Dude, you do not need to make a thread for absolutely everything that happens to you on LCS. Most of the first page is full of your three or four post threads now.
I know what you're trying to say, but I think you're just mistaken here. Jboy's threads get loads of replies by Curses standards, and they're all on different topics.
1. Of his front page threads, two are "let me tell you about this cool/crazy thing that happened to me", and both of those are intended to provoke relevant topical discussion. The other ten are bug reports, suggestion threads, or questions about how things work.
2. His posts on the front page have an average of 29 replies each. Or 22 if you don't want to credit him with the activity on his pony mod thread. Other people's posts on the front page have an average of 18 posts each, and that's if you count the two download release threads. The non-Jboy average is as low as 8 posts on average if you only count discussion threads.
3. Maybe average posts is twisting things, because he has a couple big threads. But even his median reply count is 17 replies for his topics. The median for everyone else is 9 replies.
No matter how you slice it, Jboy hasn't been spamming the forum with pointless tiny threads. Yeah, they're short by the standard of
other subforums, but things are always quiet in Curses. Most threads just don't accumulate very many replies here, and Jboy's are actually better than average.
No he isn't. Flooding the front page with a couple dozen three post threads is not helpful.
...but what really bothers me about this dismissiveness toward Jboy's contributions is that his posts have led to a rise in forum activity across the board. By posting so many topics, he has diversified the range of topics under discussion at any given time far beyond what is normally covered, and thereby encouraged a significantly higher level of participation in the forum in general. I post almost exclusively in Curses, I've noticed the difference over the last week or so. He and brainfreez really are keeping things far more alive than they usually are, and that is what inspired me to try to work on a new version of the game.
I felt inspired by the forum activity. I tried to pick up the incomplete 4.05 and finish that up, which caused me to discover my work was lost. I posted the memorial thread. Capital Fish asked about paying me to work on the game. I put my email up, woke up the next morning blessed by the kindness of strangers, and was moved to press on and make new features despite the lost work. That's how we got to the 4.06 thread up there now.
I'm not exaggerating at all when I say that if Jboy2000000 had been afraid to start threads and discussions, I wouldn't have made the updates in 4.06. Heck, several of the ideas that I used are straight out of discussion threads he started.
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