Gained a Rank!!

douglas · #1 November 7th, 2005, 06:48 PM

I just now noticed, I became a Captain recently. Yay!

kerensky · #2 November 7th, 2005, 08:01 PM

So i only need like, 85 more posts to advance to the next level...........

douglas · #3 November 7th, 2005, 08:18 PM

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kerensky said:
So i only need like, 85 more posts to advance to the next level...........

84 now, actually.

Post padding? What post padding?

kerensky · #4 November 7th, 2005, 09:55 PM

I think now that it is 83 actually.....

And who would dare post pad????

Fyron · #5 November 7th, 2005, 09:58 PM

This is why post counts should not be shown on forums...

kerensky · #6 November 7th, 2005, 10:00 PM

Then where else would they be shown???

Hey look it's down to 82 left now!

Fyron · #7 November 7th, 2005, 10:58 PM

Erm... nowhere? Best to not even track them in the database...

Emperor's Child · #8 November 8th, 2005, 02:26 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
This is why post counts should not be shown on forums...

Exactly my thought... Forums with this shown tend to have a great deal of fluff but little meat. Why, we even have threads dedicated to running up your post count. Sheesh.

kerensky · #9 November 8th, 2005, 02:57 PM

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Emperor's Child said:

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Imperator Fyron said:
This is why post counts should not be shown on forums...

Exactly my thought... Forums with this shown tend to have a great deal of fluff but little meat. Why, we even have threads dedicated to running up your post count. Sheesh.

And while this may seem inherently bad, it is vital to the survival of an online forum. Forums feed on teh post count numbers and so therefore, the more post counts the healthier and stronger the forum. Post padding threads are really started by the forum in an effort to sustain itself.