Too much posting?

[Zeldadudes]

Not at all, he joined a little after i joined and besides he's slowed down now.
I'm looking more at people like you, did you really need to ask me that?

Could you have sounded less offensive there? Yes.

Did he need to ask you that? I don't know, do you have a sense of humor?

I could of but if i did it wouldn't of had the same effect and wouldn't of been what i wanted to say.
I do have a sense of humour, i was merely asking him whether what he was asking me felt relevant to the thread in his opinion.

Is there such a thing as Too much posting?

Nope,there is no such thing a to much posting.If he or she want's to post allot then let them be.

There is a nice answer. I'm not stopping anyone from posting i will add though, i just merely pondered and acted on whether the content is right as well as the amount of posts.

You're being silly. Just because you can't post a lot without running out of things to say doesn't mean other people can't. Case in point. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/MaxTheReaper]

Believe me, i've seen far too many people on the forums saying things that aren't even relevant to the topic.
Even in flame wars they shoot their guns way to quickly with incompetence.

You must have a real high opinion of Neonbob, huh?

Not at all, he joined a little after i joined and besides he's slowed down now.
I'm looking more at people like you, did you really need to ask me that?

Have you taken into account forum gamers?

No but the people i have looked at so far haven't been on the RP and Forum games part often.
They're more into the Off-topic and gaming section more than anything else.
I will take into account though that Forum games can be a huge part of the posts people have.

You cited me as an example of a person you were looking at.
I was pretty keen on them.

EDIT: Blech, I'm coming across too cold.
Blame circadian rhythms.

No you're not coming across cold, you're right.
I did pretty much accuse you of being one of those people i am looking at before looking at your actual post history. I apologize for that.

I guess at the end of this all, i'm assuming my post will be the last, that people pretty much do whatever they want on the forums and i can't do anything about it. I just really want people to start thinking more about their posts and why they are posting rather than posting immediately and writing something that is really not related to the thread.

Thanks for the discussion though.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I am of the opinion that no matter how many posts someone has, so long as they're posting something related to the topics to which they reply, it is all valid.

That isn't to say however, that people posting one word replies just to increase their count, isn't kind of annoying some times.

I prefer to think deeply, and let my opinion flow into words, like water from an overturned glass... which leads some of my posts if not most of them to be rather text heavy... but as i do not post often, I feel that maybe people will remember me more from the punch of my statements alone, rather than quantity of entries.

For instance, I feel no need to post in any topic in which I find myself just saying a word in my head, and not finding more to say... or when all I can think about are nasty things, or flaming, I try very hard to restrain my accusatory or inflammatory posts so, they do not appear, or come out in more of a questioning tone, to find someone's true intentions instead.

As to your topic, I find it interesting enough to voice myself in a reply.
Though I do question whether you did indeed create this topic to incite some sort of long winded argument, to acquire a badge or something, but that's just my personal outlook on people. Most, if not all of them are so full of hidden agendas that most do not notice the ones hidden in their own subconscious...
I'm a tired misanthrope, forgive me my ramblings.

 

[Wicky_42]

hey im the same as you, i come on once or twice, check for messages and new episodes then see if there are any decent threads to post to

Yeah, I'm the same too - though it's rare that I find a thread worth contributing too... and half the time people won't even bother reading the first page, let alone the next couple so unless you quote someone it can be very unlikely that anyone will even read many of the posts one makes.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bother - the last thing the internet needs is another opinion

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

I post an acceptable amount a day and yet I very nearly fit into your category of "member since middle of '09 and with 2000 posts".

If I have nothing to say, I don't post, but I usually can find something to say. I've managed to get this far without any form of mod wrath, and I intend to keep it that way. If the other posters who post a lot more than me can do the same I don't see how posting a lot is really that big an issue.

I mean a decent length post like this takes the whole of, what, 2 minutes to write at most? You could be working at a computer all day, and make 5 posts an hour that are good and contribute to the discussion and not take more than 10 minutes of your time doing so. I'm currently posting in between writing a medium length and rather dull essay. The more posts I make in a day, the more I am procrastinating. So if you suddenly see me posting in every thread of the day, hour after hour, call me out on it and remind me of the work I should be doing

 

[Daedalus1942]

Now before i start talking about my opinion i want to ask you the following:
Is there such a thing as Too much posting?
In other words, can one post too much and lose the point of posting?

In my experience i usually come on The Escapist once or twice a day and look at the range of threads we have and if i want to add to them i will do so.
In other peoples experience it seems to me that they come on the Escapist for a long period of time and continually post until their fingers run read with blood.

[http://img214.imageshack.us/i/alotofposts2.tif/]

This is just a screenshot of one of the things i am talking about, is this necessarily too much for one Escapist?

I just really wanted to get the opinions off of a group of you because i honestly think that if you joined in the middle of 2009 and you have over 2000 posts then you either have no life or have been supplying these forums with some useless posts.

I will say this though: I occasionally am one of those who does post useless threads, if you saw one of my posts recently all i did was say /signed. Although it took minimal effort to type that in i read through all the posts and found the two quotes that pretty much summed up my opinion too.

So please have a read of what i've said and tell me, using a sentence preferably, if i'm being silly or if i'm actually making some sense.

I rarely submit pointless posts. The majority of mine are at least a paragraphc or more, so I'll happily admit that I have way too much time on my hands, and yes I'm one of those people who comes on everyday and checks for replies to my threads or replies to my quotes.
I have a life it's just I'm casually employed, so I have alot of free time on my hands.
To be honest i look at my posts and think "maybe I post way too much", but it's never pointless or wasted and I probably do have an addiction of sorts.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Why does it bother you?

Anyways, I post about, 20 posts per day? I think the highest is like 65 by SAS. Does it really matter though.

Us high posters just have a lot to say, Is that a problem

 

[Kif]

Now before i start talking about my opinion i want to ask you the following:
Is there such a thing as Too much posting?
In other words, can one post too much and lose the point of posting?

In my experience i usually come on The Escapist once or twice a day and look at the range of threads we have and if i want to add to them i will do so.
In other peoples experience it seems to me that they come on the Escapist for a long period of time and continually post until their fingers run read with blood.

-img snip-

This is just a screenshot of one of the things i am talking about, is this necessarily too much for one Escapist?

I just really wanted to get the opinions off of a group of you because i honestly think that if you joined in the middle of 2009 and you have over 2000 posts then you either have no life or have been supplying these forums with some useless posts.

I will say this though: I occasionally am one of those who does post useless threads, if you saw one of my posts recently all i did was say /signed. Although it took minimal effort to type that in i read through all the posts and found the two quotes that pretty much summed up my opinion too.

So please have a read of what i've said and tell me, using a sentence preferably, if i'm being silly or if i'm actually making some sense.

I completely fully and totally agree... in fact, I look at my post count from June to now and think to myself, 'wow where did all those posts go?' Then I remember the list threads I've taken part in... a fraction of the list threads available, but a reasonable number none the less.

It absolutely baffles me when I see people who joined later or around a similar time and they have not just double or triple, but quadruple the posts I have.

Part of me thinks the badges are to blame, they promote the notion of posting lots for awards. Another part of me thinks that people who really have nothing to say just post lots of one liners for the sake of posting or to gain some sort of Escapist notoriety, if there is such a thing.

And to answer some of the replies, the problem... at least in my eyes, is that the quantity of the post count does not frequently mirror the quality of the post. If you have 100 users all creating the same worn out list threads, or replying with the same text and no real discussions the quality of the forum degrades. When 2 paragraphs start to get 'tldr' there are problems.

 

[omega 616]

I think if your home bored, you have played all your games to boredom and the years hit that dry spell, when no (decent) games come out then there is no such thing as posting to much, maybe if all your doing is posting "this" or simple one liners then maybe.

I think max would be the best person to ask though, with (a rather amazing) 16k posts in a year.

 

[funguy2121]

Some people post insane amounts of posts. I don't understand how they manage it.

Some people have alot to say, or are really opinionated. I know a communist, a fascist and a conservative all on these forums. They should make a sitcom.

Not a bad idea. You should add a religious fundamentalist and a liberal who's so bound to the idea of being open-minded that he has no idea what he actually believes. Maybe toss in a troll or 2.

 

[Snork Maiden]

Can you post too much? Not really. Can you post too much shit? Yes yes yes.
A high post count doesn't at all equate to spamming, and doesn't mean the user doesn't contribute well. You could probably get 50 posts a day if you posted in every single thread, and if you had something to bring to the table in each then why shouldn't you?

 

[WolfThomas]

I don't post much, compare my count to my join date.

 

[Flour]

I prefer to think deeply, and let my opinion flow into words, like water from an overturned glass...

Funny I do the same, but usually this means 15-30 minutes typing a message, only to randomly add or remove parts so that I end up with an incoherent mess that I barely understand. Then I post it and either spend another hour fixing it or five posts explaining what I actually meant.
Or I just post random messages with maybe a picture and no real content.(I'm actually surprised by what I've been able to get away with)
Also, if I had actually posted what I had typed, I would probably have double my current post count. It's just that I start typing a message, then open TASvideos or TvTropes in another tab and start reading there, then after a while I just close the tab with my message.

The above is also my reply to the OP, but I'm currently too lazy to separate the parts and type parts of them again.

 

[Sennz0r]

You're being silly. Just because you can't post a lot without running out of things to say doesn't mean other people can't. Case in point. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/MaxTheReaper]

Not a particularly good case in point, considering that MaxTheReaper just throws around one-liners. I, on the other hand, have another case in point [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/view/NewClassic], one that proves that moderation in posting in conjunction with well-thought out posts is the best policy. Beats MaxTheReaper into a cocked hat any day of the week.

I'd really like to see more posters who are willing to write long, detailed and insightful essay-type posts, rather than the bland, banal, vapid one-liners of some of our posters.

But of course you gave that case in point, it was pretty much certainty while the page was still loading.

I had my period of posting just for the sake of posting, and got reprimanded for it. I'm not glad about doing it but now I see myself as a person who usually takes their time to form an opinion and elaborate on it in a post of reasonable length.

As you can see my post count is that high considering the time I've spent here. There were a couple months in which I wouldn't even be on these forums seeing as I had some important educational matters to attend to. But even considering that slight absence, when you look at a lot of other regulars who joined this you could describe my contribution to this forum's total post count to be 'fuck all'.

I used to complain about people joining The Escapist and racking up 2000 posts within a couple months. Turns out they really do have something to say or they'd have been banned.

 

[Blow_Pop]

since january and 3000+ posts? doesn´t seem like too much to me.

Hey you joined on my birthday

sorry distraction at its best.

 

[D_987]

have been supplying these forums with some useless posts.

Well they could have been posting in the User groups...because for some reason, unknown to myself, posting in those groups increases your post count...

But there are obviously a lot off people who post criminally off-topic, pathetic, short posts just to raise their post count, they should just remove post count altogether - it might solve a lot off problems...

 

[Helmet]

I believe in lurking. If I have something to say that has not been said already, I will chip in. As you can probably infer from my join date/ post count...

 

[orangebandguy]

Some people post insane amounts of posts. I don't understand how they manage it.

Some people have alot to say, or are really opinionated. I know a communist, a fascist and a conservative all on these forums. They should make a sitcom.

Not a bad idea. You should add a religious fundamentalist and a liberal who's so bound to the idea of being open-minded that he has no idea what he actually believes. Maybe toss in a troll or 2.

Well the communist and the fascist are both nice people, I just don't know if they've talked to each other yet. We'd all know about it I expect.

 

[Zeldadudes]

Why does it bother you?

Anyways, I post about, 20 posts per day? I think the highest is like 65 by SAS. Does it really matter though.

Us high posters just have a lot to say, Is that a problem

It bothers me as it affects the community and the general discussion.
When i read through a post i read around 80% of all the replies and generally i am satisfied.
There is always the one guy, who i shall not name, who is in there with a 2 sentence post or a short message that either has nothing to do with it or offends people.
I don't mind you though Pete, i find that your posts are insightful and often to the point. Like right now you've given me something to think about which is what forums should do.

I completely fully and totally agree... in fact, I look at my post count from June to now and think to myself, 'wow where did all those posts go?' Then I remember the list threads I've taken part in... a fraction of the list threads available, but a reasonable number none the less.

It absolutely baffles me when I see people who joined later or around a similar time and they have not just double or triple, but quadruple the posts I have.

I'm glad there is a number of people who agree with the way i feel but as one of the posters said a while ago you can gain a lot of posts from User Reviews as well as Forum games. Although i still have the feeling that these people who post on the forum consistently need to provide evidence, for what they are saying, and provide some information or opinion that we can understand.

Can you post too much? Not really. Can you post too much shit? Yes yes yes.

I agree with this indefinitely. Preferably i'd like to see less shit, as it were, and more high quality, is that the opposite to shit, golden nuggets...
Regardless what is your shit to golden nugget ratio?
I'd say, in my case, 1:9 - In every 10 i produce one shit... (I think thats how it works)

 

[dududf]

Obviously our post counts get so high by posting in threads like this.
Duh.


No and yes, if you just say "This" or "QFT" then it's a wasted post. Anything else is good in my opinion.

 

[t.tocs]

You have to look at the jobs of the posters too. I work in the IT field so I'm in front of a computer each and every day. In between service requests or projects, I'll hop online and check out some forums, some blogs, etc. It's how I relax at work. The people with the insane post counts most likely do the same, but they just stay in one forum instead of moving around.