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.

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Yesterday I noticed of another "negative" aspect of having to meet a post requirement in order to maintain Official Membership.

A user that has been an active member for an extended period of time, that does own a significant number of posts and then goes on a hiatus ( its PPD falling under 5) does seem to have a harder time bringing up its post rate than a newer member.

That seems to be a problem with the PPD formula, though. I'll try to find the case that gave me the idea, and I'll update it in this post.

[*Azarel*]

A user that has been an active member for an extended period of time, that does own a significant number of posts and then goes on a hiatus ( its PPD falling under 5) does seem to have a harder time bringing up its post rate than a newer member.

This is true, and some members that go on hiatus create new usernames in order to avoid having to pull up an extremely lacking ppd. However, there have also been members that work to raise up their ppd, in spite of long hiatuses; I myself was one of them, eventually raising my ppd up to a peak of about ten-ish (at least), after a five month hiatus (before I unregistered).

... I forgot my point, and I'll edit it when I remember (hopefully).