Can there be a post counter for players? To show how active they are in forums? Just perhaps in their profile under their name? I figured it would be interesting and somewhat useful. Also could be good for 'goal setting' for some. Like so-and-so has 300 post. Another has 100. They can aspire to try and pass other person, possible this could increase activity?
Having a post counter encourages people to 'spam' to up their count, turning it into a competition. If having quality content means we have less activity, then I'd personally much prefer it over a lot of the garbage I run to in other community forums.
That said, Kim is not planning on adding this anytime soon due to complexity issues with anonymous characters as well as a database overload from the added strain.
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That said, Kim is not planning on adding this anytime soon due to complexity issues with anonymous characters as well as a database overload from the added strain.
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Interesting suggestions!
The public post count thing is actually complicated by anonymous characters and group forums being visible to differing demographics. I'm less worried about competition these days than the database itself being overloaded and needing overhauling. Basically, the counter would be slow and burdensome for the database because it would have to count differently for different viewers, making caching pretty much impossible.
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EDIT: I just tried creating a private post count for the account page, and even when just searching for user + characters, it was kinda hairy. I'd rather wait until I can find a good way to rebuild the forum code for better speed. Sorry!
The public post count thing is actually complicated by anonymous characters and group forums being visible to differing demographics. I'm less worried about competition these days than the database itself being overloaded and needing overhauling. Basically, the counter would be slow and burdensome for the database because it would have to count differently for different viewers, making caching pretty much impossible.
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EDIT: I just tried creating a private post count for the account page, and even when just searching for user + characters, it was kinda hairy. I'd rather wait until I can find a good way to rebuild the forum code for better speed. Sorry!
Sanne beat me to repeating myself! 
The forums need some streamlining work before I could consider doing this.
The forums need some streamlining work before I could consider doing this.
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