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| 14 Mar 2013 04:50 PM |
don't make post counts visible to anybody
it's become increasingly clear that the post count statistic serves little more of a point than to drive people to spam in an attempt to make themselves more noteworthy by becoming one of the site's top posters. case in point, ventus48539, better known as ventus. recently he began a campaign of spam in an attempt to usurp fastlane250 - another example of spamming for glory - for the position of top poster. obviously, the staff have banned him for this a few times, but it's clear he won't stop until he's the top poster, and i don't think he cares much for his account, so even if he were permabanned i doubt it'd stop him.
in any case, ventus is just one of many users who are doing this, and as of late the number of people who do seem to be increasing. with that said, my proposal to counter this is, as mentioned before, to make post count not visible to people.
now, if you don't feel like reading all that, here's a short and sweet version.
the post count statistic only serves to drive people to spam, remove it or make it invisible.
thanks. |
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| 14 Mar 2013 05:11 PM |
a legitimately good suggestion and nobody posts on it about sixteen other horrible suggestions and people more than happily reply to those
oh roblox forums, why must you do such cruel things |
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| 14 Mar 2013 05:14 PM |
............ ~This isn't a comment, it's an image on your screen~ |
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| 14 Mar 2013 05:27 PM |
| it's good to see this idea actually does have some support |
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| 14 Mar 2013 05:44 PM |
>No support. What about all the people who have been foruming for a long time and the high forum post count is their only reward? are you seriously implying that rewarding people for making lots of posts on an internet forum is a good reason to not implement improvements
in any case, their problem, not mine.
>Now you just want to take that? yes, because all the post count has ever done is encourage people to spam for high post counts, and nothing else.
>No. yes. |
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| 14 Mar 2013 05:45 PM |
| Or give users the option to show their post count? |
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| 14 Mar 2013 05:47 PM |
>Or give users the option to show their post count? i don't think that's a viable option, since most people would likely enable such a thing if it existed, thus solving nothing |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:13 PM |
| i think now would be a good time to revive this |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:27 PM |
| Who cares about the views? It's not like you get tix from it. |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:30 PM |
| It appears you have 50 times more views than posts. |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:33 PM |
| I couldn't support this more. Perhaps we should even remove the post count entirely, instead of just hiding it from everyone other than the poster (unless you meant to hide it from the poster, too). Then, forums would be used for what they're meant for: discussion boards. You post because you have something to say, not to drive up a number. |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:38 PM |
lolno. if ventus gets perm'd... LOL TIME TO SPAM LIKE 20K POSTS AGAIN OLO not gonna happen ok
-dat troll keeds gawt a prawblem |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:49 PM |
| The top commenter thing is broken anyways and people use it to determine things on legit people like rank for groups so no. |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:54 PM |
>lolno. if ventus gets perm'd... LOL TIME TO SPAM LIKE 20K POSTS AGAIN OLO not gonna happen ok what
>The top commenter thing is broken anyways and people use it to determine things on legit people like rank for groups so no. double what |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:55 PM |
Huh, I actually like this idea.
For that matter it'd be nice if we didn't display join dates either... |
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| 14 Mar 2013 06:57 PM |
| Top poster hasn't been updated since like 07? I saw an 06er with 107 posts in the top 50 so, it's a bit outdated and who cares about spammers, report em. No support |
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| 14 Mar 2013 07:00 PM |
>Huh, I actually like this idea.
For that matter it'd be nice if we didn't display join dates either... kinda nice to see the mods do still listen really i think the join dates are less of an issue but then i haven't really focused on them in years |
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| 14 Mar 2013 07:00 PM |
| if we didn't have post counts; we wouldn't have a mountain of nerds glorifying their 50,000 useless posts of 'lawl' or ':D' |
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| 14 Mar 2013 07:05 PM |
Support. The forum has become a waterfall of people spamming thinking that forums are for trying to boost post count and not have actually solid, legitimate discussion. I haven't seen actual chitchat on this place for years and post counts are the direct cause.
@MCA
Joindates are a bit obstructive, especially when there's a hot argument going on. Not nearly as much of an issue, but I won't be complaining if they go out. |
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| 14 Mar 2013 07:21 PM |
bit you logged on just to support this suggestion
support |
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Bitminer
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| 14 Mar 2013 07:23 PM |
@1robo
i don't come on roblox much any more but once i got word of this i had to break my hiatus since all this post count glorification is the reason i stopped coming on in the first place, lol |
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