Postwhoring is constantly making useless posts or repeating others when it isn't necessary. Some examples of postwhoring is replying to serious posts with smilies/emoticions or one-worders. If someone created a thread or a post regarding a problem at home and was asking for suggestions on how he/she could work it out, then someone replies with
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:Notice how those replies are pointless and getting nowhere? That's usually considered postwhoring. Now, it isn't done any more due to Alex fixing it. Another would be repeating yourself in the same thread. It's like saying, "I think it's stupid." multiple times in the same thread when you've already made your point once by saying it once. There are many other ways of postwhoring. If you feel that someone is postwhoring unnecessarily, please contact Alex, me, or any other moderator and we'll look into it. Thanks. 