No Post Count in Forum games

[scottish]

That isn't possible to do with vbulletin, if there was a hack needed then they would possibly have to get it made which means money/time and it also means possible security risks.

[MissAlice]

Hey,
I think it wasn't a good thing to change the forum games forum.
You should be able to get post counts from there, even if the mis-use the threads. If they double post or break the rules, mod's take care of it. If they post pointless, SMOD's will take care of it.

Many people will stop posting in that forum now. Just checked the forum, and only 1 thread was created yet.

I think you should re-set it to normal forum games rules.

Do you agree with me?

Disagree!

Now if I left it at that, my post would be totally worthless and pointless, so why should a post like that count? It's not even contributing! I don't understand why you would stop posting in the games thread now, unless you only posted there before to increase post count?

I agree with the change, I don't think it's right that you can make several thousand posts in the games forum using just a few words that are for playing a game, and receive the perks of the higher ranks, and the benefits that come with them

Sadly that forum was abused, these are the consequences.

[FlyingJesus]

Theres always the welcome/leaving threads

Bets on for an increase of activity there now?

I'm still of the opinion that the post counts from the forum games should be removed. Most of the people who strongly disagree with that are the people whose post counts will go from 10,821 to 821.

The reason old post counts still remain is because old management had promised it and nvr didn't want to go back on that

If people stop posting now, it just goes to prove that they were only in it for the post count.

Exactly the point. No more needs to be said really

[nvrspk4]

Personally I don't mind too much if people don't use it that much any more. Its not like because there are no Forum Games, people will suddenly stop visiting. This means they will post in other places and make better contributions to the community with more meaningful posts. Especially since you get privileges for posts its not really fair on those who prefer to make quality posts, because the theory of the promotions system is the more you contribute to the forum the more you are rewarded. But with Forum Games, those who contributed more with more substantive posts were getting rewarded less than those who posted 10 times a minute in Forum Games (obviously I'm exaggerating a little bit there)

[scottish]

those who contributed more with more substantive posts were getting rewarded less than those who posted 10 times a minute in Forum Games (obviously I'm exaggerating a little bit there)

Only reason they didn't post 10 times a minute was because of the post limit so preventing them, otherwise it would be about 10 times a minute

[FlyingJesus]

This means they will post in other places and make better contributions to the community with more meaningful posts.

Either that or they'll just migrate to the welcoming threads haha, already seen a couple of the guys who had high post counts from forum games out there with a copy/paste looking kinda message. At least it's almost with a purpose there though I guess.

[scottish]

From the previous 20 welcomes to about 100 :rolleyes: It'll just be a simple scenario of;

NubWhoWantsHighPostCount "Hey welcome to the forum"
40otherpeoeplewhowanthighpostcount "Hey welcome to the forum"
Thenewperson "Thanks everyone"
41otherpeople "No problem enjoy!"
Thenewperson "Thanks i will "
41otherpeople "Remember, follow the rules! "

And so on in every thread

[GommeInc]

From the previous 20 welcomes to about 100 :rolleyes: It'll just be a simple scenario of;

NubWhoWantsHighPostCount "Hey welcome to the forum"
40otherpeoeplewhowanthighpostcount "Hey welcome to the forum"
Thenewperson "Thanks everyone"
41otherpeople "No problem enjoy!"
Thenewperson "Thanks i will "
41otherpeople "Remember, follow the rules! "

And so on in every thread

To be honest though, there's not alot you can say when welcoming someone so there's no way to solve that issue.

[[Jay]]

Well now you dont get post count of forum games should managment think about lowering the post to reach a rank...I mean you keep making it harder and harder for people to get higher ranks? I think its kinda unfair on those people who had achived high ranks and had to achive them again and now you make it even harder for them.

[Geraint]

They're user ranks. Who gives a ****?