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#101 2012-02-15 19:18:43

CheeseMunchy
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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

fg123 wrote:

How come it's not by thousands...

That wouldn't lower the Spam as much. :>


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#102 2012-02-15 19:18:46

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

fg123 wrote:

How come it's not by thousands...

It should be, yeah.

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#103 2012-02-15 19:18:49

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

fg123 wrote:

How come it's not by thousands...

That wouldn't really help stop the forum spam, which was their main goal in changing the post counts in the first place.

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#104 2012-02-15 19:19:37

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

I think if they did anything different, it would be >10000. But that doesn't really matter.


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#105 2012-02-15 19:30:15

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

fg123 wrote:

How come it's not by thousands...

It's not incremented by thousands because that would encourage spamming. If it were incremented by thousands, there wouldn't be much point to this change.


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#106 2012-02-15 19:52:27

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

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I like this.  Come the moderator elections, there probably won't be as much emphasis by voters on post count  smile


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#107 2012-02-15 20:18:01

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

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#108 2012-02-15 20:21:22

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

kayybee wrote:

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

Over 9000 :>


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#109 2012-02-15 20:24:07

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

kayybee wrote:

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

I've found that anything over 1000 shows that a Scratcher has a lot of experience. There's really nothing more you need to know.

When we refer to the spam this stops, it's not just SEO spam ("Russian bridesmaids on sale! Get one free!") but also post-count boosting spam, which fueled a lot of what Miscellaneous came to be before it was, you know, gone.

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#110 2012-02-15 20:27:46

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

coolstuff wrote:

kayybee wrote:

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

I've found that anything over 1000 shows that a Scratcher has a lot of experience. There's really nothing more you need to know.

When we refer to the spam this stops, it's not just SEO spam ("Russian bridesmaids on sale! Get one free!") but also post-count boosting spam, which fueled a lot of what Miscellaneous came to be before it was, you know, gone.

Quite. And I've noticed it continue and bleed outside of off topic areas because of the removal of Misc, so this should hopefully make it better.  smile


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#111 2012-02-15 20:37:54

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

You won't remove the number in our profile settings, right?

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#112 2012-02-15 20:38:04

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

I don't really like this...  hmm

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#113 2012-02-15 20:48:45

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

Haiming wrote:

I don't really like this...  hmm

Can you explain what you don't like about this change?


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#114 2012-02-15 20:49:41

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

veggieman001 wrote:

kayybee wrote:

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

Over 9000 :>

*LOL* How did I not think of that?!!  smile

I think we should have an "It's over 9000!" mp3 that loops constantly on any thread where someone who has >9000 posts has a post. XD

It would be *so* *awesome*, aside from the fact that it would drive a massive spam tidal wave the likes of which we've never seen.  tongue

Someone should do that on another forum though..


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#115 2012-02-15 21:01:44

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

Lightnin wrote:

TRocket wrote:

Lightnin wrote:


Hmmm... Well, this raises an important question - is this a good criteria for becoming famous? It seems like making awesome projects would be a better one.  wink

well, some people like me are very active at helping scratchers on the forums but don't often post projects..

And that's a great thing! But I'm not sure if the post count really reflects being active and helpful very well...  Unfortunately, things like that are really hard to quantify, and represent. It'd be cool if we could show a *helpfulness* number, but I know of no good way to do that.

Have you seen the "Thanks" system on other forums? Whenever someone posts something helpful, someone can press a button that says "Thank user" (that is in the same area as the report button) that add to the users "Time thanked", right under the post count.


@Topic: I really think that this update is kinda useless, though. There really aren't that many people that spam to up their post count. At the least, you should add some more tiers like >2000, >5000, etc.  hmm


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#116 2012-02-15 21:17:21

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

BTW guys, if you want to see how many posts you have, simply go to Profile.  smile


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#117 2012-02-15 21:29:20

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

Lightnin wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

kayybee wrote:

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

Over 9000 :>

*LOL* How did I not think of that?!!  smile

I think we should have an "It's over 9000!" mp3 that loops constantly on any thread where someone who has >9000 posts has a post. XD

It would be *so* *awesome*, aside from the fact that it would drive a massive spam tidal wave the likes of which we've never seen.  tongue

Someone should do that on another forum though..

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That would be totally hilarious and bloody annoying at the same time.


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#118 2012-02-15 21:34:16

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

>1000 means smaller than 1000
remember it this way
the alligator (>) eats the bigger meal (the bigger number)

btw i thought this was a glitch when i first saw it

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#119 2012-02-15 21:39:05

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

GameHutSoftware wrote:

btw i thought this was a glitch when i first saw it

So did I.


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#120 2012-02-15 21:39:36

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

GameHutSoftware wrote:

>1000 means smaller than 1000
remember it this way
the alligator (>) eats the bigger meal (the bigger number)

btw i thought this was a glitch when i first saw it

No, it means larger
Say your post count is 5000

5000>1000, because as you said the alligator eats the bigger number (what a hog)

(The first person I saw with it was Harakou so I thought he had hacked it or something ^^')

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#121 2012-02-15 21:39:56

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

GameHutSoftware wrote:

>1000 means smaller than 1000
remember it this way
the alligator (>) eats the bigger meal (the bigger number)

btw i thought this was a glitch when i first saw it

The > symbolizes that there are more than 1,000 posts.


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#122 2012-02-15 21:40:06

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

GameHutSoftware wrote:

>1000 means smaller than 1000
remember it this way
the alligator (>) eats the bigger meal (the bigger number)

btw i thought this was a glitch when i first saw it

Me too, but I think you have it wrong. It's saying that (post count) > 1000. The alligator eats your post count, since it's bigger. I bet now you'll delete your post, because you were proven wrong  tongue  (or at least edit it)

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#123 2012-02-15 21:58:13

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

resiliency wrote:

GameHutSoftware wrote:

>1000 means smaller than 1000
remember it this way
the alligator (>) eats the bigger meal (the bigger number)

btw i thought this was a glitch when i first saw it

Me too, but I think you have it wrong. It's saying that (post count) > 1000. The alligator eats your post count, since it's bigger. I bet now you'll delete your post, because you were proven wrong  tongue  (or at least edit it)

^Yeah, that it.

"<" is read as "less than"
">" is read as "greater than"

It's often confusing notation, though, even I get confused sometimes. ^^;

fire219 wrote:

@Topic: I really think that this update is kinda useless, though. There really aren't that many people that spam to up their post count. At the least, you should add some more tiers like >2000, >5000, etc.

You'd be surprised how many people emphasize a lot of post count. It's almost like a game at some point when they say they have reached so-and-so post and then mention it in their posts (or when someone mentions a comment post number for someone else); there was even some fuss over who had the highest post count on the forums, too.

There's kind of no real point to having a post count other than as an indication of forum activity. A tiering system won't completely stop people putting emphasis on post count, but putting a tiering system in place should allow people to get a glimpse of how active a Scratcher is on the forums while placing less emphasis on the actual post count.

-> Speaking of which, those tiers are just ballpark numbers someone on the ST just came up with off the top of his head; the rest of the ST members and mods just happened to like those numbers at the time and thus came the decision to try it out. Just give it some time to see if it works before jumping to the conclusion to see if more tier numbers are needed.  tongue


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#124 2012-02-15 21:59:41

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

veggieman001 wrote:

kayybee wrote:

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

Over 9000 :>

Dude you ripped the words from my mouth.


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#125 2012-02-15 22:01:50

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Re: Forum post counts now shown in levels

CheeseMunchy wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

kayybee wrote:

I just noticed it...

anyways, the > signs makes it look weird. maybe "over 1000" or something?

and maybe a "over 5000" one too?

Over 9000 :>

Dude you ripped the words from my mouth.

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