Why I miss old clickies: a lament...

[McIvan]

Although it might seem otherwise I agree with a lot of what Randy has to say....tis only the cumulative shadings and the overall conclusion that I mildy disagree with.

It's not a big big deal to me.

I don't need clickies to encourage me to post. I happily posted at The Blitz before clickies existed and will keep doing so.

They were just kind of a nice bonus.....and the feedback did, in fact, lead me to edit some intemperate posts and think a bit more before posting.

I liked the old clickie system better than I like this one so far, for reasons of being able to reward POSTS rather than POSTERS, to give a cumulative opinion of a member's contributions to the forum built up over time, whether those contributions were CM related posts or posts that entertained the reader.

Sure CM related material is dwindling...that's neither here nor there.

Sure three posters contributed most of the clicky talk, but there were definitely spinoffs from it and my perception....which is all it can be, there ain't no scientific measurement here.....is that it contributed to a livelier forum with somewhat more CM related stuff thrown in and more people posting, even if only ocasionally. I quite liked the atmosphere that resulted.

Again, it's not a big big deal to me. Be interested to see what Raz has to say.