Really, it makes up for far more than 10% of the boards total posts (and I just mentioned three of the extremest threads in that respect).
If 10 or 15% of our whole board tends to be one-word-response games, whether we hide the numbers or not it will still be true. I see what you're getting at, Malte. In the end, we know and can find out who is making posts in which sections of the board. Everyone can easily find out where a lot of the posts a member makes are, just by spending a little time on the GoF. Why is there a need to artificially bias our post count numbers when, let's be honest, if word association is important enough to our members to have 11600 posts in it, I don't think that's anything to ignore either.
I think this comes down to another question too:
What exactly does post count *mean* to us? I am getting the impression that you would prefer it to be a representation of the number of 'meaningful' posts a member as made that has helped develop and progress our community, and that you don't believe the existance of such one-word games is doing anything beneficial for our community and therefore ought to be all but ignored in this "post count", as defined easlier in this paragraph.
I sincerely apologize if that sounded harsh in any way, mate.
And having post count reflect the number of meaningful posts a member has made is very logical. That being said, if my post in a game helps to allow someone else to have fun in their game, is that not beneficial? I don't spend much time on the one-word games myself, but if we refuse to acknowledge a part of our board that has, indeed, found a way to grab over 10% of our total posts, which obviously says something about our community and how we just like to come here and spend a little time having random fun, than in my mind it is a step towards turning our GoF into an elitist community. Again, sincere apologies for any extremist wording, that is just a representation of where this is leading, in my eyes.
