I was looking at the badges and i’m wondering what are quality posts?
Posts that demonstrate (or contribute to) genuine, active engagement with an experience, a feeling, or an issue.
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Pretty much this, is how I understand it. Interaction with the community in posts that contribute to it in a wholesome, informative way is basically how I approached it when I first joined.
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That’s how it’s supposed to work… and many fine folks, like Malkuth, have truly earned the highest of badges. Other people who have been here for a mere few months are at the same rank (and store discount level, accordingly), by flooding the forum with (IMHO) pointless posts and questions that contribute very little, and seem only to serve the purpose of bumping up their post count. That’s not directed at any one individual, there’s a measurable percentage of the members who seem to do that… it’s just a thing now, I think. It’s unfortunately not exactly a perfect system… 
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And one funny (meta-) point to add:
The above post from you, in which you open the topic of what a quality post is, probably meets the criteria for a quality post.
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Back at you, bruh!
(uh oh. is this a quality post? 
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It’s a generous one, though 
The way I see it, the ranking system isn’t as pertinent when you’ve been here for a bit longer and gained a personal opinion or viewpoint on the posters here based off of their posts, rather then just the rank with their name.
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For sure! And it’s also not something I feel strongly enough about to do much more than the occasional idle comment in a post when it naturally comes up.
edit: I just had a convo in my mind that convinced me I was not looking at this clearly… my perspective shifted to compare this to 2 other things that I’m very familiar with… biohacking and internet marketing. I’m 100% fine with using SARMs to shortcut muscle growth and PBN links to get a leg up in Google, for example…
So there are zero reasons I should be intolerant of the notion of people gaming the system in one context when I’m perfectly fine with it in another. 
#opinionchanged
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SARMs leave you with actually bigger muscles.
Posting “yup” or asking questions that a few seconds of searching would find s the answer to is NOT quality posting.
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True, and I also wouldn’t post spam or garbage even on PBN links… I just meant I should ease up on my thinking about “gaming the system” in general here. 
But yes, those types of posts don’t contribute value.
By the way, if you want to make high value/quality posts, then become internally high value lol.
When you run something like Emperor or something like that, then everything you do should naturally become high value without you even trying lol. It sort of becomes automatic as an extension of who you are
(congruence 
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For the most part, this is not an issue anyone has to worry about. It’s to prevent the clear spammers and cheaters from abusing the system.
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