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Posted by: Live killa
Posted by: Gods Prophet
I don't think rules have anything to do with activity in a literal sense. Activity must be relatively active in posting, contributing in others ways etc probably at least once a day (probably more) as most people would maybe post several posts per day here.
What about those who come to the forums multiple times a day and often have nothing to say? Most topics now have many people saying the same thing over and over again. I consider myself active even though I might only post about five times a week.
Live killa, you raise an interesting point. This is actually a question that I have been thinking about in the back of my head for a couple of weeks.
I know that there are many people who visit these forums and "lurk," reading posts and maybe even spending hours on bungie.net every day, but never posting. I know this because this was something that I did for over a year before I actually signed up for a bungie.net account.
The conclusion that I've come to is that there are four categories of users here:
1) Being an "active" member almost by definition requires posting. To be considered "active" in my opinion, it must be a member who contributes information, creates posts that generate replies, or gives his agreement or disagreement to new ideas.
2) A member who never posts but just reads is a "passive" member. In other words, he lets others create information (or disinformation, depending on the poster) and then lets that information come to him.
3) A member who has an account here but never logs in is an "inactive member."
4) A person who visits the forums but does not have an account an cannot log in is a "visitor."
But how many posts are required to be active? How do you actually define the number of posts that are required? One post per day? One post per week? One post per month? A very loose and vague definition of "active" might be something along the lines of, "A member who has contributed -- positively or negatively -- to the discourse on the forums recently."
But that hardly lets a person know whether they are active or passive (or inactive). The problem is that we can come up with more specific definitions if we want to try to (post once a day, post once a week, logs in once a month, or whatever), and indeed some of us do have perfectly valid opinions on exactly how many posts-per-time-period are required to be considered "active."
But these are all just our opinion. The definition of "active" must vary from website to website and is never the same. For this reason, the only opinion that matters is that of the administration of this site.
In terms of the Halo 3 F&F Beta (which I assume this question relates to), the decision of what constitutes a "forum regular" was hopefully made by Achronos, exactly as it should have been. There is no hard and fast definition of either an "active member" or a "forum regular" that can apply universally, and thus the decision must be made by the head guy in charge. If he did make the decision, I doubt that he'll ever tell us his opinion of what he constitutes to be a "forum regular" (helps to avoid people spamming the site just to "keep their activity up" in case there's ever another similar gift to the Community like the F&F Beta), but as long as he has a solid definition in his head, then there's no problem.
P.S.
(I think that anybody who might be reading this thread looking for clues as to exactly how often they should post to be considered "active" or "regular" is taking the absolute wrong course of action. Do not count how many times you post -- post when and where you want to, if you want to. I do not think that anybody should be trying to keep their activity up just for the sake of keeping their activity up.)