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Post Activity: High / The ATRL Movement
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Member Since: 5/2/2000
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Ha, this is hilarious. A few points:
- ATRL is in no way a democracy, nation, or society at all for that matter. Nowhere in the terms of use will you find "freedom" or even direct influence over the decisions made here.
- There are other cues to keep track of members, including: hover your mouse over their user name to see their past user names, or look at the "Member Since" date, their avatar and user text, or their "Location" text.
- I'm trying to figure out how to indicate that a member used to be really active on the site, but not so much anymore. Something a little more to-the-point than just "Low."
- Without post counts, people should choose to post naturally wherever they want. There's no goal of reaching a certain number. So if you love ATRL so much that you want to post 50 times a day, go ahead, but it should be because you have something to say, not because you have a number to increase.
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Member Since: 11/24/2006
Posts: 24,963
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Originally posted by oasis
i just want my post count back
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btw, i love this...lol
so funny
Anyone could down the KB, i needed in 12K!
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Member Since: 10/5/2005
Posts: 11,422
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Post activity level: High (8.58 posts per day)
...But I've only posted a few times since maybe August or September...
Then again, I was mostly consistant with making 8 or more posts each day way back when for however many months.
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Member Since: 11/24/2006
Posts: 24,963
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Originally posted by Blazin
WTF Medium? J/K! I love it too
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I though i was the only one
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Member Since: 3/17/2007
Posts: 18,147
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Originally posted by TC
Ha, this is hilarious. A few points:
- ATRL is in no way a democracy, nation, or society at all for that matter. Nowhere in the terms of use will you find "freedom" or even direct influence over the decisions made here.
- There are other cues to keep track of members, including: hover your mouse over their user name to see their past user names, or look at the "Member Since" date, their avatar and user text, or their "Location" text.
- I'm trying to figure out how to indicate that a member used to be really active on the site, but not so much anymore. Something a little more to-the-point than just "Low."
- Without post counts, people should choose to post naturally wherever they want. There's no goal of reaching a certain number. So if you love ATRL so much that you want to post 50 times a day, go ahead, but it should be because you have something to say, not because you have a number to increase.
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that means no
and wow that's awesome, I didn't notice this
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Member Since: 10/21/2005
Posts: 19,258
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Originally posted by TC
Ha, this is hilarious. A few points:
- ATRL is in no way a democracy, nation, or society at all for that matter. Nowhere in the terms of use will you find "freedom" or even direct influence over the decisions made here.
- There are other cues to keep track of members, including: hover your mouse over their user name to see their past user names, or look at the "Member Since" date, their avatar and user text, or their "Location" text.
- I'm trying to figure out how to indicate that a member used to be really active on the site, but not so much anymore. Something a little more to-the-point than just "Low."
- Without post counts, people should choose to post naturally wherever they want. There's no goal of reaching a certain number. So if you love ATRL so much that you want to post 50 times a day, go ahead, but it should be because you have something to say, not because you have a number to increase.
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Hmmm, you make a good arguement. But why the change? And secondly, who says its a crime to not want to know our own post count? If anything you should make an option that shows how much posts you have whether or not it's in the profile or you have to somehow calculate it.
I used to post *****, but now I just like looking at my post count and seeing how much I have since I joined. It's nice seeing that I finally broke 10,000 posts since I joined.
And this is more on the lines of why you suddenly took it away without our opinion, regardless the post count coming back itself.
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Member Since: 3/17/2007
Posts: 18,147
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Originally posted by Jish
^LOL
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what's up with your new obsession?
commenting in every single thread like this
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LOL
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 2/21/2005
Posts: 21,684
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TC
Kevin, this shouldn't be such a big deal. People should post in the forum because they wanna express their opinions, not because they want to increase their amount of posts. Making this thread, you are making it seem that you only post here to increase a number.
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Banned
Member Since: 10/21/2001
Posts: 25,547
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-Without post counts, people should choose to post naturally wherever they want. There's no goal of reaching a certain number. So if you love ATRL so much that you want to post 50 times a day, go ahead, but it should be because you have something to say, not because you have a number to increase.-
That's the main thing why I think they made this change. I've seen many people try to shoot for a certain post count so they can say, 'I made it to this amount'
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Member Since: 3/17/2007
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here's my point: if you post in forums you like seeing how much you've contributed into it
that's why I want them back
am I really desperate?
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 12/21/2002
Posts: 20,569
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^LOL
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Member Since: 1/26/2005
Posts: 12,720
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Originally posted by TC
- ATRL is in no way a democracy, nation, or society at all for that matter. Nowhere in the terms of use will you find "freedom" or even direct influence over the decisions made here.
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We all know that, but that won't stop us from complaining when we think you guys made bad choices. Because you guys don't even post as much as a many of us and it affects us all.
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Originally posted by TC
- There are other cues to keep track of members, including: hover your mouse over their user name to see their past user names, or look at the "Member Since" date, their avatar and user text, or their "Location" text.
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Yes i knew that, but it was easier without having to click the nickname and searching for it, it was right under our noses.
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Originally posted by TC
- I'm trying to figure out how to indicate that a member used to be really active on the site, but not so much anymore. Something a little more to-the-point than just "Low."
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Thank you.
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Originally posted by TC
- Without post counts, people should choose to post naturally wherever they want. There's no goal of reaching a certain number. So if you love ATRL so much that you want to post 50 times a day, go ahead, but it should be because you have something to say, not because you have a number to increase.
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I comlpetely agree with this, but i don't think the post whoring will stop. It's more like we won't notice who's being a post ***** and who's not. Specially if they change their nicknames often.
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Member Since: 10/21/2005
Posts: 19,258
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Originally posted by Travis05
Post activity level: High (8.58 posts per day)
...But I've only posted a few times since maybe August or September...
Then again, I was mostly consistant with making 8 or more posts each day way back when for however many months.
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You're alive
I thought you died Travis.
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 12/21/2002
Posts: 20,569
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Originally posted by Pa-Ra-Mo-Re
what's up with your new obsession?
commenting in every single thread like this
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I'm Jierra. :O
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ATRL Administrator
Member Since: 5/2/2000
Posts: 2,844
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Originally posted by Corruption
But why the change? And secondly, who says its a crime to not want to know our own post count? If anything you should make an option that shows how much posts you have whether or not it's in the profile or you have to somehow calculate it.
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It's an idea I've been sitting on for a while and decided to put into place when I recently made all the threads look the same across the whole site (merging the "Blogs" and "Your Top Ten" layout and other forums' layout). As for your own post count, I guess if you care that much, you can calculate it.
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Originally posted by ►Liyoh◄
We all know that, but that won't stop us from complaining when we think you guys made bad choices. Because you guys don't even post as much as a many of us and it affects us all.
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At least we welcome discussion. I know I throw stuff into place without having people vote on it first, because nothing would ever get done otherwise. But after the fact, I do adapt things to people's interests most of the time.
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Originally posted by ►Liyoh◄
I comlpetely agree with this, but i don't think the post whoring will stop. It's more like we won't notice who's being a post ***** and who's not. Specially if they change their nicknames often.
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Well, much like I'm trying to figure out how to better indicate veteran members, I also want to set up a flag of sorts for new members that join and immediately start posting like 25+ times a day, so it's possible to tell who's new and going way too far to try and get themselves noticed.
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Banned
Member Since: 10/21/2001
Posts: 25,547
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Yes Gabe, you are desperate here
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Member Since: 6/19/2007
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im not against post counts and im not againts this too.
im neutral.
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Member Since: 3/17/2007
Posts: 18,147
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LMAO
are you subsituting her or what?
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Member Since: 10/5/2005
Posts: 11,422
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Originally posted by Corruption
You're alive
I thought you died Travis.
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Yup. I just have some extra free time right now. : ]
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Member Since: 1/26/2005
Posts: 12,720
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Thank you TC, now i don't have anything to complain about.
It's nice to see you considered a few things i thought about even before i posted them.
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