Posts on forum games dont count to your posts but posts on adohands kitchen do, why? Do you think all off topic posts should count, none should count, or that it should stay the same?
(Of course I have no control over this I'm just asking)
Forum games, as a whole, encourages posts without content. A number of the games simply involve typing the next highest number in a sequence or just rolling a bunch of dice - by design, they are not conversational (except insofar as people add conversation) and are not really reflective of a user’s substantive contributions to the community. That does not mean forum games does not have a community, that it does not contribute to the greater forum community as a whole, or that substantive conversations do not occur there—merely that, more often than not, posts in that section put form over substance and would allow users to spam to increase their post counts without anything being reportable as “spam.”
The off topic section is hypothetically designed to facilitate conversation about topics unrelated to the game and certain types of roleplaying in the little taverns that pop up there. While there might be a whole lot of posts lacking substance in that forum, and while some threads are clearly more about increasing post count than actual conversation, the underlying theory of the subsection puts substance over form.
That should answer the why they are treated differently. For your second question, I don’t personally have an opinion—I think postcount is generally a feeble metric for judging a user’s quality (except insofar as it shows a user might be an alternate account or otherwise be here to troll) and pay it no heed.
Posts on forum games dont count to your posts but posts on adohands kitchen do, why? Do you think all off topic posts should count, none should count, or that it should stay the same?
(Of course I have no control over this I'm just asking)
sticking out ur gyat for the rizzler
PM me the word TOMATO🍅
Forum games, as a whole, encourages posts without content. A number of the games simply involve typing the next highest number in a sequence or just rolling a bunch of dice - by design, they are not conversational (except insofar as people add conversation) and are not really reflective of a user’s substantive contributions to the community. That does not mean forum games does not have a community, that it does not contribute to the greater forum community as a whole, or that substantive conversations do not occur there—merely that, more often than not, posts in that section put form over substance and would allow users to spam to increase their post counts without anything being reportable as “spam.”
The off topic section is hypothetically designed to facilitate conversation about topics unrelated to the game and certain types of roleplaying in the little taverns that pop up there. While there might be a whole lot of posts lacking substance in that forum, and while some threads are clearly more about increasing post count than actual conversation, the underlying theory of the subsection puts substance over form.
That should answer the why they are treated differently. For your second question, I don’t personally have an opinion—I think postcount is generally a feeble metric for judging a user’s quality (except insofar as it shows a user might be an alternate account or otherwise be here to troll) and pay it no heed.
Post count does'nt matter to me but I was just wondering what people thought.
(Thats why I put the poll in)
sticking out ur gyat for the rizzler
PM me the word TOMATO🍅