View Full Version : post count for lounge
lamontbond
08-22-2004, 10:31 AM
Just a suggestion, maybe there should be separate post counts for the lounge type forums and the deal forums. My post count is very small but i try to stick to deals when i post. I would like to know whether someone has a lot of posts in the deals section rather than in political debates because it gives me a better sense of security in the deal when someone like oni and anjunsr posts rather than some political lunatic.
IAMSLICK
08-22-2004, 01:41 PM
I agree. Or even if you could click on someone's user ID, then click "find all posts" for that user, if it would show a summary at the top of where all the posts are by forum.
cperry
08-22-2004, 01:46 PM
why does it matter how many posts you have? It doesnt prove anything...not gonna happen
lamontbond
08-22-2004, 01:54 PM
why does it matter how many posts you have? It doesnt prove anything...not gonna happen
well the admin thought it important enough to put the post count into every post next to every single user name. So now it is just a matter of separating out the deal posts from everything else. Personally i think there should only be a post count for anything in the deal section and none for posts in the lounge
consumertalks
08-22-2004, 02:50 PM
Just a suggestion, maybe there should be separate post counts for the lounge type forums and the deal forums. My post count is very small but i try to stick to deals when i post. I would like to know whether someone has a lot of posts in the deals section rather than in political debates because it gives me a better sense of security in the deal when someone like oni and anjunsr posts rather than some political lunatic.
I posted alot in the deal forums before I even found the lounge. If the deal's legit, who cares who posted it? Oni can post a price mistake that gets cancelled just as easily as a guy who registered yesterday. A deal's a deal!
Aluvus
08-22-2004, 10:31 PM
I rather like this idea, actually. I don't know how implementable it is, but there is a logic in it. I do know a lot of people (myself included) have a lot of Lounge posts driving up their post count.
The significnace of all this, naturally, is limited by the significance of the post count itself. And opinions vary broadly on that.
slickdeals
08-23-2004, 04:22 AM
Changing the rules for the post count at this point would be unfair. I could bring back the reputation points without the negative comments and points.
cperry
08-23-2004, 04:29 AM
Changing the rules for the post count at this point would be unfair. I could bring back the reputation points without the negative comments and points.
I dont think alot of people were big fans of the reputation points. It kinda made me feel like it turned to hotornot.com bc thats what your rating seemed to depend on. I think the forum is going good right now and with the new forum and the new warning system I say there is enough change right now and things are left as is. Oh and Mr.SD, turned out it must be something with the routing of my primary DNS, I switched to my seconday and it works fine now. Probably something on AT&T's servers. Thanks for you help in it! :woot:
Rabid
08-23-2004, 07:35 AM
Rabid thinks that the post count should be eliminated all together.
oni_forever
08-23-2004, 08:42 AM
Rabid thinks that the post count should be eliminated all together.
you are just jealous coz my post count ish 10 times more than you :p
Clark Howard Jr
08-28-2004, 12:55 PM
Changing the rules for the post count at this point would be unfair. I could bring back the reputation points without the negative comments and points.
Can you explain what that was?
Rabid
08-28-2004, 07:11 PM
you are just jealous coz my post count ish 10 times more than you :p
:sadwalk:
benjiem1
08-28-2004, 08:44 PM
Just a suggestion, maybe there should be separate post counts for the lounge type forums and the deal forums. My post count is very small but i try to stick to deals when i post. I would like to know whether someone has a lot of posts in the deals section rather than in political debates because it gives me a better sense of security in the deal when someone like oni and anjunsr posts rather than some political lunatic.
The problem with this is the idea that you find security in a deal by the number of posts a person has. Some of the best deals I've ever gotten in on were from people with less than 10 posts - the ones who don't say a word unless thay have a simply incredible deal to post. I think in this case, it's not the boards that need to be changed, but your method of evaluating them.
yeswarchief
08-28-2004, 10:28 PM
Just a suggestion, maybe there should be separate post counts for the lounge type forums and the deal forums. My post count is very small but i try to stick to deals when i post. I would like to know whether someone has a lot of posts in the deals section rather than in political debates because it gives me a better sense of security in the deal when someone like oni and anjunsr posts rather than some political lunatic.
I don't understand. Why would you base an opinion of a deal on a number of posts made on a forum?
If you have any concerns about a deal, then you may voice them by posting in the thread. Other tools to use are merchant ratings as well as experiences related by fellow forum users. If there are people who measure a deal's worthiness by merely checking the original poster's postcount, then there is a fundamental flaw in their thinking.
I don't understand. Why would you base an opinion of a deal on a number of posts made on a forum?
If you have any concerns about a deal, then you may voice them by posting in the thread. Other tools to use are merchant ratings as well as experiences related by fellow forum users. If there are people who measure a deal's worthiness by merely checking the original poster's postcount, then there is a fundamental flaw in their thinking.
As is often the case, I agree with YWC. I probably have most of my posts in the Lounge and a smaller portion of them in the Deals sections, but I'm not sure what that means...
Fundamentally, you either care about posts, or you don't. If you care about posts.. (numbers) feel free to post in the lounge. If you don't care then what's the big deal?
benjiem1
08-28-2004, 10:46 PM
I don't understand. Why would you base an opinion of a deal on a number of posts made on a forum?
If you have any concerns about a deal, then you may voice them by posting in the thread. Other tools to use are merchant ratings as well as experiences related by fellow forum users. If there are people who measure a deal's worthiness by merely checking the original poster's postcount, then there is a fundamental flaw in their thinking.
You quoted me instead of the OP, so I'm just making sure you know - we agree. We said the same thing. For clarity for those who are reading and get confused.
yeswarchief
08-28-2004, 10:51 PM
You quoted me instead of the OP, so I'm just making sure you know - we agree. We said the same thing. For clarity for those who are reading and get confused.
I fixed it. I hope it prevents any outbreaks of confusion. :')
slickdeals
08-29-2004, 05:32 AM
Can you explain what that was?
It's a user rating system. If you like what a user has posted in the deal areas, you can give them a reputation point. If you don't like the post, you can ding them a point. I see it as a way of saying thank you for the post or vice versa. The problem with the system was that people were dinging others for no reason so if it was brought back, point deductions would not be allowed.