How many people actually post on CotI

[Malenfant]

Originally posted by far-trader:
I've always tried to make my posts about quality and mostly in my case it's often a desire to help those with questions by offering my opinions and knowledge since I've been playing and playing with this game almost as long as the creators and through every version except GURPS. [/QB]

I try and write most of my posts so that they add something to the conversation. Sometimes I repeat myself (especially when discussions go on for a while and I forget that I've already said something ). But I don't post purely for the sake of it (well, maybe once or twice to make an amusing comment, but that's it ).

Then again, there are others here who spend pretty much their entire time here writing in-character gibberish on Random Static. Which is fine by me, so long as it stays on that board.

It's not about a race to the top though - it is quality, not quantity. I just pointed out the stats here because I thought it was interesting

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[Andrew Boulton]

I think I'll leave it to others to judge whether my posts count as signal or noise.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Hi Everybody!

Originally, I was ScoutCadet469, and that's still my login. I changed my screen name to Sir Dameon Toth when I broke up with a girlfriend and she started stalking me on the Internet. Not kidding here. She followed me into every game I played on Yahoo Games making nasty comments to the people I was playing with and was e-mailing my friends pretending to be me, and posting to the forum of the website of the band I go out to see - even posting nasty messages about the drummer of the band. Hell hath no fury and all... I still sign my posts as Scout just to stay consistent. A while back I was in the Top 20 - now I'm at number 46. Once CotI was changed to show Peerage by number of posts, I quickly dropped down the list. I feel like I post some pretty good quality, but I've been known to get into light arguments. I've had a great time on this Forum since July of 2001. It's clearly my favorite, tho I occasionally post on the Star Wars list (those people can be real @$$holes) over on Wizards and the Pits of Evil forum for d20, and of course, the band forum I mentioned earlier. I'm sure I'd post more if I wasn't in JumpSpace (i.e. driving a truck and on the road) for most of the week.

Glad to be here!

Scout

 

[hirch duckfinder]

so is this thread signal or noise?

 

[Malenfant]

Originally posted by hirch duckfinder:
so is this thread signal or noise?

It's probably more noise than signal now

. I didn't quite anticipate that everyone would be chipping in and saying "hey, I'm on page 37!" . But at least more people are aware of the directory now . The only reason I started it here rather than in Random Static was that it was kinda relevant to CotI.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Originally posted by Sir Dameon Toth:
Hi Everybody!

Originally, I was ScoutCadet469, and that's still my login. I changed my screen name to Sir Dameon Toth when I broke up with a girlfriend and she started stalking me on the Internet. Not kidding here. She followed me into every game I played on Yahoo Games making nasty comments to the people I was playing with and was e-mailing my friends pretending to be me, and posting to the forum of the website of the band I go out to see - even posting nasty messages about the drummer of the band. Hell hath no fury and all... I still sign my posts as Scout just to stay consistent. A while back I was in the Top 20 - now I'm at number 46. Once CotI was changed to show Peerage by number of posts, I quickly dropped down the list. I feel like I post some pretty good quality, but I've been known to get into light arguments. I've had a great time on this Forum since July of 2001. It's clearly my favorite, tho I occasionally post on the Star Wars list (those people can be real @$$holes) over on Wizards and the Pits of Evil forum for d20, and of course, the band forum I mentioned earlier. I'm sure I'd post more if I wasn't in JumpSpace (i.e. driving a truck and on the road) for most of the week.

Glad to be here!

Scout

Well no wonder she has to stalk you on the Internet -- it's kinda hard to stalk you if you're driving a truck cross country.

Sorry, just being a smart aleck. I've known people in similar situations, and it's not fun.

As for post totals, I'm surprised to find myself on page 2. Since I don't have a computer at home and only post from work, I never thought that my post total would rank so high.

 

[mike wightman]

Those posts mount up after two years...

must be nice to be able to post from work, I could double my noise output

 

[Gruffty]

Hot dang! I'm no. 10 on page 7 (sorted by number of posts, that is!). Getting vertigo now, feel wobbly, feel sick....

 

[far-trader]

Well to add a little more noise to the signal here I guess I do post some that some might call noise, but I try to keep that mostly on Random Static. Besides one posters noise is another's signal, and vice versa

Pointing out the features of the board is not a bad thing, even if it does lead to a little noise in the upper signal band

 

[trader jim]

I guess i should come "clean" This is actually my SECOND Account...I cant even remember when i joined the Boards or how many post i truly have!!!

 

[etherflyer]

Originally posted by Malenfant:
It's quite interesting to look at the number of posts that people have made here)

Looks like a Poisson distribution, at first glance.

Originally posted by Malenfant:
Just goes to show that despite there being so many members here, only about 3% - less than 200 people - contribute to most of the discussions.

That's "make most of the posts", which doesn't necessarily correlate to "contributes most"...