Spam Post Count

[Aidenn]

It would discourage proper threads whilst encouraging a lot of pointless threads in my opinion. I know that there is quite a bit of good discussion that often happens in spam. However along with that there is also an absolute ton of pointless threads and posting.

I wouldnt say they are all pointless threads, i see what you mean regarding encouraging, but spam is really just a place for general chit-chat and from what i can see thats all its used for.

[AgnesIO]

It would discourage proper threads whilst encouraging a lot of pointless threads in my opinion. I know that there is quite a bit of good discussion that often happens in spam. However along with that there is also an absolute ton of pointless threads and posting.

I don't think it would encourage it. Ignoring the Discuss Anything forum (which as virtually everyone knows, I said should have no post count a long time ago, due to the pointless threads - which did calm down once certain users had been permanently banned (), the majority of the forum has good posts almost all the time - despite people being able to get post count

Right fair enough I shouldn't of insulted marketing I just got heated my opinion still stands though. I got pissy because I post my opinion and people try prove me wrong, an opinion is an opinion it doesn't always have to end with a battle. I don't agree with it but I'll apologise like a real man.

I appreciate your apology, and would like to make it clear I wasn't trying to 'prove you wrong' - I was trying to say why it was a good idea (which tends to happen in Feedback!)

[Eoin247]

I wouldnt say they are all pointless threads, i see what you mean regarding encouraging, but spam is really just a place for general chit-chat and from what i can see thats all its used for.

I know . That's why i said :

"I know that there is quite a bit of good discussion that often happens in spam.".

in my last post

I don't think it would encourage it. Ignoring the Discuss Anything forum (which as virtually everyone knows, I said should have no post count a long time ago, due to the pointless threads - which did calm down once certain users had been permanently banned (), the majority of the forum has good posts almost all the time - despite people being able to get post count

Yes, but i think that people would make pointless threads in spam to get this new count up as they would be able to get away with it . Unless there's going to be a stricter way of moderating the spam section to prevent this. Also i think that spam posting would raise whilst reducing normal forum posting. That's just my opinion though, i don't really know how it might actualy pan out.

[AgnesIO]

Yes, but i think that people would make pointless threads in spam to get this new count up as they would be able to get away with it . Unless there's going to be a stricter way of moderating the spam section to prevent this. Also i think that spam posting would raise whilst reducing normal forum posting. That's just my opinion though, i don't really know how it might actualy pan out.

in reply to stricter stuff.. nonononononono

The post count is only a bit of fun, and would be more for the users who post in spam regularly already. I doubt those of us (saying us, I know I am not a big spam poster, but I do post a relative amount of stuff in there) would care if a new member occasionally posts to tell us they like HxHD, as I still think a new member would prefer to get a post count around the forum where they can get an award for posting a certain amount of times in their first month, have a shot at winning VIP for member of the money etc, rather than get a post count in Spam which is aimed at the longer standing users anyway.

Again though, like yours that is how I see it (and mean it to be), this would especially be the case if previous posts (which I hope they are) are included in this new post count. As that means new users to spam would have no reason to 'spam' spam as the whole 'haha I have a higher post count than someone from 2005 has' wouldn't be applicable.

Then again, it could turn out like this - but from the views of the people who use spam the most (the majority of people, obviously some may disagree but this is the case with everything), it seems like a popular idea. We shall, hopefully, see

[Kyle]

I think that if a group of members have already established themselves as the top spam posters then new users will find it far too difficult to catch up and so most of the time won't bother posting obscene amounts of spammy threads. If the spam section was new and nobody had posted in it before then I would understand some of your concerns but, well... it isn't.

[MizzBex]

i think it's a good idea x

[Stephen]

I think that if a group of members have already established themselves as the top spam posters then new users will find it far too difficult to catch up and so most of the time won't bother posting obscene amounts of spammy threads. If the spam section was new and nobody had posted in it before then I would understand some of your concerns but, well... it isn't.

yeah I agree.

Plus all the people who will have 15k+ posts in spam have earned it over the years without spamming the **** out of the forum. Anyone new who decided to do it wouldn't exactly be wowed at or even liked, just classed as a pointless spammer

[The Don]

I'm talking about people who currently have tones of posts will be arse licked by new members. Either way it'll be ****e 'cause spam really will be spam. I don't really give a **** though I'm just giving my opinion, it's going to turn into spam central, literally.

Things that are bleeding ****e about this forum is people make threads asking for silly things that are totally unnecessary to be implemented when everything is perfectly fine how it is.

Like you asking for the N word to be allowed.

[Richie]

Like you asking for the N word to be allowed.

I didn't post that in feedback I posted it in spam and to be allowed in videos that don't mean the word in an offensive way.

[nvrspk4]

I disagree. There was a reason spam was created without a post count, while creating a separate post count certainly doesn't affect the normal post count and thus avoids the issue of content-less posts raising your main post count, I still think the same principle holds. Management decided not to count up spam posts for a reason, even if it is done by a separate count I think many of the original reasons still stand.

Just for fun maybe they could be posted once a year or something, though I feel like the methods of counting uncounted posts would be very weird (and would they be able to specify to just one forum, or would it include all uncounted post, including those in the unacceptable posts forums, staff forums, and the archives?)

yeah I agree.

Plus all the people who will have 15k+ posts in spam have earned it over the years without spamming the **** out of the forum. Anyone new who decided to do it wouldn't exactly be wowed at or even liked, just classed as a pointless spammer

So creating spam post counts will reinforce the eliteness of the spam forum? I know that's not what you meant but I think that's what might happen.