Soldato
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Mines about 1.3 per day.
Poll: Remove post count from the forums
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Mines about 1.3 per day.
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In 2,765 posts I don't think I've ever wrote +1
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[FnG]magnolia;16631458 said:In one of the many GD threads in which almost every poster misses the point of the topic, someone (Dampcat I think) suggested removing the post count from the forums to remove the nonsense reples, e.g. +1, forthewin, etc. I think this is a really good idea.
If post count was removed would it affect your posting activity? Do you actually care what your post count is? Some of you - many of you? - must do but why? What makes you hot for a high post count?
A poll would be nice, mods. Or a ban for being presumptious. You know, whatever works for you
One question.....why?
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I love my postcount so much I had 42,000 posts reset to 0 a few years ago.
I love the surrealism of GD tbh, the humour for the most part is right up my street (toilet sarcasm). Its what makes it the best sub forum here imho and there are times when it genuinely makes me laugh hard. So I wouldn't want anyone to do anything to change how GD is 
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Lets keep postcounts but remove usernames+sigs.
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Are you serious... how do we measure e-pean stature without post count, ridiculous suggestion 
Sometimes I use +1 just to support the opinion of the quoted poster. I use it in threads I have previously commented on myself. +1 is just shorthand for I agree after all.
I really don't see the problem with it. Tbh, if you consider it a nonsense post and so should be banned where does that end, some of the longest and most detailed repiles can be considered nonsense posts also, much like this one can. Where does it end.....
Support the rights of the +1ers.
I really don't see the problem with it. Tbh, if you consider it a nonsense post and so should be banned where does that end, some of the longest and most detailed repiles can be considered nonsense posts also, much like this one can. Where does it end.....
Support the rights of the +1ers.
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We've been through this in the past and it was established that people who post dross do so because they wish to post dross not to increase the number at the side of the posts they make, therefore removing it would make absolutely zero difference.
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Further to my previous post now I'm not in such a rush. I don't like the PC+1 replies whether it's "+1", "This", "tbh" or anything along those lines but I'm not convinced that it is one of those things that should be restricted. If I don't think I can add anything beyond what is already there then I frequently won't post at all because I just don't see the point, my added support in the form of a +1 for a post where someone has summarised my views on the subject succinctly doesn't mean much - the post should be able to stand on it's own anyway and if it can't then it's probably not such a good point to begin with.
Post counts can also act as a loose way of gauging a users contribution (I use the phrase in the broadest possible sense, you may not value their input but they've normally spent a fair bit of time to reach XX number of posts) and investment in the forums for want of a better way of putting it. The issue of post count auctions blurs the lines somewhat but generally speaking anyone with over 100,000 posts has bought them so you can discount those from the ordinary view of post count bearing some relation to time invested. The only person who has currently amassed approaching that number without augmentation is [TW]Fox above I believe - Gilly would have been around that number also but when he became an Admin his post count was altered.
Post counts can also act as a loose way of gauging a users contribution (I use the phrase in the broadest possible sense, you may not value their input but they've normally spent a fair bit of time to reach XX number of posts) and investment in the forums for want of a better way of putting it. The issue of post count auctions blurs the lines somewhat but generally speaking anyone with over 100,000 posts has bought them so you can discount those from the ordinary view of post count bearing some relation to time invested. The only person who has currently amassed approaching that number without augmentation is [TW]Fox above I believe - Gilly would have been around that number also but when he became an Admin his post count was altered.
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If a user has above 10k posts its impossible to tell wether it's their actual poscount or wether it was 'bought' in an auction. Which means large postcounts are pointless anyway.