Feedback Changing how we calculate Member Post Counts

Hi Folks,

Continuing with our quest to encourage more gambling-related discussions, we are changing how we calculate our members' Post Counts by no longer taking into account posts in non-gambling related sections.

As a result, posts in the Lounge, Off-topic Graveyard, Insults Graveyard, Feedback, and Reported Posts sections no longer count towards a member's post count. (Regarding Reported Posts, when a member reports a post, a new post under their name with the details of the report are automatically created in an Admin-only section and up until now those auto-created posts were adding to members' post counts.)

Although imperfect, this will provide a much more accurate measure of how involved a member has been in gambling-related discussions, which is what our community is all about.

Since some Forum privileges are based on post count, this will also ensure that members who join and, for example, spend 100% of their time in the Lounge discussing recipes and 0% of their time discussing gambling-related matters, won't unlock the privileges. (Those who have already unlocked any privileges aren't affected by this change.)

Post Counts will have to be manually updated regularly by us to take the above into account because posts that have been moved from a section that counts to a section that doesn't won't actually change the post count until we do the manual update. So keep that in mind if you see your future post counts dipping slightly at any time. It just means we ran a recount and excluded posts moved to the sections we no longer take into account for post counts.

So, to clarify, now it's mainly the gambling-related posts that appear under "New Posts", it's mainly the gambling-related posts that count towards our $5,000 Giveaway, and it's mainly the gambling-related posts that count towards a members' Post Count. This will hopefully continue to encourage more gambling-related discussions here at GamblingForums.com.

If you have any questions, concerns, or any other feedback regarding this change, please let us know in this thread.

 

Are you arguing that this change will have no effect on increasing the number of gambling-related posts, or are you just cherry-picking one old post and arguing it will only serve to increase potential spam? Instead of privately saving a list of posts that are spammy or off-topic, you should be reporting them so we can clean them up. What you should not be doing is keeping these posts to yourself as potential ammunition, and then only revealing them to us when it suits your cherry-picking purposes. That post from Micki2016 is from last year and is off-topic and should have been reported a while ago. We just moved it as it has nothing to do with the topic of the thread it was in.

It's the capital of Armenia. No, we did not need to Google it.

 

Yes.

 

To be fair, WizardOfVegas is a gambling forum. If the topic of that thread were "DiscussCooking Forum is Dying", then the thread would have been moved to the Lounge.

The Miscellaneous Gambling Forum is for any gambling-related topic that doesn't fit into any of our existing Forums.

The Lounge is for threads that aren't related to Gambling.