Posts not counting on Forum Games

[Wafflem]

How come you made it so that posts do not count if you post in Forum Games?

I'm not sure, but I feel this removes the incentive to play the forum games. The forum games are a lot of fun, but if posts don't count, then I feel that takes away the motivation of playing. I guess this is due to people wanting to climb up the Fun/Tricky/Taxing ranking by posting there.

One suggestion would be that if you ever remove the Fun/Tricky/Taxing ranking as discussed in this topic, that you should make it so the posts should now count when posting in Forum Games.

[geoo]

The post count shouldn't be the incentive to post in forums games. Having fun should be.
In fact, post count should not be incentive to make posts at all. Making a contribution should be.
If it were, participating here would be like playing one of these silly mobile phone games where you have to do the same things every day over and over again so you can see a number go up...

The post count is an indicator for how many (hopefully useful or insightful) contributions you've made, and currently it reflects that in my opinion (I assume what's why namida set it like that).

I don't quite understand people chasing to get a high post count. That said, I don't care about it and don't really care if it includes posts from Forum Games or not. Just my two cents.

EDIT: Just a silly idea we had in IRC: replace the post count with the total word count of all posts you made.

[Minim]

I believe that discarding forum game posts as part of their postal count a good thing, as in my own opinion most Forum Games have no relation to Lemmings at all. However I believe this opinion is better (Talk about grinding).

If it were, participating here would be like playing one of these silly mobile phone games where you have to do the same things every day over and over again so you can see a number go up...

Fortunately this isn't the only forum that has that feature though. I have seen it on the PokeCommunity Forums too, as there's at least one account I can remember that hasn't had a single post because he only plays forum games and trivia.

[namida]

EDIT: Just a silly idea we had in IRC: replace the post count with the total word count of all posts you made.

Hmmm....