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Subject: No visible post count here?
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Why is there not a visible post count under our name in this forum???

  • 07.20.2006 2:15 PM PDT
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When they first started using this type of forum (an Ideal Science forum), the users would spam the forums with pointless posts just to get their post count up (a user named stosh was especially bad at this), and therefore they took it away.

Why they spammed the forums so much to get a higher post count? Well, some people seem to think that having a lot of posts means you're better then those who doesn't, but as we all know, that's not the case.

  • 07.20.2006 2:24 PM PDT
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well, all you gotta do is give them a warning and reset their count. Then, if they keep it up, permanently ban them.

  • 07.20.2006 2:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: BULLET2THEBRAIN
well, all you gotta do is give them a warning and reset their count. Then, if they keep it up, permanently ban them.


The Problem is that Bungie.net has over a million users. There would be an increase in workload for the mods as they would have to spend time giving lots of people warnings and resetting lots of counters. It's just easier to bypass the entire issue and not have any post counters.

I've never understood why having a post counter is good, or even useful. It just usually leads to people spamming to get their count up and people claiming to be better than other users because they have a higher post count.

It's the quality of a users posts that matter, not the quantity.


[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 2:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: BULLET2THEBRAIN
well, all you gotta do is give them a warning and reset their count. Then, if they keep it up, permanently ban them.

Only one problem.

We're nearing our 1,900,000th account. We have a handful of moderators. If we can systematically avoid an entire problem instead of fixing it and addressing it on a person-by-person basis? We do.

Plus, what does it show? Only how many times someone has hit the "submit" button. It gives no indication of the quality or value of those posts. Spammers would have numbers as high or higher than really valued members.

No, you think that Halo 2 ranks are pointless and the Leaderboards were a mess? Imagine people using this as a text-based version of MatchMaking and attempting to "boost". No, no thank you.

Wait, Recon, would it be possible to get the soul to blacklist people that have the same IP address as another user? If so that would greatly decrease the number of people on these forums. Yes, I know the soul is just a program made by the bungie, and that bungie employees may log onto this account. But wouldn't this be possible? Many, Many people have more than one account. I was one of them till I deleted the other 3 or so.

  • 07.20.2006 2:47 PM PDT
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Wow. 1,900,000 people. Just wow.

  • 07.20.2006 2:50 PM PDT
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Posted by: M3 Roki7
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: BULLET2THEBRAIN
well, all you gotta do is give them a warning and reset their count. Then, if they keep it up, permanently ban them.

Only one problem.

We're nearing our 1,900,000th account. We have a handful of moderators. If we can systematically avoid an entire problem instead of fixing it and addressing it on a person-by-person basis? We do.

Plus, what does it show? Only how many times someone has hit the "submit" button. It gives no indication of the quality or value of those posts. Spammers would have numbers as high or higher than really valued members.

No, you think that Halo 2 ranks are pointless and the Leaderboards were a mess? Imagine people using this as a text-based version of MatchMaking and attempting to "boost". No, no thank you.

Wait, Recon, would it be possible to get the soul to blacklist people that have the same IP address as another user? If so that would greatly decrease the number of people on these forums. Yes, I know the soul is just a program made by the bungie, and that bungie employees may log onto this account. But wouldn't this be possible? Many, Many people have more than one account. I was one of them till I deleted the other 3 or so.


IP bans don't work well. Many people have dynamic IPs that change all the time, so the IP ban would only work for a short amount of time and may also unintentionally ban several other people who have done nothing wrong.

And some people may have more than one account so they can check Halo 2 stats for more than one Xbox live account.

  • 07.20.2006 2:53 PM PDT
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Rememer, alot of them are duplicates.

  • 07.20.2006 2:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: Evil Fluffy
Wow. 1,900,000 people. Just wow.


Yeah, I know. I bet only around 200 post regularly here.

  • 07.20.2006 2:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: M3 Roki7
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: BULLET2THEBRAIN
well, all you gotta do is give them a warning and reset their count. Then, if they keep it up, permanently ban them.

Only one problem.

We're nearing our 1,900,000th account. We have a handful of moderators. If we can systematically avoid an entire problem instead of fixing it and addressing it on a person-by-person basis? We do.

Plus, what does it show? Only how many times someone has hit the "submit" button. It gives no indication of the quality or value of those posts. Spammers would have numbers as high or higher than really valued members.

No, you think that Halo 2 ranks are pointless and the Leaderboards were a mess? Imagine people using this as a text-based version of MatchMaking and attempting to "boost". No, no thank you.

Wait, Recon, would it be possible to get the soul to blacklist people that have the same IP address as another user? If so that would greatly decrease the number of people on these forums. Yes, I know the soul is just a program made by the bungie, and that bungie employees may log onto this account. But wouldn't this be possible? Many, Many people have more than one account. I was one of them till I deleted the other 3 or so.


IP bans don't work well. Many people have dynamic IPs that change all the time, so the IP ban would only work for a short amount of time and may also unintentionally ban several other people who have done nothing wrong.

And some people may have more than one account so they can check Halo 2 stats for more than one Xbox live account.

True about the IP ban. But, what about the people that have a duplicate account with no gamertag?

  • 07.20.2006 2:55 PM PDT
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Posted by: M3 Roki7
Rememer, alot of them are duplicates.


Well let's just say a million of them are duplicates, even if that is a lot. Still though, that's 900,000 real people. That's a helluva lot to me.

  • 07.20.2006 3:04 PM PDT
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Not as much, would be less crouded if you ask me.

  • 07.20.2006 3:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: Seven is Darker
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Wow. 1,900,000 people. Just wow.


Yeah, I know. I bet only around 200 post regularly here.


Ya I know people join bungie and don't do crap on the forums but take up space. I am just glad that half of those peoples accounts get deleted. The other half are people who log on like once a month for no reason being. Ticks me off. Anyway a post counter would be cool. But ya I have been there done that I have learned from experience it isn't really a big deal. However having a posting history would be cool.

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  • 07.20.2006 7:30 PM PDT
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Ya I know people join bungie and don't do crap on the forums but take up space. I am just glad that half of those peoples accounts get deleted. The other half are people who log on like once a month for no reason being. Ticks me off.

You'd rather they ALL posted on the forums?!

Well I guess you're not sitting in the moderator chair, but I just spat food everywhere.

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  • 07.20.2006 8:12 PM PDT

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Thinking that you are popular on the Internet because of how many post's you have is like putting your hand on a stove, idiotic and embarassing.

  • 07.20.2006 8:18 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

Posted by: Seven is Darker
Posted by: Evil Fluffy
Wow. 1,900,000 people. Just wow.


Yeah, I know. I bet only around 200 post regularly here.
Eheh..no. Bungie.net is not one of your small little Invision Powerboards. Hundreds of THousands of uders log on and off each day, and there are many more posts than that each day. Lots of activity.

And there is no post count because it would lead to wide spread post whoring...somethign the mods would love so much...

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  • 07.20.2006 8:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: Darkness Howls
And there is no post count because it would lead to wide spread post whoring...somethign the mods would love so much...


Post whoring you say? If I were to become a post pimp then I could make quite a lot of cash from post whores.....Hmm.....

  • 07.21.2006 12:58 AM PDT
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I'd prefer not having the post counter. Why? Because I don't need some jerk telling how my opinion doesn't count because I didn’t post as many times as him. I already had someone treat me like dirt once because of my join date, I don't really want something similar like that to happen again.

  • 07.21.2006 1:18 AM PDT

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a post counter would only reinforce how much of a loser i am.

  • 07.21.2006 2:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
1,900,000th account.
There are no words to describe this.

  • 07.21.2006 2:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: Recon Number 54
1,900,000th account.
There are no words to describe this.


Yeah, wow! Lol

  • 07.21.2006 2:32 AM PDT

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Posted by: b00m_headshot
Ya I know people join bungie and don't do crap on the forums but take up space. I am just glad that half of those peoples accounts get deleted. The other half are people who log on like once a month for no reason being. Ticks me off.

You'd rather they ALL posted on the forums?!

Well I guess you're not sitting in the moderator chair, but I just spat food everywhere.

-TGP-


No Just post for often some people post like twice a month and waste their membership.

-BH-

[Edited on 7/21/2006]

  • 07.21.2006 8:28 AM PDT