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Word Count

Post by Nagash » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:12 pm

I rather liked the Word Cuont tool on TB. Can we have one here too? Can we? Can we?


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Re: Word Count

Post by MoP » Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:51 pm

I'm with Nagash on this one!
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Re: Word Count

Post by owly » Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:36 pm

That would be cool except i'd have a low count lol
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Re: Word Count

Post by Isildur » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:30 am

Verbosity my weakness.

Too long.

No word count!
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Re: Word Count

Post by Immigrant » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:14 am

agreed. only encourages long-winded posts - the old 'mine is bigger' bit
(...some of us recovering spammers don't need the encouragement heh)
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Re: Word Count

Post by Gerien » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:24 am

Isildur wrote:Verbosity my weakness.

Too long.

No word count!
tl;dr
And I never even got my own damn posting title!
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Re: Word Count

Post by Gerien » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:26 am

Immigrant wrote:agreed. only encourages long-winded posts - the old 'mine is bigger' bit
(...some of us recovering spammers don't need the encouragement heh)
Actually, word counts discourage spam. It takes quite the artiste to create spam longer than 15 words. Teh ability to extend a subject and draw your audience along with you on the path to ridiculousness for a full paragraph is something to be celebrated.
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Re: Word Count

Post by Doginiz » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:28 am

What are we celebrating, again?
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Re: Word Count

Post by Thomas » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:10 am

It's part of the old quality vs quantity. Then again, we've seen spam drawn out in that fine illistration of Gerien's. Of course, those are far and few between.
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Re: Word Count

Post by Nagash » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:30 am

Gerien wrote:
Immigrant wrote:agreed. only encourages long-winded posts - the old 'mine is bigger' bit
(...some of us recovering spammers don't need the encouragement heh)
Actually, word counts discourage spam. It takes quite the artiste to create spam longer than 15 words. Teh ability to extend a subject and draw your audience along with you on the path to ridiculousness for a full paragraph is something to be celebrated.

Indeedy. It's a safeguard of the quality of spam. :D
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Re: Word Count

Post by Kaxion » Fri Oct 30, 2009 2:57 pm

I liked the word count it let you know who the good spammers and eloquent speakers were.
It kinda discouraged single one word spams and posts that really just clog threads.
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Re: Word Count

Post by Nagash » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:44 pm

Well, that, or it inspired one to compensate the compact spammings with more eloquent posts and get a decent average anyways. :)
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Re: Word Count

Post by Gerien » Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:13 am

I liked the word count it let you know who the good spammers and eloquent speakers were.
It kinda discouraged single one word spams and posts that really just clog threads.
Well, that, or it inspired one to compensate the compact spammings with more eloquent posts and get a decent average anyways. :)
Both are true, and a reason I would like to officially request that the feature be added here if possible.
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Re: Word Count

Post by Immigrant » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:53 pm

eh maybe youre right... might be harmless like post counts *looks at Nagash* hehe

seems with or without it I still end up posting long arsed notes anyway... can't help myself (I'm so weak ;p)
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Re: Word Count

Post by Teanos » Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:01 am

No.


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Re: Word Count

Post by Doginiz » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:58 am

That was a kick in the balls of many with one swift kick.

Ouch!!!
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Re: Word Count

Post by Nagash » Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:03 am

Bugger :(
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Re: Word Count

Post by MoP » Mon Nov 02, 2009 10:16 am

What happened to democracy? :(
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Re: Word Count

Post by Nagash » Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:35 pm

Teanos wrote:No.


+1


Pwease?
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Re: Word Count

Post by losmar » Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:29 pm

You should've had a picture of your kid with a sad-face Nag...

Democracy? MoP, this is Europe! (I think I'm under the impression that your land has one of the better forms of that in this land; I don't remember b/c we're talking more about the EU as a whole instead of each country...)
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