Posting numbers on avatar and alii are already visible.
Looking at different profiles i recognized there are vast differences though. Some people i know only joined "lately" have incredible posting numbers, while others who are here for years have still low counts.
Sometimes that can be explained by looking at several posts^^
Still i think it would be usefull to have that joined by date on a profile. It doesn´t seem like an intrusion to privacy to me.
Could also have beneficial effects for different board sections.
Con:
-PbP some might prefer long time members.
-newer members could be doubted more often or not taken seriously sometimes in rules regards etc.
Pro:
-PbP: Could show a consistency rate
-PbP: some prefer high posting rates, so many postings in short time can be a good thing.
-Long time players/GM´s have sometimes a better grip on the rules, more experience (or not).
Not sure if possible from a technical perspective.
You can already go to their posts and go to the very first post they ever made and when it was made, I'd rather not know personally how long I've been wasting people's time here:-D
Also adds a bit of mystery doesn't it :-)
But whatever the masses and web team decide I'm cool with it
Except having to use Facebook to log in or post with, I'll be damned if I'm joining Zuckerberg's army :-)
Amazon and facebook having some connections is bad enough, i agree rather not seeing facebook on this site anywhere. Afraid they might still have some tools somehow and also if you´re going to use windows 10, Microsoft will know more than enough about you.
Good hint about looking at the first post though!
Isn´t exactly the join date, but good.
Why is everyone suddenly referring to Facebook now in regards to the Paizo site? This is the third reference made in two days. Did I miss an announcement?
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As captain yesterday indicated above, finding a person's first post is fairly trivial. We're unlikely to provide explicit start dates on user profiles, however.
Why is everyone suddenly referring to Facebook now in regards to the Paizo site? This is the third reference made in two days. Did I miss an announcement?
Nope. We have no intention of linking Facebook to our site at all.
Seems all the goddamn websites like ESPN and news sites make you log in using Facebook if you want to comment on shit, adds a layer of transparency for the racist evil shit trolls can say on those sites
I have never even been to Facebook, much less registered, so if they required Facebook to sign in here that would be the end of Captain Yesterday:-(
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Not that I like Facebook, but sites that choose to use another companies user database as their own is basically offloading a lot of the security holes that they have to worry about because the accounts are handled by another source.
Also people are more likely to use an existing login if it's an option than to create a new login if they don't have one already so it's a way to build more traffic into a site.
Yay for Chris, not only did she Ninja me, she allayed my fears all in one post, that's why she's a rock star around here :-)
As captain yesterday indicated above, finding a person's first post is fairly trivial. We're unlikely to provide explicit start dates on user profiles, however.
Why is everyone suddenly referring to Facebook now in regards to the Paizo site? This is the third reference made in two days. Did I miss an announcement?Nope. We have no intention of linking Facebook to our site at all.
Thank goodness! I do not want to link up with social media pages here. Thank you for putting that to rest, Chris! I got very nervous with everyone suddenly referring to Facebook on the Website Feedback thread.
Sorry! Didn't mean to scare everyone, it was just a fear I had :-)
I'm good now :-)
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Yup captain yesterday already solved what i wanted for me, since i didn´t think of that possibility.
Really glad about the no facebook policy as well.
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Posting numbers on avatar and alii are already visible.
Looking at different profiles i recognized there are vast differences though. Some people i know only joined "lately" have incredible posting numbers, while others who are here for years have still low counts.
Sometimes that can be explained by looking at several posts^^Still i think it would be usefull to have that joined by date on a profile. It doesn´t seem like an intrusion to privacy to me.
Could also have beneficial effects for different board sections.Con:
-PbP some might prefer long time members.
-newer members could be doubted more often or not taken seriously sometimes in rules regards etc.Pro:
-PbP: Could show a consistency rate
-PbP: some prefer high posting rates, so many postings in short time can be a good thing.
-Long time players/GM´s have sometimes a better grip on the rules, more experience (or not).Not sure if possible from a technical perspective.
The only real problem with this from what I can see was laid out in some recent threads where people were angry about posters using their years of experience as a bludgeon to shut down opinions or other ominous reasons and it turned into a rather vicious argument.
When someone started posting or the number of posts they have isn't much of an indicator of anything IMO. I started posting here in 2008 but read the forums for a while before that. I have less than 1300 posts because until recently I didn't have the time or inclination to post a lot.
When you started posting or the number of posts you have doesn't indicate any rules knowledge or grip on the rules. It just means that you like to chat on the boards and there isn't anything wrong with that. I'd not recommend using it as any sort of measuring stick of anything else, though.