I havn't once seen anyone bring up the subject during a dispute that a person should be more respected due to their post count. I, personaly, talk to all people the same despite the amount of posts a person has
Respect me! I have 10293293019 posts!
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Now, why should we listen to you, Kevin... you only have 220 posts...
What does that matter!!! For all we know he could write one post that works.
I think that post count should have something to do with how much respect someone diserves. However it is also in what is said within those posts. Someone who constantly adds positive and insightful posts should diserve more respect who rarely does. However both of them are far more worthy of respect than the people who say something like wow that was amazing to everything that is posted here.
I can honestly say that, on these forums, I have never once looked at a person's post count to judge how valid their advice is, or how much respect they deserve. That thought never even crossed my mind, until it was mentioned here. Also, I don't think I could name any examples of people posting spam to boost their post count.
However I do think that in some ways, it is a bad thing. For example, on a different forum that I frequent, about a completely different subject, I have a higher post count than I should deserve. I am really inexperienced when it comes to said topic, but still post questions and the suchlike reasonably often. This actually does worry me, because I don't want more respect than I deserve, based on my post count, in case somebody listens to my advice over a more experienced person for example.
On the other hand, if somebody with only 1 post recommended a website or product or the suchlike, it is quite possible that they only signed up to the boards to recommend this product, and that it is just self promotion, or promoting a friend. If someone with 1,000 posts recommended something, I would probably be less inclined to feel that they were biased in this way, and that it was merely self promotion.
However I do think that in some ways, it is a bad thing. For example, on a different forum that I frequent, about a completely different subject, I have a higher post count than I should deserve. I am really inexperienced when it comes to said topic, but still post questions and the suchlike reasonably often. This actually does worry me, because I don't want more respect than I deserve, based on my post count, in case somebody listens to my advice over a more experienced person for example.
On the other hand, if somebody with only 1 post recommended a website or product or the suchlike, it is quite possible that they only signed up to the boards to recommend this product, and that it is just self promotion, or promoting a friend. If someone with 1,000 posts recommended something, I would probably be less inclined to feel that they were biased in this way, and that it was merely self promotion.