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it's not post count, it's join date

event wrote:

but postcounts should be abolished anyway, they serve absolutely no purpose

I disagree, post counts and join dates can be very useful for mods. It makes spotting "phoenix accounts" easier and most of us go a bit easier on very new people because we figure that they don't know the rules yet.


Apart from that, post counts mean nothing in terms of you being a member of the community. You could have 50 posts and be considered to be a regular in some of the smaller forums here and have no visible presence on the site in general. Similarly you could have 5,000 posts and post in only a handful of forums and be an unknown when you post somewhere new. This happens occasionally on here when I see a post from someone with a couple of thousand posts who I've never seen before because they don't post in the forums I read. The amount you contribute and the quality of what you contribute in a forum is what makes you a member of the community in my opinion. The thing to remember is that while there is a big overarching community in terms of boards.ie there are loads of smaller communities nestled in individual forums or groups of them.

m83 wrote:

Boardsies 4 eva x x x

that's the smartest thing I've read all day:rolleyes:

Feb 1998 anything else is a newbie