I'm always curious about that myself, but the only times I find out is if I win the Queen's item. XD

For the posting reward, does it count if you post in the word games area?
What about the post count on your profile? Does that count those places?

I don't think profile comments count
I wouldn't be surprised to find the spam forum is also exempt

Well, if you look at someone's profile and see the post count at the beginning of the month, and look again at the end, do you think it would be the same as the count listed in the winning three for the Queen's gift reward?
Or do they use different parameters for what to include in the "post count"?

I think spam posts will be exempt so if you posted a lot in there that month, that number will be taken off your score. But number of posts on profile page would include all posts incl spam. I dunno, that’s what I would think. XD I’ve never paid much attention. I’m just surprised when I get an over 500 post account in one month lol. It’s happened a few times and I’m like “did I really post THAT much?”

To think I'm sometimes surprised to see I've made 100 XD

Lmao, if I get even 50 posts in a month I'm shook. And then there are people with 500. xD

And I just tested the Word Games & Spam forum, and it adds to the total post count, so no, it's probably not a method for determining the Queen's gift! Though it makes me somewhat curious about how it's actually counted... Or maybe they compare the post count at the start and end of the month, and then remove the spam count? Hmmmm....

Huh.
Grog is gone, and I have exactly 400 donuts left. That's a nice round number.
But I wish he could stay for longer. It's a fair ways yet from enough to get the next item goal!


Okay, back to the actual conversation!

I wonder how they would keep track of the spam forum posts to remove those counts, though?

There's surely magic going on in the background.

i'm 50 donuts away......from reaching 800 donuts again lol.

i'm thinking that maybe they just check in the coding who made the most posts. they might have the coding/posting information for each of the different forums......with the exception of the spam forum. so they'd only only count the posts from the other forums, since the coding/post count doesn't show up (for them) from the spam forum.

at least, that's my coding hypothesis. xD;;

Well, it sounds reasonable to me someone who knows nothing about code