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Newbies/seniors?

Postcount opinion?

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I've been here for... I think about two years. I consider myself slightly below average.

I do agree that forum games shouldn't be counted for postcount. Back on the topic though, postcount really does not equal seniority in any way, shape, or form. It just means you're either in ASB, Forum Games, Mafia, Safari Zone, RPing, etc; or you like to voice your thoughts and opinions.
 
I've been here for aaaaaaaalmost a year. I consider myself an 8-year-old, while everyone who has joined in the past month is just past newborn-dom.

But yeah, postcount doesn't mean anything if most of them are in the FG.
 
I dislike the idea of turning off post count in forum games: if the posts aren't important enough to add to the little number in your postbit, then they're not important enough to be posted in general.

Postcount doesn't really mean anything. I've been here since december 2003, though, so...
 
I joined when I was 14, right at the beginning of the first vB incarnation. I barely post any more and I never really did get to know very many people. Ah well.
 
I don't think post count really means anything. I mean, it was fun to watch my little icon change, but I agree with Mewtini; it's more about... I don't know, a sense of belonging? Or something?
 
Squirrel said:
I joined toward the end of conforums, but I don't really post enough to be known or know anyone.
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Well, I know you play mafia!

Anyway, I suppose I'm somewhere in the middle. I've been here for about two years, technically, but I'd like to pretend that the me from before 2011 never joined so.

I might be "senior" in the fact that I post pretty often, though? I suppose I could be described pretty accurately with "that one girl who plays too much mafia and is battling Kratos at the moment"; I'm not entirely sure what that means about me though. I'm a lot more active through PMs/VMs/Mafia/ASB than through the actual discussion parts of the forum, if that really affects anything.

Join date and a general sense of belonging seem a lot more important, yeah. Seeing someone who joined two days ago and already has the same postcount as me would feel pretty weird, and it definitely wouldn't make them look more "senior" than normal.
 
Does anyone really care about postcount? Is that even a thing here?

I think I joined in 2007 or 2006. I can't really remember. I don't consider myself a newbie or senior. I consider myself a regular, like someone who goes to the same pub every week on a Friday night.
 
I actually haven't been here for very long (or at least in comparison to the other mods); I only joined in 2008, right before the forums crashed. I know there's a few people who post in FG for postcount+ and that kind of irritates me because... you shouldn't strive to up your postcount. You should be more interested in whatever it is you're posting, not how many times you've posted (and it hardly needs to be said that postcount in itself means little).

I think my postcount's up in the 2000 mark? maybe? I post reasonably frequently I guess.

edit: oh yeah, moving to forum discussion. :V
 
I have no idea when I joined each incarnation of the forum, although either this year or next is mine and Butterfree's 10-year friendship anniversary :D
 
Dannichu said:
I have no idea when I joined each incarnation of the forum, although either this year or next is mine and Butterfree's 10-year friendship anniversary :D
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Ooh, it is! :D Wait, now I want to know which.

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Okay, so! Appears I found Mew's Hangout on or very shortly before the sixteenth of December 2001, based on the creation dates of my first experiments with splicing Pokémon together from low-res Sugimori art (which I started doing because of the guide on Mew's Hangout). And I'm pretty sure I didn't post in the guestbook for a while (first because I didn't know what "guestbook" meant, then because I was scared to). Thus, in all likelihood, I didn't join the guestbook discussion until sometime in 2002, so it's next year. All the more reason to have an awesome time around the May Expo! :D

On topic, it isn't the number of posts you make so much as how acquainted with you other members feel: generally, being a 'senior member' means you need to have been around for some reasonable amount of time, and you need to have posted enough for your presence to be felt pretty continuously during that time, but that's all it takes.
 
Legendaryseeker99 said:
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So would I be considered "senior" in Butterfree's definition?
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I would say "GERROFF OF MY LAWN" but I'm not exactly one of the actual seniors either...

I think I'll agree with TES here; I'm not a senior, more of a regular. I come on often enough so that my presence is felt (sometimes), and that's about it, I think!
 
Legendaryseeker99 said:
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So would I be considered "senior" in Butterfree's definition?
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That would depend on what qualifies as "some reasonable amount of time". Considering this forum is pretty substantially populated by people who've been here for more than three or four years, you still feel relatively new (at least to me; can't quite speak for anyone else).
 
I probably won't post here much, but do still regularly check it.

And to answer TES' question, I have seen Spunky the raichu posting somewhere (forget where) saying, in response to Legendaryseeker saying "you're new", "I'm kinda old." To which was responded "Postcount means nothing", inspiring me to write this thread.

I've seen other instances but am too lazy to go look.
 
I can't actually remember when I signed up now. Like ultraviolet, in comparison to the other mods I consider myself quite new and only joined the forums on its previous incarnation of vBulletin - if someone has any vague idea of when I did this, I would not be adverse to knowing just out of sheer curiosity.

As for postcount, I'm of the same mindset most others are. It's pretty pointless looking at it as a measure of age or seniority. It measures the number of posts you have and nothing more.
 
Went back and checked on myself. I joined Feb. '05. Sort of nuts. I found my intro thread..... I managed to be welcomed by opal and yelled at by Butterfree all in my intro....

I was a bad newbie, as in TCoD was my first real internet experience bad.... I don't think myself a senior..... more like a middle aged person.
 
I... joined a year or two ago? Uh, before the forum crash. I was pretty much a noob and joined twenty RPs at a time and then RSP happened and then the crash and then the RSP happened again.

...Most of my posts are probably from roleplaying, still. I do remember posting Legend's Rage here when it was absolute crap, and I think that the reviews I got here inspired me to revamp it later.

I am far too much of a hermit to even be a regular. I just lurk all the time. I'm pretty sure outside of people I've roleplayed with, most people don't know me. x3
 
I'm just going to say: pretty much everyone here feels new, but that's also because I don't hang out in many of the forums. I bet most users are just like "who's this guy?" at me, so w/e.
 
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