The battle begins....

With Misty and Evilman tied at 6053 posts.

who will win?

 

Make posts count in the RP Arena and we'll see.

 

Just make posts count everywhere, bloody stupid to limit them.

 

Then the Premium status would be useless
more than it already is

 

Make it a factor of time, not posts, time and rep, this way someone can't make premium in under a month, when a year is the required status plus whatever rep you see fit, makes more sense in my eyes.

dedication is more factored through time than spamming "relevant" posts.

 

There were already suggestions such as this though. This kind of system would require a lot of work. What would you do with the current premiums? It would be unfair to de-prem them. And if we keep them, it would be unfair for future members.
Premium status isn't that big a deal in my opinion. It should have that many requirements. But that's just me >_>

Plus making a time requirement would make the site get more premiums than it already has.

 

9/10 members don't stay on the site, you don't have to premium unless requested, plus the whole rep requirement deals with that.

and to hell with the current prems who wouldnt meet the requirements, they know the section isnt that grand and that if they were under the time limit it'd only be a matter of time til they're back.

Posts < Time

 

I've always had issues with posts not counting, never agreed with it, not that I was ever paid attention to by Sara when I brought it up when i was staff.

 

Well, Time =/= Dedication.

 

Time + staying on the site frequently enough to earn a rep minimum = more dedication than spamming the rp section for a month where the standards are clearly abysmal after learning of the quality of some posts there.

 

This has been discussed really recently, hasn't it? Rep is too easy to abuse here.I'll even admit to not being able to rep someone again so I'd go through the member list "random repping" people until I can rep who I want again.
Also, the RP Arena's posts really aren't that bad. There was going to be a mod installed where only posts past a certain number of characters count.

 

Still a better system for time to be a factor more so than posts, maybe even to be included with a slightly reduced rep and post count, since premium "IS" supposed to be a nice coveted thing, it should be difficult enough to attain that it actually requires time as well as effort, if you really wanted to you could make 1000 posts in less than a month easy.

 

I can disprove the 2012 theory for you if you'd wish, but it takes some time so i'd rather not.

This is the only forum I know of where it segregates posts into ones that should count, and ones that don't, im sure there's other sites, but this is the only one i've seen which does it, and i've seen a fair few.

I think it's pointless in that regard then to have a post count at all, if a post isn't deemed good enough to be tallied up next to your name, why bother posting it at all? It's silly and not needed imo, either make all posts count, or get rid of the counter, because it's illogical in that regard of "oh, this person has posted 10,293,192 times, but we only think 290 are worth counting towards a number" no sense in that.

 

I dread to think what my postcount would be if posts in the spamzone counted..

I think a time requirement should be instated, but only a short one. I'm sure at one point there was a time requirement and it was somewhere around 3-6 months, which is easily attainable but would also weed out anyone who spammed the everloving shit out of the forum just to get a pink name.

I also agree with a reasonable rep requirement... :B



BACK ON THE ORIGINAL TOPIC..

Misty is undoubtedly going to steal the crown.

I'm on page 2 in terms of postcount and rep. :B (just).

 

the system should've been put in place years ago to counter act with all posts counting plus a section where you don't really need a topic to keep it going, it's an issue i've whined about for years so much so it's almost lost all meaning given how old this site is, and how dead it is aswell.(you may consider this a fairly lively forum but older members will share tales that make this current forum seem like a narcoleptic trying to take a nap, pointless and uninteresting)

Shame really, but what are you to do y'know? I'm going to take a nap, too old for debates now.