Community Chat

[september]

I think there are many posters who post back and forth on their favorite threads.  Just like posting on Facebook, some of the responses might be just quick one or two word sentences. So yes, it's easy to get that many posts/day. 

[pitdakota]

I lost all kinds of posts during the last change over, but it doesn't matter to me at all.

However, when that change over occurred those that had been posting for some time received a new sign up date.  At one point most of us at that time all had a sign up date for some month in 2010. I have no idea how they assigned how got what month in 2010.  lol

So many may have a high post count that didn't lose posts during that change over, but their sign up date is 2010.  In that case, they may have been here years before that date, but their post count carried over. 

[onlyshopsonline]

I've been here since October 2006.  I've lost posts a couple of times.  I have no idea how many I should really have. 

[sunshine45]

my date is wrong and my post count is much lower than it should be......this happened during the BIG SWITCH.

[Moonchilde]

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@x Hedge wrote:

My post count is accurate. I noticed the total drops one if I delete a post.

Some posters write a lot of one liners and I could easily imagine them writing 10 posts a day, or more.

And we've all seen the compulsive posters, who go to the trouble to write posts like,

'Sorry, I don't know anything about this subject.'  

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And not to forget that when a thread is poofed, all of your posts in that thread are subtracted from your post count, as well as any hearts given to you in that thread. Same thing if you have posts removed by the moderators but the thread stays - your individual numbers will go down for each poof.

[Lindsays Grandma]

No, my post count is not accurate.  I lost many posts along with my initial registration date when the boards were changed.  My original registration was in 2007 not 2010 which is shown.  I will never understand why the registration date and the post count was changed.

[Highlands72]

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Moonchilde write 

And not to forget that when a thread is poofed, all of your posts in that thread are subtracted from your post count, as well as any hearts given to you in that thread. Same thing if you have posts removed by the moderators but the thread stays - your individual numbers will go down for each poof.

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I have lost more posts to thread deletion than I have posts remaining in my post count.

[qualitygal]

I don't think they are correct since when it got switched over, all mine disappeared. Noticed one the other day.........had so many posts, they just didn't seem real. So I really doubt it. 

[dooBdoo]

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Moonchilde wrote:

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Hedge wrote:

My post count is accurate. I noticed the total drops one if I delete a post.

Some posters write a lot of one liners and I could easily imagine them writing 10 posts a day, or more.

And we've all seen the compulsive posters, who go to the trouble to write posts like,

'Sorry, I don't know anything about this subject.'  

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And not to forget that when a thread is poofed, all of your posts in that thread are subtracted from your post count, as well as any hearts given to you in that thread. Same thing if you have posts removed by the moderators but the thread stays - your individual numbers will go down for each poof.

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         This is a common misconception.   In actuality, when posts/threads are removed by the moderators it doesn't affect our post count.    Easy way to see proof of that is to look up one (or more) of the repeat-spam "trolls" we've seen on the forums (the ones with the "upset" tales of woe on multiple websites).    Another case in point that comes to mind, since it was mentioned in a thread a day or so ago, is the troll we saw on Christmas...   that particular account has a high post count but zero posts remaining.

[dooBdoo]

          The new platform was launched in June 2015, and there were several announcements pinned at the top of the forums prior to the move.    One of the notices stated that some of the registration dates would be modified and some post counts would be changed.    Because of that advance notice, a few posters recorded their actual start date and post count and I think some of them have added that info to their signature line.

          My registration date is accurate...   post count was never important or significant to me so I think mine was lowered but I don't know if it was a major change.    As others have said, it's really fairly meaningless since some posts are a single word, a single image, some people participate in daily chats, some post a lot one day and then nothing for days or weeks.    I do recall people being mocked for large post counts, and others challenged as being questionable if they had a low count.    As with many things, we're darned if we do and darned if we don't... 😉