Post count

[Black Comb]

All forums have this, but some only count posts that are in "relevant" sections.

e.g. on another (non-beekeeping) forum a post in the Next Word in Your Head section would not accumulate your count as it's seen as not stricty relevant to the forum and would be a way of quickly bumping up your count.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Heather]

Who cares what the count is- do people really try to 'bump up' their number - saddo's

 

[darrenperrett]

Who are you calling -

 

[darrenperrett]

a saddo?

 

[Heather]

People who are even aware as to their posting count, and try to 'bump it up' that's who-
What does it matter - and those with a history of many posts may not be good bee keepers - just verbose -

 

[Black Comb]

I raised this because I personally don't think that putting a single word into the next word in your head section should count as a post.

If the post counts are irrelevant, why are they shown?

 

[taff..]

as Heather said, post count (or lack of) is absolutely no indication to the persons knowlege or ability, that is as true on a beekeeping forum as it is on a kniting and green tea forum

 

[Black Comb]

I'm not saying it is, but why is it shown?

 

[Hombre]

Many people take a degree of comfort from statistics, which may mean different things to different people. It may be used as an indicator of participation in the forum. Taken with the perceived quality of an individual's posts, they may give a glimpse into the cranial void which is much akin to a super-bee-space between the ears or an understanding of the degree of cogent discussion and assistance that has been offered over the period since registering on the forum.

It's a bit like logs on a computer. If you don't find the content useful, then don't bother with it, but equally ensure it's there for those that are able to make some useful interpretations from the information; whatever they may care to deduce from it.

The direct answer is, it is shown, because it is useful to some people.

 

[Black Comb]

Thank you.
And here's me thinking it was something to do with search engine optimisation and that one day I would appear on the front page of google.

 

[Tom Bick]

I think

 

[Tom Bick]

I agree

 

[Tom Bick]

with you Hombre

 

[Heather]

Don't start!!

 

[Baggyone]

An oddity is that when we look at the referrals for my work website more come from here than any search engine. My signature works but is completely irrelevant to beekeeping.

 

[Hombre]

Baggyone, there is an old saying that goes: "If you have a fleet, don't advertise . . ."

Remember Pearl Harbour.

 

[BKF Admin]

oh my god we are leaking page rank to a sausage maker now!,admin needs to go lie down.

 

[SixFooter]

Nothing to add, but this will up my score by one.

 

[BKF Admin]

Seeing as my postcount is so high new members may think I am an expert at beekeeping rather than just taking s**t all the time.

I think its time I added a member account for myself.

Any ideas of a good name I could have (That's cleanish)?

 

[VEG]

cant think of any clean ones