that already has a thread. For instance, the whole "favorite baby names" and "what would you name your kids".
6. The impatient post: For those of you who have ants in your pants, and can't wait for your requests to be finished, and so you decide to post in the design thread with "IS MY BANNER DONE YET?!?!? HOW LONG WILL IT BE?!?!"
7. The reviewless review: "I loved the movie!" - This is NOT a review, people.
8. The questionless questions: When you post in Meet the Staff forum- you need to post questions, NOT things like "Hey you're from Virginia like me, that's so cool!"
9. The caps lock posts: IT'S ACTUALLY CONSIDERED TO BE SHOUTING WHEN YOU TYPE IN ALL CAPS, AND IT'S PRETTY RUDE TO SHOUT AT PEOPLE, DON'T YOU THINK?
10. The I-Know-I'm-Not-Supposed-To-Reply post: This happens especially in the polls for schemes and such - I even TELL you guys NOT to post in them, unless you chose "other" as an option, and therefore you have to reply. But a lot of times, people reply anyway.


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Bah! You're too picky. Would you prefer people only write mini novel length posts and create threads that go on until the world ends and the bozo aliens from planet What's-It come to see our remains?

People come to boards to have fun. Sure, there are many who aren't very mature, are desperate for any attention/contact, and generally are annoying. But to burn them for it is very Darth Vadar of you.

Dom:

--- Quote from: neminem on June 05, 2006, 07:42:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: Phil Boswell on June 05, 2006, 12:38:00 PM ---
--- Quote from: Donna on May 28, 2006, 04:02:21 AM ---
--- Quote from: iago on May 27, 2006, 10:42:30 PM ---Well, I can always adjust the number of posts per level, or add more. I'm not expecting to attach a lot of meaning to 'em.

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I don't see the big deal about rising in the ranks either, but unfortunately some people do. The biggest problem, I've found, is people making loads of nuisance posts -- one liners, smiley only, or nattering on about things that add nothing to the topic being discussed -- to see the title change under their name.

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I assume that the existence of the "report to moderator" link implies that it's possible to remove nuisance posts, in which case the question would become: does your total get decremented if one of your posts gets nuked?
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Course it does. In any noninsane forum system, it keeps track of your posts in real time. For instance, over at OverClocked Remix, a handful of months ago they removed all the threads with over a few thousand posts, to save on disk space. Some people (mostly postwhores) lost upwards of a thousand posts each.

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Off topic: Actually, it depends on the board software.  Some keep track of each post, so something like your example would affect post count, but some just add 1 to the count of posts each time a post is made, so it doesn't matter if an old post is deleted or not.

IE, for the math inclined, there are two ways to keep track of post counts:

post count = sum(posts)

(which adds up all the posts in the database at a given time, and can be affected by post deletions)

vs.

post count = last_post_count + 1

(which adds 1 to the count each time you make a new post, and is not affected by post deletions because it is not counting all the posts in the database, but is instead adding the number "1" to the old post count number each time you make a new post).

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