Ben Bell posts:
There are a few people on the boards who've only been around for a few months and have posted hundreds of messages, if not thousands. Nothing really against it, if they want to just post here continuously then that's their choice.
I'm made a little uncomfortable by that post, since I meet the description -- feel free to discount my opinion based on the fact that I have posted a lot since I joined only three months ago. But taking Maddog as an example, he posts a lot of controversial opinion in Random Static -- not my cup of tea, and, I might add, his politics don't make sense. But discussion of politics among Traveller players is specifically one of the purposes of these boards -- that's what Random Static is for. That sort of thing leads to a lot of posts. Also I have seen Maddog make specific contributions to several gaming oriented boards, so I think your criticism (or scorn, perhaps is a better word) is unjustified.
As for the gaming-oriented boards, I agree with Merlin that quality is what counts. As a house husband, I've got more time than other people to read the boards and post. Most of my posts are fairly long, and many of them contain usable gaming information that I think makes the game more playable for others. I've detailed at least five systems in the Trojan Reach, posted a canon timeline in that area with IMTU additions, posted a starport map, links to keyed starport maps, stats for several NPCs, numbers for several landmines, one animal, and a bunch of other stuff.
Even if all of it were terrible, the effort is what counts on boards like this; if game-specific posts are wrong, someone will fix them. That's the point of the boards.
So I don't think a clubby attitude about length of time on the boards makes any more sense than making lots of posts just for the purpose of getting a title. In fact, I don't think you CAN get a title without publishing something.
