[loverslove1980]

Originally Posted by RobM

Honestly, I'm not totally sure what counts as 'posts' for the purposes of your asking.

To answer the question you asked, the server and the website are programmed to consider gallery comments, gallery uploads, forum posts and votes on polls as 'adding to your post count.'
Which is the number underneath your forum name.

Comments on stories in the fiction section, uploading of fiction doesn't count because the software is only an add-on and not fully compatable to do that.
Rating of pictures doesn't count because you are not encouraged to just rate without commenting (I thought that rating without commenting was disabled anyway).
Private messages and visitors messages don't count because that encourages unsolicited spamming.

To try and tell you what I think you want to know, to get up off the first level at the very bottom I'd plump for forum posts. Gallery comments are very good, but unless you've made a forum post or two I don't think the 'clock starts ticking' if you know what I mean? I think its the way the server works. Forum posts always count, but unless you've made a few forum posts it doesn't seem to start counting. Its all buried in computer lingo and layers of code, but personally I'd make a few forum posts, then hit the galleries. Its suprisingly easy to find dozens of pictures to comment on and you'll end up hitting 'senior member' before long.

Also, making like four posts and then wondering why its not enough isn't going to help. RPing isn't for most people, thats not the only option, there's almost 5 pages of non-sexual threads to contribute to in just the last two months in "General" so its not all about personal information either. I've only once censored someone for posting there to raise his membership because he copypasta'd "How interesting!" over and over.

I appreciate you answering this as well. I just hit 30 posts and wondered why nothing was changing.