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[Melvang]

New Members also does not count towards post count.

Understandable  What about setting it up to where you can't post in any of the forum sections until they at least make a "Hi my name is..." type post in the new members area?

[rowdy]

A surprising number of new members' first posts are in the keyboard section, asking what type of keyboard to get.

[YoungMichael88]

I don't think we need to turn this place into reddit or Facebook with "like" buttons or up/down votes (thank god we don't have those) But since people aren't using heatware as much as they should we should have our own "heatware" for GH. Or how eBay has a "leave feedback" option. This should be for trades and sales only tho. Our personal opinion of someone based on topics or input shouldn't come into account. The minute I see "if this post gets 100 likes ill do ______" on GH I'm outa here.

[Melvang]

Would it be possible to put a requirement to read a stick regarding some basic info?  Such as no switches are better than any other switch for what ever task be it data entry, programming, or gaming.  Could put in some other basic ettiqute stuffs in there as well.  Also a good thing in there would be to ask new member to read at least the OP in stickies before posting in forum sections?

I don't think we need to turn this place into reddit or Facebook with "like" buttons or up/down votes (thank god we don't have those) But since people aren't using heatware as much as they should we should have our own "heatware" for GH. Or how eBay has a "leave feedback" option. This should be for trades and sales only tho. Our personal opinion of someone based on topics or input shouldn't come into account. The minute I see "if this post gets 100 likes ill do ______" on GH I'm outa here.

Hence my idea for limiting how many times a person can like a post.  Once per person per post ever.

[rowdy]

Another forum I am a member on has one section where each thread is a member's name, and in that thread you are supposed to post feedback about sales and trades.  No other posts are permitted.  Then if you want to trade with someone, just read their feedback thread.

There is a possibility that a system like that would be open to abuse e.g. people claiming something nasty against someone they don't like, and disputes might occur if one feels cheated and the other doesn't see it the same way.

But that other forum is much smaller than GH and most members are very well behaved.  (Not saying GHers are not well-behaved, but there have been a few who sow dissent amongst the ranks).

[YoungMichael88]

Hence my idea for limiting how many times a person can like a post.  Once per person per post ever.
[/quote]Thats exactly what I mean. You can only like a post once on Facebook too and it just becomes a giant fishing derby for "likes" and is probably one of the most annoying things ever. "If 1000 people like this post my girlfriend says she will have sex with me" "If 1000 people like this post I won't rape my dog tonight". This place would be flooded with that kind of crap. Do you really want that here? I certainly don't. (Okay the dog one is an exaggeration but you know what I mean haha)

[Melvang]

Irregardless of what happens based on this thread you can't please everyone.  I'm not really worried about it.  If people get that worked up about it just do away with all of it.  I would have to see it become like the ElitistJerks.com forums where it seem like you can get banned for using a : instead of ;. 

[noisyturtle]

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[Tym]

Hence my idea for limiting how many times a person can like a post.  Once per person per post ever.

Thats exactly what I mean. You can only like a post once on Facebook too and it just becomes a giant fishing derby for "likes" and is probably one of the most annoying things ever. "If 1000 people like this post my girlfriend says she will have sex with me" "If 1000 people like this post I won't rape my dog tonight". This place would be flooded with that kind of crap. Do you really want that here? I certainly don't. (Okay the dog one is an exaggeration but you know what I mean haha)
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I don't think this would happen because we're not all morons.

[SpAmRaY]

Well to me post count helps to distinguish who is active or not. I may be more inclined to trade with someone who I know uses GH daily rather than someone who's been here since 2011 with only 100 posts. It tells me that when I send a PM I'll hear back from them quickly or not. For this reason posts should definitely count in ALL threads. Yes GH is a keyboard forum but that doesn't mean we MUST talk about keyboards or that any other subject/opinion is less important or meaningful. If post count doesn't matter to you then why would you even care if "YGPM" or "GLWS" or "^ +1" counts or not? It still shows the members activity. If you truly don't care about post counts then you really shouldn't care if we have them or not.

I dunno, if off-topic posts counted I would probably be somewhere in the 3k region, but then having 3k posts from off-topic discussion is only a little better than bumping your count with GLWS spam in the classifieds as it has nothing to do with keyboards (usually.) Then again, who the **** cares about post count? When I trade with someone I usually check their date of sign up.

If you look at your profile and view posts you can go to the last page and see how many times you have posted everywhere.

[The_Ed]

Well to me post count helps to distinguish who is active or not. I may be more inclined to trade with someone who I know uses GH daily rather than someone who's been here since 2011 with only 100 posts. It tells me that when I send a PM I'll hear back from them quickly or not. For this reason posts should definitely count in ALL threads. Yes GH is a keyboard forum but that doesn't mean we MUST talk about keyboards or that any other subject/opinion is less important or meaningful. If post count doesn't matter to you then why would you even care if "YGPM" or "GLWS" or "^ +1" counts or not? It still shows the members activity. If you truly don't care about post counts then you really shouldn't care if we have them or not.

I dunno, if off-topic posts counted I would probably be somewhere in the 3k region, but then having 3k posts from off-topic discussion is only a little better than bumping your count with GLWS spam in the classifieds as it has nothing to do with keyboards (usually.) Then again, who the **** cares about post count? When I trade with someone I usually check their date of sign up.

If you look at your profile and view posts you can go to the last page and see how many times you have posted everywhere.

Nope, there are hundreds of my posts that aren't there because of their Ripster purge.

[SpAmRaY]

Well to me post count helps to distinguish who is active or not. I may be more inclined to trade with someone who I know uses GH daily rather than someone who's been here since 2011 with only 100 posts. It tells me that when I send a PM I'll hear back from them quickly or not. For this reason posts should definitely count in ALL threads. Yes GH is a keyboard forum but that doesn't mean we MUST talk about keyboards or that any other subject/opinion is less important or meaningful. If post count doesn't matter to you then why would you even care if "YGPM" or "GLWS" or "^ +1" counts or not? It still shows the members activity. If you truly don't care about post counts then you really shouldn't care if we have them or not.

I dunno, if off-topic posts counted I would probably be somewhere in the 3k region, but then having 3k posts from off-topic discussion is only a little better than bumping your count with GLWS spam in the classifieds as it has nothing to do with keyboards (usually.) Then again, who the **** cares about post count? When I trade with someone I usually check their date of sign up.

If you look at your profile and view posts you can go to the last page and see how many times you have posted everywhere.

Nope, there are hundreds of my posts that aren't there because of their Ripster purge.

  sadly I missed out on the experience that is ripster

So looking at your posts in your profile will show all your posts (except those that have been deleted)

[The_Ed]

I believe all the Ripster purge posts (including my own) still exist in a separate part of GH as right after the purge I noticed that my post count was a few hundred higher than the number of posts I could see when I clicked "show posts". Even now that I've been posting in places that don't count all the time I still haven't made up that difference. My post count is 1850, but "show posts" shows 1821. If they ever make it so that all posts count I'll be able to see the exact number of my posts that they have effectively deleted (but are actually hidden).

[SpAmRaY]

I believe all the Ripster purge posts (including my own) still exist in a separate part of GH as right after the purge I noticed that my post count was a few hundred higher than the number of posts I could see when I clicked "show posts". Even now that I've been posting in places that don't count all the time I still haven't made up that difference. My post count is 1850, but "show posts" shows 1821. If they ever make it so that all posts count I'll be able to see the exact number of my posts that they have effectively deleted (but are actually hidden).

In other words....it sounds like post inception.....

I for one think we should just show all the posts since we all agree the numbers don't matter.

[oTurtlez]

I believe all the Ripster purge posts (including my own) still exist in a separate part of GH as right after the purge I noticed that my post count was a few hundred higher than the number of posts I could see when I clicked "show posts". Even now that I've been posting in places that don't count all the time I still haven't made up that difference. My post count is 1850, but "show posts" shows 1821. If they ever make it so that all posts count I'll be able to see the exact number of my posts that they have effectively deleted (but are actually hidden).

In other words....it sounds like post inception.....

I for one think we should just show all the posts since we all agree the numbers don't matter.

Agreed. Show all or show none.