My thoughts on a few things..
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Bahawolf, I am sorry, no disrespect to your post, but this post is wayyyyy OD, you said a lot with very little substance.
Post count, who cares really? Why are you concerned that much? Some people are going to post a lot, some aren't, thats life on internet boards. Some people think that its some sort of status symbol or e-fame, if they have a high post count, some don't thats life, who really cares. Some reply to every post, some don't. Thats the way internet boards work, I am a member of boards with people over 200,000 posts, and people with 5 posts, who cares. As far as I know as long as you are not taking advantage of the system, and/or breaking the rules, people can post as little or as much as they want. I mean you don't need a damn novel to reply to a thread, some only require a simple yes or no answer. I don't see the big concern with this, its a non issue.
It should be pretty obvious, beacuse it is the internet we are dealing with here, you are going to get young, immature, foolish, spammers, unruley people, threats on EVERY message board on the internet on a daily basis, most of these are empty threats/issues, its the internet people, its gonna happen. If you think you are going to have a community of sunshine/rainbows/balloons/little puppies and vanilla ice cream everyday, where everybody gets along all the time, you don't know the internet that much and are living in an ignorant world. The internet is a huge diverse community, with a wide range of different types of people, you are going to have tussles here and there over things, and people with low self esteem attacking others to make themselves feel better, its gonna happen. We as community members need to deal with that in a manner of not giving those type of people the attention they want, because most just want the attention, and by not replying to there meaningless posts, and let the mods deal with it from there.
The Mods issue, that is a personal decision of theres, nobody is forcing any mod to mod these boards, ever. They donate there time by choice, they are not forced by any means. They should know what they are getting into before accepting that responciability. On that note, any mod is foolish in thinking that they are not going to be targeted by some of the negative people I mentioned above, and everything in between. They are in a "power" position, and it is human nature in society to challenge people in "power" positions or say things against people in power (president, police, your boss at work ect) its all human nature, its gonna happen. Most of it comes from jealousy. Its not a perfect world, plus its the internet, you are going to get all sorts of tools that just want to start crap with people because they can. You have to have some confidence and a little attitude to manage message boards, and the mods are going to get targeted by people who disagree with what they do on a daily basis. Once again its all part of the internet message board world.
Sorry I have to disagree, your reply has little to no validity to it. If you are going to respect a person more by how many post counts they have, you are not taking into consideration many important factors, and looking at things very one sided. Thats just plain ignorant. Say a person with a high post count, lets say 5,000, lets say this person just replies to threads here and there with little or no substance, offering no input or help on anything, no fresh ideas and just basically answers questions with yes & no answers? You are going to respect that person more?? Please. More than somebody that has 25 posts, but that offers insight, input, help, assistance, and ideas on topics with plenty of substance? More than somebody that actually stands out and has there own opinion on things, and not just goes with what everybody else is saying? That just sounds like tripe to me. I take advice from people that are mature, insightful, offer input, help, assistance, and ideas on topics with plenty of substance, no matter if they have 2 posts or 20,000, its your words and actions on a daily basis that define you as a person, not post counts.
By saying this you are also casting a negative stereotype on people that ONLY post in the social lounge of these boards. You are saying, because they only post in the social lounge, that they are annoying and only want high post counts, how do you know that, thats ignorance right there. Some people may only enjoy the social lounge, or prefer not to talk about computers/games/software/hardware in the other areas on here on any given day. I don't think thats a fair stereotype to cast on people. By that rationale, you are basically casting me in that stereotype as well, I only post in the socail lounge because I happen to really like the people that frequent that area, plus I like most of the topics posted, its not because I am after a high post count, thats just asinine.
Post count, who cares really? Why are you concerned that much? Some people are going to post a lot, some aren't, thats life on internet boards. Some people think that its some sort of status symbol or e-fame, if they have a high post count, some don't thats life, who really cares. Some reply to every post, some don't. Thats the way internet boards work, I am a member of boards with people over 200,000 posts, and people with 5 posts, who cares. As far as I know as long as you are not taking advantage of the system, and/or breaking the rules, people can post as little or as much as they want. I mean you don't need a damn novel to reply to a thread, some only require a simple yes or no answer. I don't see the big concern with this, its a non issue.
It should be pretty obvious, beacuse it is the internet we are dealing with here, you are going to get young, immature, foolish, spammers, unruley people, threats on EVERY message board on the internet on a daily basis, most of these are empty threats/issues, its the internet people, its gonna happen. If you think you are going to have a community of sunshine/rainbows/balloons/little puppies and vanilla ice cream everyday, where everybody gets along all the time, you don't know the internet that much and are living in an ignorant world. The internet is a huge diverse community, with a wide range of different types of people, you are going to have tussles here and there over things, and people with low self esteem attacking others to make themselves feel better, its gonna happen. We as community members need to deal with that in a manner of not giving those type of people the attention they want, because most just want the attention, and by not replying to there meaningless posts, and let the mods deal with it from there.
The Mods issue, that is a personal decision of theres, nobody is forcing any mod to mod these boards, ever. They donate there time by choice, they are not forced by any means. They should know what they are getting into before accepting that responciability. On that note, any mod is foolish in thinking that they are not going to be targeted by some of the negative people I mentioned above, and everything in between. They are in a "power" position, and it is human nature in society to challenge people in "power" positions or say things against people in power (president, police, your boss at work ect) its all human nature, its gonna happen. Most of it comes from jealousy. Its not a perfect world, plus its the internet, you are going to get all sorts of tools that just want to start crap with people because they can. You have to have some confidence and a little attitude to manage message boards, and the mods are going to get targeted by people who disagree with what they do on a daily basis. Once again its all part of the internet message board world.
Sorry I have to disagree, your reply has little to no validity to it. If you are going to respect a person more by how many post counts they have, you are not taking into consideration many important factors, and looking at things very one sided. Thats just plain ignorant. Say a person with a high post count, lets say 5,000, lets say this person just replies to threads here and there with little or no substance, offering no input or help on anything, no fresh ideas and just basically answers questions with yes & no answers? You are going to respect that person more?? Please. More than somebody that has 25 posts, but that offers insight, input, help, assistance, and ideas on topics with plenty of substance? More than somebody that actually stands out and has there own opinion on things, and not just goes with what everybody else is saying? That just sounds like tripe to me. I take advice from people that are mature, insightful, offer input, help, assistance, and ideas on topics with plenty of substance, no matter if they have 2 posts or 20,000, its your words and actions on a daily basis that define you as a person, not post counts.
By saying this you are also casting a negative stereotype on people that ONLY post in the social lounge of these boards. You are saying, because they only post in the social lounge, that they are annoying and only want high post counts, how do you know that, thats ignorance right there. Some people may only enjoy the social lounge, or prefer not to talk about computers/games/software/hardware in the other areas on here on any given day. I don't think thats a fair stereotype to cast on people. By that rationale, you are basically casting me in that stereotype as well, I only post in the socail lounge because I happen to really like the people that frequent that area, plus I like most of the topics posted, its not because I am after a high post count, thats just asinine.
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I agree. Moderators do take their own time for free, just to clean up the board. If there were no moderators, wow, CF wouldn't be as organized as it is today.
As some of the other members said, people do trust people with higher post counts, like 4,000 instead of 2 or whatnot. But it doesn't really matter all that much
I hope that eventually people stop with this attempt just to increase their post count, as it really proves nothing and in the end just adds more junk to the community. Instead, post a thread / reply with productive meaning, or advice or begin to help out the members when you can.
I don't really care about my post count. I barely even look at it.
Some people probably find it amusing to attempt to spam a message board. Others just do it because their bored... or have nothing better to do. But I agree, its better to contribute to the message board, instead of ruin it for the members and put more work on the moderators.
I haven't been asked by any banned members to help them, so I guess this doesn't really apply to me.
I agreeConclusion
Okay, I'm going to conclude with the fact that all I'd like to see is this community prosper. I would go to any extent to help out CF with that goal, and I know most of the members would agree on that point. I just see a few issues that are creating controversy, and I believe that some people need to realize them and stop them before they grow to create bigger issues.
Please remember that this is not a personal attack in any way to anyone, and as always I would not like to argue with anyone. With that said, please post only respectful replies and no flaming please.
I've been asked several times in the past to lunch spam accounts, give poeple my account information all so they could do attacks aganist CF, my noraml reply is "Its a computer forum, its not life it won't decide if you die or not theres more then one go find a new one"
On mods i've never abused a mod I don't think...
On spam, I admit I spend a lot of time in the social lougue however I don't really spam... My posts in fact maybe 50 or so are one liners. I try to give each one of my post some meaning. I don't want it to be like "i'm with him" type deal I want it to be like "I'm with him, BECAUSE...." Also a lot of posts of come from my own threads that I make which really turned into some of the most interseting plotical debates on this forum several members on this community can tell you about them. Nate being one, root as well.
How do you gain respect? Is it by post count I don't think so i've seen some really respectful members with low post counts its what your posts mean. I mean heck I can spam the crap out of this forum and get a high post count easly... Its not too difficult, I don't do it. Mainly because I see no point in it, I mean so what you got a high post count? O WOW! Or somtimes high posts such as UID actually mean somthing. I was in fact going report himfor spamming until I went back and looked at his posts, I was like WOW this guy really knows what he is doing.
On mods i've never abused a mod I don't think...
On spam, I admit I spend a lot of time in the social lougue however I don't really spam... My posts in fact maybe 50 or so are one liners. I try to give each one of my post some meaning. I don't want it to be like "i'm with him" type deal I want it to be like "I'm with him, BECAUSE...." Also a lot of posts of come from my own threads that I make which really turned into some of the most interseting plotical debates on this forum several members on this community can tell you about them. Nate being one, root as well.
How do you gain respect? Is it by post count I don't think so i've seen some really respectful members with low post counts its what your posts mean. I mean heck I can spam the crap out of this forum and get a high post count easly... Its not too difficult, I don't do it. Mainly because I see no point in it, I mean so what you got a high post count? O WOW! Or somtimes high posts such as UID actually mean somthing. I was in fact going report himfor spamming until I went back and looked at his posts, I was like WOW this guy really knows what he is doing.
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