A thought about post counts. Options

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In my short experience as a CreateBlog community member, I have realized post statistics do play a significant role in the user's experience since they grant access to extra features and are a requisite (that can be bypassed in exceptional occasions) to apply for staff membership. This is the not the first place where I have seen this system being used, and thusly it is not the first time I pass this thought to the community to consider. Without further ado, I'll proceed to explain my position about this subject.

In my opinion, post quotas only manage to make users work enough to meet them in order to enjoy the benefits they get for reaching the 50, 100, etc.., post mark. Such acting is not necessarily linked to making users involved in improving the community, but rather in seeking personal goals that may or may not transcend (positive or negatively) onto the rest of users.

That is mainly because apart from the site's general rules, there's not a standard establishing how a person should fill the demanded rate. Since it's pretty easy to maintain a high PPD ratio without adding anything that contributes to the site in general while avoiding the violation of any general rule, the point of having a posts limit becomes kind of moot, in the end.

Lastly, keeping a post count policy seems to have stemmed an underlying rivalry between users based upon the number of posts when it comes to, for example, hiring sessions. Despite knowing it's not a must-meet requirement, people seem to focus first on their PPD then on evaluating whether their skills can be of any help to Createblog or not. And that is pretty counterproductive to the purpose of selecting people willing to sacrifice time and efforts for an online community.

[radhikaeatsraman]

I believe we should get rid of the post count requirement altogether, but that staff and other current official members/designers should determine who deserves the title of official member or designer. It shouldn't be something any boob can attain in a matter of days. If a moderator or official member believes that someone deserves to be one, they should PM an admin saying why. The admins, mods and official members should then decide who attains that particular title.

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I believe we should get rid of the post count requirement altogether, but that staff and other current official members/designers should determine who deserves the title of official member or designer. It shouldn't be something any boob can attain in a matter of days. If a moderator or official member believes that someone deserves to be one, they should PM an admin saying why. The admins, mods and official members should then decide who attains that particular title.

Ideally, "peer review" would be the best way to make sure someone deserves Official Membership status; however that could be a very slow process due to the number of people implied in each decision. Also, I don't think this system would produce that many fair nominations having seeng the interactions between members during a hiring session, et al.

I'd preffer a more automated selection process that's less depending on CB users (other than staff members, of course); this far into the discussion, I am quite satisified with giving people probation time to earn O.M. on their own merits.