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[Tokis-Phoenix]

Thanks andy knew that was a dig at me and i have had my post count knocked back once by 4 and thousand.
And to be honest i couldn't careless what you think.
If you have a problem with me at least have the decency to say it by pm instead of always slating me on the board and in chat.

So easy to answer a question you know, why don't you try in the emergency section when you are out of your depth, i've spent hours trying to find info for members to help them out, as i don't want there post to be left without anybody trying to help them out, at least when I spend hours on the net trying to find some info for them it help future fish keepers, and at least I tryed more than some do, sorry sorry if i've tried to hard to please some members on here, but I thought that what life about trying to help others.

Wilder has helped me out more times than one, and she's given me good advice, and her advice worked. She's actually posting something very helpful and trying to help people, fair enough if she just kept posting in Tropical Chit-Chat, but she isn't, she is helping people and I really don't see why a middle aged woman (sorry Wilder), would want to spam to get her post count up? She's really a helpful person and i've only ever seen good advice posted from her, so I just want to thank Wilder. Andy, I don't want to cause any arguements and I don't dislike you or anything, but why do you always try to pick out the "bad points" about people, that's the impression I get from some of your posts. I mean your entitled to your opinion, but i've seen you try to bring arguements up like this on more than one occasion. But please Andy, do not start to hate me or anything for this, as you do seem like a nice, comical bloke.

Neal

I agree with you, Wilder is very valuable member of this forum and even i have learnt many importants bits of info on fish keeping from her- this forum would do even better if there were more knowledable and active members like her willing to help others particually in times of need .

I agree with doing away with the post count. You get Newbie's who are new to the forum but have been keeping fish for years so post count is irrelevant. Then you get people like me, only been keeping fish for 4 months, but my count is high(ish) because I don't know a lot but have been asking loads of questions, so again, my post count is irrelevant.

If you spend enough time on the forum you soon learn who gives reliable info and who doesn't. And it's up to you if you want to believe it or not. Really, it's always best to back it up with your own research anyway.

Let's get rid of post counts as it seems to cause a few problems. It isn't a 'knowledge' graph, just a 'how busy are you on the forum' graph!

Personally i like post counts and believe that there's nothing wrong with them, for me its just an extra bit of info .
There is so much info in our profiles that really isn't that nesarsary like when we joined the forum or what our member number is or how old we are or where we come from, even avatars, saying the forum would be better rid of post counts because they are not vital info is like saying the forum would be better off without any info remotely non-fishkeeping related.

So yeah, i like post counts, it shows me how many posts i've made ! I'd rather know than not be in the dark .

One only needs to see the high post count of some who are highly active in certain (emergency) areas who openly admit to know very little about fish to see the folly in following a post count.

Andywg, i would be a lot more wary about what you type particually if you aren't intending that as a dig at a particular member here.
If it is (and you should know better if it is), then why don't you try to learn more about fish and spend some time saving other peoples fish? Set by example u'know. If you have any particular issues with any other members here, you should be more specific and raise the issue with a mod, not make it public, even in the slightest (unless its very relevant, which i don't think it is here).
I'm not having a go at you, but thats just how i interperated your post and felt the need to point it out .