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Posted by: Zakir
Hi,
Say I post 500 times in random word thread and never touch one off the support fourms. I look as if I have a lot of experience helping people, but have I done anything but come up with random words? no...
This just came to my mind and I don't know if it should be changed or not... but would it be more helpful if there was someway to differentiate between question posts, random word posts, just an example, and helpful posts?
I guess this would be solved by a karma system, which I understand is somewhere on someone's todo list......... but I thought I'd share!
Zakir
Posted by: Canis Lupus
hey there Zakir 
There is a reason why I removed post counts from the postbit info you see on the left (where your name, avatar, location, etc are). I don't see postcount as the first thing a person sees when they see someone replying or anything. If anything else, they only see the people who "actually" reply to questions in the support forums. Unless they take the extra time and effort to view your public profile (which they don't usually do).
Most people are only concerned by the quality of the answer, not the amount of posts the person who answered their question has. I have decided to significantly downplay the "importance" of post counts long ago because of this very reason.
Sure, I can easily disable posts from being counted in non-support forum categories, but that's really going overboard, especially when I am supposed to not give too much emphasis on post counts to begin with.
I tried the karma system before, but it's so EASILY abusable that it might be more of a bother trying to keep it in check rather than relying on its reliability
But thanks for the suggestion. In the past there were "tiny" perks for prolific helpers, but I momentarily removed it because most users will just try and post random things in support forums in order to avail of these "perks" ... who knows, maybe I'll find a better system
Thanks again!
Posted by: Zakir
That makes sense and most people probably never even look at your number of posts and just your advice.....
I guess the problem is that no matter what is done, it will some how be abused.
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