AN Member Post Count Obsession

[FriscoKid]

I’ve noticed that whenever bickering starts between a couple of site members, they often bring up one another’s post count as some sort of measure of credibility. This kind of petty nonsense reminds me of the Social Credit System in China, it’s like the inner workings of a dystopian future.

 

At the end of the day, post count measures only one thing: how many posts someone has made. That’s it. Turning it into a tool for comparison for anything other than that is ridiculous. In fact, all this post count measuring and one-upping is no better than a bunch of childish old men boasting about penis size.

[Lacessit]

I usually get attacked on the basis my post count is too high, implying I have nothing better to do with my time.

[Yellowtail]

Just now, Lacessit said:

I usually get attacked on the basis my post count is too high, implying I have nothing better to do with my time.

In all fairness, everyone posting has nothing better to do with their time. or they'd be doing it. 

[chiang mai]

5 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

In all fairness, everyone posting has nothing better to do with their time. or they'd be doing it. 

I have lots of better things to do with my time, I just don't want to do them.....:))

 

No seriously though, I have OCD and I'm sticking to that excuse.

[sidjameson]

Cockfighting seems to be so hard wired into the male brain that even a bunch of old guys who are likely socially undernourished will end up doing it on a forum.

 

 

[MalcolmB]

19 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I usually get attacked on the basis my post count is too high, implying I have nothing better to do with my time.

You probably could have spent your time better if you reflect on it. 
 

[HighPriority]

Spoken like a man with 617 posts… 😎

[bokningar]

It was better before, when the count was about how many likes your posts got.

Now there is serial posters or they maybe AI, posting rubbish as fast as they can.

I have started blocking the most ridiculous ones.

[scottiejohn]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I usually get attacked on the basis my post count is too high, implying I have nothing better to do with my time.

That would seem to be true!

The post above seems to be another way of getting attacked for too high a post count by posting yet another totally irrelevant post!

[scottiejohn]

8 minutes ago, bokningar said:

It was better before, when the count was about how many likes your posts got.

Now there is serial posters or they maybe AI, posting rubbish as fast as they can.

I have started blocking the most ridiculous ones.

That does not leave many real posts for us to read does it?

[scottiejohn]

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

In all fairness, everyone posting has nothing better to do with their time. or they'd be doing it. 

Do you represent that remark?

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I usually get attacked on the basis my post count is too high, implying I have nothing better to do with my time.

 

They always tell  you that:

 

"You have too much time on your hands."

 

But, my question is:

 

How would they know?