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Must get post count up!
I must say that it is getting quite ridiculous now. The forum is an important place for the sharing of information etc. But ever since the introduction of the posters freeroll the number of post has gone way up but the quality has gone way down.
You can see it everywhere, people just trawling round the threads and adding meaningless and irrelevant posts to the end just to get their count up. I must admit that i do go round looking at the posts but if i have nothing to add to what has already been said then i will not post a comment.
Please if you are going to do the "get post count up" bit at least put something relevant or witty down.
I live in vain hope that the forum will return to doing what it is supposed to do and not just become a freeroll entry postathon.
P.S. Am expecting quite a few meaningless and irrelevant posts to be added to this as well.
You can see it everywhere, people just trawling round the threads and adding meaningless and irrelevant posts to the end just to get their count up. I must admit that i do go round looking at the posts but if i have nothing to add to what has already been said then i will not post a comment.
Please if you are going to do the "get post count up" bit at least put something relevant or witty down.
I live in vain hope that the forum will return to doing what it is supposed to do and not just become a freeroll entry postathon.
P.S. Am expecting quite a few meaningless and irrelevant posts to be added to this as well.
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The problem is that by typing a message in support of your comment I do not know if you would consider that spamming or not.
just kidding
Final point: What is 'meaningless' to one may be interesting to another. I know this is a poker forum but if we only had hand history discussions and 'did I play this right or wrong' threads there would be 4 posts a day with 6 answers each and the rest would be asleep. Everyone has an equal right to post whatever they wish so long as it's not offensive.
Usually, it takes a day or two for a thread to drop to page 2.
Now, however, some threads can be on page 2 within an hour of the last post being written.
This does prevent a decent debate from truly getting underway as most of the time, many posters cannot be bothered to look further than the end of their nose for a topic.
However, most of these new threads have been started by regular contributors.
I do however, have a strong wish that new threads are not started until old threads have truly run their course as very often the thread is lost, half way through a decent discussion.
If the posters freeroll is to continue and be effective, surely Sky must find a way to limit the number of new threads made in any one day.
I have just had a look over some old pages. Threads started Thursday last week are now relegated to pages 5 and 6 of the forums, This is absolutely rediculous.
PS: I agree with Talon as far as meaningless posts go, so I hope this doesn't count as frivolous...lol. At the same time, though, new faces will bring new opinions, fresh ideas and a different slant on things, so can only be a good thing in the long run.
Just because a reply is one word long does not make it pointless, there are some great replies that only last for one word. I am only referring to the replies that people put on just to get their post count up.
There are a lot of people who use the forum who deserve to be rewarded for their contributions. Acebarry for his hard work, merenovice for his superb tactical and mathematical advice, Hale72 for her obvious love of the site and community, Margatemaf for all of his enthusiasm for the game site and community. And not forgetting noseybonk and elsadog for their insanity and silliness which brightens up our days.
I just want to see the right people rewarded, and new people encouraged to use the forum, without the constant over posting of some people just to get a freeroll entry.
Sorry if i missed anyone in my list but it was quickly thrown together, and before anyone asks i do not put myself in the list of people who deserve rewarding.
if we agree that the concept of a posters freeroll is a good idea because it generates more contributors, then i believe the qualifying method should be addressed. By limiting the freeroll to the top 50 posters, there is immediately a competitive element and that promotes the posting of short " i agree" or "+1" posts to boost ones numbers.
I propose that a better idea would be a benchmark number of posts to make during the week, that when met, refelcted a significant contribution to the forum and therefore qualification for the freeroll. Now, i accept this idea is by no means perfect, as posters can still throw in the posts like those above, but i do believe that it would encourage posts with substance, because community members are less concerned about others posting "i agree" a few more times and stealing their place in the freeroll.
Taking the idea a step further (and probably too far because it would demand a lot of work for someone to monitor) qualification for the freeroll could require posting on different sessions e.g someone posting once on 5 out of 7 days (5 posts) getting in ahead of someone that posted 7 times in the space of 5 minutes in one afternoon.
As I say, these ideas are by no means perfect, but i thought I'd share them to add to the debate, which i suppose is the point of the forum thread in the first place.
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I Agree !!! ........... With everybody lol
(Does that count toward my post count????)
On a serious note here guys, the posters freeroll is an incentive to create activity in the forum. Now from Sky's point of view most activity is good activity because it means people are logging on and looking around at whats going on. Some contributions to the threads are short & Sweet but sometimes thats all that is required. Ok so there are more people posting things like Great Post to get a hit but if their willing to put in the time then why shouldn't they get their place in the freeroll, it takes some dedication to outpost you lot you know
Keep Smiling
Like elsadog says, the topic of threads is irrelevant. We all have the choice to say what we want to say (within reason) and by the same token, we can all choose to read or ignore a thread. So for example, i would certainly read a gas bill based thread in the hope of finding out about which supplier is offering the best rates so I can afford to put the heating on this year rather than wearing the 5 sweatshirts like last winter. Others may be more interested in electricity based discussions and give this one a wide berth.
I would keep the freeroll because ultimately it is achieiving what it set out to do, and get more people logging in to sky and posting (and presumably playing a bit more), and just tinker with the qualification process to improve the posts being made.
+1