Why don't you post in the threads in which you don't post?

[Ajidica]

A couple of reasons:

1) I do my PC+1 on discord.
2) CFC has crap mobile interface for posing.
3) I know I'm not going to change anyone's opinion.
4) I have nothing interesting to add.
5) I'm not 15 and everything is new and exciting.
6) The topic has moved on by the time I get to my desktop and my post is irrelevant.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I don't think "deliberately trying to get one's post count up" exists, at least not for any of the high-volume posting people (they are already too far away). Eg I am sure that if I didn't post here for a couple of years, I'd still have the most posts - not that such means anything to me (it's a game site, duh ). Imagine someone thinking I just had to get post #73137 now or a daily average and you've imagined someone who long outlived their purpose on the forum ^^
Trying to get some more posts could make sense if you have (say) not even 1000, and think that acquiring more will make you stand out to long-term members. In reality, of course, you get attention if you post things others find of interest.

Way back on the RPG forum, where post count was taken seriously for a number of reasons, one of the people posted an analysis he'd made of the top posters in the General Discussion area (similar to OT, but without politics or religion; those weren't allowed). Turns out I was at a level of posting that wasn't among the highest, but still pretty respectable, and a challenge was issued: Who among us could make 30 posts/day, sustainably?

Well, I tried and succeeded. It's amazing how fast I climbed those post count milestones over the next few months, on my way up to Princess, then Duchess (the level needed to trigger access to that hidden politics/religion forum that nobody knew about until they hit post #3000 and suddenly saw a brand-new subforum they hadn't known existed).

I once calculated how many posts/day I'd need to get to the first rung of the Admiralty on TrekBBS and realized that I just don't have that much to say in a day there, even with the 3/5/7-word stories and post-a-line threads. So it took years to get to the first rung of the Admiralty and I've got two more to go before reaching the end of the ranks. At my rate, that forum will have to stick around for another 20 years. One thing about those ranked Lounges... people who pay attention to post count and participate in the Lounges will try to time their promotion so that the post that results in the promotion is the last one they post in that Lounge - as a way of saying goodbye, thanks for the conversations and games, and hope to see everyone soon in the next lounge.

I rather doubt that 30 posts/day is doable here, either, unless I start posting more in the Civ threads. But even then, I probably don't have that many posts/day in me.

 

[GenMarshall]

A number of reasons:

1. I've moved much of my off topic discussions in places like Reddit in subreddits aren't dominated by leftists who are out for blood sports debate and tearing their opponents apart (in a nutshell, avoiding subreddits that are leftists echo chambers and finding subreddits are are relatively more moderate and centrist in nature where there is an expectation to be civil to one another).

2. I'm not in the mood to engage in a topic that I know that I'm going to get flamed and dogpiled on because of my views, get smeared with being called a "Trump Supporting QAnon Capitalist Pig Dog of the American Empire Red Scared Anti-Human American" (right, opposing communism for it's track record for authoritarianism makes me "Red Scared Anti-Human Radical Anti-Socialist American", throw me a freeking bone ). I even don't touch the LGBT+ News Thread and Ask a Trans Thread because I know I would be attacked for simply asking a few questions by leftist activists, so I don't engage with it anymore for my own sanity. If, I'm curious on certan topic or issue, I go to with a throwaway account on Reddit to ask my question rather than risking getting my face ripped off. Even if I do have a change of view down the road, it eather goes two ways: I'm dismissed as a flip-flopper and a grifter or get a remark that "It's not hard to be a garbage human being" or "It's not hard to be a Nazi". My stance mirrors to that of @Quintillus where I'd rather discuss it with friends IRL that I can trust to be able to express disagreements in a moderate manner and not have my face ripped off. Quintillus is right, online "thise topics tend to bring out the fanatics more than the civ".

3. Lack of knowledge and/or interest in the subject matter. Especially if they pertain to say issues, such for example, any hot button issues in the UK that wouln't have any effect on eather the United States or the culture.

4. Feel that I have nothing interesting to add to the topic. Even if it's a subject that I'm interested in that doesn't relate to hot button culture war garbage.

5. I know that I'm not going to change anyone's opinions and views.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Some of the threads here are group think threads whose contributors
self righteously build upon their own narratives and partisan propaganda.

Alternative perspectives are merely rubbished, their mere
existence serving to reinforce the closed cliche thinking.

There is little no point in trying to debate ideas or issues there,
although I may occasionally point out an inconvenient fact.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think that overall the forum has become more mellow during the years - but that is primarily due to people not being in their teens or early twenties by majority anymore. The regular posters didn't really numerically expand to a meaningful degree.
It's also that if you are interested in something and know a lot about it, you wouldn't typically post here but at some subreddit or more specialized forum, which is one of the reasons we are imo infested with political threads as a lower-common-denominator thing; anyone thinks they can post on politics since it requires no relevant education/degree.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I've taken a lot of my political discussion energy to FB (for current events in my province) or to TrekBBS (dedicated Canada-centric thread, plus more Canadians there to talk to about it).

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I'm not smart enough and I always make everyone angry.