general discussion shouldn't count to post count IMO

I think the forum would be improved if posts in General Discussion did not count towards a user's post count.

Bit-tech is a techy site and when someone new comes to the site and sees someone with loads of posts, they may assume that this person really knows their stuff and contributes a lot, but instead that may not be the case 'cause it's just 'spam' in general discussion.

This way it will encourage people to contribute more in the forums that matter and spam less in GD.

 

Good point, and it has been considered (not least vocally by me).

However, whilst the techies make up the 'meat' of bit-tech forums, the 'two veg' members are very active in GD and I don't think it's really fair to have their post counts suffer due to that.

Hopefully new people shouldn't go by post counts anyway, they're hideously misleading.

 

Me being a perfect example of that.

If you do go through with it, then it would probably exclude people who aren't here for the computer/modding aspect but here for the community.

 

I very rarely post outside the 'general' section of the forum.

I prefer to read the other sections, post occasionally when I have a question and learn what I can from others' posts.

Likewise you could say that the endless stream of 'That's cool!' type posts in Project Logs shouldn't count toward post counts.

But post counts mean nothing. Except mine. Mine means that I have a bigger willy than you. Yes...You.

*n

 

I don't think that should happen.

Fair enough there are some people who post mainly in GD, so you could say that they don't contribute a lot towards true modding related stuff, but they are in fact contributing a lot towards the community as a whole, and that's just as - if not slightly more important.

Just my opinion.

 

I've already mentioned that before.

It was just an idea. Not really too bothered.

 

also people (again like me) who have contributed their fair share to modding and hardware forums only stop by every so often. I tend to just to look at the GD and gaming forum and thats about it.

 

I can see the appeal of this, as I've never understood the big deal about post counts, but like kna says, people should never go on post counts alone. It's not exactly hard to spot a mod around here now is it!

How about a Karma style system like they have over at the Gideon-Tech forums? You get added Karma points when you post helpful things and have Karma points taken away if you spam, etc...

 

Karma points, that sounds cool. We could rename it to Kudos points to maintain the bit ethos.

 

Kudos to Hex for the suggestion

 

I like the sound of that. Might be a bit of extra work to give every single post a rating though.

 

Well, I found this today:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34882

I haven't actually read the whole thing yet, but it's kind of the thing I was talking about.

 

Nice find! I wonder how many VBulletin sites will be using this...


Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Kamelion!

 

It's on our to-do list. It'll be our own mod/hack though, and will be fully integrated with the main bit-tech website.

 

Sounds like a good idea. If GD posts didn't increment post count it wouldn't stop me spamming any less. This karma thing might do though . But what happens if people go around bad karmarising every post they see? Or unfairly giving certain people good/bad karma. I'm not sure if it would work well or not...

Edit: Nevermind, I read that thread on the vBullitin forum saying that only mods can add/deduct karma.

 

So will you mods be going back to all the old threads and giving people the 'karma' for them, or will everyone be starting from scratch?