Am I Posting Too Much? | Page 2 | Fab forum

Just don't defeat mithveaen yet….

EDIT: The only time I think "Oh no! Sun king's posted again!" is when he's in an argument with someone. *cough*me*cough* 

Just a few observations:

This is a very low traffic forum. 3000 posts in less than a year on here is a LOT. On a busy forum, where there is more to respond to, then it isn't so much. That might (not necessarily, I might add) indicate that a fair few posts are of lower quality, or posted for the sake of it. As a parallel, I posted on a forum with a similar level of traffic for 2 years and had 2000 posts. I either had the highest post count or second.

Often your posts are a handful of words, an acknowledgement that someone has posted ("Cool !!!!", for example). These posts don't really add anything, though they may stop the user feeling like they've killed the topic. It would be good if you could flesh these out a bitIf you're not sure you can flesh them out, don't feel obliged to acknowledge the post, but it is good that you consider these things.

Lastly, don't go on about being the top poster, or that a user has reached 1000 posts, or whatever. That can be irritating, and is generally considered poor netiquette. Really, nobody cares about the number, but a large number of very short posts, lots of negative posts, or starting lots of threads are the things that generally annoy people. Very poor grammar/spelling, Capitalising The First Letter Of Every Word and pointing out those two "errors" (often called "being a grammar Nazi) are often also annoying. I don't think you could be accused of most of them.

To conclude: I sort of agree with paulsbass, but there's no "too much" in terms of raw quantity. Just don't post for the sake of it (which is often called postboosting, and again, is poor netiquette).

DoctorRobert said:

The Walrus said:

As a parallel, I posted on a forum with a similar level of traffic for 2 years and had 2000 posts.

What was the forum?

 

It was about an online football game that has since shut.

Mr Sun King- yes, it is definitely quality over quantity.

StrawberryLakiesha said:

So you guys find all of my posts annoying because of my bad spellings?

Actually, your spelling has improved quite a bit since your first post. Usually, I can make it through your posts without wondering what word you mean. (Like this one, for instance.) The only thing that really bugs me is using "A" for "I." 

mithveaen said:

I'll give you an example. no komprndo pk la gnt no komprende kuando avlo aci. 

Hmm… is it "I don't understand it because the people don't understand it when I talk like this"? 

Weird… when I read that, I read it with a South American accent instead of a Spanish accent. (Saying the "c" as a "s" instead of a "th.") It's probably because you're from Mexico. 

I'm a stupid American, mith. I think everything south of America is South America. <— SNARKY

The real reason is because the map in my head wasn't functioning correctly when I typed that. I have license to say stupid things, right? 

Should I have said the "c & z as s" instead?  

I wouldn't worry about it too much Mr. Sun King, or I wouldn't stop posting a bunch or whatever. If you have something to say, say it, don't worry about over-posting.

We all have different rates of post, or whatever you want to call it, and I feel like if a topic is really good, it will stick around long enough for everyone to get a chance to voice their opinion on it. For example, I'm not going to be posting as much anymore, but I would like to come back to a few good threads that I could give my opinion on and I feel like your posting is one of the reasons why those threads stay alive long enough. So your posting is fine by me. 

The only "complaint" I would have would be on some threads you and someone else, perhaps MMM, would post a lot of little posts and it would already be a two page thread and I think less people, including myself, were responding to the threads because they were already sort of derailed before they got started.