Useless posting in proper forums ...

[plenderj]

Not naming any names now, but I often see a lot of people posting useless pieces of crap in response to people's questions.
Instead of helping the people, they give out, or moan, or complain that the post should be somewhere else ...
I my opinion, these sorts of people post this way just to get their post count up.

The way I see it, even if the person has posted a question asking about how to use BitBlt in the Databases forum, or how to make vbscript control form elements in the C++ forum, people should first and foremost try to help the person.
Then at the bottom of their post one could mention the fact that the post should be elsewhere.

Just my 2 cents / moan session for the week...

[JoshT]

This should be in the Forum Feedback Forum

[plenderj]

Well at least your post count didnt go up for that piece of .... literary excrement

[filburt1]

Obviously, you are referring to me. I'm just trying to keep the forums organized. *cough* It would be nice if I were a moderator. I just can't stand it when people post in the blatantly wrong forum.

[chrisjk]

I admit to be guilty as charged, but in my defense I dont do it as often as one perticular person I can think of, whom also ha the trait of putting a simple in response to being thanked. Now that is post count grabbing

[filburt1]

I'm just saying "No problem." And it's not like I participate in EVERY thread and post meaningless crap in each one. And I've been here for two years; it's expected that I'll have a high post count.

[plenderj]

Okay take a look at this thread :
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...threadid=98591

Most of it is bull****, and theres only a little bit of any use to the person.

[filburt1]

Now find at least ten threads in which I solved people's problems. No offense, but piss off.

[aknisely]

Originally posted by filburt1
No offense, but piss off.

How could anyone not take offense to that?

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by filburt1
And I've been here for two years; it's expected that I'll have a high post count.

Expected by whom exactly?!?

Putting your "no problem" post on simple Q's doubles the count you make..e.g...

Someone: How do you do this...?
You: Like this...
Someone: Thanks man!
You:

see what I mean?

Nobody expects you to have a high post count, indeed some of the best amongst us (Kaverin, Tygur) have lower post counts than you or me. So what! You're really showing your age and if you want to be taken seriously I think you should quit the insults, and quit the ICQ-style conversations in anything other than Chit Chat.

No offense to you, but were I a mod, I would have deleted all your posts apart from the truly useful ones by now, like Megatron did with iSecure. He did exactly like you are doing, and he lost all but 100 of his posts.

[scoutt]

No offense Arien, but I have to agree with the other guys on this. I have read some if not most of your threads and I can't remember 10 that you helped on. I am sure you are pretty smart and you know your stuff, but I have never seen anybody on this forum go up in post counts as fast as you. I hardly see any code you post to help out the person. all you do is tell them to go here or there to read about it. which by the way is helpful but if they want help on code you don't post any, are you affraid of giving your code away?

and it ain't expected of you to have a high post count. I have been here as long as you and I don't even break a 1000, of course I only go to the webpage forum but I do on occasion answer Q's in the general forum. I on the other hand don't know that much about VB but I am learning. if I have code that will help the other person out I will post it. if someone comes along and gives a better way I learn from that as well.

[JungleMan]

Oh you all and your post counts!!!!!

I offer little or no VB help. Yet I have fun in Chit Chat. If you've counted every time i have helped people with computer related issues or decisions, id be at least at 150. who cares? I have fun, no worries!

[HarryW]

I really don't understand why people take any notice of post count at all. Except for the custom title at 4096 or however many it was, that would be kinda neat. Other thn that it's no big deal. Seems like a bad idea to go filling threads with useless crap though.

[plenderj]

I wasnt just making a stab at filburt. There's an awful lot of people that do it.

Anyway, I think the post count should now be viewable publically, and should only be viewable my moderators/administrators.
The only thing visible should be a more descriptive title.

Then every so often, a couple of people review the top n users/the n people with the highest post count or something and decide whether to promote their title or not.

Just a thought though.

[Bonker Gudd]

:sigh: I don't take much notice of Post Counts, it's just a bit of fun and I wouldn't mind if it was taken away altogether.

All I wish for is that certain people CALM DOWN

[FATBOYPEE]

Interesting eh ? Post Counts... What exactly do they say about people who prize them ?

Mine's bigger than your's therefore I've helped more people ?

I've got lots of posts erg I give great advice therefore I must be a brilliant developer coz I'm so active on this board..?

Fact is, these thread-boards spend alot of time answering the same questions, posed in different ways over and over....
Rarely, does a question come up that is totally new, or stump's the every constituent...

seems to me, the more posts means more time spent here rather than actually developing....??

is it when you get X amounts of posts you get given a certain title ? Like Guru or somesuch ?

Better off been awarded those kind of titles (or is that how it happens now ???) by people who reckon the average advice you give is worthy of the title....

Even worth a nomination system ?

[InvisibleDuncan]

My post count's only as big as it is because I as so many stupid questions. I think it acts as an indicator that I'm not especially good at VB.

Some people are mad keen on them, though - as you can tell by the fact that they blow whenever they reach a milestone. That said, I'll probably do the same if I ever reach a thousand - it's just not worth buggering about with pointless posts to achieve.

[FATBOYPEE]

That's true.. the other side of the coin is simply that whoever does have a big post count could actually be Crap at codeing and need al lthe hel pthey can get, still the more posts, the more experience if that's the case and the crap ability will get better....

For me, I quite enjoy stroking my ego occasionally when I do know something... and posting a reply... nothing to do with the race to the most posts... If I did that I'd hafta be on this thing day in day out.,... suppose if yiz were a skioolbod, that would be fine... working for a livin' not so easy....

[Gary.Lowe]

Any way my dad's bigger than your dad, and he's going to kick your dad's Ass (or is it Arse)

[FATBOYPEE]

My Dad's Arz doesnt have a face on it.....

[Gary.Lowe]

but ain't it pretty

[FATBOYPEE]

Yibbut.....

How'd u get him to pose for it...

er, don't bother, don't wanna know....

[Gary.Lowe]

It was like

Now be very still and for god's sake to drop a chuff.