Huge Postcount Drop?

[Eklektikos]

Mathematical humour. Almost as extreme an oxymoron as "Good morning"

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by joespaniel
When you pass Lefty in postcount, they let you view the mod forum.

No, at that point the staff forum beings to view the poster with increased suspicion.

 

[ainwood]

Originally posted by cracker
My postcount didn't go down (even though I didn't even look. )

Does that just mean that first derivative of my coefficient of spam is equal to the inverse of the first derivative of coefficient of unspam.

Lets see:

d(spam)/dx = - d(unspam)/dx

I can think of a few posters for which I'd like to see a change in the second derivitive...

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by ainwood
To avoid the endless "bring the post count back" campaign.

Sadly , that's quite true. I dont see why people really care about it. Ive seen brillent posts by people with low postcounts and pure trash by people with high ones.

 

[sabo]

Originally posted by Inter32
If it's only a number then why are ''some'' people so obsessed about it?

THat's what I'd like to know, the only postcount I was concerned about was my 300'th so I could get a custom avatar but after that who cares?? Do people think they get smarter, or better with a high post count? I've seen people out here with under 100 posts that commonly play on Deity level and I can and have learned alot from them..

 

[willemvanoranje]

Originally posted by joespaniel
When you pass Lefty in postcount, they let you view the mod forum.

been there, done that

 

[The Yankee]

I know mine dropped by 5 today when a thread with the author bashing Muslims in the name of patriotism and insulting me was deleted. Too bad...I made some good arguments. It was open season on the guy.

 

[Chieftess]

Packer Backer trolled with the same message in several forums (ranging from the Civ3 section to OT). Those threads had to be deleted. They were troll threads.

 

[andvruss]

If my postcount was of any importance to me, I would have a ton more posts than I do.

 

[Mark Young]

It like OT is it's own little sub-culture and the more post counts you have the higher up on the hierachy you are.

Post counts are ok but if people are posting just to increase their count then might lead to a lot of dribble and nonsense being posted rather then well thought out and meaningful arguements.... not that that actually happpens

Heres a novel idea why not play civ instead of posting lots?
All OT regulars must play at least 20 turns of a succession game in a week to bew able to post more then 70 posts a week, which is 7 posts a day?

somehow I dont think that this will happen

 

[Strider]

Mine didn't drop any that I noticed

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by Sir Eric

Heres a novel idea why not play civ instead of posting lots?
All OT regulars must play at least 20 turns of a succession game in a week to bew able to post more then 70 posts a week, which is 7 posts a day?

somehow I dont think that this will happen

What about us OT regulars that play lots of Civ. just its Civ 2, so not mant succession games

 

[WildFire]

How about OT regulars that play pbems and single player and some multiplayer but don't like succesion games that much

 

[Mark Young]

I was just amazed at how many regular posters dont play civ.
It was a silly suggestion

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by Sir Eric
I was just amazed at how many regular posters dont play civ.
It was a silly suggestion

To be honest, almost all of them where Civ players at some point that have gotten bored for one reason or another. Some still do play and design (Curt, for example).

 

[Mark Young]

Originally posted by archer_007


To be honest, almost all of them where Civ players at some point that have gotten bored for one reason or another.

Bored?? BORED!!!??? How does that happen?
I think we need to start some sort of civ re-indoctronisation scheme that people can enroll in if they feel they are not as euthusiastic about civ anymore.

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Sir Eric


Bored?? BORED!!!??? How does that happen?
I think we need to start some sort of civ re-indoctronisation scheme that people can enroll in if they feel they are not as euthusiastic about civ anymore.

It's called "Conquests"
and it isn't coming out til the 14th of November

and i have some number of posts, but not over many, as every single one is a unique work of art, and i can't produce them as rapidly as some people...

 

[Mark Young]

Originally posted by bobgote

It's called "Conquests"
and it isn't coming out til the 14th of November

I checked with EB on saturday, thats 3 weeks away and I have that day off

and i have some number of posts, but not over many, as every single one is a unique work of art, and i can't produce them as rapidly as some people...

 

[barron of ideas]

Some of the most interesting and creative posts come on the site feedback thread. Not however posts about threadcount, even this one.

It is possible that the reason is the relatively high number of posts by moderators, who tend to be creative, even in criticism. Notice how few posts they make about post count.

 

[bobgote]

Originally posted by Sir Eric


I checked with EB on saturday, thats 3 weeks away and I have that day off

well that's one way of looking at it (another would be that i was hanging out for the advertised date of october 30 and now i have to start the countdown again).

what are you trying to say??