Here is my take on things as a moderator and someone who has been a part of this board, and before, for many years.

The "post whoring" is definitely a problem. It is fundamentally wrong to seemingly post for the sake of posting and either increasing one's post count or one's presence on the board. The first issue is not that important to me. If someone posts 10,000 posts in one month and the majority of them are constructive, productive, informative, etc, then that's fine. The second issue is the one that is more the issue for me.

One person posting in excessive numbers can create impression to newer members or people who are just cruising the site to get a very one dimensional view of the site, thinking that this poster is somehow representative of the site as a whole. I would certainly think that if I stumbled across X5world and saw as many posts as xnsf posts. (Yes, I used his handle because he put himself out there.) As another practical matter, too many posts of the non-substantive type that he has become infamous for needless clutters the board and keeps threads alive that should just pass on into the great archives of our history. I understand that we ALL post some useless stuff but in this case, the sheer quantity has exceeded our collective subjective standard.

As for the way SANguru approached this, perhaps not the Henry Kissinger of the board but I can appreciate his frustration. Like SG stated, the issue has been addressed before in a kid gloves way before so don't think that the moderators and admins just decided that it was open season on xnsf.

In the meantime, let's get back to enjoying the board.

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