Post count to be disabled in Welcome / Goodbyes

[The Don]

It prevents people from saying 'Welcome' 20 times, but as long as you add something, it's okay according to that thread, so 'Welcome to the forum, hope you enjoy your stay!' is perfectly fine?

Yes, what's wrong with that? It encourages people to welcome new people to the forum, something which is important.

Why are so many people so eager to kill any forum activity


Forum activity over the past year

We should be looking at ways to increase posts not trying to restrict them (which removing post count will ultimately do)

[David]

just leave it i say, habbox will die next year anyway

[Red]

I think its a good thing that new people feel welcomed by getting lots of replies to their welcome thread. Don't think we should be discouraging that.

[Whatever]

Although posts there often lack content I think it's fine having post count enabled for that forum because it's an incentive for current members to mingle with new members. It makes forum members look very friendly to new users.

As a "new" member, I agree with this.
If taking away the post count would discourage your current members not to bother with welcoming new members, it would not be a smart move to disable it.

[hamheyelliot]

I like to think we're all a friendly enough bunch to welcome new members without incentive, but I don't think there's much harm in a number going up by one for doing it. I didn't even know post count was enabled in there until now.

[Lee]

As a "new" member, I agree with this.
If taking away the post count would discourage your current members not to bother with welcoming new members, it would not be a smart move to disable it.

This says it all for me!

[xxMATTGxx]

I think everyone has said the reasons that are normally said when this has been brought up in the past. The reason it was never disabled is to make sure members do actually welcome others to the forum and so on. I think if someone new makes a thread in there then it's always good to get replies saying welcome blah blah and so on. I know it may get a bit repetitive but a nice warm welcome is a lot better than 0 replies at all. The post count you get in there is like a bonus and a win win for everyone at the end of the day.

I've just looked in that forum and I can see that you have decided to reply to every welcome thread on the first page. It seems you are trying to make a point out of it all with post count being on. I find it silly when users go into a forum and post to every single thread that is there in terms of the first page because to me that is clear that they are just posting it for post count.

[Samantha]

Btw on post count, why isn't in enabled in cool rooms? Also post count in welcome forums are ok if they're not abused.

[Grig]

I think everyone has said the reasons that are normally said when this has been brought up in the past. The reason it was never disabled is to make sure members do actually welcome others to the forum and so on. I think if someone new makes a thread in there then it's always good to get replies saying welcome blah blah and so on. I know it may get a bit repetitive but a nice warm welcome is a lot better than 0 replies at all. The post count you get in there is like a bonus and a win win for everyone at the end of the day.

I've just looked in that forum and I can see that you have decided to reply to every welcome thread on the first page. It seems you are trying to make a point out of it all with post count being on. I find it silly when users go into a forum and post to every single thread that is there in terms of the first page because to me that is clear that they are just posting it for post count.

In which case if its that obvious, they should be warned etc.

[xxMATTGxx]

Btw on post count, why isn't in enabled in cool rooms? Also post count in welcome forums are ok if they're not abused.

Post count is enabled in "Cool Rooms".

In which case if its that obvious, they should be warned etc.

Pretty sure there's stuff in place already to deal with such users.