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Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 27 Jan 2009, 22:58
by Felix the Cat
"On average, the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to its author's post count."

Discuss.

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 27 Jan 2009, 23:02
by TheBigPK
Fail. In many forums I find, the most active members or mods are often the most helpful, and have extraordinarily high post counts.

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 27 Jan 2009, 23:26
by Peet
Ehh...we have posters ranging from highly helpful to useless to malevolent in all categories of postcount and post frequency. Same goes for other forums I've been a part of.

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 01:19
by KaiserJ
or in the case of my posts...

"the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to its word count."

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 19:47
by Jazcash
"On average, the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to nothing." Helpfulness cannot be measured.

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 23:48
by AF
My post count pwns

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 28 Jan 2009, 23:50
by smoth
Felix the Cat wrote:"generalizations often going to be incorrect"

truth.
-fixed

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 29 Jan 2009, 05:18
by KingRaptor
JAZCASH wrote:"On average, the helpfulness and usefulness of a post is inversely proportional to nothing." Helpfulness cannot be measured.
I heard chickens don't really cross roads either

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 29 Jan 2009, 10:42
by Boirunner
you must be new to the internets

Re: Fundamental Theorem of Forums

Posted: 29 Jan 2009, 13:43
by REVENGE
Boirunner wrote:you must be new to the internets
Jesus Christ you're being so fucking gota tonight.