Members List

[Tommathy]

If anything, I think I attract members with my charm, grace, and good looks =P

[RaiRai]

Tommathy, I'm sure you could have a website of your own and everyone would flock to it.

On the topic of post counts, there are discussions of having them removed. I find that people boast about post counts way too much and use them as leverage for ego boosting and 'bigger dick' contests. So we'll just see.

[Crodevillian Team]

On the topic of post counts, there are discussions of having them removed. I find that people boast about post counts way too much and use them as leverage for ego boosting and 'bigger dick' contests. So we'll just see.

I am totally for that. I've never completely understood why they're there in the first place, if not to simply give people a source of pride or faux-authority. I've seen it occur one too many times where people will pull the "i've got 20,000 posts and you've only got 19,999- i'm right 'n yer wrong and i can piss farther than you can" card. If people are surgically attached to their post counts, I would advocate them keeping a tally on their own accord.

As for the members, I think there's a substantial amount of lurkers. I've actually located their hideout. They like BBQ and Doritos.

I have accounts on some message boards that I have never posted in, but read everyday. This is because, in the event that I want to send PMs or actually contribute something, I could. On this board, for instance, I get tons of PMs every day from people with no posts.* That could be the explanation!

*this is a lie.

[Stabbitty Death]

One thing that almost every new member says when he makes an introduction thread or a spam thread is "Geeze, I didn't know everyone is so strict here". This leads me to believe that they came from a forum with no rules or restrictions. The first forum I think of that matches this description is the gamefaqs board. "But why did they come here?" you ask. Because most of the members there are final fantasy fanboys, and I don't think I have to remind you of what 8-bit is based on. So when they find out that there are consequinces to spamming and double posting, they get scared and never post again.

[hawkboy204]

As someone with a low post count i think i should be able to speak for some of the others. Many times when i think about posting i end up not doing it because i feel like it doesn't contrubite much. And seeing other posters with high counts can be a bit intimidating, especially if your first post makes you look kinda stupid.

[Squishy Cheeks]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Not my precious post count. What shall I do with out it.




Ok that being said. I say get rid of them, they aren't important really.

[shiney]

Deleting all users who have not logged in for the past 3 months.

They don't need their post counts anyways.

And concerning post counts, if I can figure out how to remove them I probably will.

[Muffin Mage]

If it were in Java, I'd say go into the "user account" class and delete all methods and variables dealing with postcount. But, obviously, the forums are not in java.

[shiney]

Yeah, and there isn't an option for such in the admin panel. But I will prevail.

[Peo]

wow, the list sure is down low now, 3k to 1k