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Tranq
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2007

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Actually that threads ironic, think I gotta be more direct. Not that I just wanted my name scrubbed from the top 25. Meaning that number 26 and onward could take my place as everyone below me would move up 1.
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11-May-2022 14:44:34

DrauDaedolon
Aug Member 2006

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Rooh said :
It's a nice idea, I'm all for anything that encourages forum use, but... it could encourage spam, people just posting a couple of word here and there for "post count".

Agreed. Quality matters, not quantity.

11-May-2022 17:36:11 - Last edited on 11-May-2022 17:36:30 by DrauDaedolon

Thunder Jinx
Feb Member 2010

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Rooh said :
There's an unofficial one here:
Top 25 players with most posts .

It's a nice idea, I'm all for anything that encourages forum use, but... it could encourage spam, people just posting a couple of word here and there for "post count".
Having a post count at all encourages spamming.
I've seen several people post threads to celebrate their 10,000th post and what not.

Would be better to remove post count altogether.
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13-May-2022 09:57:28

Spearmint30
Apr Member 2012

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A post count is just an incremental counter of how many times someone has clicked the "Post" button. It is not meaningful in any other way as quality is always preferred over quantity. A better metric would be a score of how useful a person's posts were to whoever read it, however such score could be subject to prejudice (such as voting a post as unhelpful in spite/dislike of the person or even the other way around).

I'd support an opt-out option, allowing players to hide their post count and profile if they wish. Long ago, we could only see our own post counts and profiles.

Viewing post count as a "score" or "achievement" does seem to lead to controversy and nit-picking where and how people have posted to achieve such count, which to me is not the best approach for the general health of the community. For example, the Forum Games forum is intended to be a casual, non-serious place to have a little fun - but when it comes to post counts, that forum and its participants seem to be considered as spammers/post count farmers. That ideology is a bit of a morale killer, as someone who does occasionally post in that forum and also someone who doesn't care what my post counter says.

My post count says nothing about how helpful I try to be when I post elsewhere, nor how useful anything I've posted elsewhere was to anybody else.
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13-May-2022 22:33:56 - Last edited on 13-May-2022 22:34:50 by Spearmint30

97
Nov Member 2017

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Thunder Jinx said :
Rooh said :
There's an unofficial one here:
Top 25 players with most posts .

It's a nice idea, I'm all for anything that encourages forum use, but... it could encourage spam, people just posting a couple of word here and there for "post count".
Having a post count at all encourages spamming.
I've seen several people post threads to celebrate their 10,000th post and what not.

Would be better to remove post count altogether.
I will have to do this when I hit 20k post haha 19 Year RS Veteran|OSRS Player
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26-May-2022 23:49:43 - Last edited on 26-May-2022 23:50:10 by 97

Jeremy Cheng
Aug Member 2013

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97 said :
Wonder has the idea of a public highscore for post count ever been suggested or brought up? Would be really cool to see all public top posters.
This feature could be added to the highscores. As highscores are public, your rank on the forum highscores should never be private. It would be a single addition to the buttom of someone's hiscore, anything to increase forum traffic is welcome. I don't participate in forum games thus I don't ever get post count from there.

27-May-2022 09:18:27

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