If posts don't count in the OT why do they here?

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by PLATO


What would be the point of having a post count? When I am looking for advice on something to do with a CIV game, then the guy who has "diety" under his name gets a bit more scruitiny than the guy who has "settler".
Likewise, when we are talking about the community here, I pay more attention to the same because I know he has been around here a while and should be closer in touch with the pulsebeat of this community. If a "settler" starts saying change this and change that, is anyone going to really listen? If a "diety" does it then it at least gets a good read and a little thought from me. I think that post counts and titles are a good thing. One of the reasons we have mods with PCR power is to make sure that a spammer doesn't reach those levels simply through spamming.

Well most of the emperors and Deities here, got their titles by posting in the Off Topic or democracy game forums. Neither of which can be said to give them any credibility in game related matters. But I see where you're coming from

Asmodean

[Ming]

You forget that most of the deities and emperors were originally on topic posters... and while yes, some of their posts came from the OTF, the majority are hard core gamers who have been here a long time.

[Asmodean]

Yeah....it may be that I'm looking at it through the wrong glasses. When I registered at Apolyton, there wasn't much going on, except in the Off topic, SMAC and Civ 2 forums, with off topic (most notably the coffee shop) being a major source for +1's. But sure, everybody here, including myself are gamers.

Asmodean

[rah]

Yes, many of us were posting on-topic totally unaware that the OTF even existed. I didn't visit there until probably a year after I started here. But then CIV II forums were hot back then.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Ming
You forget that most of the deities and emperors were originally on topic posters... and while yes, some of their posts came from the OTF, the majority are hard core gamers who have been here a long time.

Some of them got hurt by taking a sabbatical for several months before the policy changed.

[TCO]

BTW, I can remember when Ming mostly hung in the on-topic and was rare in the OT.

[Ecthy]

and that must be where he got all his posts from: on topic spam!

[TCO]

His posting rate went way up after starting to moderate. And so did his OT prescence. But I thought then and still do, that Ming was a brilliant choice for moderator. It was a different thing back then. Very hard for anyone to be accepted as a mod. The resistance is long broken now. But at that time, it was very laissez faire.

[rah]

Yea, the resistance is so broken that I can be a mod.

[Skanky Burns]

Well most of the emperors and Deities here, got their titles by posting in the Off Topic or democracy game forums.

Not really. Many of the newer Emperors and Kings got their post count mostly from on-topic discussion of Civ3 and games released since then that were covered by this site.

[TCO]

Originally posted by rah
Yea, the resistance is so broken that I can be a mod.

It's more like we've finally seduced you into the open. Ming was quicker to hang with the OT sluts.

[rah]

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by rah


I think it did, but no scientific research to prove it.

The style of threads certainly changed, but I'm not so sure about the overall volume declining that much.

You did stop seeing as many threads that consisting of 100's of one word responses.

That strikes me more as a moderation issue than as a spam post count issue. If all mods left the OT for a week (or maybe even less) I think you'd come back to lots of pointless spam like that.

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by Big Crunch

That strikes me more as a moderation issue than as a spam post count issue. If all mods left the OT for a week (or maybe even less) I think you'd come back to lots of pointless spam like that.

Agreed. Area 25, and, to a lesser degree, Area 19 proved that given the chance to spam, posters will do so. Not all posters, to be sure. But enough that the forum will experience a change of culture.

Asmodean

[Skanky Burns]

But posts in those areas counted, so that doesn't prove that posters will spam for spam's sake as opposed to spam for +1's.