I'd like your help, please.

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by DeniseJ, May 30, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hello!

    I am curious to know if anyone else has noticed this problem. Earlier today, I had at least 50 posts to my credit. Now, my post number has significantly decreased and I have gone back down to "Peon" level. Does anyone have any ideas why? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you.
     
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  2. cormac

    cormac Peon

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  3. DeniseJ

    DeniseJ Live, Laugh, Love

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    Thank you, it never occured to me that could be the problem. I had no idea that posting welcome messages could be deleted!
     
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  4. maldives

    maldives Prominent Member

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    #4
    Important: Make sure your contribution here is valuable.
     
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  5. cormac

    cormac Peon

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    I dont think the posts in the intro thread are actually counted as its too easy for us to sit all day and welcome new members to get our post count up.....there again I could be wrong, lol.

    *edit*

    And of course that too.
     
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  6. DeniseJ

    DeniseJ Live, Laugh, Love

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    Very true, Turfsniffer. However, obviously that is where my posts have been deleted from, considering a lot of my posts thus far in this community have been to welcome new members. Any posts I have written about actual topics have all managed to stick around.
     
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  7. cormac

    cormac Peon

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    Thanks for confirming.....I tend to stay away from that part of the forum anyway.
     
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  8. DeniseJ

    DeniseJ Live, Laugh, Love

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    No problem. Well, now I will probably be doing the same, and attempting to engage in more pertinent discussions on these forums. Thanks again for alerting me to the reason behing my post count lowering.
     
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  9. maldives

    maldives Prominent Member

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    #9
    Nice confession. Making posts for the sake of increasing the post count is not the best practice.
     
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  10. DeniseJ

    DeniseJ Live, Laugh, Love

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    I wasn't confessing to anything; I was not making posts simply to increase my post count, I was only trying to make new members feel welcome. Nowhere can I find where I stated I was only trying to "pad" my post count.
     
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    From the welcome section simply because so many people join, yet never add again to the community here.

    added:
    Crazy Rob, since now I am much closer to the Windy City, one day we will go up and visit that city.
     
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  12. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    #12
    'Cut and paste' welcome messages from new members get deleted.
     
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    DeniseJ Live, Laugh, Love

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    #13
    I am aware of this, Crazy_Rob and will refrain from posting welcome messages in the future, though to set the record straight they were not "cut and paste." However, you are correct, other than serving to welcome a new member there was (for the most part) no other purpose.
     
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    I occasionally post welcome messages. I just don't think it is a bad practice either.
     
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  15. DeniseJ

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    Well, if posting welcome messages will have some people thinking I am merely trying to superficially increase my post count, I don't see the point now. I would prefer not to have people think things like that about me, even when I know they are wrong.
     
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    #16
    No one seems to like to be a "peon" ;)
     
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  17. DeniseJ

    DeniseJ Live, Laugh, Love

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    #17
    I could care less about levels and titles! If I see a thread I'd like to post to, I post regardless of what "number" it will get me to. Perhaps I am an exception to that rule, but all the same I am an exception.
     
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  18. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    We have many new members join and then rush to increase their post counts by doing exactly what you did.

    We just try to keep this place as clean as possible- hope you understand. :)
     
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    maldives Prominent Member

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    I am still "Peon" after 1966 posts :D:D:D:D
     
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  20. DeniseJ

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    Of course I understand, I just want the point to be made that I WASN'T trying to do what many other new members have done. I have posted to other forums in addition to the introduction thread, although many of my posts were part of the intro forum.
     
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