:angry: Look this is the 3rd f*cking time (over the years) I've been ripped of my 5th star. And I'm missing about 700 posts off my post count. What's going on?
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:angry: Look this is the 3rd f*cking time (over the years) I've been ripped of my 5th star. And I'm missing about 700 posts off my post count. What's going on?
It's just a post count bro. What's the big deal? :ermm:
Sorry, but I'm just sick of reading peoples threads about post counts. Seems kinda silly to me.
I think we should take post counts away altogether and add rep instead.
Your really missing 700 posts? Hmm... that's weird...
Rep is stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skizo
Post counts actually mean something, they represent how many posts you have made.
Stars just go up wiht the amount of posts you have. So what. If you want more stars post more, try to make it helpful posts too.
@zapjb your post count probably went down because it wasn't right before. It is now a real count of your total posts.
No I don't think so. Besides I want to grandfathered in. I've been here almost 3yrs. Enjoyed the place even contributed & helped other members. FFS!
Rep isn't stupid. How do you figure. It can represent the amount of help that you've actually given.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossco
You say that "post counts actually mean something". They represent the amount of posts someone actually has, nothing more. They represent for me, over 1,000 bullshit, unhelpful, comical posts in the lounge alone. Post counts mean nothing.
I'm quite sure that zapjb had more posts.
Hey Zap , I'll vouch for you but thats kind of pointless . You contribute more to this board that you know. Don't worry about it, just discouver the lounge !
Look I'm not delusional. I had close to 3000 posts if not a couple more. I just want my 5th star back. I said I've gotten it ripped here 3x, but it might done 4-5x. It's fn ridiculous.
Actually no they don't. I used to think they did until I discovered all the BS spamming going on in the lounge.Quote:
Originally Posted by rossco
Now there's conversations going on such as...
Post #1 :lol:
Post #2 :unsure:
Post #3 :w00t: FTW!!!
Post #4 :dry: Hmmm
Post count should mean something if it's constructive, is what I think you meant to say.
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Originally Posted by zapjb
No argument there I know you did . Does n't seem fair to me . ;)
OK. So WHO can give me BACK (for the 4-5x) MY 5th star? Which mod or an admin. or Brian? Who?
Noone.
Its an automated thing. The only way you'll get a fifth star right now is ifthey change the requirments.
Seems when the Lounge posts were set to count again and the board was set to recalculate post counts some members came up with a lower number for some reason. This could be do to posts left from IPB or just a glitch. I could easily give you the fifth star back by just setting your post count to 2,500 although it would be fudging and considering your only a little over 50 posts short of that I think it woulkd be better to just get it back as it will come soon enough anyway. We all know your a great member and you shouldnt stress over it although I agree with you in the fact that its very annoying...
For me, the real concern isn't of the absence of the 5th star itself, but for the valuable posts which made up that star.
If there were the requisite number of posts, wtf happened to them? :huh:
Yeah, you're right. There should be some sort of witless moron filter to keep these people from posting in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
Of course, that would preclude you from making any lounge posts - but ya gotta take the rough with the smooth.
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Of course you're one to judge as you're one of the main contributers to posting nonsense. You can try and single me out every time I say anything about the lounge manker, but the fact remains that you amongst others spam the forum with mindless BS. Deal with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
It's an off-topic section.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
Some people post about their lives, some people post interesting interweb things, some people post utter drivel - but everyone posts stuff that they want to talk about. Most of what you see as spam, others see as entertainment.
Only a witless idiot, such as yourself, wouldn't be able to grasp this simple concept. If you don't like it then don't post there. As to singling you out each time you stereotype people that post in the lounge as idiots - I will continue to do so, same goes for anyone who suggests likewise.
The fact is that you can't post there very often because you don't have the necessary wit or intelligence to participate properly. That's fine, no-one will hold it against you but there are a lot of very clever members who post in there - far more intelligent than you - to insult them and others with your continual snide comments, which actually only relate to a handful of people, is quite honestly pathetic.
Why do you keep attacking the lounge folk. I`m sure it say's off topic discussions. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
Enough of that thread hijacking. Where are my 700 posts? And my fn 5th star? And did this happen to anyone else? I want em back!
Who says I'm attacking the lounge folk? :unsure:
I'm saying that post count (answeing rossco's statement) is not neccessarily a good thing, with regards to the inane posting that seems to spiral upwards from spammers. The lounge is a prime example of this.
If you want to be pedantic, then you shall have it.
The lounge: "Don't be fooled by cheap imitations, this is the original Off-Topic forum. Come on in and talk about absolutely anything (within our board rules)."
Does this mean it's been given a green light to become a spammers haven?
The rules do state "3. Spamming is not permitted and will be monitored; please keep all your posts as constructive as possible. Excessive spamming may be deleted."
Again, I could probably trawl through 90% of certain members posts and find they are in fact, in breach of said rules.
Me attacking the "lounge folk"? No, just being realistic.
Edit* Sorry for thread-jacking zapjb. It wasn't intentional.
I've just got my fifth star, don't mess it up for me. :dry:Quote:
Originally Posted by zapjb
Get rid of all post count FFS. In and outside the Lounge. I'm sure there is an alternative.
Give people stars for the actual time they've been members.
It would solve a lot of crying. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Guillaume
I don't understand why people get upset about post count's. To me a post a post, FFs it's only a number. Is someone gonna win prize or something. :unsure:
OH NOSSS!!!! You don't have 5 stars on an interweb forum, quick call the police, infact screw that, this is going straight to the President.
Pendantic, you say. I can do that too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
If it's in the rules and the posts are not deleted by the moderating team. Then the offending posts cannot be spam.
Stands to reason.
You can trawl thro' the posts if you like, but you're not a mod so cannot judge what is spam and what is not. Any and all posts that are not deleted have been deemed, by implication, by the mod team not to be spam.
So, there's your pedantic answer, Samuel. Officially, there is no spam in the lounge.
Of course. I'm stupid and you're smart. Everyone is more intelligent than me.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
I guess you've won this discussion manker... I mean heaven forbid someone looks at every single thread / post you've attributed to and finds not one with a single ounce of constructive insight.
Judging from your total post count vs lounge post count, I can see why this coversation affects you so much. If I have offended you and your spamming ways, I sincerely apologise.
Oh, and insulting me (or any other member) for that matter is against the rules of the forum. You probably haven't visited there yet, as it's not in the lounge, but the URL is here -> http://filesharingtalk.com/?page=boardrules
Yeah, it happened to Gre1 too - he lost 1000 posts and his blue/green stars. Ross said that his previous count must have been wrong - we lost thousand of posts because of corrupt databases and forum software changes. Your post count must have also been incorrect and since Ross re-checked the members' post counts, that's been sorted. No posts have actually been deleted.Quote:
Originally Posted by zapjb
Just make 40 odd more posts to get your star back. It's easy - I did that yesterday morning :lookaroun
Like they have 5 years to go through every single post / thread to deem what is acceptable and what is not :dry:Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Most of the onus is on the posters themselves... it's almost as if they know nothing will be done about it, thus start spamming away. This forum really has gone downhill. Long gone are the days of constructive posting, to be overtaken by mindless drivel about i have more posts than snny. I guess some people get turned on or excited by the strangest things.
I only insult witless idiots. It's unfortunate that you fall into that catagory, but what can ya do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
I'm not really bothered if you think what I post is spam or whether you think it's clever and insightful - the fact is that I enjoy talking to most people here and will continue to do so in the manner I always have.
Btw, what in the world does this mean:Are you trying to say that none of my posts have contained insight? That's taking it a bit far, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samuel
I see that you've muddled up the words attribute and contribute - yet it still doesn't make sense. Unless you are saying that each and every one of my posts are spam.
I'm quite sure that you're not so, please, enlighten the forum as a whole and relate to us in terms that do not equate to witless drivel.
So, not only are you attacking the people who post in the lounge but you've started on the moderating team for not keeping the forum free from posts that you don't like. Nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Samurai
It takes me an hour or so to read the back posts in the lounge, I do it while smoking a cigarette and having a coffee in the morning before I start work - there are about 10 individuals in the mod team, I'm quite sure that at least one of them reads each message posted in the lounge. It doesn't take five years. If there was a message deemed as spam, one of them would remove it.
If this forum is so bad, why do you keep posting on it. I seem to recall you took a break from the forum recently for about 3 months (was it?) - maybe another is due until we can meet your lofty ideals.
No-one noticed the last time you left, anyhow.
I'm not saying that post count is important.
I'm saying it means something just in the way that it's a calculation of the number of posts you have. That's all.
The whole reason i did the recount is that I wanted all post counts to be ACURATE. Otherwise it isn't a post count, is it?
zapjb, read this: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showp...1&postcount=31
It might explain a little better why your post count went down...maybe.
I had 5k+ and 5 stars at one point, its not all that important imo
I noticed this thread, and then I looked at my post count, and I also noticed that I am missing about 100 posts or so. I dont really care, just thought I would throw it out there :P
I like the idea lounge posts count again , its good for new members as I said I don't pay much attention to them but........ noticed I'm 4 away from 5000. that can't be right ! :huh:
Right in the sence , wow I post that much ? :lol:
Yeah, you post quite a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by peat moss
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Originally Posted by Virtualbody1234
Your point ? :) Now I'm curious what was your point VB ? Bad info I quote or just bad advice ?
When I first came here there was this focus on KL and filesharing. Now it is something else.
It is not insulting to say to that the Lounge is full of spamming mindless BS. It is.
However it is allowed and it is The Lounge ffs.
Whether I deem it entertaining for others is not for me to decide. Someone gets enjoyment out of it and it may be the whole of their life. :sick: I get some enjoyment from it myself but I'm not really into chatting about nothing as much as others but oh well.
My personal opinion: zap, STFU it's not a real fucking star. :ermm:
Maybe someone could reduce my post count to 0. I don't GAF!!
Good posts!Quote:
Originally Posted by peat moss
I really think that some people here take the board way to serious.