coffee lounge posts

[bigtomrodney]

I mean, I could very well be the biggest dunce of the whole forum and have asked 4000 simple questions. Not that I think that's the case... it's just an example. Haha.

Or one really dumb question 4000 times cos you didn't get it the first time

j/k

[Redman]

Personally, I care less about one's post-count.

It's not about quantity but quality!

[Roxoff]

And I don't believe that the higher the post count the more 'Expert' a person is.

I agree. What's to say someone doesn't just ask a TON of questions? I mean, I could very well be the biggest dunce of the whole forum and have asked 4000 simple questions. Not that I think that's the case... it's just an example. Haha.

Or, just like me, answering similar questions around the things I've done in the past (sendmail, samba, some X config stuff, DNS, Apache config, and one or two others) but steering well clear of stuff I have no idea of, PHP and MySQL, for instance. Sometimes I have to look stuff up, 'cos I'm not sure, and on those occasions I might learn a little more, but most of the time I dont, 'cos I find myself answering questions about stuff I know well.

[Dapper Dan]

I'm just wondering if people think that it's a good thing we don't get credit for coffee lounge posts or not
I think it's good because it's a waste of time in there anyway and by not spending time there we actually answer tech questions instead of rants.

I see the Coffee Lounge here as the cyber-equivalent of a real Coffee Lounge in a real work place. That's where you go to take a break, get to know people and socialize as a diversion. When you're done, you go back to your job to do real work which is helping others solve problems. The time you spend on break should not count as real work.

[chopin1810]

Except I usually end up spending half of my time here in the lounge...

[techieMoe]

Except I usually end up spending half of my time here in the lounge...

And that's different from a real coffee lounge HOW? Haha.

[sharkyro]

I also am glad that the postcount posts don't count anymore. Now I can safely answer a lot of these threads without being accused of ++postcounting.

My thoughts exactly

[hernandeangelis]

The existence of a qualification system depending on the number of posts is potentially confusing for some people, who might be encouraged to post garbage in order to become Forum Ingeneers or something like that only through asking things that are irrelevant for Linux. IMHO, not counting the posts in this forums is at least a creative attempt to control the quality of the ranking system.