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As of late, I have noticed many (well a select few) people holding just your average day conversations in the Curve 8900 theme forums. The problem I have with this is that these people are building up their post counts simply by just talking amongst themselves and not really giving any knowledge. Basically, they're not earning their rep that normally comes with a post count!
Before you start flaming, I know the whole post count deal isn't all that important, but, put yourself in a newbies shoes...
You have a problem that you can't figure out on your own. So you ask for help. Then you check back in on the thread and you find 10-15 posts giving different answers. Which persons post are you gonna trust? The one that has a higher post count or the one that has a lower post count. You're gonna go with the higher one! And now, what if that person with a high post count has no idea what they're talking about? What's the newbie gonna do? Probably go somewhere else and never trust Crackberry as a reliable source of information.
So there in lies the deal with the rep associated with a post count. They didn't earn their rep by helping others, giving advice and learning, so that they could use what they learned to help someone in the future! They earned their "rep" by just talking amongst themselves. Which in turn could give Crackberry a bad rep!
I don't know what a solution to this would be, I just had to rant about it.
Carry on...
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com07-03-09 11:13 PM - SG45,
I'm away on vacation so not in the ideal situation to handle things, BUT I;m sure my fellow mods can handle this. Go to a couple of these threads and use the report button (triangle with !, or !!! on WAP) and we will be happy to review those threads and remove the OT posts if warranted.
07-04-09 09:33 AM
