"Post Whores"

I define a post whore as one who is constantly posting, and make it seems as if he or she is the only one posting.


Does it annoy you to see the same people posting constantly? I mean, it's great to see the enthusiasm members have about posting, but could it possibly turn potential members away?

 

It does get annoying to see people posting just to post and to increase their post count, but I don't do anything about it.

Moved to Member and Staff Management.

 

If I notice the a member has been a "post whore" and has broken the rules in some shape or form, I would just ban them, especially if they have been warned by my staff or have had been reported numerous times.

 

You ban for members posting continously? It must be outlined that members cannot double post - but I thought that was only for posting within threads, and isn't that's why there's flood control.

 

Oh no. Not for posting continuously. Just if their posts are breaking the rules, and/or they have been warned multiple times by my staff.

EDIT: I agree with the double posting, and I try and make sure that it is in all of my rule sets for my forums.

 

I understand.

 

I challenge my members to outpost me I love posting a lot. One of the main goal to being a forum admin is getting posts, if you start to go around getting on to people for it, then why bother running a forum at all? LOL

 

LOL...me too.

 

Yeah, it motivates me to post more and you can make all posts require a certain amount of characters in most software so that it can not be abused.

 

I to challenge my members to out post me it is a good way to see the threads and posts go up and we all have some fun with it.

I only have two rules - you can not double posts and your post cant be:
"I agree" or "LOL"

 

I see


:p

 

:lol:

The term "post whore" is one that can be used loosely. You can either have a member who a) chooses to post horribly ridiculous, random content with little to no relevance or b) chooses to post content that is relevant, but posted inordinately. It all really depends on your tolerance level as an administrator - as I'm a tolerant individual, I tend to ignore such posting and let it continue... unless the posts are composed of two words or less.

 

Ya, but I hate the character limit...there is sometimes a single emoticon works best for me.

 

I personally care if people try to post for they're postcount. However if they wish to supply other members with helpfull information or ontopic it isn't a problem by me. Else... Well I'll reduce they're postcount a bit and warn them. If that don't helps I'll remove they're access to post.

 

I have a few of these, I think, but ATM I think they are a good thing because Im still in the process of getting my forum up and running, and most of the time they are actually posting half decent stuff.

 

We have a specific category/forums for users to post whore. We remove the post whore like posts if they post them out of that area.

 

When I come across a post whore I guess it annoys me a bit. I mean it's obvious when someone is posting just to increase their post count. But, in my opinion, it's just not worth getting after them for it... as long as they aren't breaking any rules, posting just an emoticon, or totally hijacking the thread, then it doesn't really bother me. It just inspires me to post more and add to the conversation.

 

Have you tried increasing the minimum number of characters necessary for posting?

 

I will come from this one with experience.

On my PSA forum, I had a member that was posting just to post. I could tell because he would always just post 9 or 10 words in a post and he would always just agree with what the original poster put. After a while, he just started to create threads that had very little to do with anything, but where placed in the mess hall which is the appropriate section for posts/threads like that.

After about a month of him doing this, warning him with the warning system, using the post moderation, and still not getting results, I decided to try a step that I had never done before. I sent him a PM detailing that I was going to give him a temporary post ban for 48 hours and his post count would be reduced to (-50). I told him he could still PM and still view the board, he just would not be able to post. I told him to think about how other people where posting, and how they responded and asked questions.

After his 48 hour ban, I have not had but the occasional problem now. I think if you treat the situation with delicacy and patience, but not afraid to bring down an iron first, then you can succeed.

I can tell you I was very afraid of banning anyways, because I was such a baby forum and only had 70 or so members, and he was one of the most active. But, after this member was dealt with properly, I was noticing a rise back in my registrations.

Hope this can help someone out.

 

That's a great approach, Gibbs - one I may try. However, what was the point of reducing his post count -50 posts?