D. V. Devnull

You get [bleep]ed on a chain in the Stronghold of Security... Oh Dear! You Are Dead! (As if this would ever really happen... :lol: ...)

Banned for not realizing GoingUnder will be back soon enough. :roll:

They could be. And I just remembered something. Doesn't this exist in members' area somewhere already?

Heh... Been mentioned... Maybe you didn't see the earlier post in this thread about that? This was the only way to stop odd-balled manipulation.

Banned for being too easy to shave. :twisted:

Might help. Shames the bad, Praises the good. Problem is, it can be manipulated by Mods/Admins... :( ...And even I know as a Forum Mod/Admin on other sites that it can be tough to not black-mark someone by accident or for that matter turn manipulative. Keeping it professional is and always will be a pain in the rear. :(

Banned for having overly big eyes.

You're banned 4 times over for being sarcastically funny.

Couldn't set it to more than 10 characters minimum safely. Probably wouldn't work.

Banned for making me wonder if you're female and in my age range. :roll:

Banned for having a gross siggy.

You're still not getting it, are you? People use many different factors from their own working methods in determining how much weight they can put on a given post as being good and usable. Sometimes this includes rank title, post count, and join date. If we remove any of it, we risk hurting at least one-third or more of the Tip.It Forum Community, and I'd hate to think the breakdown that would happen next. Can't even use the RSN line because as someone mentioned, not everyone has one. If we're gonna get rid of the spammers, we need to be aggressive at finding them, reporting them, having their posts deleted or made to not count in some fashion. But we shouldn't penalize someone else in the process. That IS the master problem with dumping the post counts, simply put. We'd penalize tons of people by doing that who don't deserve to be penalized. And btw, you need to watch your language. People frown on those that use the word "retarted"... it just goes to show a lacking of IQ on the poster's part. [EDIT]

That would have worked nicely, but no one thought of it. :(

Banned for double-posting. :roll: :lol: [Edit]

Banned for not specifying the reason...

Banned for using "Mr. Green"... BANNED FOR NOT REALIZING I WAS TELLING THE BLOODY TRUTH!!! :evil:

Banned for putting too much reasoning into it. :roll: :lol:

Apparently, the beginner of this thread couldn't find it. Mind giving us a link as well as when the last post was put in the OTHER thread? :|

no, posts are not deleted. Still there is a phpbb MOD for it... We can delete posts, but we don't. Yes but that requires manually going into the sql database which is a pain in the rear. This mod will automatically resync the users post count when a post has been deleted. It is also just as easy to delete a post via the normal in-forum method and then do a manual re-sync of the post count using the internal tools in the forum. I personally wouldn't mind handling it if I were one of you since I admin 2 other forum sites that use phpbb... Gee whiz, don't be so whacked out... :roll: [Edit]

I see no avatar in that post. Btw, dr_eggman789, there are no dumb questions. I have this feeling like someone 'thumped' her avatar out of existence. :(

To some extent, that is true. But to some extent, it is not. Even though I don't want to, I do have to take parts of Pokemama's big post regarding her opinions into account. She's seen too much spam. There are those that, even though they have a monstrous number of posts, may have made most of the count in spams or scams. But there are also those (example: Administrator "The_Sith") that have not. We really shouldn't degrade those that have worked for their giant post counts honestly, but at the same time, we need to crack down on the spammers and scammers... WHAT A DILEMMA!!! [Edit to the Admins and Mods: Sorry this seems like a double post. My replies get posted so late I feel like I have to start another post just to answer back to another thread. :( ...]

err actually, this poll is not perfectly fair at all. It causes a split in those who vote yes, because there are two 'yes' options, while the ones voting no are united. In the U.S. 2000 presidential election, many people say that Al Gore lost to George W. Bush because some democrats, rather than voting for Gore, voted for third party candidate Ralph Nader, taking away votes that would have helped Gore win the election. It's a similar situation here. The 'yes' vote is divided into two options, while those voting 'no' are united, but clearly, a majority of people want some sort of change. If only you'd really look at things. You're comparing APPLES with ORANGES... It doesn't work!!!!! :(

D_V_Devnull YES!!! GOT IT PERFECT ON THE FIRST SHOT!!! Yes, I held the shift key with my other hand so I could type the first 5 characters!!! :lol:

@ ALL (except me, D_V_Devnull): Banned for being too funny!!! @ just the49ronin: Banned for wiggling a finger. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Actually, this poll is perfectly fair. People get to voice how they feel immediately, instead of being corraled into one thing or the other, which would then cause major unrest as a second poll would have to be created to work out the problems from the first poll. We'll see how this goes. Probably only the Admins can see how I voted, and that's how I am gonna keep it. The rest of you can probably figure it out if you re-read the whole 10+ pages of posts. :) [Editor note: Not nice slipping your post in before mine, MrsChrystler... :| ...]