posting challenge

[Kasabian]

TL;DR

The posting competition ends in 2 days, surely you can go 2 days without moaning about it?

[j0rd]

PWYLT has been barely tolerated for years due to historic (terrible reason to begin with) reasons and because a lot of people genuinely enjoy posting in that thread and discussing music - not fair to close the thread because a couple of people abuse it, the spamming that went on today was over the edge and completely tipped the balance of people abusing and people not abusing.

I cant grasp the concept of people not knowing it was going to be abused during a posting competition, I 100% expected it, and i'm pretty sure quite a lot of other people did too.
If it is abused in typical normal days, it was pretty obvious that it was going to be abused during a posting competition, if you didn't see it coming you must either be delusional or completely ******ed.

[Catchy]

To be honest, I haven't really looked at the forum much today. The competition really put me off, sure I joined the group but have been posting just as I usually would.

Every time I've looked at it today I've just seen pointless threads as @bethany; said, it is possible to get post count without making posts/threads which are complete garbage. I try to go into as much depth as possible when replying to a thread simply because I don't like just posting for the sake of it.

And why the hell aren't beths tags working? That's twice its happend to me today! rage!!!11

[Chippiewill]

The posting competition ends in 2 days, surely you can go 2 days without moaning about it?

Hypothetically if I did not complain then next time round the competition would run the same - if you do not complain then you cannot later expect improvement.

But not only that I'm also now having to explain the same points I explained on the previous page because someone decided not to read them.

I cant grasp the concept of people not knowing it was going to be abused during a posting competition, I 100% expected it, and i'm pretty sure quite a lot of other people did too.
If it is abused in typical normal days, it was pretty obvious that it was going to be abused during a posting competition, if you didn't see it coming you must either be delusional or completely ******ed.

I fully expected it to be abused, and I suspect scott knew so too, what nobody was certain about was how far it would escalate and there's no point in running the competition if it's going to disrupt the regular users (Which it has - but that's another issue entirely) so if they have to pre-emptively lock threads then that's not fair on them. And credit where it's due they took the correct strategy in seeing what would come of PWYLT.

[buttons]

To be honest, I haven't really looked at the forum much today. The competition really put me off, sure I joined the group but have been posting just as I usually would.

Every time I've looked at it today I've just seen pointless threads as @bethany; said, it is possible to get post count without making posts/threads which are complete garbage. I try to go into as much depth as possible when replying to a thread simply because I don't like just posting for the sake of it.

And why the hell aren't beths tags working? That's twice its happend to me today! rage!!!11

i look through new posts then go to spam/discuss anything/health life etc before checking anything else. i looked through those that i missed in the past 2 days then saw this thread about a posting challenge and i was put off by it too because that'd mean i'd have to catch up on all the pointless posting already done..

i know what you mean by going into depth as much as possible when replying to a thread instead of posting for the sake of it or to get post count up. usually i will only post in a thread if it interests me and will only post once otherwise i'll get the dreaded "please don't pointless post". i have over 1,000 of my posts from the "what are you listening to?" threads where i posted in the past because i was bored and there was no activity, i would more than happily take all of those posts off my current post count.

however, i've forced myself to post in more threads since this competition started because i like competition and rewards. i've ended up pointlessly posting even though i'm active and usually within the top posters every day/week/month anyway, if there are so much people higher than me and I'M posting more than usual then it goes to show how pointless these posts have been.

what about the people who post to contribute to the forum or make valid arguments/points? nothing. reputation means nothing anymore as no-one uses it or it's used for giving to friends... it's like you only get rewards if you're staff or new :S what was the purpose of this competition? activity? rewarding people?

[shiver]

we are being trolled
chippiewill is using this thread to make many posts n get ALL THE PRIZES

[Cerys]

Yeah, it's a good idea, but some people are spamming/making pointless threads, as said above.

I love the way we all get a chance to win, though! Hopefully more competitions like this in the future.

[Samantha]

One idea was that they did a posting competition but didn't tell you when like thishabbo did I thought that would have.been better but i like the different prizea

[:odey:]

One idea was that they did a posting competition but didn't tell you when like thishabbo did I thought that would have.been better but i like the different prizea

That probably wouldn't have a very good effect at all though,

Knowing about has definitely introduced some more people to post, and hopefully they'll continue to after they've won themselves some vip?

[Chris]

All threads which contain small 1-2 worded answers have been closed, including the stuck threads in the music and tv forums. Post count may be lost from these threads depending on what management decide to do with them.