Here comes another sleepless night. They do come often. It seems I sleep better during the day then night, and it's very easy for me to switch my hours. One good thing is during this time I get look up random stuff that has happened during the day. (A.K.A - Random people forum chats.)

Let me see if there is something to talk about in the aRO forums tonight...

(Some time pass...)


ooo, found something worth talking about. As aRO players know the server just switched over and we got a new forum. That mean post counts start at zero... (What this means it brings out those spammers that want a high post count because it make them feel like high in mighty veteran players.) So to noobs they will look like gods. When in fact it's mostly word spamming. Now there are some posters that are worth to be heard and should be but, these people are being drown out by the others.

The new Gm's have made it that some parts of the forums wont count post, sense those part encourage spamming. I liked this new little change. There are a few problem in there system. Number one is that it seems they have missed a few sections that have a rather high post count and a bit of chat spamming. The area I'm talking about is the guild discussion/guild recruiting forum followed by the bumpping of the seller/buyers section. There are 2 post that people have made ranting about the mishap of increasing post counts in this chat spamming section.

Here's the first one...
I found parts of this forum funny. first we have the rant. (People are getting post counts for bumping.) Second we have the denial. (I don't do that... bump, bump, bump.) Third we have Gm's lack of participation followed by name calling. The big finish is one of the Gm's does look at the post and change it. ^^ Woot, go GM's. (Oh, btw I liked Ressy little rant at the end.)

Now there is another post that surfaced it's little head...
This one is surprisingly positive more then anything. As some forum readers might have noticed the cussing and negative comments have gotten a little out of hand. (But that's for another post. ^^) This one seems rather filled with meaningful people talking about the post count.

Now, I was thinking about it and it seems the only forum sections that you can post and get post count within them are a very few. 13 out of 22 sections exactly. These other forum topics are bots, KS, suggestions, general discussion, and even server updates and, of corse ect. It's kinda funny to see a big time spammer in the Off Topic area with a post count of 0. This member has posted over 1k post and still his count is at zero.
This is where the second problem comes up. I hope in the future of forum development this will occure where, you post in a thread it will count as one single post. So that if you even do bump or chat spam it will round off okay in the post count. So it will still say you made one post for a single thread. Now I know in some parts of the forum that will not help but, to have a setting like that on a few sections would he heavenly. The down fall is that people will make multi posts about the same topic. Either you can set rules to enforce no multi posting or let the posting count battle continue.

We are just gonna have to see what the Gm's do about this problem. Most likely I'll rant about it later in another post. sense I still have only 8 post. =_= But I have to say they are meaningful post and not yet spamming. lol