I've kind of switched between the two over the months I've been here. I started posting not too often, generally only in the threads that appeared under the 'recently commented' section on
The Escapist home page, then I realised that there were actual forums *facedesk* From there, I posted a little bit in Off-Topic before coming across a picture caption competition thread in the recently commented section on the homepage. This introduced me to the mammoth of an addiction thatt was Forum Games & RP, which I spent a little at first before spending a large amount of time pretty much living in for about 2-3 weeks at least.
Eventually I entered a phase where I would end up posting in every other thread in Off-Topic and any other forums that seemed interesting at the time and would post in Forum Games & RP during the evenings, when there would be more people on, due to a large amount of the Forum Gamers being American. After I started to get close to 4000 posts, though, I gave up Forum Games & RP, looking for bigger things to write forum-wise. I still posted in every other thread, but posting was slower as I was no longer posting in such an active bunch of dedicated users.
Eventually, though, I decided to slow down all-together and return to how I kind of started posting on this site, though as a much better poster. Nowadays, I only post on threads I'm interested in, as doing otherwise isn't really that healthy, I find, though it takes a lot for me to hit that post button, where I can start or even sometimes finish writing a post just in the lact minute to decide not to actually post it and to just leave the thread. I was just getting bored of posting so heavily and determinedly, I guess. Besides, College was starting and AS Levels just have to take priority in this case. So yeah, I started as the latter (as a result of inexperience), changed to the former and am now back in the latter context again.
Spacefly said:
TBH this topic is kinda useless, because to find out how often people post you can look to the left below their avatar to find out which catagory they fall into...
But then you have users like me and Max, who have switched between the two techniques for posting over our time here. Whilst it would appear that the former fits our description from what you write, we do follow the latter nowadays with the post count and joined date simply being a sign of what we used to do here. Also, it's become generally easier to up your post count now due to the fact that user groups increase your post count as well, which is why users like [user]IdealistCommi[/user], [user]Fat Man Spoon[/user] and [user]xmetatr0nx[/user] and is probably why
[user]sasquatch99[/user] (
turns out he's a forum gamer, like I used to be) has such a high post count as well for his joined date.
