Does rank affect you?

[Xen]

Yes, it does affect me. I feel better.

[wellard]

Originally posted by Xen: Yes, it does affect me. I feel better.

The post count you have makes you feel better?

Someone like Illumina can making a caustic comment or joke in a couple of sentences, Johnny has the ability to encapsulate a conversation and poke fun of it in a few words and a well chosen smile. Cerek takes the time to highlight people’s names and give a detailed answer to a question or statement. Cloudy is one of the most friendly and how many of her posts have left people feeling warm and connected. Memnoch can make a heated argument seem like the children in a playground scenario that it usually is, Attalus with his dryer than a desert wit. These are things that I admire rather than rank achieved by spam.

What a person has to say and the way that they say it is the most important thing.

Do you think 7500 posts @ 8 words each makes everyone have a positive feeling?

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

Xen, I bet if we took your posts and analyzed them all and got the average word count per post, and then took say Cereks (good example I think) or even SoS's and took all their posts and split them every say 10words or so(your average wpp) then they would have thousands more posts than they do, simply because of the quantity they post.

Oh yeh, but I can't argue with Johnny, his one liners rock!

[Stormymystic]

Originally posted by Hivetyrant: Dont worry Stormy, when ever I see you I only see you as the mother. Not for someone who "makes stupid threads" [img]tongue.gif[/img]

err....umm.....what?..........

Originally posted by Hivetyrant: Well I meant as in, usually wise partakings in threads.

wise? how did that get in there? I am not wise, just have a few words that make sense sometimes......

[Aelia Jusa]

I would say no, inasmuch as I don't care how many posts a person has, or how many posts I have. However, I think rank is significant indirectly - as Ilumina said, interactions are affected by reputation and the relationships built up with people. This can only happen by posting. You can't let people know what sort of person you are and make real friendships by posting 100 posts sporadically over 3 years, any more than you can become close friends with someone in real life by meeting them and then seeing them once every 6 months. I also think it's significant, as I think KrunchyFrogg commented - if I notice that someone I know and has been around for a long time (and therefore has lots of posts) gets suspended or banned it's very different than when some foolish newbie comes in and gets banned for being a tool.

But those things aren't a result of having a high rank, they are a result of being a long-time member and being visible and letting people get to know who you are. Rank is just a crude proxy for that.

[Ladyzekke]

Originally posted by Illumina Drathiran'ar: Stop looking at me, Wendy.

Ha touche, BUT.. I only make a spam thread like once every six months or a year. Usually when I feel the forum has been slow re postings, so I try to rejuvinate! I feel spam can be really fun in a forum, but not all the time. All the time ruins the fun as it is nothing special. Making spam special is what it is all about Illumina

[SomeGuy]

I don't know whether or not I treat people differently on their post counts... I'm not sure. I do know people have treated each other differently on age though. I remember a few times when we had some PG-13ish or more topics, and some newer members were going "Oh no this is bad stuff little kiddies don't look!" I took some offense from it, since I'm one of the younger members on the board. It made me feel like they didn't think I was mature enough to handle some foul language/sexual content/etc etc. Sorry guys, just in a ranting mood tonight.

[Yorick]

Yes and no.

People who've posted more have made more of an investment in the forum, so yes I treat them a little differently to some Joe who's walzed in with a 12 post count and started mouthing off.

I also know a lot of the posters with larger counts too so that affects things also.

[RoSs_bg2_rox]

I think Yorrick must sum up the views of most, and I totally agree. People with less than a few hundred posts just aren't so well known and don't have so much respect etc.

[Xen]

So it's all ok when johnny posts a one liner but when I do it it's all wrong and I am the worst spammer on IW?