Post Counts....Important To You?

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Post Counts....Important To You?

Posted: 5/5/2002 12:32:21 PM EDT

Should we vote on how important they are? What they represent?

Posted: 5/5/2002 12:34:26 PM EDT

[#1]

Posted: 5/5/2002 12:52:25 PM EDT

[#2]

BUZZZ! We have already been through this. The post counts should stay for reasons you will figure out as you become a non Newbie.

Posted: 5/5/2002 12:52:44 PM EDT

[#3]

Sometimes with age comes wisdom and that's why I went with "respect for my post count elders."

Posted: 5/5/2002 1:03:50 PM EDT

[#4]

It lets me know who much time I spend on the Internet.

Posted: 5/5/2002 1:53:28 PM EDT

[#5]

I love post counts [whacko]

Posted: 5/5/2002 1:57:24 PM EDT

[#6]

I don't think post counts mean much-I don't think who has been posting here for 2 years necessarily knows more about guns than a guy who logged on yesterday. I think they are worthwhile when looking at the equipment exchange. A guy who has a couple thousand posts on the regular side is probably sell likely to take my money and run than a guy who logged in here for the first time yesterday.

Posted: 5/5/2002 2:01:15 PM EDT

[#7]

Only your wife can really answer this for you.

Posted: 5/5/2002 2:05:39 PM EDT

[#8]

They were important at first.

Then I realized they are just a benchmark. Kinda like lines on the wall showing you as you grew up.

Posted: 5/5/2002 2:56:07 PM EDT

[#9]

uhoh...the last time I saw a thread like this, threads "inrease your post count here" started popping up and the PTB took the post count off the board (visably).

Then again, that's when LT started "posting without posting."

...and the cycle continues...

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:00:50 PM EDT

[#10]

Make your time.
All your post counts are belong to us.

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:01:38 PM EDT

[#11]

Yes

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:02:15 PM EDT

[#12]

Aslong as Israel exist ETH will have more post then me [>]:)].

Too bad when you post a certain ammount you can't be elidgeable for a cheaper board membership or something. [+]:D]

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:11:00 PM EDT

[#13]

Sure, or I wouldn't be posting this, LOL

Seriously, they are of no significance.

You quickly learn who is FOS and who is knowledgeable, without looking at a post count.

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:17:06 PM EDT

[#14]

There are alot of members that have been on here for years before the post count and date got reset. I have been on here since latter '97. It's all about quality and substance, not quanity

Later

IAJack

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:23:36 PM EDT

[#15]

Somewhat. At the least, shows the poster has endurance, and hasn't had his account nuked recently.
But it's no guarantee, in and of itself, of any particular level of knowledge.

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:37:22 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Sure, or I wouldn't be posting this

View Quote

Same here.

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Posted: 5/5/2002 3:52:29 PM EDT

[#17]

why

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:53:06 PM EDT

[#18]

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:53:46 PM EDT

[#19]

you

Posted: 5/5/2002 3:54:18 PM EDT

[#20]

ask?

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:05:22 PM EDT

[#21]

Because

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:05:54 PM EDT

[#22]

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:06:31 PM EDT

[#23]

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:07:17 PM EDT

[#24]

curios

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:09:29 PM EDT

[#25]

oohhhh, sigbluestar, we're gonna get it for this.

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:13:52 PM EDT

[#26]

I say we remove post counts for those who are not in the US.[:)]

Sgtar15

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:15:02 PM EDT

[#27]

it's not the size of your post count, but how you use it that matters [:D]

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:55:47 PM EDT

[#28]

You know you're in trouble when you are used as an example in a poll on post counts!

"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"

Who said that?

Eric The(Careful!)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 5/5/2002 4:59:00 PM EDT

[#29]

JFK, Sr.

Posted: 5/5/2002 5:03:16 PM EDT

[#30]

Post count means nothing....NOTHING I TELL YOU !!!!
[i]hehehe, one more for me[/i]

Posted: 5/5/2002 5:25:34 PM EDT

[#31]

RFK

Posted: 5/5/2002 5:40:04 PM EDT

[#32]

Actually, it was George Bernard Shaw. Bobby Kennedy ripped him off and changed the quote a bit, and his adulatory audience continues to lisp and prance about saying it was [u]his[/u]!

Here's RFK's ripped off version: 'Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.'"

Eric The(ItWon'tBeLongBeforeShaw'sVersionIsGone!)Hun[>]:)]

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:03:56 PM EDT

[#33]

It really doesn't matter...

7th

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:09:41 PM EDT

[#34]

Yes and no. While they do tell who has been active on AR15.com, they don't tell if someone is knowledgeable on AR's or other weapons.

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:10:05 PM EDT

[#35]

Eric -
Oh. I read it in the front of the Star Trek Tech Manual, and it was credited to JFK (not RFK).
Oops.
Who said this? "That is the sort of pedantic nonsense up with which I shall not put!" [:D]

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:49:34 PM EDT

[#36]

Hold on.

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:50:38 PM EDT

[#37]

Had to see how many posts I had. Must not be too important to me. :)

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:54:30 PM EDT

[#38]

Yes, I know if my post count is going up to fast I am spending to much time on this website. [;)]

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:58:26 PM EDT

[#39]

Sure it

Posted: 5/5/2002 6:59:50 PM EDT

[#40]

Matters

Posted: 5/5/2002 7:02:14 PM EDT

[#41]

I remember when we got rid of the post count... man, that pissed a LOT of folks off!

I could go either way with it. I am friends with the names, not their post count.

Tyler

Posted: 5/5/2002 7:25:08 PM EDT

[#42]

but then i would have to go get a real life!

Posted: 5/5/2002 8:35:00 PM EDT

[#43]

I stated before that I demanded reperations for the "lost" post-count when the board switched over. [:D]

Posted: 5/5/2002 8:36:39 PM EDT

[#44]

"Well how else can you measure yourself against other golfers?"

Posted: 5/5/2002 8:44:10 PM EDT

[#45]

I wanted to add that there is another forum I visit (not gun related) where the "owner" hands out additions to your post count as rewards for making him laugh, or making a good point, or helping him squash someone he disagrees with.

I was banned from that site over two years ago. [:D]

Posted: 5/5/2002 8:45:42 PM EDT

[#46]

Have we factored in the Ebay effect? For a while, I was buying all I could just to boost my rating, it lets people know you're not a fly-by-night type person and that you're established in the community. I do look at post counts and I do think they play some role on a board where everyone is anonymous to some extent. I'd be pissed if they were taken off also, but not because I "flaunt" my PC to newbies, but it informs me of who I'm talking to.

Posted: 5/5/2002 9:00:41 PM EDT

[#47]

Naw, I don't talk much in real life either

Posted: 5/5/2002 9:05:33 PM EDT

[#48]

I just noticed that EricTheHun has over 7,000 posts. Is there anyone with over 10,000 yet?

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Posted: 5/5/2002 11:39:18 PM EDT

[#49]

Well for some reason, I trust the sellers with high post counts in the equip exchange, while I shy away from the low post counts, its almost like feedback, but who am I to talk, at least I broke 100!!!!!

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