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Eliminating the post count feature
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NoOOooOooOooOOOOOOoOooOO! *jumps in front of hypothetical bullet*.

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See, karma doesn't work worth a damn. Look at Proboards.

*crickets chirp in background*

... But since I probably have to, I'd better point out the fact that people randomly up and down people's karma at will, and mods can abuse the fuck out of their own scores and that of others, and no one would ever know.

Thanks system wouldn't work either. It's due to that whole "SS is a tight-knit group" factor.

Just leave the damn post count. Taking it away and/or replacing it won't do anything. Postwhores are postwhores because it's part of their nature or plain entertaining. Besides that, a documented failtroll suggested the idea. I'm surprised you took it seriously at all.

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I like how 'eliminating the post count' is in youthrights.

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Guardian Cernunnos Wrote:I like how 'eliminating the post count' is in youthrights.

It's just the last place someone replied to the topic from. It's a global announcement.

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I moved it to general

edit: If what awol said was true then why is it still in YR
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It's in Welcome for me. Probably because that's where I responded to it from initially.

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psychopath Wrote:edit: If what awol said was true then why is it still in YR
That's how announcements work. They'll show up in the threads list of every forum section.

How this thread got to be one, I don't know.

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Because a mod wanted people's opinions.

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And was sick and tired of you people constantly shitposting all the time.
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Uh... I was responding to the query as to why this is an announcement.

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Ditto.
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No, you gave the reason he made the topic. Bah, I'm splitting hairs now.

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If the post count feature is taken away, I'd hold a post strike until it is restored.

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A post strike as in 'I'll strike you with a shitton of posts' or 'I'll refuse to post'?

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AWOL Wrote:A post strike as in 'I'll strike you with a shitton of posts' or 'I'll refuse to post'?
I'll refuse to post.

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Laugh Giggle Rofl

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Well, I'm definitely not removing the post count feature... that'd just be silly. I still kinda like the idea of a 'thanks' system, it's just maybe not the right feature for a forum of this nature... it'd work better on a kind of Q&A type forum. Actually, I think the mod I was looking at has an option to only enable the 'thanks' in certain forums and not in all of them at once. Because there's really no point having it in General Talk or the Fag Arena... though it might still work in VIYH or the Alternative Learning forums.

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SoulRiser Wrote:Well, I'm definitely not removing the post count feature... that'd just be silly. I still kinda like the idea of a 'thanks' system, it's just maybe not the right feature for a forum of this nature... it'd work better on a kind of Q&A type forum. Actually, I think the mod I was looking at has an option to only enable the 'thanks' in certain forums and not in all of them at once. Because there's really no point having it in General Talk or the Fag Arena... though it might still work in VIYH or the Alternative Learning forums.

Actually, I like this idea.

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