Post Count Summary by Forum

This is somewhat of a vanity request, but it would be nice to be able to see a breakdown of how many of a user's posts (and percentage) are in each forum. Although, as a moderator, it could come in handy as a quick summary of a user's contribution.

I see this being placed somewhere in the user's profile, either as a separate, collapsable box similar to "Last Reputation Received",a link to a separate page similar to "Find all posts by ..." and "Find all threads started by ...", or a replacement for the "Group Memberships" box, which serves no purpose that I've ever seen.

I would imagine the list would only show forums in which the user has at least one post, and look something like this (in a nice tabular form):

Are you trying to bully the trolls into helping?

I don't necessarily object but i would object to putting too much weight by it, since the forums some of us tend to help out in tend to be low traffic.

I know i come off as mostly a troll but of the forums i regularly help in combined, there isn't enough to be going at at the rate i post.

Often I come in here and of the 20 forums i'm subscribed to, maybe 1 will have a new post that can be answered.

So don't take it too seriously.

I just take my postcount, subtract 50, and assume that's all in the Lounge

But seriously, it would probably be fun to have and even handy for evaluating where a user spends most of his/her time, but it shouldn't be given too much weight.

And there's always the potential for it to get personal if these stats are made public. "Well, what would *you* know, you Windows forum-dweller", or "Typical of a C programmer", or "Go back to the Lounge where you belong", etc..... I would recommend that users be able to view only their own stats (save mods of course).

That's getting close to actual content, the ratio slipping ?

This idea was conceived from personal interest, not moderation use. As I said, mostly vanity.

In terms of moderation, I would use it to get a quick idea of the history for a long time member with a relatively low post count who I haven't run into often enough to know their history. No one tool works for all moderation needs.

I suppose for those purposes it would be acceptable. I just wouldn't want something like that in the hands of the every day user as b-con said. I also wouldn't want it to be used as a serious tool.

You could make all sorts of custom titles - e.g. is user has 50% of their posts in the "Windows Help" forum, then they're either a "windows power user" or "battling the evil empire, one installation at a time". 30% of your posts are in linux, then you're a penguinista!

Too much work though, but I for one would love to see what my post:forum ratio is. And BCons.

--Simon

I have no problem only allowing moderators to see it

I have no objections.....might be a useful tool.....

Yeah, I think it could be a handy statistical tool. If it was used in the proper way, and not just to tell who the trolls are...........not that we don't know that already !