Anyway, it used to be a sign of respect. People who had posted a fair amount had been around a while and had interesting and right-wing/ranty/left-wing things to say and argue about.
I'm sorry if I'm harping on about the "good old days" (some things weren't necessarily so rosy at times). Things change and life moves on. Maybe it's better to accept that.
Sure, I realise that people round here used to have good discussions, and I think we still do, albeit fewer. There are still some good arguing threads happening. When I joined it was towards the election, and there were heaps of political dicussions that I launched into with gusto. I think I've noticed the change even in the 7 months or so that I've been here. Of course, the more spammers we have, the more "serious" members will be disinclined to hang around, so it's a downwards spiral.
I just think there's more to it than post count. We have younger, "blander" (in the absence of a better term making itself available to me) members and therefore the discussions and types of posts have changed (suffered, even). Post count might cause a few problems, but there are more issues than just that.
Maybe we can have a concerted effort by all members to minimise the pointless posts? By all means still go ahead and have a chat in SUOPC or tell us what's great or shit or the two together, but less of the picture/action spamming (unless highly satirical and amusing; that's ALWAYS welcome and is supposed to be why we're here, no?). Keep pretty people to 'The Beautiful People'; keep TV show discussions to their own threads and so on.
We can't make people cooperate, but I think this thread shows that the issue has come to a head and people need to keep their posting urges under a little more control.
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