Don't increase post count in Welcome forum

[-:Undertaker:-]

Hey Bob. Welcome to HabboxForum My name is Saurav. How are you? Where are you from? If you need any help, feel free to drop me a PM.

People who post in Welcome forum just for post count will start posting in REAL discussions to increase their post count, thus increasing the activity.

What is different to your post compared to the others, except that yours had more words in but means exactly the same thing as all the others do. Why is post count and where people choose to post such a big issue to you guys?

[FlyingJesus]

What would you like them to do then?

Well I'd quite like them to make good posts around the forum in general. Geraint has been a nuisance all his life and I've never seen Teknequez other than in welcome threads. Of those three I quoted Ross is the only one who makes decent contributions ever, and you'll see this is the case for many people in that area - generally they are the newer members themselves wanting to get their post count up. If there were no post counts in that area then they'd be posting across the rest of the forum, and if not then we've only lost a useless member anyway.

[StefanWolves]

Gah, this forum amazes me. Just at a time when we need members and more posts, people want to cut it out.

I think some people here need to wake up and smell the roses, HxF is going down, and quicker than you think.

[Hecktix]

Gah, this forum amazes me. Just at a time when we need members and more posts, people want to cut it out.

I think some people here need to wake up and smell the roses, HxF is going down, and quicker than you think.

But stopping people from posting in the welcome forum to purely get their post count up is MAKING them post in OTHER areas of the forum.

That is beneficial at a time like this :rolleyes:

I think you're telling the wrong people to wake up...

[-:Undertaker:-]

Well I'd quite like them to make good posts around the forum in general. Geraint has been a nuisance all his life and I've never seen Teknequez other than in welcome threads. Of those three I quoted Ross is the only one who makes decent contributions ever, and you'll see this is the case for many people in that area - generally they are the newer members themselves wanting to get their post count up. If there were no post counts in that area then they'd be posting across the rest of the forum, and if not then we've only lost a useless member anyway.

If you give people what they want; an easy way to get their post counts up, that means they are more likely to stay as future members, and would then (just as I did, and many others did) start posting in different areas with more detailed posts. If you take that away then there is more of a chance they will lose interest and any enthusiasm they had and will leave.

Gah, this forum amazes me. Just at a time when we need members and more posts, people want to cut it out.

I think some people here need to wake up and smell the roses, HxF is going down, and quicker than you think.

Thank you, some common sense from some of us at least.

But stopping people from posting in the welcome forum to purely get their post count up is MAKING them post in OTHER areas of the forum.

That is beneficial at a time like this :rolleyes:

I think you're telling the wrong people to wake up...

It is not 'MAKING' them do anything, because they will just leave. Nothing this forum tries to impose on members will 'MAKE' them post elsewhere, or 'MAKE' them stay on HabboxForum as opposed to another forum. This is what Habbox forgets, it seems to think, and still appears to think thats its position is cemented against other forums.

[The Professor]

It is not 'MAKING' them do anything, because they will just leave. Nothing this forum tries to impose on members will 'MAKE' them post elsewhere, or 'MAKE' them stay on HabboxForum as opposed to another forum. This is what Habbox forgets, it seems to think, and still appears to think thats its position is cemented against other forums.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that. If someone is just posting to get their post count up, there's no way in hell that taking that away from them is going to encourage them to start making meaningful posts elsewhere. They'll either just make short posts elsewhere or give up and go home. They're hardly going to be useful members either way, at least this way they ARE making themselves useful by making newbies feel welcomed.

[FlyingJesus]

There is a difference between activity and membership, just as there is a difference between lots of posts and good posts. You are truly a fool if you think that having a large number of useless posts which can't possibly lead to any discussion is better than having people post in areas of the forum better suited for real threads to evolve. Taking away post count in the welcome area is making people post elsewhere if they want to continue having a rising post count, and if they decide not to bother after all then (as I said before) their presence won't be missed.

[Axel]

It's amazing that people still care about their post count... really guys, grow the **** up.

This isn't directed at anyone in the thread by the way, just a general opinion.

[GommeInc]

Right... Apparently if you disable the post count it will discourage members from posting in the Welcome forums, and if you don't ALL members will flock to it? Righty O, I've heard weirder things but if you have nothing else to waste your time with :rolleyes:

*grabs coat, brolly, hat, thong and walks out of the pub*

Keeping it is hardly doing damage, and removing it won't really do anything. The achievement of gaining posts is silly nowadays, especially with the new ranking system.

[Black_Apalachi]

I don't post in there to increase my post count, on the contrary, I'll admit I rarely ever post in there at all although I should try to be more welcoming to new members.

I agree with Dan though, changing something like this is only going to have an adverse effect on the forum. Saying it will make people post else where is a poor argument because firstly, it won't make them do anything but if it did, I really don't want to see more pointless posts spread across the entire forum. For this reason, I am very surprised that both the forum manager and a super moderator are agreeing with the idea since they are the ones who have to deal with all the pointless posting. Creating more of it will just contribute to the never-ending complaints about how the forum is over-moderated.

The point someone made about post count being just that, a count of how many posts you have made, is also true. What's the point in displaying a post count if it only applies to selected forums? :S Spam is an exception because threads and posts in that section are not designed to contribute to the forum as such. However welcoming new members couldn't be a more important aspect of contributing to the forum.

Besides, this debate is only taking place because one member happened to raise the issue. It clearly isn't causing a problem and nobody has ever brought it up before so why on Earth should it suddenly be changed? Furthermore, I'm sure if you think for a while, you'll come up with plenty of sections in various corners of the forum that could also be brought into the argument which would really make it sound silly.