Why? Because this metric does not (necessarily) distinguish those members of the community who are working hard on helping from those who are simply attempting to increase their post-count in order to receive recognition. Sure, post count matters (to a very small degree)...but what matters most is the community recognizing individuals who have given their own unique skills as gifts...in ways that are difficult to quantify.
I fully agree with you here ... if you take a look into my posts (not all of them probably) you will certainly find plenty of "
"-only posts
Although showing agreement is worth something .. it's probably not worth much in comparison to other posts!
IMHO, this forum is just a subset of people working on and for BitShares and as such the topic should be renamed to account for that:
- BitSharesTalk Support TaskForce
- BitSharesTalk Selfless Supporters
And then there is the issue of "selfless" ... are you people sure I am not doing all of this for a reason?
Let me give some examples:
- I may want to stay delegate for as long as possible and tell people to vote for me when they received support?!
- I may want to connect to the community to establish trust so I can scam you all one day
- I may have invested plenty of money and want it to grow beyond pluto
- I may want to establish trust in order to gain power in the community?
- I may want to have as much influence on people as possible?
- I may want to ....
fill in dr. evil's plansJust saying .. none of the above might be true .. although a subset or all of it could be?! Couldn't it?
Maybe we skip "selfless", as difficult to know-for-sure and go over to
- BitSharesTalk Support TaskForce