Why was this decision made without announcement?
Why did
@Petek get to make this decision? Are serial threads big outside of OT? If not, shouldn't it have been one of the OT mods to make that call? Did they even get to weigh in?
When did it happen? I wasn't posting in the serial threads for awhile, so I wouldn't have noticed if my posts were being counted or not.
But we had this argument before here, and I will repeat my stance.
@Petek: Please come here and explain why we shouldn't have post count for serial threads, whether they're active or archived.
Since very few of the admin staff participates in these threads on any sort of basis let alone regularly, I don't think you realize that some of the most interesting discussions happen in them, sometimes to the point where the discussion gets split off into its own thread. There are some very good posts in these threads and they should count toward members' overall post counts. By refusing to let us keep the post count, it's essentially saying, "These are junk posts, not much better than spam, and not worth acknowledging along with the non-serial thread posts." If a person takes the trouble to post something, it should count. Period.
That's not to say that some of the posts aren't silly or otherwise underwhelming. But the majority are of decent quality and should be deserving of being counted.
Please restore the post count for the serial threads.
Newer threads can be serialized or not, but it seems to be at the mods' discretion as well as the original OP. E.g. Random Thoughts got serialized but the shopping thread did not because Mary didn't want it to be. And then some of the politics threads get a new thread annually.
The weather thread isn't serialized either, because I didn't want it to be.
There is a good reason for serial threads, as long ones get so unwieldy that if you need to search something in them... good luck. Some of the threads at TrekBBS (for another XenForo example) are not only thousands of posts long, but thousands of
pages long. That's a nightmare, so of course I'm not advocating that we start allowing threads with tens of thousands of replies (no exaggeration).
But whatever we do post should be counted. A lot of thought goes into some of the replies, and should be acknowledged whether the thread is active or archived.