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I'm tired of seeing posts saying "I've got *insert number* posts today", so let's put it in one spot.
I have nothing special right now, but I'll let you know!

This isn't going to work as people want attention for their post count.

I don't really understand the big deal about post count....it would be very easy to rack up numbers alone by indiscriminately joining in regardless of the value of your input- empty vessels and all that*


* I just realised that sums up not only the bulk of human interaction, but indeed my response.

Birthday threads are equally annoying.

At the time of this writing there are 29,766 members on WrongPlanet. I don't have any accurate estimate of who many are actually active, but if everybody would create a new thread on their birthday, we'd have an average of ca. 81 new threads every day throughout the year (given that the member count doesn't fluctuate). That's ca. 3 every hour.

If 1500 are active (which i suppose is a good estimate), we'd have ca. 4 new birthday threads every single day.

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If 1500 members would create a new thread every time they round another 1000 posts and everybody post an average of 10 posts a day, we'd have an average of 15 new post count threads every day.

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Those kinds of threads are shameless and abuse the board. This is why I support this thread.