How many average posts a day is a good amount?

[Morthoron]

As a rule, I don't post much at all, unless something really interests me. However, in this case I will simply add a banal post because I am only a few from hitting 2000, which is, in itself, a measure of banality.

[Mithalwen]

ENencouraging a newer member is a more positive spin Morth...

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

ENencouraging a newer member is a more positive spin Morth...

I am positively trying to get my 2000th post.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Andsigil

To answer the question in the thread title: people here tend to go for quality vs quantity.

Correction: that is definitely not always the case. About a month after I joined (and until about a year after I joined), I began posting everywhere and about everything. I averaged about 8 posts a day. My goal was to get to 10, but I never made it. I don't know how I had the time to post so much. But most of my posts were either inane or very brief. Then, there was a combination of lack of time and lack of interest. There are only so many times you can discuss the unexistence of Balrog wings or the enigmatic nature of Tom Bombadil. Before, I was really interested in details and technicalities. Nowadays, I generally pass these threads by, but I still attempt to sift out those that touch on deeper ideas and not just the mechanics of the world. Every now and then I get really interested, but... time. Although I visit every day, I do not post that often.

However, I say there's no right or wrong with posting whatever you feel you want to post, regardless of quantity. Not all posts might get replies, at least right away, but even if you post more than average I can only applaud you for making an attempt to lift up the forum out of our hybernation. :-)

Originally Posted by Morthoron

As a rule, I don't post much at all, unless something really interests me. However, in this case I will simply add a banal post because I am only a few from hitting 2000, which is, in itself, a measure of banality.

Oh Morth, come on, you won't pass up an opportunity to trip on a thread and crack a couple puns or splatter some sarcasm onto it. And keep an utterly straight face while you're at it. :-D

[Formendacil]

If you go by the number of posts by the most highly regarded Barrow-downers and try to calculate the frequency with which they wrote them... you'd still have to account for the fact that they all go fallow for a while. We have a whole thread devoted to departed-but-not-forgotten* members. You're catching the forum in a sleepier time, and I have (not originally--but I don't recall who first used it) often compared being prompted back into posting to the waking of the Huorns.

At the moment, I'm an unusually lively Ent, and in addition to delving deep into the Books forum out of both nostalgia and restlessness, I have the ambition to make at least one Downs post every day--but I don't really expect it to be consistent. I know that we Ents are growing tree-ish.

Still, it is good to have some hasty young Hobbits about. If you have something worth saying on many topics, then by all means say them!




*But not, as far as we know, dead.

[Andsigil]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Correction: that is definitely not always the case.

Very true, which is why I said "tend to". I like to avoid absolutes.

[Tar-Jêx]

Originally Posted by Andsigil

Very true, which is why I said "tend to". I like to avoid absolutes.

Yes, avoiding absolutes is especially vital in the sort of debates we have. It means you don't get backed into a corner, because you can redact your statements if need be.

[Andsigil]

Originally Posted by Tar-Jêx

Yes, avoiding absolutes is especially vital in the sort of debates we have. It means you don't get backed into a corner, because you can redact your statements if need be.

No, that's not the reason. I'm just old enough (well, closer to being old than young anymore) to know (and appreciate) that there are exceptions to nearly everything.

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Andsigil

No, that's not the reason. I'm just old enough (well, closer to being old than young anymore) to know (and appreciate) that there are exceptions to nearly everything.

Even the above statement.

[Tar-Jêx]

Originally Posted by Andsigil

No, that's not the reason. I'm just old enough (well, closer to being old than young anymore) to know (and appreciate) that there are exceptions to nearly everything.

That is effectively what I said, but in a different way.

[Mithalwen]

It isn't really. There is a difference between keeping a get out cause as a safety net in case of bejng proved wrong and knowing you may be fallible from the outset. Which may be the result of age, though there have been some astonishingly mature entings here while some displaysof childish petulance can be ascribed to those of riper years... so I should refrain from endorsing whoever it was who said that they weren't young enough to know everything.