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[quote="benyeats"]
Just inspired to post on this by a question asked in the daft games thread about why posts in that area don't count.

Amazing how the threads in question died a death not too long after the posts there stopped counting !

That is all

Ben
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Not strictly true. 

Only one of the 5 'big post' threads stopped almost immediately with one after 7 months, one after 12 months, another after 17 months and the fifth one after 19 months.
During this time about 3382 new posts were made on these 5 threads.

In addition, there has been 54 new threads with 1340 posts on the 'Daft Games and Jokes' board since they stopped counting toward the stats so it hasn't quite rolled over and died yet. 

Amazing to me that anybody cares what there post count is. 

Just inspired to post on this by a question asked in the daft games thread about why posts in that area don't count.

Amazing how the threads in question died a death not too long after the posts there stopped counting !

That is all

Ben

Ross thanks for the poll.

Jonb the porn is on other car forums  trying visiting the SELOC forum.

We have a very healthy car forum we have two ares called "games" and "non atom" nothing wrong in that all forums have these areas.  "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy indeed."

Jonb  should we makes this an owners only forum?  How narrow do you want the posts?  You have started and contributed to threads that have nothing to be with cars let alone the Atom.

You irritation is not with the threads or the stats just that you want to clear them out of sight for you.  Remember 99% of the people posting on those threads own Atoms, this cannot be said for some of the other threads here.

[quote="jon b"]
Fair enough Ross- trouble is don't think a vote will be representative of the audience i am talking about.  The ubbers' probably post 80% of the stuff on this forum as it is - fine if its not total rubbish but its full of total rubbish now.  Only the ubbers will vote on this so don't need much a brain to work out which way that ones going to go    Think health and look of the forum everyone
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I'm with you Jon, but given John's feelings (he's clearly a communist I felt I should probably put it to a poll (I'm not a dictator but in some instance that's exactly what is required to make these things work).

Anyhow I have a feeling the common sense will prevail here.

In the meantime, I'll have a think about how I can get that particular board ignore on the unread posts page...a bit of code hacking should do it I'm sure.

I don't care about the stats but being able to ignore that board would be the best thing to happen to this forum since ages

Ben

[quote="Ross McWilliam"]
[quote="John Lloyd"]
Rule through dictatorship sorry Ross please turn back on the post count.  Why should you make the rules when the majority contribute to those posts at one time or another.  OUT OF ORDER.
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I'll put a vote up for everyone to vote on it.  I don't see it as a major issue either way but that board contributes very little to Atom ownership IMHO.  It's not like I'm suggesting removing the board itself - why do you need these posts to add to your post count?  Is it really so important?

Anyhow, I'm fine with going with a vote result.

Cheers, Ross.
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Fair enough Ross- trouble is don't think a vote will be representative of the audience i am talking about.  The ubbers' probably post 80% of the stuff on this forum as it is - fine if its not total rubbish but its full of total rubbish now.  Only the ubbers will vote on this so don't need much a brain to work out which way that ones going to go  ;D   Think health and look of the forum everyone

Okay, poll away:-

http://forum.atomclub.com/index.php/topic,5889.0.html

I do not think the posts should count.
But I don't really care either way.

(Haiku)

[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
The games should just be ephemera,
but people insist on using them
and they are the most popular on the forum.
It sounds like someone just needs an enema

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You've missed the point of what i'm saying.  Remember its a tiny minority that do them - how very sad

[quote="John Lloyd"]
Rule through dictatorship sorry Ross please turn back on the post count.  Why should you make the rules when the majority contribute to those posts at one time or another.  OUT OF ORDER.
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I'll put a vote up for everyone to vote on it.  I don't see it as a major issue either way but that board contributes very little to Atom ownership IMHO.  It's not like I'm suggesting removing the board itself - why do you need these posts to add to your post count?  Is it really so important?

Anyhow, I'm fine with going with a vote result.

Cheers, Ross.

The games should just be ephemera,
but people insist on using them
and they are the most popular on the forum.
It sounds like someone just needs an enema

[quote="John Lloyd"]
[quote="Ross McWilliam"]
Okay, I can't see a way to do it unfortunately, however I have made it so this board (and I think it's child boards) don't count towards people's post counts - this may reduce the number of posts to these areas anyhow.

For those that complain that their post count has suddenly dropped - sorry, tough get a life

The only other thing I can think to do is to add a custom button to the forum which will automatically mark all posts to that board as read.  I'd wanted to avoid adding custom bits to the forum though to be honest as it just complicates things.

Cheers, Ross.
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Rule through dictatorship sorry Ross please turn back on the post count.  Why should you make the rules when the majority contribute to those posts at one time or another.  OUT OF ORDER.
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John - com'on who really gives a f*ck about post count that is just ubber, ubber sad man.  This isn't about me but the health of the forum to the visitors and majority of users that don't do these silly games.  No problem with games being in their area as they are - its the clogging up and impression it sends out.   Is this a car forum or playschool?

[quote="John Lloyd"]
It's no worse than any other forums.  In fact playing games is quite tame compared to some of the drival, porn and libelous stuff that goes on in some other forums I visit.  I do not feel it has any effect on who joins the forum/club.

Bruce moved these into their own board so as you could go into the board and hit the mark as read button before you do anything else.  The only solution so far.  Problem is people are replying to the threads so quickly you get the thread back in your unread list almost immediately!

The only way to stop it is to ask Bruce to stop starting the dam things in the first place!! 
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Not sure John as i haven't visited any porn forums recently - the difference between this forum and PH, for example - it that a small minority clog up all the main search areas and stats as their posts become well in excess of any other - reasonably interesting discussion

Obviously the Ubber Nurds will defend their games to their last breath  ;)  but for the forums health and respect - please do something about it.  

[quote="Ross McWilliam"]
Okay, I can't see a way to do it unfortunately, however I have made it so this board (and I think it's child boards) don't count towards people's post counts - this may reduce the number of posts to these areas anyhow.

For those that complain that their post count has suddenly dropped - sorry, tough get a life

The only other thing I can think to do is to add a custom button to the forum which will automatically mark all posts to that board as read.  I'd wanted to avoid adding custom bits to the forum though to be honest as it just complicates things.

Cheers, Ross.
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Rule through dictatorship sorry Ross please turn back on the post count.  Why should you make the rules when the majority contribute to those posts at one time or another.  OUT OF ORDER.