*whew* after all my weekend...I realized that I'm addicted to this site because there's so much things happening that I have thought of and missed. I used to be up at 12 am and stay up until about afternoon then go out and do whatever I needed.
When I used the "View New posts" there were 9 pages. I have started from the old posts until this thread.
I do understand what it's like when I refresh the "View New posts" and notice that there's more posts...sometimes I right click on a link then pick "Open in new window" and scroll down and notice someone made a pointless post so I close the window. It takes me about an hour to two hours to catch up on just one page of New threads depending on how busy I was at that time. That's how important the Time was here. Some of you all other ADers might consider your time more important than I would. It's understandable how important it is to prevent "Post whoring" to waste the rest of our times.
The point of this forum is just to bring together users to discuss along different subjects. It defeats the purpose of this Forum if someone just posted something like a single emotion.
I think that a chatroom would change the way the post whorings are done. I wouldn't mind to host a chatroom and post the channel logs of the entire day/night for everyone, who has missed an event, to read.
I used to run forums (namely rackshack's own forum and WHT), had big website projects, still run an IRC network (after several changes over the years), and also recently got married. Kids would come around soon which would take up more of my time.
All of those issues are all related to time and bandwidth. Time costs you few seconds or minutes. Bandwidth costs you money and it takes more time for you to get the money to pay for the bandwidth.
I think that Alex should just hide this "Posts" in the profiles. It's possible in this forum's version after few php hackings. It's impossible to just remove it because some of the scripts depend on our number of postings to properly work.
or "Hi", then that would be postwhoring. It may seem like one post, but if it's abused repeatedly... then it would get out of hand. Usually, it's accepted in the jokes category since there isn't much to say when replying to someone's joke... but if you made an unnecessary post like :gives:, then that would be disrespectful and possibly considered as postwhoring. The other thing is quoting. This used to be abused in the past until Alex fixed it. Before, people would quote another post. Someone else would quote that quoted post. It was possible to quote a quoted quoted quoted quoted (times 10) replied post. That is called scrolling. Here's an example:
