Well from what I understand, unless you post songs in the User Showcase (a good time I believe to post a bucket load of them is from October onwards) then you don't stand a chance of winning the next years band in a box.
So in a sense its like entering a competition, if you're not in, you can't win.
Post counts mean nothing except that you have too much time on your hands. Or, you're retired or unemployed.
An interesting metric to watch is "views" on a song post. That lets you know how many times someone has come in to view that post....and perhaps to listen to the song multiple times.
AND yes.... I agree with Jim, it would be a really great idea to post the genre in the OP.... but to me, that's not all that important. I like hearing what people are doing on other genres of music with BB. I try to post the tracks used and other info.... I often forget to include the style I used. The 5 points are more or less valid points to make.
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Post counts mean nothing except that you have too much time on your hands. Or, you're retired or unemployed.
I kinda disagree with that in some regards. For the cited source in the OP, I wholeheartedly agree; 'most posts in 30 days' is pretty meaningless, changes regularly, and is a small sample size. One year we realized Beta testing comments were showing up in the count and skewing things terribly. That has since been corrected.
Under usernames on a post are their total post numbers. To me this is a little more meaningful.
/this info is also available via the Users link at the top of the forums //there was a while when Trolling was an issue here and seeing this provided data helped decipher things (like creation account date etc) /// Please tell me I didn't just somehow summon Igor
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I think all is good as is at the User Showcase Forum. PG Music has two SC "radio" stations that are solely to feature select songs from many members. They also have genre specific playlists of all posts although the genres are big tents
The forum is by far the largest forum here and is a wonderful community. The opportunity to learn from the pro level posters is always there and that is what originally captivated us. It has been a tremendous resource for us beyond simply throwing our songs on it. We have met people from around the planet and have become friends with members with whom we are in frequent contact. And it is, hands down, the most civil forum I have ever participated in. And I've been the admin/mod of one forum and a moderator on another very large forum. Never seen a group of folks like this in my forum roaming from the earliest days.
Although we have many interests other than music our "musical world" at this point in our lives would be dramatically different w/o that forum.
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Post counts mean nothing except that you have too much time on your hands. Or, you're retired or unemployed.
Not sure I agree. Actually, I don't agree at all. I'm neither retired nor unemployed. I definitely rarely have any spare time available. I try to make time to help others whenever I can. Sometimes it's at 3AM. There's a saying: "If you want anything done, ask a busy man". I think I'm one of those persons.
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For the cited source in the OP, I wholeheartedly agree; 'most posts in 30 days' is pretty meaningless, changes regularly, and is a small sample size.
Don't have any hard number to prove this (I may be retired but I do have other things to do ), but I would guess that while the order may rearrange on a regular basis, many of the names on the top 10 list are pretty consistent over any long period of time. But then who's counting.
Hey, I'm really OK with it. World's got bigger prob's at the moment
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Seems to me the list is an appropriate mix of posters (not that the numbers matter). Although I think it should be "heavier" with "Showcase posters" - Dan's picture actually shows that it is non-Showcase heavy.
When I first came to the forum, Off Topics (and those who "lived" there) was king. That was where all the activity was. The counts of posts, threads and views in Off Topics far outnumbered any other except the "Band In A Box for Windows" section. (They were neck-and-neck). The Showcase was a step-child forum at the time. (no offense to real step-children intended).
And, yet, the Showcase was what really mattered to me at the time. I had never actually even BEEN on a forum before. But I was truly wanting to know if BAND-IN-A-BOX could POSSIBLY be the product that I had dreamed of finding for years. I had purchased BIAB years earlier (version 5, 1990?), but gave up using it because I could never make MIDI programs sound "real". (I did use it to check that the timing of my Nashville Numbers charts were correct by entering the chords of a song to check that).
So, when I first encountered the concepts of RealTracks, I desperately wanted to know if they were as "magical" as they were being touted to be. And I found these forums. Mid-2012. At the time, very few people were posting to the Showcase. A lot of those early Showcase posts were pretty basic and did not convince me that BIAB was worth the hefty price tag (hefty for me, anyway). BUT...there were a small number of posters there who were doing some pretty good stuff (production-wise). I found that encouraging. I REALLY wanted to include some fiddle and pedal steel in my productions. But I was still not convinced enough to open my wallet. Then I found a Showcase post from Steve Young. Steve's production was studio quality. And it was mostly BIAB. I then walked through the entire Showcase to find everything I could that Steve had posted. It was well worth the effort. Steve's work convinced me that BAND-IN-A-BOX was "for REAL". I bought it the following week. (Thank you, Steve!!)
To this day, I consider it one of THE best purchases of my life.
Since that time, the Showcase has grown. By leaps and bounds. The number of good producers posting to the Showcase has grown exponentially. (I think of it as a "producer showcase", not a "songwriter showcase" - because it is about BIAB, the product, as far as I am concerned). There is some AMAZING music posted to the Showcase. And the VARIETY of offerings has continued to expand. What a great thing! And, hopefully, some of those posts do what they did for me...convince the next guy/gal to BUY BAND-IN-A-BOX. Every songwriter, every musician, every producer on the planet should own this software.
AND...the Showcase is a great, positive community (as Bud so elegantly described it).
If you think about it, the Showcase and its ability to convince someone to buy BIAB, must be considered by PGMusic to be THE most important part of the forums. Certainly the Off Topics forum is never going to serve that role.
So, if the "Top Posters" list is dominated by "Showcasers"... that is a very good thing.
(Personally, I don't like when I show up in the list. I've got too much music to write and produce to be spending time doing anything else)
When I first came to the forum, Off Topics (and those who "lived" there) was king. That was where all the activity was. The counts of posts, threads and views in Off Topics far outnumbered any other except the "Band In A Box for Windows" section. (They were neck-and-neck).
Those were the good old days. It was so simple and all the chatter in one place. Today its like a jungle around here.
Hey, I'm really OK with it. World's got bigger prob's at the moment
Do ya reckon?
Now I know you're having a lend...
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I might go in the User Showcase forum rarely if some tittle might catch my eye, but I have been blown away by some as they sound like a shop bought CD and should be on CMT ! I think the last post I put in there was trying to encourage users to create a video for their songs.
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), but I would guess that while the order may rearrange on a regular basis, many of the names on the top 10 list are pretty consistent over any long period of time. But then who's counting. 
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