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Old Nov 19, 2008 | 9:17 pm
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Originally Posted by WBurcham
I don't often wade into OMNI land or most of the areas I didn't have questions/information about. What concerns me is that I often judge the quality of a response to a question based on a few things:

1) Do I know the member/does the board
2) What's their post count (i.e. a low post count often = less experienced)
3) How long they've been here (longer = better in my mind)
Thank you, you put together what I wanted to express.

While the post count CAN serve as an indicator how competent the answer is, how do you differ if a majority of these posts were utter bs or quality discussions about FF topics.

Then again, its an internet board and we will never get an answer where we know if it's 100% correct or not. Unless we try and see how it works.

But my question remains: HOW is it possible to generate such a massive amount of posts (e.g. 35K) within 2 years ? Some longterm FT members and Moderators on our biggest boards do not have these amount of posts.
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