Post Whores

[darin]

When you log into a forum, and see dozens of threads started by the same person, with very little comment or interest by that person, does it make you less, or more-likely to want to participate?

I HATE when I click on drudge in the morning, then come here and see the vast majority of what I just saw on drudge, HERE in the form of a 'New Thread.' I try to post threads where I have some level of personal interest in the topic, rather than to whore-away, posting everything I read online.

You?

[remie]

When you log into a forum, and see dozens of threads started by the same person, with very little comment or interest by that person, does it make you less, or more-likely to want to participate?

I HATE when I click on drudge in the morning, then come here and see the vast majority of what I just saw on drudge, HERE in the form of a 'New Thread.' I try to post threads where I have some level of personal interest in the topic, rather than to whore-away, posting everything I read online.

You?

Early on it was just annoying to me. Now I am to the point where is pisses me off. I just dont understand why someone would do that.

[Said1]

I hadn't really noticed. I don't visit the Drudge site either.

The other guy at that 'other' board was MUCH WORSE than anyone here. He got on my nerves with his endless posts entitled 'what's your favorite color?' 'If I fell in the forest, would I make a sound?' 'what's the average size of an asshole?' etc, etc.

[glockmail]

I hate flame threads.

[jackass]

Stop going to drudge first!

[jimnyc]

Did someone say whores? I sure do need to get laid!

[OCA]

When you log into a forum, and see dozens of threads started by the same person, with very little comment or interest by that person, does it make you less, or more-likely to want to participate?

I HATE when I click on drudge in the morning, then come here and see the vast majority of what I just saw on drudge, HERE in the form of a 'New Thread.' I try to post threads where I have some level of personal interest in the topic, rather than to whore-away, posting everything I read online.

You?

Almost to the point where my visitation here will be very seldom.

[jimnyc]

Almost to the point where my visitation here will be very seldom.

Don't say that you lousy greek fucker! I'll drive down to you and stick your greasy hands on the keyboard if I have too!

[OCA]

Don't say that you lousy greek fucker! I'll drive down to you and stick your greasy hands on the keyboard if I have too!

Then grab the bull by the horns and rectify the situation you stupid Jersey fuck!

[Jon]

It would be nice if there was a mod for the board that would change the way that the ignore function works. If ignoring someone made them completely invisible to you so that you didn't see *any* of their posts, including their name on the left, there wouldn't be any problem.

I've never gotten to the point that I wanted to ignore someone. I was driven to that point not so long ago. Imagine my sadness when I realized that said person's posts still show up as new posts and I still have to scroll past the blankness next to their name.

[shattered]

What I don't get, is the post whore is conspicuously absent from this thread, knows he's pissing everyone off, and is STILL posting 125+ messages per day.

[82Marine89]

What I don't get, is the post whore is conspicuously absent from this thread, knows he's pissing everyone off, and is STILL posting 125+ messages per day.

Thank you. I noticed the same damn thing. On every other thread, he owns every other post. Here? He imitates Helen Keller.

[OCA]

Page 1 of "find all posts" from Nevadamedic has 25 posts on it, 24 of them are 1 sentence or shorter including a few that included smilies only and 1 is a cut and paste thread starter fron Drudge.

Most posts where in "what are you listening to now" and "what are you watching now" and 2 were in threads that hadn't seen action for awhile.


ROTFLMFAO!

[CockySOB]

Post-whoring is just as bad as the freaking automated posting from RSS feeds that some sites use (not here though).

[jimnyc]

It would be nice if there was a mod for the board that would change the way that the ignore function works. If ignoring someone made them completely invisible to you so that you didn't see *any* of their posts, including their name on the left, there wouldn't be any problem.

I've never gotten to the point that I wanted to ignore someone. I was driven to that point not so long ago. Imagine my sadness when I realized that said person's posts still show up as new posts and I still have to scroll past the blankness next to their name.

I searched thoroughly for a mod that does what you state but came up empty. Personally, I've never used the ignore feature before, but then again, they would show up anyway as staff cannot put members on ignore.

I'm not sure of a good resolution to this issue. I fully understand members wanting to make it easier to get to the posts they are truly interested in, but I'm also afraid of entering the zone of "censorship" by asking ANY member to not post. Can you imagine the backlash if this was one of our liberal members? They already think I'm biased!

And how do we determine what is considered to be a "whore" post? We all post stories from time to time, and we all reply with just a smiley or one word from time to time. Now, some posters obviously do this much more frequently, but how do you determine which is and which isn't? And how would this be applied equally?

FWIW - I'm not defending or condoning anyone, nor am I taking sides. I'm looking for input to find a resolution and end the bickering.