Last night someone in the DP forums posted that they had a new directory and they wanted people to submit sites. I took up the guy on the offer and submitted a few o his directory. When i returned t the DP forum, I posted a simple "Thank you" as I have always done in the past. This morning I received an email from DP saying I was padding my post count. It was a 1 point infraction, and I NEVER use this forum for bad things because I understand its value. What this has done is cooled my eagerness to post in the forum at all. I was under the impression that padding post counts was posting stupid things that do not add value to the quality of the forum. I was not doing this. I was simply being polite. I understand that this is a big place with many moderators who are very busy, but an infraction over saying Thank You seems a bit trigger happy. Here is a link to the Post in question: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=1696081#post1696081
I got a warning for saying "good stuff." Why on earth are you not allowed to say "good stuff" or thank you? It's oppressive if you ask me, total rubbish. In a proper respecting community, it's not for some "moderator" to decide whether a post is "good enough" or not.
It's only frowned upon because we get around 2000 of such posts a day. Not one of them adds value so we can only assume they are done to increase posts artifically. If you don't have anything useful to say that helps the OP or the board at large, then don't say anything. Signal vs noise, quality vs quantity, that sort of thing!
I understand the need to keep the useless posts to a minimum, but first, the original post was placed in the wrong section... I simply found it by clicking on "New Posts." Because of how I found the post I had no idea that there was a sticky there saying "don't do this." I understand your motivation, but I still disagree with its implementation. Its a little insulting to get a nasty gram in my email for visiting your forum, contributing on a regular basis, and adding value to your online community. Nevertheless, I learned my lesson and will not thank members for their generosity in the future.
An infraction is only a reminder of the rules - not a message saying we hate you or don't want you. It has no direct effect on your forum presence either. We encourage good posts so rather than "submitted mine" just say something like "I liked this that and the other so I submitted mine in the xyz category. I'd suggest you add such and such category too." That makes it useful for the person starting the thread.
Rules are made for our convenience only , they are also changing as per req.We should see in many angles if every days 40k posts with thanks are filled there will be little probe.You thanks was for him not for complete forum , your bumped thread will come up on first page over other threads with good info.Infractions are not given in insult you or harm you.Once i too got infraction for same reason ,now it is expired and i will never get again for same reason.