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I used to be extremely extremely active on an old message board for a gaming website, I was young so I constantly got into shit, but I don't think I'll ever be so invested in a forum that I could post over 200 posts per day. It was great, you'd have incredibly long threads with tons of posts from the same set of people.
Something that I remember doing was basically proving that one forum user absolutely could not have gone from cart pusher less than a year prior to owning a house with no transition in between through nothing but me remembering like everything everyone posted on there
This resonates with me. Whenever I’m posting I ask myself, “is this contributing to the discussion?” If the answer is no, I won’t post anything. The old forums that had a comment count under a username made me want to increase that so I posted on every post. I feel this lead to a lot of unnecessary and dull engagement.
Haha probably right? But it definitely also lent it a very conversational atmosphere, occasionally just small posts that didn't get much attention or getting really, really engaged with a discussion. Also it was the last time I knew basically everyone I was posting with at least a little bit.