Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 1823678)

ASSHATTERY:

Originally Posted by ace1914 (Post 1823683)

Please define an asshat for me so I can avoid being called one.

Originally Posted by saldana (Post 1823689)

just dont do anything stupid that intentionally pisses people off or annoys them

Originally Posted by Raiders Army (Post 1823695)

I don't put my FOFC title on my business card, FWIW. Maybe just me, but who cares?

Originally Posted by Raiders Army (Post 1823695)

I gotta say that if your post count showing by your name means so much to you, you need to get out more.

I don't put my FOFC title on my business card, FWIW. Maybe just me, but who cares?

Originally Posted by saldana (Post 1823697)

see...thats the difference...i just got new business cards printed...what the hell am i supposed to do with 1,000 cards that say "College Benchwarmer"

Originally Posted by Raiders Army (Post 1823704)

Wait a few years. I'm sure in a few years that the thresholds for titles will change and if you just lurk here and don't post you'll be back to College Benchwarmer. All you need is a little discipline.

C'mon, what's more important to you?

Originally Posted by cthomer5000 (Post 1823731)

This is a positive change. Long overdue.

Originally Posted by spleen1015 (Post 1823726)

What's worse?

People caring about post counts or Skydog caring about people caring about post counts?

Now I will never see 3000.

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 1823678)

A few things...



ASSHATTERY: While I was working on these changes, a few of you chose to act like asshats by abusing signatures and post reporting. As a result, you are facing temporary sanctions (one day).

Originally Posted by Buccaneer (Post 1823736)

+1

Originally Posted by SirFozzie (Post 1823755)

-7

Originally Posted by Schmidty (Post 1823770)

I don't give a crap about post counts or join date.

It's about the content of the post more than it is about the number of of inane post bolsters.

I think this is a good thing. I love FOFC, not my stature here.

Originally Posted by EagleFan (Post 1823769)

...and what appear to be mods who started childishly screwing with the numbers. The solution is to take away post numbers and slap people on the wrist who objected, much of it jokingly? That's some REALLY messed up logic.

Personally I think the mods who started screwing with the numbers to inflame the situation should be the ones facing some sort of penalty. They (or this person if it was just one) clearly abused their power just to be asshats.

Originally Posted by ace1914 (Post 1823683)

Please define an asshat for me so I can avoid being called one.

Originally Posted by Kodos (Post 1823791)

Now we ALL know how it must feel to be a werewolf.














ARROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 1823793)

Wrong. I was messing with different ways to hide the post count. I didn't want to go through the hassle of editing the postbit template for all of the dozen or so skins that are here, so I was playing with the idea of just counting posts for no forums, which would have reduced everyone's post count to zero. In that process, I did several rebuilds of post counts earlier this evening which caused, I'm sure, some pretty wild variations. (For example, in one iteration I intended to have posts count in no forums in one of the refreshes, but left off the dynasty forums and the soccer forum.) But then it was suggested to me that it might be good to have the titles around without the post counts, so I remembered the poll I had taken, and got rid of the rarely/never used templates, and just edited out the postcount stuff from postbits in the five that now remain.

So, bottom line: it was multiple rebuilds of post counts by me, not some rogue mod screwing around, that probably caused a lot of variance in post counts today.

Originally Posted by EagleFan (Post 1823810)

Overall the biggest problem here was people messing around and deleting threads. In the overall scheme of things how much does it matter that Lathum hit 10,000 or RendeR hit 6,000?

Originally Posted by EagleFan (Post 1823810)

It seemed odd that only RendeR's post counts were being drastically altered during this time period. It was obvious in the thread that only his were being drastically changed. Everyone was getting some flux but while other dropped just a couple hundred he dropped to near 0.

Overall the biggest problem here was people messing around and deleting threads. In the overall scheme of things how much does it matter that Lathum hit 10,000 or RendeR hit 6,000?

Personally I kind of like the post counts. I only know the major players on here for the most part and sometimes I have seen post from someone and not realized just how active they have been (though I had missed what they had been posting entirely) and see that someone who I though was just a lurker was actual an active member that I hadn't noticed.

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou (Post 1823819)

I'm fairly certain that mine dropped by, oh, 15,000 during that time. ;) Part of the changes depended on what forums you did or did not post in.

Agree on the deleted threads. It's almost a "tradition" now that it happens when someone starts one of those threads. I'd never really thought about it, but when I did, I couldn't think of a compelling reason to let users delete threads. It can be a royal pain to find and restore them if they pick the right ones. (I'm pretty sure that some are in effect lost forever just because we're not likely to find them.) It's quite uncommon for someone to double-post a thread, and even more uncommon for someone to regret a thread shortly after it's posted and want to delete it. In either case, they can PM me or any mod and we'll just take care of it.

Originally Posted by EagleFan (Post 1823830)

Ah, I thought the entire post count was wiped out, didn't realize I can still find it, just need to click the user's ID (sorry, was too lazy to do that other click before :) ).