'What...' threads that do not contribute to discussion...

[Chris]

I just think it's slightly biased if you have the final say on it, when other management said earlier that they were for the idea, and you're infact the person on the forum with the most posts in the threads mentioned.

I simply asked earlier if nothing was going to be done about it, and fair enough if it isn't because of the poll, I just think management as a whole should make the final decision together rather than someone making the decision on their own who has been against it all along, it's just a bit biased if I'm honest.

No previous forum managers were entirely for the idea, it has always been rejected.

[Kardan]

No previous forum managers were entirely for the idea, it has always been rejected.

I was talking about current forum management, not previous forum managers.

[Chris]

It isn't going to be introduced regardless. We had a poll and the poll said no. Had the poll have said yes then it would have been introduced.

[FlyingJesus]

No previous forum managers were entirely for the idea, it has always been rejected.

Only with regards to the music thread, because for some reason "IT'S AN INSTITUTION!!!" was always deemed a good enough excuse to not make the change while completely stripping the VIP subforum section despite it having been (in its time) a hub of strong activity and community. Frankly the reasoning is exactly the same as when we got the post count from forum games removed all that time ago, and it's still relevant:

all you see is a few words per post, which don't contribute anything to the forum except for the fact that they allow other people to reply again and raise their post counts more. In terms of how useful or how relevant any of it is, it's less so than the spam forum or the VIP subforums, and yet people are still able to pump up their post counts simply by hanging around in that dungeon of a category.

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It isn't going to be introduced regardless. We had a poll and the poll said no. Had the poll have said yes then it would have been introduced.

I know you're new to the job but since you mentioned previous forum managers before I assume that you have some idea of the history of the role, so not sure why you're suddenly suggesting that poll results dictate the way in which the forum works

[Kardan]

It isn't going to be introduced regardless. We had a poll and the poll said no. Had the poll have said yes then it would have been introduced.

So at the end of the day, whatever the poll says is final?

That's fair enough!

If you can't beat them, join them Time to start the campaign for spam to have post count enabled...

[edible]

So at the end of the day, whatever the poll says is final?

That's fair enough!

If you can't beat them, join them Time to start the campaign for spam to have post count enabled...

You really care about post count too much. I encountered you in the other thread and realised you struggle to comprehend you're not always right. People have different opinions to you. It's a good quality, albeit difficult, to accept them.

[Kardan]

You really care about post count too much. I encountered you in the other thread and realised you struggle to realise you're not always right. People have different opinions to you. It's a life lesson to accept them.

I'm not always right, like obviously in this thread But perhaps you should realise that people can have different opinions, and mine (along with 45% of the forum) is that post count does mean something

If people care about post count too much, then we should just get rid of it and enable it across the forum then.

[edible]

I'm not always right, like obviously in this thread But perhaps you should realise that people can have different opinions, and mine (along with 45% of the forum) is that post count does mean something

If people care about post count too much, then we should just get rid of it and enable it across the forum then.

No, you should let people do as they please providing it's within the forum rules and accept that people might want to obtain a higher post count. For example, if you ever played console games there could be hidden levels that allowed you to progress quicker. I see that the same as I see post count. One of the ways to work your way up on here is to have a higher post count. If there's an easier way to get your posts up, people are going to take advantage.

Maybe you should take another look and argue whether it's wrong or right that post count helps you promote up the user ranks.

[Kardan]

No, you should let people do as they please providing it's within the forum rules and accept that people might want to obtain a higher post count. For example, if you ever played console games there could be hidden levels that allowed you to progress quicker. I see that the same as I see post count. One of the ways to work your way up on here is to have a higher post count. If there's an easier way to get your posts up, people are going to take advantage.

Maybe you should take another look and argue whether it's wrong or right that post count helps you promote up the user ranks.

But it's not within the forum rules, that was the main point of this thread. It's against the rules to create posts that consist of a few words and do not contribute to discussion.

But you do have a good point, but I'm afraid many people will argue how you advance user groups and also rep power without post count.

[FlyingJesus]

providing it's within the forum rules

A7. Do not post pointlessly ~ ~ Do not post off-topic ~ An off-topic post has no relevance to the topic or any previous post that is relevant, or does little to positively contribute to the discussion.
~ Do not spam/make pointless posts. It is not allowed to post random, meaningless, posts or threads on the forum. Examples of this are (ROFLCOPTER!!!!!!); (BYRDSB +HKK; ) (I am a plane)
~ Do not posts threads which only allow for short, one or two word answers and do not promote active discussion.

These threads very clearly come under that last heading, as therefore do all of the replies within them