Chip E
Screenwriter
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Good idea removing post counts. I'm all for it.
Chip Engle
Posts: 28,541
Chip Engle
Posts: 28,541
That bothers you but 35 tournament threads in Polls doesn't?Give it a rest already! I don't know if you noticed, but since the removal of the post count, the tournaments haven't lost steam one bit. How disappointing! N'est-ce pas? What will be the next excuse now?
Give it a rest already!Steeeve my post was truncated to protect the innocent, originally it was a 200 word treatise called "Tournaments - Form and Function" but was felt by the higher ups as a bit too blunt and could be misinterpreted as hostile so it was reduced to one lowly harmless sentence, sadly.
I guess I'm in the minority that miss the post counts. They were a quick, albeit imperfect, way to gauge the experience of the member. For example, I think there is some value in seeing that Mike Knapp has 5,000+ posts; it gives instant recogniton that this is a person who has contributed a lot to the community.[q/uote]
There is some serious dishonesty going on in this thread, and it is from those claiming that they never look at post counts, or that post counts make no difference. They are the same who like all classic movies, the same who claim that they always prefer personality over body, the same who claim that size doesn't matter
Anyway, you get the point. I Brian said, I look at posts counts as a gauge of experience. Sure, it means that some people just post a lot... and say little, but you learn to identify those pretty quickly. I agree that duration of membership is more important.
I guess it is the whole denial of the subtle hierarchy that exists in all communities such as this one that is guetting to me.
Like it or not, consciously or otherwise, a post authored by someone with 4000 posts carries more weigth than the same one by a member with 400 posts. Perhaps it shouldn't be that way, but it is.
Simple question: if no one cared about post counts, why would it be an issue? The very fact that this measure was taken proves my point.
It's good that they are gone, it levels things up.
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