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Jhq - Which people like to see this and why? It seems very superficial and void of any true meaning if there's not some form of substance to go along with it. If someone's primary contribution to the forum in calendar year 2020 is "LOLZ" and they post this 15k times, do we want to recognize this individual at year's end and encourage them to continue with this posting style? It's a serious question.

Klaus - My apologies if you aren't seeing my contributions as anything beyond criticism. I'm just trying to understand why we might be encouraging post count over quality discussion. Should we be recognizing and encouraging others to respond with the jokey one-liners just so they can grow their post count and be awarded? It's a sincere question.

Suede - Are you able to articulate your feelings further so we might better understand why quality discussion might not be important to you?

Are we concerned that threads like this might send the wrong message to membership by promoting quantity over quality? When I was a co-admin of a forum, I used to do end of year award threads but the recognition would be geared towards quality. For example, we would have awards such as "Thread of the year for most thought provoking discussion", "Member of the year", and this would typically be someone who consistently contributes in a manner that is conducive to positive and engaging discussion and adherence to forum values. Things of that nature .. My concern with the above is potentially encouraging the off-topic one liners that don't contribute to or foster quality discussion.