- gamertag: [none]
- user homepage:
Well, I love this thread G. It’s a very good debate. Everyone was as civil and as eloquent as they could be. To top that off, it was very rational, and I have an affinity for logic and rational. The thing that impressed me the most was; g_English actually acknowledged all your points. He recognized the pros and cons of all your arguments, and he actually abdicated his argument. Everyone who contributed to this topic did display nothing but quality posts. This is a bit ironic, because the crux of this argument was eventually quality vs quantity. This thread in and of itself makes it seem as though a post count could happen here. However, the paramount point in this topic claims that exactly the opposite would happen if a post counter was implemented.
Maybe it’s just me, but that made me smile.
Now on topic.
For what can only be considered selfish reasons, I am against a post counter. I do believe that a post counter will cause quite a bit more spam, and I of course would have to be one of the people who had to deal with it. It’s my job, so I would be happy to do it, but if I'm going to be asked for my input here, I’ll give it to you. I don't want to deal with all the spam a post counter would generate. And I especially don't want to deal with all the spam that a special title or avatar would generate of it was given away based on a post counter.
I do have a bit of experience gauging the habits of the users on this site, and I think that in the end, we would all consider a post counter more a determent than a god-send. Newer members would regard anything that could be gained from increased participation as another rank that they need to ascend to the top of (especially if it had a numeric tracking record). That would cause a severe increase of spam, and just general nonsensical posts. I'd be locking more threads, and banning a lot more users if that happened.
I don't even want to go into the potential for elitism.
Although, the only one of us who really has any real decision making credentials has already said that custom avatars will never happen here, so I guess that's not even on the table anymore. Thank god. Special titles are still up in the air, but knowing Achronos, I doubt that any will ever be added. We don't really need any of that superfluous crap anyway. It’s nothing more than a separation from the rest of the community.
With all the made up "boundaries" people have already created in order to separate themselves from the community at large (i.e. Floodians, New Mombassians, MLG, etc) we don't need anything else that can cause divisions between the users on this site. Although I'm usually the last person who would ever support egalitarianism in the real world, I think that it works here. (This horrid site! Its made a hypocrite out of me!)
A hidden post counter could work I guess. Although, many of the problems that I listed above would come to fruition. Perhaps more actually, because no one could confirm or deny said post count. They would just lie about it, with little to no consequences. It would probably cause more than a few arguments, and all of those otherwise "good" members would then have to be blacklisted.
It’s just not worth the potential problems, IMHO.