- Oct 8, 2006
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Posts in the For Sale/Trade sub-forum should not count towards post count; or at least, any posts made after the initial post.
Why? Because many people, myself included, regularly bump their own FS/WTB topics up, and add to their post count in doing so, which, in my opinion, is ridiculous. I'm not saying they bump topics up for that reason alone, but it shouldn't add to post count simply by virtue of it not being an actual post, and in that it in no way contributes to the knowledge-base of the forum.
For example, I artificially added 7 posts to my post count in this thread alone: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=45&threadid=2298629
How? By bumping the thread 7 times.
I literally feel like I'm "cheating" the system if I bump it up again. I genuinely want to find someone who can sell me that motherboard, and thus bump the thread, but I also genuinely don't want to synthetically add to my post count.
So my proposition is (if at all possible on the technical side of things):
...For posts made in the For Sale/Trade sub-forum:
Why? Because many people, myself included, regularly bump their own FS/WTB topics up, and add to their post count in doing so, which, in my opinion, is ridiculous. I'm not saying they bump topics up for that reason alone, but it shouldn't add to post count simply by virtue of it not being an actual post, and in that it in no way contributes to the knowledge-base of the forum.
For example, I artificially added 7 posts to my post count in this thread alone: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=45&threadid=2298629
How? By bumping the thread 7 times.
I literally feel like I'm "cheating" the system if I bump it up again. I genuinely want to find someone who can sell me that motherboard, and thus bump the thread, but I also genuinely don't want to synthetically add to my post count.
So my proposition is (if at all possible on the technical side of things):
...For posts made in the For Sale/Trade sub-forum:
- - Make the 1st post of any thread count towards the poster's post count.
- Make subsequent posts in that same thread by the thread starter not count.
- Make all subsequent posts made by anyone other than the thread starter count towards the poster's post count.
- - Make only the 1st post of any poster in any thread count towards their post count; that is, no matter how many times you post in a given thread, you will add only 1 to your post count.