Conquer Club

• Count all posts that were made in the past and all future off-topic posts towards a user's post count

• Change the code, make it so that a user's post count is correctly illustrated by their total post count, not just all forums minus off topics

• Off-topics is arguably the most important forum on this site. I understand the requirement for removing off topics posts from a user's post count, as this led to much ridiculousness, but times have changed. We need to know who has helped the site by contributing towards off topics.

WingCmdr Ginkapo wrote:In light of this, my post count is disturbing

Metsfanmax wrote:Note that this doesn't require any code changes -- including forums in the post count (or excluding them) is a very simple option to change in phpBB. It is a policy question only.

Metsfanmax wrote:I think as long as there's a "General Congratulations" thread in GD then there's not much of an argument for excluding OT posts.

Metsfanmax wrote:I think as long as there's a "General Congratulations" thread in GD then there's not much of an argument for excluding OT posts.

iAmCaffeine wrote:Has it worked?

Edit: I'm over 5k, I think it worked.

JamesKer1 wrote:

Metsfanmax wrote:I think as long as there's a "General Congratulations" thread in GD then there's not much of an argument for excluding OT posts.

Or as long as there is a GD at all... Off-Topic is more noteworthy than GD these days