Pointless posting

[Chris]

Yes because it applies to literally every thread and not just the "what is your" threads

True!

Can I get others opinions on this please?

[The Don]

Yeah so basically it was proved that Discuss Anything was an extra spam forum and was used only for boosting so they... brought it back

Why do people boost their post count though? Is there actually anything to be gained from it? If we enabled post counts in spam it would make them essentially meaningless anyway...

[Kardan]

So can someone tell me the difference between:

[Serious] Nigel Farage gives UKIP Weather Forecast

What a brilliant display by Mr. Farage - hopefully UKIP will gain more supporters because of this terrific piece

And...

[Not Serious] Nigel Farage gives UKIP Weather Forecase

LEL DAT FARAGE, HE SO FUNNY. DID U SEE HIS SOCKS HE WAS WEREING?

WHY DID FARAGE CROSS THE ROAD? TO DEPORT IMMIGRANTS.

Because that's how I see it at the moment.

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Why do people boost their post count though? Is there actually anything to be gained from it? If we enabled post counts in spam it would make them essentially meaningless anyway...

Some people like having high post count/tokens/whatever - which is pointless from the point of view for everyone else.

At the moment though, there is post 100 times in a week = free VIP until you don't post 100 times in a week scheme.

[Inseriousity.]

[inserious] please please please
lolol

Not a fan of the idea personally but mostly for what tom says about how it's a good solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Threads are just too specific tbh rather than about a general theme. "what is your favourite shade of red" for example would be a bad thread because there isn't really any room for it to develop into anything other than answering it. I don't want to be too snobby about all of these threads though because sometimes there can be.

[The Don]

So can someone tell me the difference between:

[Serious] Nigel Farage gives UKIP Weather Forecast




And...

[Not Serious] Nigel Farage gives UKIP Weather Forecase



Because that's how I see it at the moment.

An example of what would most likely be a serious thread is http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=794576 where the original poster wants the thread to remain specifically about that topic (the original post).

A thread without a serious tag would allow the conversation to move away from the original topic. Take this thread for example http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=794072, notice how the conversation died out because it was forced to remain around that topic? In a non serious thread someone could post "reminds me of this [busta rhymes video]" and then the discussion would progress as someone could perhaps comment "I'm not a fan of busta rhymes since most of his new stuff is etc..." even though the original post wasn't about busta rhymes but a different artist.

[Yawn]

i think this could all be solved if u just chillaxed a bit and look back at haydens post regarding pointless/off topic

[Kardan]

Would that not mean we could get this happening?

[Serious] Beyoncé's new song
[Not Serious] Beyoncé's new song

So we have two threads on the same topic. One you can ONLY talk about the new song, but in the other, you can talk about other things that Beyoncé has done.

[GommeInc]

Both aren't pointless as they're in reply to something (going back to phil and FlyingJesus' posts)... Did someone get finger happy dishing out the warnings?

Also one word answers to threads aren't pointless, they're just useless (or not particularly helpful or useful). Pointless literally has to be completely irrelevant, like shouting CHOCOLATE MILK in a discussion about cancer statistics are on the drop. Saying dinner in reply to what you just ate isn't particularly useful, as you're left asking what they had for dinner. Their point is clearly they had dinner as the last thing to eat.

Why do people boost their post count though? Is there actually anything to be gained from it? If we enabled post counts in spam it would make them essentially meaningless anyway...

Post counts are incredibly useless anyway, so agreed with this. Spam often has good topics in which for some reason are posted there rather than in the forum. Rep is a bit useless too. No one brags about their post counts or rep, and if they do they deserved to be laughed at.

[FlyingJesus]

Why do people boost their post count though? Is there actually anything to be gained from it? If we enabled post counts in spam it would make them essentially meaningless anyway...

Yeah you get awards and free VIP and MOTM and all sorts. Then again Hx seems to enjoy rewarding people for bad things like Martin getting 3 awards last night for preying on kids. Def wouldn't suggest a post count in Spam that would not be useful to anyone

[GommeInc]

Yeah you get awards and free VIP and MOTM and all sorts. Then again Hx seems to enjoy rewarding people for bad things like Martin getting 3 awards last night for preying on kids. Def wouldn't suggest a post count in Spam that would not be useful to anyone

What?