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Originally posted by FreakyBob
I see the point in it, but don't think it should be around. It seems that this system of getting points for posting would just encourage people to post like crazy when they don't have anything to say. I'm a member of several sites with video game-related forums, and gamepro.com seems to be the only one without a damn ranking system. Why is that?
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Like people before me said, the scenario you stated has yet to happen... I remember the last thread about this subject, and one of the reasons given for keeping the ranking system/post counts was to identify who the post crammers were when compared to the dates they joined.
Now, there is only one member here with around 13,000 posts (DsH), and the nearest one to him is TheGame with 7000 + posts. And others are around the 5000 +/-, though the only people to have reached these amounts are the ones who have been around since the Nintendodolphin.net/Ndose days.
If you compare the members post counts here to the post counts at places like IGN, you will easily see that there are 'hardly', if any post crammers at GT. I mean there is one person at IGN who achieved around 11,000+ posts in around a year :eek:.
Lastly, most people with 'high' post counts don't really type short posts, and are relevant to the subject at hand most of the time.
Sorry for the 'kind of' long post, but... meh.
Oh, and welcome to the boards... Stick around, you may change you views on the system
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