After a loss in a recent game where several players lost motivation - I have realized something. That game had *multiple* players post *hundreds* of posts throughout the game, myself included.
This kind of meta is what alienates people who do not have time to keep up with threads or play constantly, and can even ruin games.
I did post some tips on how to keep up from my experience replacing into very post count heavy games which I will quote here:
In post 7522, DkKoba wrote:re: people talking about not being able to keep up as town :
try to just focus on the recent activity strictly and then go from there. i myself did this when replacing in, and then referenced the content i missed over time when needed by doing ISO searches.
you dont need the whole game, you just need the meaty part of the conversations.
at worst, if you say something that is wrong/out of date, they can correct you and you'll be able to have a specfic area to reread to update yourself.
If everyone did this, it would make players who struggle to keep up help raise the overall townplay.
tl;dr: use the iso tool and only read recent stuff to stay at least somewhat relevant. it also helps when youre town to show you are trying to stay engaged and are helping contribute to a solve. if you have a part wrong because you didnt read it, another player in the game can always quote you and correct you.
that being said, there should be a tool to only see posts where people quoted you. that would be cool.
I have been doing this in games i replace into that have significant content and it's worked well (i was 2/3 correct on scum most of the game and even reached a proper PoE at the end without ever reading much of day 1)
Highly recommended.
(On top of this, if it is a mechanics heavy game, reading the OP and catching up on mechanics after you've had time to
Now, onto actual solutions:
I think that it is time that games start instituting post caps, particularly Normal and Newbie game. Not quite a geriatric post cap - but not allow a player to post several hundred times within 1 dayphase.
I'm making this thread as an open discussion on this topic as I think it is an important part of current meta that is causing players to not want to play/reducing the quality of games.