Post Your threads

[Trinity]

Find me ten conversations in the last 1000 posts in the post what you are listening to. Bet you can't.

Users posting really isn't important if what is being posted is pointless. The ONLY thing it doesn't is make the stats look good.

I never said that thread had any conversations in it at all (although it might do, I haven't looked through it).
I also said that pointless posts should be dealt with, I didn't say that they should be left just to make stats look good.

If you read through my post again (I say 'again', but based on your reply I'm guessing you haven't read it yet anyway), you'll see that I said these Post Your threads should remain, but decent replies and discussions should be encouraged more. That way we end up with the same amount of posts (or perhaps even more), but all of them quality posts, rather than pointless post count increasers like we have at the moment.

[Eoin247]

I never said that thread had any conversations in it at all (although it might do, I haven't looked through it).
I also said that pointless posts should be dealt with, I didn't say that they should be left just to make stats look good.

If you read through my post again (I say 'again', but based on your reply I'm guessing you haven't read it yet anyway), you'll see that I said these Post Your threads should remain, but decent replies and discussions should be encouraged more. That way we end up with the same amount of posts (or perhaps even more), but all of them quality posts, rather than pointless post count increasers like we have at the moment.

What could you do to encourage discussion in these threads though? As long as people get easy post count by saying for example ''rihanna -love the way you lie'', it's probably going to stay the same.

[Josh]

I never said that thread had any conversations in it at all (although it might do, I haven't looked through it).
I also said that pointless posts should be dealt with, I didn't say that they should be left just to make stats look good.

If you read through my post again (I say 'again', but based on your reply I'm guessing you haven't read it yet anyway), you'll see that I said these Post Your threads should remain, but decent replies and discussions should be encouraged more. That way we end up with the same amount of posts (or perhaps even more), but all of them quality posts, rather than pointless post count increasers like we have at the moment.

In theory it sounds good, but would that work? I don't think so. People don't want to go there for others to see what they like, they go there to post just for post count.

Is there any point to keeping them except to make stats look nice? If people are genuinely interested in what others are listening to, they'll ask.

Also, am I allowed to go post in that thread 50+ times a day because I listen to heaps of music per day.

[Hecktix]

Also, am I allowed to go post in that thread 50+ times a day because I listen to heaps of music per day.

That would be abuse of such threads and you would get picked up on that.

[Chippiewill]

That would be abuse of such threads and you would get picked up on that.

I do not see how quantity is relevant. Are you saying that if in a normal thread I make 50 quality posts I should be a penalised? It's the same situation. It's abuse whether in quantity or not.

[xxMATTGxx]

I do not see how quantity is relevant. Are you saying that if in a normal thread I make 50 quality posts I should be a penalised? It's the same situation. It's abuse whether in quantity or not.

Well posting 50 times in a "Post what you are listening to" is surely doing it for post count purposes? Where as posting in a normal thread is where you are wanting to take part in the thread discussion and replying to other people and so on.

[Josh]

Well posting 50 times in a "Post what you are listening to" is surely doing it for post count purposes? Where as posting in a normal thread is where you are wanting to take part in the thread discussion and replying to other people and so on.

But that's not happening?

[Catzsy]

But that's not happening?

Examples of what's not happening?

[Hecktix]

I do not see how quantity is relevant. Are you saying that if in a normal thread I make 50 quality posts I should be a penalised? It's the same situation. It's abuse whether in quantity or not.

Quantity is perfectly relevant, we don't mind having these sort of threads as long as they aren't abused.

[Josh]

Examples of what's not happening?

wanting to take part in the thread discussion and replying to other people and so on.

What thread discussion?