Oh look, it's this debate. :/
Forum Games often has idle, postcount+ threads, but I do recall there being some cool games that could resurface again. Besides, it is there for fun. People have fun there, and postcount counts posts and... not anything else. I don't really care that I've reached Butterfree status with over a thousand, and I wouldn't care if I suddenly dropped 500 posts. It's just a statistic. And I do believe I did drop 500 posts or something once since the RSP was deleted or whatever.
I judge other members, when I bother to stop being a lurker, by how they behave on the forum, how mature they seem and overall attitude. Numbers have nothing to do with seniority or maturity, and don't really reflect on anyone at all. Joindate has some impact on how senior a member is and how often I see them around, but other than having me go "oh, a newbie" it doesn't really have a great effect. Postcount is just how many posts you made, and if you lurk or find yourself busy with stuff then you'll automatically have less posts than people who post all the time, but I don't see how that is anything bad at all?
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I am aware that many don't care about post count. However, many others do. We should take them into consideration, because I just don't see a big makeover of their minds happening because of an argument like this.
What is the purpose of counting posts? Why did you burn that bush? What did the Rainbow Squirt say to you? What do you know about the Milkman?
I don't know, you tell me. Why have it if it's for no purpose, like your words imply? (Apologies if I inferred your rhetorical questions' hidden meanings wrong.)
I didn't burn any bush.
I don't know what "Rainbow Squirt" is.
I know that the Milkman is a hat in Team Fortress 2 which completes a set called Special Delivery along with Shortstop, Mad Milk, and Holy Mackerel. It boosts your health's maximum by 25 points, and is considered to be one of the better polycount sets.
I don't see how these questions are relevant. The reason the post count is there is to for people to judge. If there is no reason for it to be there, then don't put it there.
It doesn't really have a purpose, just as signatures and Forum Games and custom user titles have no purpose. It's just a thing some people like and everyone else ignores. I doubt we'd go out of our way to install such a feature if it wasn't present by default.
Signatures help portray personality, and possibly links to other websites. (Not just me, I've seen plenty of other people linking in their signatures.) It can also be used to conduct "social experiments". Custom User Titles also help portray personality, but that's about it. It still has an express purpose.
It's present by default. If you don't remove it, best utilise it to the best it can.
How are penises in vacuum cleaners sensitive, besides the fact that they've been stuck into vacuum cleaners? Please elaborate. Elaborate, damn it!
No offense, but how do you not get this? I understand this is not a kid-friendly forum, but why speak of the male genitals
when you could have easily used something else? Not all environments are as liberal as yours.
What does severity matter? Judging people based on post count is a bad thing, regardless of how bad sexism is. I mean, you could try to convince me that judgement based on post count is somehow good and justifiable, but you can't just point to some unrelated issue and say "well this is worse".
Severity matters greatly. For instance, the reaction to a murder is different from manslaughter, or theft, or violating copyright laws. The mods aren't going to ban someone just because they judge based on post count. People's reactions towards different things are bound to be limited by the "things"'s severity.
I didn't point out the "unrelated issue" — you did, so I used your own argument against you. I believe that is a valid method of gaining the upper hand of discussion, no?
Counting posts is for counting posts. Wow. I really don't want to be mean or something, but that's a really stupid argument.
There is no point. It just counts posts. Why does it have to have a point other than what it's intended for?
If it has no point, why have it? Everything should have a point. Like a sharp pencil. *killed* Okay, being serious again, I don't see a reason to include something that serves no purpose, because... just why would you want something that is not beneficial in any way? Sorry for being kind of messy in my sentences, but... I don't get your logic. No offense.
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Since a lot of you say that you don't care about the post count, I infer that the reason is that you would like to keep the Forum Games' posts as a part of the post count simply because they are posts. Is that correct? Or have I inferred wrongly?
Again, sorry if I seem offensive in this post. I just don't get why you're using redundant and illogical arguments.