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Bring back Post Counts?
- Thread starter webbyson
- Start date
Leekbrookgull
Well-known member
Harmless bit of fun,so lets keep them. 
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
rest assured they are being recorded somewhere
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Pretty pink fairy
Banned
- Jan 30, 2008
- 31,981
post counts are for ego trippers and wannabees 
HseagullsH
NSC's tipster
Harmless bit of fun,so lets keep them.
Agreed. I didn't have many posts but it wasn't necessary to remove them.
steward 433
Back and better
Scoffers
Well-known member
the post counts are largely pointless except when someone with 1 post makes a bold statement about something (like a rumour), we usually ignore it
Too intelectual for me, expecially with this new 10 character minimum.
steward 433
Back and better
To be fair i had to get used to putting all the full stops at the end
That is about the only thing i get right on this board.
steward 433
Back and better
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
I fail to see what harm the post count was doing. I know some said it was used to bully or boast but I can't actually remember seeing any of that. And if anyone tried, would you actually take any notice of them? You'd have to be pretty sad to IMO.
You'd also have to be pretty sad to be offended by them sufficiently to want them removed as far as I am concerned. This smacks of Big Brother (as in Orwell*, not the stupid tv program for those who aren't sure).
As ww said, it was extremely useful in the case of newbies posting unfounded rumours.
*He wrote stuff.
You'd also have to be pretty sad to be offended by them sufficiently to want them removed as far as I am concerned. This smacks of Big Brother (as in Orwell*, not the stupid tv program for those who aren't sure).
As ww said, it was extremely useful in the case of newbies posting unfounded rumours.
*He wrote stuff.
steward 433
Back and better
But any existing user could create a second account and post as a newbie anyway
I had quite a harsh post count but like you i liked to post on the word association thread
(btw have you retired on that now?)
severnside gull
Well-known member
"consensus" seems to have been 4 or 5 posters out of how many registered?
action (within a few hours) seems just a touch precipitate and any conspiracy theorist worth their salt would look at the names of those who suggested the idea and suggest that it was perhaps pre-determined ?
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
Bring em back
steward 433
Back and better
Why though?
footychick
Nicola
They don't make any difference to me. Though I like to see mine.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Bit like my bogeys.
Robot Chicken
Seriously?
Something is missing. Every other forum I've visited has the post count. It's just how it should be. It just goes towards the overall experience. You can guage immediately who is new and who is an old hand.
If you do a search on Google for post count (as I just did), you will find almost 9½ million results, suggesting it is a fairly popular topic of conversation.
Why meddle with NSC, why remove the capability of posting more than 2 pictures, why increase the length of the minimum post.
Shame, really. It was fine how it was.