Creepah
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Hello there tributes!
So this thread, as you may have judged by the title, is a discussion/random structure of paragraphs about what classifies a forum member as a good forumer. This idea arose to me as I thought about how I could improve my posting and forum activity to eventually be a well regarded forumer, and well, I noticed I don't make many threads, so why not make one. So as I am writing this at 11pm, I am just going to generally discuss and talk about the things which stand out to me as forumer qualities. This may seem better than it actually is as I'm writing this relatively late in my end of year exam period (maths tomorrow, woo!), but I'll probably come and read through in the morning anyways.
The posts they make.
When you are scrolling through a thread and see a post by a popular forumer, what do you expect from them? I expect a well written and structured post with logical, mature and considered points and opinions. Of course, every post they make won't be amazing, sometimes even the opposite, but you know someone is good when you see their usernames and expect a great post. This was the more or less obvious point to identifying a good forumer, but hey, needed saying.
The positions they take on issues.
I've noticed this occurring where often a good forumer is a poster who simply disagrees against the majority. Not always, but for me, when I see a well written post against a popular opinion, they stand out. Not the others who agree, but the one who disagrees are the posters I respect, because many people aren't likely to stand against a point most others agree with, and it's pretty awesome to see a popular opinion shot down by one person, simply through a well written argument. Of course, there is exceptions to this rule, such as moderators who often cannot take a side between two parties they aren't involved in to not come across as bias.
Post to like ratio.
To me, this is a helpful, but not conclusive tool to finding who is a good forumer. Some with more posts than likes on average means that someone liked every post they've made, and when your post count gets into the thousands, that's an awesome achievement. It's something everyone should aim for as a forum poster in my opinion. However, not all people should have this applied to them. A prime example is Miner9823 who has less likes than messages, but frankly is up there with the top forumers in the community based on other factors such as post quality. Often people start to have higher quality posts after already having a couple hundred messages for example, and catching up the likes can often be hard. It's still a helpful indicator, which is also very accurate through its use of statistics.
So there's my discussion about what makes a good forumer. Here's some questions I ask you:
What things do you look for in a forum poster?
Who is your favourite forumer? (Don't spam me with Mooclan please, he's great and all but try and think of other posters you like
)
Do you consider yourself a good forumer?
Good night!
So this thread, as you may have judged by the title, is a discussion/random structure of paragraphs about what classifies a forum member as a good forumer. This idea arose to me as I thought about how I could improve my posting and forum activity to eventually be a well regarded forumer, and well, I noticed I don't make many threads, so why not make one. So as I am writing this at 11pm, I am just going to generally discuss and talk about the things which stand out to me as forumer qualities. This may seem better than it actually is as I'm writing this relatively late in my end of year exam period (maths tomorrow, woo!), but I'll probably come and read through in the morning anyways.
The posts they make.
When you are scrolling through a thread and see a post by a popular forumer, what do you expect from them? I expect a well written and structured post with logical, mature and considered points and opinions. Of course, every post they make won't be amazing, sometimes even the opposite, but you know someone is good when you see their usernames and expect a great post. This was the more or less obvious point to identifying a good forumer, but hey, needed saying.
The positions they take on issues.
I've noticed this occurring where often a good forumer is a poster who simply disagrees against the majority. Not always, but for me, when I see a well written post against a popular opinion, they stand out. Not the others who agree, but the one who disagrees are the posters I respect, because many people aren't likely to stand against a point most others agree with, and it's pretty awesome to see a popular opinion shot down by one person, simply through a well written argument. Of course, there is exceptions to this rule, such as moderators who often cannot take a side between two parties they aren't involved in to not come across as bias.
Post to like ratio.
To me, this is a helpful, but not conclusive tool to finding who is a good forumer. Some with more posts than likes on average means that someone liked every post they've made, and when your post count gets into the thousands, that's an awesome achievement. It's something everyone should aim for as a forum poster in my opinion. However, not all people should have this applied to them. A prime example is Miner9823 who has less likes than messages, but frankly is up there with the top forumers in the community based on other factors such as post quality. Often people start to have higher quality posts after already having a couple hundred messages for example, and catching up the likes can often be hard. It's still a helpful indicator, which is also very accurate through its use of statistics.
So there's my discussion about what makes a good forumer. Here's some questions I ask you:
What things do you look for in a forum poster?
Who is your favourite forumer? (Don't spam me with Mooclan please, he's great and all but try and think of other posters you like
)Do you consider yourself a good forumer?
Good night!
