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climbingcowboy
Oct 31, 2002, 6:46 AM
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Andy:
if the count isnt to reflect a knowledgeable user who regualry particapates at this site to look at for correct answers then what good is it i just dont get it?
just because you take away the community posts counting what have you done? how will these post counts help me?
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andy_lemon
Oct 31, 2002, 6:50 AM
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To reflect toward your "site contributions". You don't have to be a knowledgeable Big Wall climber to be giving beta on your local choss pile. The "total posts" should reflect on the amount of beta you are giving... not who is more knowledgable, just who is giving more. The community forum destracts from this.
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goodcanuck
Oct 31, 2002, 6:54 AM
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Actually,
the site I also go to is www.pcmech.com, in their ID info, under your name and where you are from. They also have the month and year that you joined.
I havn't bothered with it for a while, but, you can see what I mean...very well done...and you can decide if you want email notices to your replies to a topic, not just if you create a thread.
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andy_lemon
Oct 31, 2002, 6:56 AM
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What? We have that too eh? look at your profile, Month/Year/Day.
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climbingcowboy
Oct 31, 2002, 7:00 AM
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i dont mean to piss anyone off please dont take my posts that way they are honest questions.
when i first joined this site i thought this guy must be smart and climb alot because hes a "offical addict"and has 5000000 posts, or this guy must be new because hes only a "belayr" but i quickly came to find out this wasnt the case, that shot down my whole idea of how great these titles and post counts were.
Geoff
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goodcanuck
Oct 31, 2002, 7:04 AM
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Andy,
They arn't on the direct left of your posts. Where your userid and location is. That's all.
It just makes it easier for people to know how long you've been involved. This way I don't have to look up your profile to see how long you've been here. (especially since I just look up the girls to see their profile pics )
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jhwnewengland
Oct 31, 2002, 7:08 AM
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Andy, this actually isn't a debate about not having community posts count toward total posts... that's just one suggestion. The overall question was how to deal with all the irrelevant posts that are on the front page, and therefore not in community where they belong. You're turning it into a debate about that, but other ideas should be heard too.
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roughster
Oct 31, 2002, 7:10 AM
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I just went through and cleaned up the General Board. I will start keeping a closer eye on the content inside the posts and weed out the posts/users that refuse to abid by the established policies.
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jhwnewengland
Oct 31, 2002, 7:17 AM
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Oh, you beat me too it.
Lookie here
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climbingcowboy
Oct 31, 2002, 7:23 AM
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thanks roughster thats all that needs to be done, and if a certain person is persistant then pm him. way to step in and handle it.
your right Jan i got a little off topic to, its not about post count its about people that are our mods having the time to take care of people that dont read the descriotion or just dont care.
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nikegirl
Oct 31, 2002, 7:37 AM
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Good work all!
This is a team, eh?
I love this family/community
*really I do*
keep it up !!!
workin together*
T
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jules
Oct 31, 2002, 4:28 PM
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If the main reason for keeping the post count seems to be to give us an idea of how long a person's been around, why not replace post count with join date on the forums, and not keep track of post count?
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andy_lemon
Oct 31, 2002, 4:35 PM
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Juliana: I don't know where anybody ever got the idea that the reason we have a post count on this site was to keep track of peoples "knowledge" or "how long they have been here". Why would we need this? It says on all of our freakin profiles when we joined.
The total post count is for fun. ok people! Instead of creating reasons that we have the total post count lets concider it a "fun tool". More of a previlage. Why did I use the word previlage? Because if we ALL don't come to a conclusion on people in the community forum driving up their post count then none of us will ever see it again.
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tim
Oct 31, 2002, 4:37 PM
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hmm, post count appears to have resurfaced.
I like Juliana's idea, ''member since MM-DD-YYYY'' like American Express. Hmmm.
Anyone oppose this?
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eric
Oct 31, 2002, 6:31 PM
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How about de-emphasizing post count (and the associated "rank") by moving it to the profile and only displaying "member since..." under the person's handle in posts?
I mean, it is kinda interesting to know. It just shouldn't be displayed so prominently, imho.
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jt512
Oct 31, 2002, 7:27 PM
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Why do we have post counts at all?
-Jay
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jt512
Oct 31, 2002, 7:43 PM
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They reward people for posting multiple worthless messages.
-Jay
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jt512
Oct 31, 2002, 7:44 PM
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We should eliminate post counts altogether.
-Jay
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jt512
Oct 31, 2002, 7:45 PM
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Until we do, stuff like this will keep going on.
-Jay
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jules
Oct 31, 2002, 8:14 PM
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Post count only in profiles-- I like that.
I think that the titles to go with posts (although fun) only make it worse...
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jds100
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I agree that if we "need" to have post counts, then restrict 'em to the profiles, and ABSOLUTELY don't count Community Forum posts toward that total. There's no point to the contrivance of "rewarding" for contributing posts.
People used to come here for quality discussion. They will still do that without getting a "reward" for posting. The only "loss" to RC.com will be the visitors who come just to acquire points, or a higher status label, etc. If there is no reward for such behavior, then the behavior will eventually stop. Good quality discussion is its own reward.
So, let's get back to a higher quality climbing oriented website.
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lox
Oct 31, 2002, 8:59 PM
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Why don't y'all just step off your high horses for a moment and realize that the internet is INTERTAINMENT.
Some of us find the stuck up "lets get back to high quality, serious climbing posts" a lot more offensive than 14 year olds upping their post count by "hanging out" in the Community Forum.
SHEESH !!@!!1
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rck_climber
Oct 31, 2002, 9:21 PM
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Good point Headcrak, it's all to easy to get caught up in the details of things.
However, having said that, I still agree with the rest of the replies here in that something does need to be done ~ aside from closer moderating. That's not a solution to the problem, it simply fixes each incident.
Personally, I agree w/ Andy's idea and setting up the system so that Community posts do not count toward your post count.
Just my thoughts.
Mick
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jds100
Oct 31, 2002, 11:00 PM
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I guess I don't quite get the finer nuances of Headcrack's thoroughly argued perspective, but....
How about putting in HUGE FONT SIZE a banner at the top of the Forum Index, with the instruction to go to the Forum Search and look for the topic in an existing thread before posting a new one. For example, there's another "new" thread about Sharma and marijuana. And, make the Search key for the Forums much more prominent (it's almost hidden, like it's embarrassed to be there at all).
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spandexomo
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dood, its the internet. get over yourselves. its not even real life. your fighting over something that means NOTHING.
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