Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Can the Moderators see our post count if they want to?
Anyone can.
Click on your username (or anyone else's) and you'll get the first page of the most recent comments.
Click on the search icon in the upper right (looks like a magnifying glass) and you'll get a section titled ABOUT Username. Post and comment counts appear - these are the aggregate VOTES others have given your posts and your comments.
If you want to see a person's posts, click on the "Comments" in upper right (below the bell and the search icon) and then choose "Posts" instead.
As far as an aggregate NUMBER of posts, I'm not sure if mods have easy access to this info, but other anons do not (to the best of my knowledge, but I'm no expert).
What I call a 'post' is what GAW calls a 'comment'.
What I call a 'thread' is what GAW calls a 'post'.
So what I guess I'm asking for in GAW language is the number of my comments.
This is the only message board on the entire internet that doesn't let you see your own comment count, which is a post count.
Yours is 7303 post 8617 comment
8617 is the comment score; not the number of comments, correct?
So you want the number of them, not the aggregate of the votes for/against the entirety of them. On the sidebar at the bottom there's a "Message the Moderators" option. They might have an answer or might refer you to the scored (I think) folks who deal with technical and navigation issues. Also, in searching for info recently in my saved folders, I noticed that anything older than six months ago is no longer accessible.