Change user post count
motionsicknessedmuse at 02h19
23
Oct
2008
Hi, I'm new, and some of the templates here are really great, its what sold me on this place, but I have a suggestion.
Can you find a way to edit a user's post count?
I know some people like to spam to raise their post count, and as a joke, once in a while I'd make some random inactive person's count like...25859 posts, some large, random number, just for fun to see member's reaction.
It's fun, and I know it can be done elsewhere, can it be done here?
Can you find a way to edit a user's post count?
I know some people like to spam to raise their post count, and as a joke, once in a while I'd make some random inactive person's count like...25859 posts, some large, random number, just for fun to see member's reaction.
It's fun, and I know it can be done elsewhere, can it be done here?
1 tommylsvs11, on 23/10/2008 at 22h05
Unfortunately it can't be done on forummotion's forum software, it can however be done on many of forum softwares such as
vBulletin
SMF
Those are all that I can think of, SMF is by far the best, it's free, and it's the exact same thing as vBulletin.
vBulletin
SMF
Those are all that I can think of, SMF is by far the best, it's free, and it's the exact same thing as vBulletin.
2 Tilum, on 23/10/2008 at 22h29
...You shouldn't be advertising other forum providers with a hyperlink...
I like the idea, for example, it there woere 5 spam posts, but you wanted to keep them as an example to other member, you could just reduce the post count.
Voted yes.
I like the idea, for example, it there woere 5 spam posts, but you wanted to keep them as an example to other member, you could just reduce the post count.
Voted yes.
3 Tizo The Hedgehog, on 23/10/2008 at 23h05
Hasn't this already been suggested more then once?
4 Lord IceMan, on 25/10/2008 at 02h22
Tizo The Hedgehog wrote:Hasn't this already been suggested more then once?
Yes, and I keep voting against it. Post counts might as well be eliminated if they don't represent anything, and the instant the post counts can be edited they immediately become meaningless, representing nothing and being no more than a random, arbitrary number.
If I look at a user's post count and it reads "213", does that indicate 213 posts this user has made, how many posts are currently floating around the board (as it currently stands, deleting a post drops the post count), has this user posted ten times and someone raised the number by an additional 203, does this user have more than a thousand posts but someone dropped it to 213, or what? As soon as this number can be artificially altered, it becomes meaningless and a representation of nothing.
5 Ixaz, on 25/10/2008 at 19h40
Agreed.Lord IceMan wrote:Tizo The Hedgehog wrote:Hasn't this already been suggested more then once?
Yes, and I keep voting against it. Post counts might as well be eliminated if they don't represent anything, and the instant the post counts can be edited they immediately become meaningless, representing nothing and being no more than a random, arbitrary number.
If I look at a user's post count and it reads "213", does that indicate 213 posts this user has made, how many posts are currently floating around the board (as it currently stands, deleting a post drops the post count), has this user posted ten times and someone raised the number by an additional 203, does this user have more than a thousand posts but someone dropped it to 213, or what? As soon as this number can be artificially altered, it becomes meaningless and a representation of nothing.
I mean, why even bother? If you want to make a user's post count any random number, just delete their posts (lower) or change their password, go into it, and spam the posts (raise it). Right?
6 donovansrb2, on 26/10/2008 at 02h22
Ixaz wrote:Agreed.Lord IceMan wrote:Tizo The Hedgehog wrote:Hasn't this already been suggested more then once?
Yes, and I keep voting against it. Post counts might as well be eliminated if they don't represent anything, and the instant the post counts can be edited they immediately become meaningless, representing nothing and being no more than a random, arbitrary number.
If I look at a user's post count and it reads "213", does that indicate 213 posts this user has made, how many posts are currently floating around the board (as it currently stands, deleting a post drops the post count), has this user posted ten times and someone raised the number by an additional 203, does this user have more than a thousand posts but someone dropped it to 213, or what? As soon as this number can be artificially altered, it becomes meaningless and a representation of nothing.
I mean, why even bother? If you want to make a user's post count any random number, just delete their posts (lower) or change their password, go into it, and spam the posts (raise it). Right?
Agreeded, If it was an option, Admins or Moderators would probally put everybodys number to zero for just the fun of it. (VOTED N-O!)
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I got this idea based off this thought that I made.
If you were moving the community from one forum to another, and some user's had quite a few posts, wouldnt it be nice to make them happy and set there post counts to
I've seen this feature on smf forums.
It should be able to be implemented on phpbb.
I suggest their Be a button in options that you can choose that will disable the post count for users so that when a users posts something, their "Posts:" will not rise.
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