Is there a problem with pointing out when accounts are likely to be troll or alt accounts? The frequency of bigots and concern trolls who eventually get banned having had low post counts on old accounts makes it a pretty easy trend to spot. So the stating of someone's post count is to warn others not to waste their time debating trolls.
I'd say it's a big problem if people actually believe you need to actively post frequently on a forum to have a valid opinion. Maybe people just read threads, and post something once in a while? To me that's healthy behaviour. I'd be far more skeptical of people how have an average count of dozens of posts every day.
If the person in question has a history of trolling, fine, but if you're pulling post count just to discredit someone because you have nothing better to bring to the table, you should do the clever thing instead, and say nothing.
Looks like it happened over at
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I can't say I understand the ban there? They say he knows what he's doing, he says he doesn't.
So what was he doing? Because I have no idea, and this actually brings up a problem I have with Era. It seems like you're expected to know inherently every single meme or "thing" that's going on at any given point. I see so many times a bunch of people telling someone else to stop with a line of reasoning, claiming "he knows what he's doing", while the "offender" acts all baffled and ignorant. And I tend to feel equally perplexed to how the offender is behaving. As in, I have no idea what's going on.
And this makes Era feel like a complete minefield at times. I don't have the time, nor do I care, to keep up with all the flavors of the day. It's simply not something I find any sense in bothering with. I assume a lot of people are the same uneducated way about what the latest thing is. Yet, if you participate in a discussion, you're treated like a bigot asshole if you say something that might be of a similar phrasing to something someone somewhere recently decided is bad. You're supposed to know this of course, and you're an asshole, because "you know what you're doing".
I don't, honestly, I have no idea. So please tell me instead of repeating "you know what you're doing".
I feel like I'm surrounded by hormonal, angry teenagers at times.