Post Counting : Feedback wanted

Agreement with Andreas.

One different (but conceptually related) is the lifetime of post counts and/or average post counts per day.

There are a number of members who once contributed greatly, their efforts should be remembered and honored, but the ods of getting help from them today is greatly diminished.

There are those also who (although they have been long term members) have been contributing heavily for only a few months) [which when divided into their long membership gives a low post per day count].

If you are going to be editing the site it might be nice to add a "recent contribution" rating to each member. This would be the number of posts over a recent period of time (Only in the "counted" Forums.

Just a thought...

But the number of post per day is being the worst way to determine it...

I did not this to mean a "quality" type of rating, more of an indication of current involvement.

I agree that any type of counting arrangment rewards quantity rather than quality.

The "most accurate" method that I can think of, is also the highest overhead and most subjective. I believe that the cost/effort would also make it impractical. This method would be to have some group or panel review the content and apply a rating system.

For an open forum, like this I do not think this is a good idea, but I have seen it work sucessfully on a number of subscription/fee for service boards...

I also agree with the forum repartion given by Andreas. It seems the fairest as long as member status is just based on post count.

The best solution could be a mix between the post count, post frequency and a rating system (like in old forum).

Brad, do you have any idea when the next version vBulletin will come out?

Well, all I wanna say(I'm too tired!:cool:) is that any forum is useful, even the General Discussion forum.(my favorite one)
This is the same as the saying that goes, "Every trade has it's ace".

Now Brad. Let's get serious. I don't really care what you kinda chicken chop you eat for lunch or dinner, but really....since I contribute quite heavily to the General Discussion forum, you gotta reward me and others by lifting the ban on the General Discussion forum, especially now that the rating system is gone.

Besides, not every thread in the General Discussion forum is about nonsense. There's some with precious advice and such.
And for guys like me and even Elrond(who seldom participate in the Visual C++ programming forum but more in the GD forum), we actually belong to the GD forum.

Guys like Sam Hobbs, Andreas and Gabriel help out often in the Visual C++ Programming forum. So, that means they belong more to these forums and less in the GD forum. In that case, their posts are incremented quite often too.

But for guys like Simon666, Solar, me, (and even Elrond & occasionally CBasicNet), we participate quite heavily in the GD forum, and thus, we actually contribute to the forum too.
In turn, the GD forum is almost ours, in a sense. So, in that case, we have a right to see our posts incremented too!(since we don't contribute too much to the Visual C++ programming forum)

Anyway, it's high time you make me the SuperModerator of the General Discussion forum, Brad pal.
I like this forum the most outta the others, so I will try my best to do it.(besides, I don't think there's too much or anything serious to do in these forums too....just need to view threads/posts and see if there's a fight etc.) :):cool::)

Originally posted by Xeon
Now Brad. Let's get serious. I don't really care what you kinda chicken chop you eat for lunch or dinnerNonsense such as that cannot be rewarded. It is better to ignore it than to criticize it but it cannot be rewarded.

Originally posted by Xeon
especially now that the rating system is gone.Is the number of posts important to you? If so then how is it important to you? What does it do for you?

Originally posted by Xeon
if I post nonsense, I did contribute to this forumI think (and hope) I can speak for most members and say that most members do not want nonsense posted in these forums.