Semper Vaporo schlimm Why does the forum keep track of and post the number of posts by each member? What difference does it make if you have 8000 posts or 8? It does help a wee bit to know if someone is a newbie or an old-timer. Low post counts do not necessarily mean the person is not knowledgeable about RR's, but it can reduce the "what kind of idiot are you... oh, I see you are a newbie" responses to an inane question. And I guess that high post counts do not necessarily mean the person is even intelligent, but at least it shows they have been around a while. A few years ago it helped to detect a fool that created a user account with a name very similar to another member and began to post comments that put the other member in a bad light. I detected the phony name because I noticed the lack of stars/medals under the name... well, actually I was fairly certain that the "real" person would not make the oddball statements that were appearing... which were quite confusing and that is what caused me to go back and look at the user name at the top of the postings and noted the lack of medals and then could see that the user name was "not quite right".
schlimm Why does the forum keep track of and post the number of posts by each member? What difference does it make if you have 8000 posts or 8?
Why does the forum keep track of and post the number of posts by each member? What difference does it make if you have 8000 posts or 8?
I see your point. As far as "oddball statements" go, they are pretty easy to spot and probably best to ignore. Any attempt to use a screen name almost like that of an established member should be rejected by the moderators, etc.
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The problem appears to be fixed! Thanks guys!
My Stars - lost last week - have returned.
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I lost 32 more posts overnight.
Can you imagine if your bank kept on losing track of your money so that after a year of making additional deposits to your account, you bank account would be substantially lower than a year before?
I know that the counter argument is that our host is doing us a favor by hosting the forums, but at the same time we are ignored and debased on something so basic as post count.
They say it is a software glitch, but as a former programmer I ask, how hard is it to maintain a simple counter and how long does it take to fix it? A year? Look, if I have a post count of 100 and I post another reply to a thread, guess what, my post count is now 101, not 96.
If the forum were a bank, it would no longer have any customers and it would be facing a mountain of lawsuits.
My guess is that no one is listening, and nothing is being done about it. Ask yourself this, how did it go wrong in the first place? Ridiculous.
Rich
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Norm48327 My profile shows I have made only one post. Rather skimpy for all the years I've been posting here.
My profile shows I have made only one post. Rather skimpy for all the years I've been posting here.
I seen one poster have only -2 posts...how does one get -2 posts?
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BaltACD What is going on? I am noticing a number of signifigant contributors to this forum are now displaying the single badge of a Newbie - Are we too intimidating to the Newbie? Checking my profile indicates I am at well over 4600 posts - and now I am shown in double digits? I have noticed this has occured to several other long term forum regulars!
What is going on? I am noticing a number of signifigant contributors to this forum are now displaying the single badge of a Newbie - Are we too intimidating to the Newbie?
Checking my profile indicates I am at well over 4600 posts - and now I am shown in double digits?
I have noticed this has occured to several other long term forum regulars!
First they came for our stars.. They were gone..
.Counts were of no consequence, they said.
Then they gave us little medal looking thingys.
With no explanations.
Then those started disappearing, and numbers were meaningless, and intimidating?
And along the way there have been enhancements to the FORUMS!
Everywhere, these days it seems like someone is wanting to tell others when to row or to bail.
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It's not my job to run the train, the whistle I can't blow.
It's not for me to say how far the train's allowed to go.
I'm not allowed to blow off steam, nor even clang the bell.
But let the damn thing jump the tracks....and see who catches hell!
tree68 Norm48327 My profile shows I have made only one post. Rather skimpy for all the years I've been posting here. Now Norm, you're not living up to your avatar...
Now Norm, you're not living up to your avatar...
You're right, but I notice you don't have any stars either and you've mad many more posts than I.
Norm
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I have lost most of mine - and I can see more posts in my profile page than the software is giving me as a total post count.
Post counts for some are way off. Some posters who had five stars now have none. It's a recent occurrence, and may be a glitch in the software. Time for the IT folks to get their act together.
jeffrey-wimberly Looks like somebody tripped over their shoe laces and did something right! My post count is just what it's supposed to be. Wonder how long that'll last?
Looks like somebody tripped over their shoe laces and did something right! My post count is just what it's supposed to be. Wonder how long that'll last?
About 9 months, Jeff.
Woo Hoo! I got my post count back!
I really need to get a life....
blownout cylinder Yay.....or rather....mmmmmmm
Yay.....or rather....mmmmmmm
Seems like there may be a time element in incrementing the post count. Back a couple of hours later and posts have incremented.
And the counts are incrementing! Fabulous!
No sooner to I say that and my count did not increment from before to after this post!
Stourbridge Lion Talk about missing Post Counts, I am all the way back to Newbie with 0 Stars...
Talk about missing Post Counts, I am all the way back to Newbie with 0 Stars...
From Newbie to 5-Star Admiral - Yippee!!!!!!!
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Rats! There goes my plan for world domination through superior post counts. I had it right in the grasp of my fingertips, and I would've made it, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids. (Insert Scooby-Do icon here.)
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Many thanks to the programmers that found the error of their code!
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I am ultimate again. Bow down before me, lesser star mortals!
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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........Perhaps it's time for another update and improvement.....
Wow....! Looks like it might have just happened...Thanks to whomever.
Quentin
Semper Vaporo zugmann Murphy Siding In the same way, I'll never understand the need to change forum software. If it works fine, and there's no monetary incentive to do so, why would any company spend the money on a forum software upgrade? Isn't it usually done for bugs and security issues? There are also issues with the ever changing "standard" for how a browser is supposed to work. Improvements made for some new feature sometimes breaks the old way of doing things and the old forum software just will not work any more. So it is a matter of update or die. Some forum software was written to run on a small PC and it was not expected that there would be thousands of users and so the small PC just won't hold it all. So new forum software has to be installed in a bigger computer or network of computers. What works so well in a small scale operation may not work when the number of items being tracked becomes large, larger, or "You want to store HOW MANY?!?!?!" (I have seen that happen hundreds of times.)
zugmann Murphy Siding In the same way, I'll never understand the need to change forum software. If it works fine, and there's no monetary incentive to do so, why would any company spend the money on a forum software upgrade? Isn't it usually done for bugs and security issues?
Murphy Siding In the same way, I'll never understand the need to change forum software. If it works fine, and there's no monetary incentive to do so, why would any company spend the money on a forum software upgrade?
In the same way, I'll never understand the need to change forum software. If it works fine, and there's no monetary incentive to do so, why would any company spend the money on a forum software upgrade?
Isn't it usually done for bugs and security issues?
This is not a particularly large forum.
They THINK there is a monetary advantage without thinking about the COSTS. I am certain there are discussions that take place that we have no knowledge of - unfortunately, it appears that the participants in these discussions also have no knowledge of the realities of what is being discussed.
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