Now don't tell me you wouldn't be pissed if you woke up tomorrow and your count was reset
I don't have a high post count because I give a **** about my post count. I have a high post count because I
care about this community, and I interract on this; because I care about new brewers and their worries and I help them. Because this place is like my community and we get together and talk. It's not an Eddie Murphy movie where there's a limited number of word, or posts. I could care either way if posts are counted or not, I don't think ANYONE'S posts should be counted....But that's just the way things are on forums. I don't look at folks post counts, unless I think they might be spammers, or wonder why I've never interacted with them, but usually I look first at their join date.
I can't remember the last time I even looked at my own count, it means nothing to me. Except maybe it's a record of how many people I might have actually helped on here over the last few years. And that I AM proud of. It doesn't make me better than anyone. It's just a record of my contributions to HOPEFULLY eradicating new brewer's fears. A record hopefully of batches saved.
When I came on here, people talked about dumping beer all the time..."My airlock didn't bubble, so I dumped my beer (not bothering to take a hydro reading) "My beer didn't carb on day 7, so I dumped it" "I looked at my beer wrong, or made some tiny mistake, so I dumped it without waiting to see if something went wrong" "I tasted my beer 2 days after pitching yeast, it tastes like ****, so I dumped it."
I got people to slow down on the dumping. I think I got a lot of new brewers to RDWHAHB....It means I have a high post count, so ****ing what. What it really means, is hopefully I got folks to stay in this hobby, and hopefully they improved in this hobby......
That's all I really give a flying **** about...not a bunch of meaningless numbers.
People think I have an ego investment in this...I don't. I'm a minister,
i help people, that's what I'm wired to do, it's in my DNA. Whether it's the new brewer who's worried about their first batch, or the mother whose son committed suicide by laying his head on a railroad track, and she walked into my church as I was getting ready to close for the day...or the Stewardess who's best friend died on 9-11, and I sat there for hours holding her...it's what I do.... it's really not much different. It's all about fear, and doubt and worry.
It just happens that here there is a number ticker attached to it.
*shrug*