After careful consideration by the dream.in.code team, it has been decided to turn off post count incrementing in the Introduce Yourself forum. This means posts made in the Introduce Yourself forum will not add to your total post count, or count in the Top 10 DIC Heads list.

Here's why:

In recent months, we've noticed a sharp increase in the number of people using copy/paste welcome messages and going through 10-20+ threads at a time. We are aware that most are just welcoming members, but others are trying to pad their post counts.

For the time being, the introduce yourself forum will no longer add to your post count, so please only reply to recent threads and those that interest you. While it's great to welcome everyone, if the introduce yourself was posted more than a couple days ago, only reply if you find it interesting.

Also, I've turned the Introduce Yourself forum back on in the "View New Posts" page so everyone has an opportunity to welcome new members instead of the small group of individuals who would always welcome them.

If we can get back to welcoming members with genuine, thoughtful replies, we will turn post counts back on, but I don't want to see the copy/paste replies in 10-20+ threads at once.

Thanks!

caring about post counts is so last decade.

This post has been edited by capty99: 6 Mar, 2008 - 06:14 PM

So are the post counts being recalculated again for those who previously posted in the forum?

No. Only new posts won't increment your total. I just turned off the post++ feature

I completely agree Tyler. People who post simply to raise their post count kinda make me mad. There were a lot of those people at another forum I used to frequent, thats one of the reasons I stopped going

posts are getting incremented. I guess chris removed posts++ and added posts += 1

I always posted a unique message for those who *gasp* introduces themselves ^^

Otherwise for the ones 'introducing' themselves I gave em the

message, and it seems a couple others said pre-recorded style messages too unless they actually introduces themselves.

I stopped welcoming when I got tired of all the ones asking for code, I only pick through and welcome the few who introduce themselves sometimes.

Though, hehe, caring about post count is so old school along with caring about the first to comment on something >_<

Posts mean nothing, but your knowledge does.

Looks like its back on.

It's been that way for ages...

I think the point of not saying was so that no one started it again