What does # of posts actually tell you?

[Joshua Farrell]

If you see a poster with 20,000+ posts what does this tell you?

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Which is correct? If none, what would be correct?

1) It tells you that the poster is a very bright person.

2) It tells you that the poster has a great deal to contribute.

3) It tells you that the poster is a blabbermouth.

4) It tells you that the poster has no other life.

5) It tells you that some lifer has access to the warden's computer.

 

[Jordan]

4 😎

Nah, one forum I owned, I had a couple of members who done 50,000+ posts over the course of 10 years. It's members like those who contribute to help keep the site alive and active by engaging other users.

 

[Van1lla ™]

I think it depends over the period of time. I think some people don’t really contribute to anything but others do.

 

[Katrina]

I will go with #2. Although in reality we would love for each and every post made by every poster to have great content and strength, the fact of the matter is that isn't always going to happen. We even ask here on FP how many posts does your forum have and the greater the number of posts the more Ooohs and Ahhs it gets. So for a member to have 20,000 posts, we would love those posts to all be heavy duty but even when they're not, that member still has contributed greatly to the growth of the forum.

 

[Ghost]

It could be [HASH=17103]#2,[/HASH] but quantity does not always = quality.
That said, if they are still a member with 20,000 posts under their belt then the posts are probably decent because if they weren't they would have been deleted or the member would have been banned. So if they have 20k posts, they probably either contributed good content or the admin / staff didn't care in the first place about quality so it would still be a solid contribution.

 

[Bluezone777]

Nothing really without context. Even with context, it can mislead you as most judgements based off of appearances tend to do. I wouldn't put too much stock into how many posts someone makes but what kind of posts someone actually does make on any given board.

 

[Page]

I got an feeling that this topic is aimed at me 😛 #2 and #1 are the top things that I go with on any sites that has been going for ten years. Regards to #4 Yeah! 50/50 on that. But regards to myself I'm no 4 here. But talking regards to all sites and not just one person who has over 20K

 

[Oblivion Knight]

2)

It also tells me that they feel "at home" and appreciated on a site.

 

[Shannon Apple]

Meh, I dunno. We've had some experience in the past with users. Several of our members had 15k, even 20k posts before our forum was sold and went kablooey. That was fine. Site was OLD. Geez, even I had something like 10k+. But... there was one guy with 45k who actually had to get banned for his own good. He used to be this loveable spammer that everyone adored, but it went to his head and he wanted to start a religion for people to worship him. He had to be banned for his own good. An admin knew him personally, so he would be okay. So long as the person is not using the forum to compensate for other problems in their life, let them at it. If someone amassed 45k in a short space of time (3 years or so), I'd honestly be a little worried about them because someone doing that, isn't really living their life.

I would honestly rather see people who average 1k contributing posts a year that gets discussions going than 15k spam posts that encourages more spam and memes. haha.

 

[Page]

@Shannon Apple with that amount of content, You had to be careful as to keeping his account ban but able to keep his content there not removed or hidden lol. 45K content would be half the amount of the entire forum LOL

 

[Shannon Apple]

@Shannon Apple with that amount of content, You had to be careful as to keeping his account ban but able to keep his content there not removed or hidden lol. 45K content would be half the amount of the entire forum LOL

We never deleted accounts without a user specifically requesting it. It was something that the original owner of the site was against. His ban was 12 months. What the admin did at the time was superficially reduce his postcount to 15k, but all of his posts remained. The counter reduction was purely to put him back among the crowd.

45k wasn't anywhere near half the forum though. It had 3.5 million posts haha!

 

[Page]

It had 3.5 million posts haha!

that's allot. Good to hear that it's not half lol

 

[Deleted member 45866]

4.

Like, let's be honest here. You have to have no life at all if you can somehow write 20,000+ Posts. Like c'mon, there are better things to do.

 

[Jordan]

4.

Like, let's be honest here. You have to have no life at all if you can somehow write 20,000+ Posts. Like c'mon, there are better things to do.

It all depends how long the member has been a part of a forum for. Can't say someone with 20k posts who been posting for 10 years has no life. That's only a couple minutes a day on a site.