Post Counts in Half Baked
Do you think we should have post counts enabled or disabled in Half Baked? It's obviously full of shit and imbalances the post count system quite a lot depending on how much people post in there. I know we all say we don't give a shit about them, but it's obviously cared about enough to actually have a post count system in place - so why not balance things out and make it so that posts in HB don't contribute to our counts?
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Near the end all HB posts were discounted, past, present and future. It was like having a layer of thickly encrusted shit scraped off the surface of Totse's post count rankings, as roughly 100 'top' posters suddenly disappeared, never to return.
Having a post count at all is pretty pointless if HB posts are included in it.
What year was that? I increased my post count by more than 700 with the posts I made in HB from 2008-2009 before totse was taken down. Maybe what you describe came before that.
Maybe so, but, much like prospecting for gold in a sewage works, I doubt anyone goes there looking for quality.
It doesn't if it matters in HB.
I'm interested to here exactly what harm post counts in hb causes?
Better indicator of how much good shit someone contributes.
Harm? None as such. But I've already covered the excrement angle with regards to how 'valuable' it makes someone's post count.
Speaking of excrement... you're referring to the reputation system?
Yes, yes, don't forget to make it anonymous like it originally was, because it was shit but it was funny shit.
There is no doubt that HB contains both quality and trash posts, but that does not make for an argument against post count.
Post count counts posts. Simple as that.
No, not anon. I liked be able to tell people something positive when it was a good post, or tell them what a fucking idiot they were, when it wasn't. Without shitting up the whole thread.
Simple and meaningless when posting "+1" is given equivalent value to someone posting a careful explanation of a complex chemical synthesise in the science forums.
May as well just scrap it instead of cluttering up the screen with a pointless statistic.
lol you mad because you care about post count and you don't fit in with the HB crowd who get all the post counts :facepalm:
Also, why haven't you voted 'Yes'?
Once again who does it hurt?
Ah, well I didn't take the rep' system seriously at all so found it quite amusing when I got threating 'anon' messages along the lines of 'Any more of your nonsense and you're gone. Zok'. Things may have changed but the rep' system ended up getting raped, anon or not.
I like forums that are uncluttered. Maybe the word "cluttering" didn't make that clear enough.
As for some infantile desire to show off my e-penis I could go around saying I was a mod on the real Totse, registered in '03 but stuck with the SotB name since '04, with 8000+ posts who managed forums far bigger than many of this sites sections combined, blah, blah, blah... but I don't, because I really am too old for such silly shit. And I can easily find something more productive to do than post here and listen to "lol you mad...?" from a 'senior' member of staff.
Voting in polls? Waste of time in my experience.
I dont see what looks so "cluttered" about it. It's just a number under "join date". Big deal.
It's a slippery slope, which may be a logical fallacy, but humans aren't especially logical.
How is a number n the right hand corner a slippery slope?
Except nobody posts just to increase a number and if they do let the faggotry associated with doing that speak or itself.
One piece of extraneous information can be used as an excuse for the creation of another, although not necessarily in the same place. On its own it is not a slippery slope; they are formed incrementally and those who lack foresight are the first ones to slide down them.
If you really don't care, then stop making such a huge fuss over nothing. And obviously you have nothing more productive to do as you're still posting here and listening to "lol you mad...?" from a 'senior' member of staff.
YES. Egotistical Thread
I'm not making a huge fuss I'm simply disagreeing with you, something which you clearly aren't mature enough to deal with.
Yes, my mistake, clearly I'm not talking to 'senior' anything, just another smartass boy who doesn't know how he should conduct himself as a staff member on a site that's seemingly selling itself as an improvement on Zoklet.
But you've got a point, ultimately if I want to be more productive I should leave. Easily done.
Let me get this straight a number does all this?
It contributes.
ohai, that's my job :hai: