I agree, at some years the post count is especially useless, for example at the height of "ITT: neither funny nor interesting" threads it mostly consisted of low-effort posting, however the impact of eras is not the same as getting the denizen status, since you don't really need to be recognized by anyone, the minimum requirement is simple to achieve for anyone really, there's no real need to even post useless messages.Endaris wrote:
I dislike this in the sense that postcount doesn't reflect impact.
There have been some individuals that were memorable if only for the fact that their ratio of quality posts was wildly exceeding that of other denizens while still showing a modicum of activity to be considered part of the landscape.
As an example of that I would like to call out schism.
Although few in posts and partially lost to the currents of time as their expressive image usage can no longer be witnessed due to dead links, he's one of the posters of my "era" I will never forget.
Every single time I saw a new thread by them I was immediately excited because there was no doubt it was going to be good before even clicking on it. In that sense, schism is much more memorable to me than many shitposters from "my time" and due to their strong and consistent roleplaying my impression of them is much more clear than that of some other posters of my time.
While I won't bother to argue against acceptance through quantity to cater to those uninspired and lacking in creativity, this should never lead to quality posters not being recognized.
None should ever feel forced to vomit a load of garbage into this subforum to gain some accolade of questionable value and be accepted by those rolling around in the mud and racking up their postcount with head-keyboard-smashes. Get good.
What this system does achieve better is recording and preserving a historical landscape of OT, you get a better grasp of people who were posting in the past, you can see people fading away or suddenly popping and disappearing. The overlap of users is especially good, because once you get the denizenship, that's it, you get tied to a specific generation even if you were active for entire generations.
