It doesn't even matter....all a higher post# or status indicates is how much a person talks. There is no indication of whether or not they have anything worthwhile to say. Think about people in real life.....more often than not, it is the people who talk alot who really have nothing to say....
The psychology of internet posting
by onacruse 37 Replies latest jw friends
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Jourles
By the way, would this volume=importance have also applied to that Fred fellow a fews years back?
Freddy was one cool cat!
I could care less about the amount of posts I have. Hell, I've been here since the beginning(I think my registration date was a day later than Simon's). My post average tells a lot about me. 1.09 posts per day. I read more than I write. I'll go through phases at times. Some days it's fluff(not often), political(greater frequency over the last year), religious(mixed in here and there), and whatever piques my interest. I do have other things to do in my life like work and volleyball.
I've been pretty lucky to meet many people from this board. I hope I get to meet quite a few more in a few months.
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onacruse
sad emo:
I do watch how I respond newbies, because I know how I felt when this was my first ever foray into a discussion board - I was very scared of posting, then I made a stupid comment (it wasn't to me at the time) which resulted in me being flamed and almost caused me to leave before I even got started. Honestly - if I had been an inquiring/exiting JW, I think that experience would have scared me straight back to the KH.
Wow! So many comparisons to my own db experience. I've shared this before (but us old guys, we like to retell our little stories, eh? LOL): My first exploration of the ex-JW db was H20, and though it didn't exactly "scare me straight back to the KH," it sure did scare me away from db's. And years later my own first post on any db was here on JWD..."buried" (or so I thought) on like page 4 of a thread. Larc (may his soul rest in peace), who had like 10,000 posts, came right back and welcomed me. Since then I've been a bit of a blabbermouth.
Some folks read for a while, make a few posts, "get it," and move right on along. Others, including me, need a bit more head-knocking.
And along the lines of what LT said: the only thing that gripes me is when someone dodges around or makes generalizations or just ignores someone else's "point well taken." But then that's one thing about this db: It's not very often that you can get away with that kind of stuff without being hammered!
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Zico
I still think of myself as a newbie even though I've been here almost a year.
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SPAZnik
Yes, I tend to think a high number means they've pissed around this post a lot.
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Narkissos
It doesn't take many posts for people to stand out as either thoughtful, informative, helpful or sensitive... and this usually remains true hundreds or thousands of posts later as the case may be. As a French saying goes (modified from Talleyrand), "beware of the first impression, it is often right".
There is no universal scale of value, though, just kindred minds meeting here and there, and there is room for an infinity of different types. Just give what you have and there will be someone to pick it up.
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jgnat
Of a slightly different scale, I have observed a direct correlation to the FREQUENCY that a poster posts, and their POPULARITY on the board. Now, this popularity only lasts a week or so, then it resets to zero. If a poster leaves for a year or more, they might has well have died. Consider poor Jourles or Barbara Anderson.
In other words, popularity hounds, NEVER GO ON HOLIDAYS.
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jgnat
Oh, and there is no direct relation to the the value of a thread OR the popularity of the poster by the number of responses it picks up. Lady Lee's are always low. So are all of mine, spare two. Leolaia's all 'keepers', but they are mostly read, not responded to.
Trolls know how to bait a board and create a kick-ass thread with hundreds of responses. Threads that ASK something of the poster pick up more. It also matters what time of day the thread is started. I'm guessing Mondays, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings, about 8:00 MST are "hot" times of the week. But is a thread more valuable just because it is long? It's a passing fancy, a fling, a twirl of electrons. In this internet age, the collective mind blinks and calls, "Next!".
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DannyHaszard
Danny Haszard has NO ego I have tens of thousands of pages up as a proflic poster and support all enimies of the watchtower evil.
I am single minded in my mission of justice and retribution aganist the SOB's
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greendawn
The number of posts shouldn't make a difference, some people don't have the time or the internet access to post as much as others do. And even newbies may well have very intelligent and outstanding things to say. They may be new to a forum but not to the subjects under discussion.