It's not just the spammers who are affected. Everyone is. No one is getting post counts in OT. Myself included.
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This is a very bad idea. Spammers often spam to increase their post counts. If they cannot increase their post counts by posting in the OT, they will post in the on-topic forums. Even if they attempt to make their posts slightly relevant to the topic, the overall quality of the on-topic forums will be degraded.
MurgatroydOne year at Apolyton with the same username and location!
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Rah is right. If you keep the post counts but discount any posts made in the OTF this will just make the spammers flood over to the on-topic forums. Either remove post counts and titles together, or let the spammers have their fun in OTF.
onepaul - why should this thread be locked?!
Markos - you haven't updated the "Name Change Archive" for quite some time now
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amazing, it took you only 14 hours to notice it
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Well, I guess that means that people don't care as much about post count as you thought or they would have noticed it sooner.
I agree with the others, you should not implement this if it means that people will spam the on-topic forums.
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Murgatroyd's comment above probably hits the point - with Apolyton being such a big site, making OT having no post coount will just shift everyone to the other forums. And if post count's removed altogether, I get the feeling that the site'll get much less patronage...
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Sigh!
I can't believe you guys actually care about post count anyway...!?
I wouldn't mind just being an honorary settler with a permanent post count of '1' for all the difference it makes to me...
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I can believe the liked of the admin and RAH care this much about post count either.
Maybe RAH just likes being the brother of one of the only two deities here. People like to take credit for family achievements, I guess.
And additionally, if off-topic posts aren't going to count, I suggest a reduction in post count for people like Ming and Mao who don't now deserve their deity status.
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my post count works fine. maybe it's just for the spammers-Cthol
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