Author Topic: FORUM HITMAN FOR HIRE (Read 17604 times)

ShyGuy · « **Reply #25 on:** October 15, 2012, 02:35:22 PM »

This leper colony sounds interesting. I vote yes.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #26 on:** October 15, 2012, 02:43:34 PM »

Quote from: Pixelated Pixies on October 15, 2012, 12:42:37 PM

Quote from: NWR_insanolord on October 15, 2012, 10:04:24 AM
Things can be both pointless and entertaining. Many, many things fit that description. And I wasn't really talking about you, more about people who complain about smites and act like they're a serious thing.

Pointless and entertaining perhaps, but there is something to be said for removing the + and - system altogether. It doesn't exactly play to NWR's strength, which I feel is the site's ability to offer a forum for grown-up discussion of video games. I mean, I guess it's funny to people under the age of 16 but it's not terribly conducive to discussion.

It's also not un-conducive to discussion unless you take it seriously, which is stupid to do.

Stogi · « **Reply #27 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:43:29 PM »

Quote from: S-U-P-E-R on October 15, 2012, 12:26:48 PM

A leper colony where terrible posters on probation go!

Crimm · « **Reply #28 on:** October 15, 2012, 04:24:42 PM »

Quote from: S-U-P-E-R on October 15, 2012, 12:26:48 PM

A leper colony where terrible posters on probation go!

The Funhouse?

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #29 on:** October 15, 2012, 05:49:33 PM »

I would support a funhouse-only status for bad posters.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #30 on:** October 15, 2012, 07:15:48 PM »

YES! DO EEEEEET!

Shaymin · « **Reply #31 on:** October 15, 2012, 07:33:30 PM »

I'm having flashbacks to Something Awful.

...

Let's do it.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #32 on:** October 15, 2012, 07:59:57 PM »

Quote from: Shaymin on October 15, 2012, 07:33:30 PM

I'm having flashbacks to Something Awful.

...

Let's do it.

Every good idea ever implemented on this forum was pretty much stolen from SA. There's a lot of catching up to do now that I haven't been an admin for years.

oohhboy · « **Reply #33 on:** October 15, 2012, 08:10:39 PM »

Quote from: S-U-P-E-R on October 15, 2012, 05:49:33 PM

I would support a funhouse-only status for bad posters.

You want to concentrate them, in like a camp?

Dasmos · « **Reply #34 on:** October 15, 2012, 08:58:41 PM »

Quote from: Pixelated Pixies on October 15, 2012, 12:42:37 PM

I mean, I guess it's funny to people under the age of 16 but it's not terribly conducive to discussion.

I'd like to think people with the mental maturity of someone over 16 wouldn't get their knickers in a knot about something so trivial.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #35 on:** October 15, 2012, 11:29:22 PM »

Man, it's the internet. Grown ass men get mad about things that aren't even real

Pixelated Pixies · « **Reply #36 on:** October 16, 2012, 02:02:27 AM »

Quote from: Dasmos on October 15, 2012, 08:58:41 PM

Quote from: Pixelated Pixies on October 15, 2012, 12:42:37 PM
I mean, I guess it's funny to people under the age of 16 but it's not terribly conducive to discussion.

I'd like to think people with the mental maturity of someone over 16 wouldn't get their knickers in a knot about something so trivial.

You say that like it's in conflict with the sentence you quoted. I think it's dumb on both sides. It's dumb to get a kick out of it and it's dumb to take it seriously. That's why I think it should be removed as a system. Clearly I'm in the minority though.

Morari · « **Reply #37 on:** October 16, 2012, 01:19:26 PM »

A properly working Karma system would forgo the negative aspects altogether. Instead you would simply have a "Like" or a "Report" button. Furthermore, the "Likes" would be on a per post basis, and displayed as such. You would only ever be able to "Like" any given post once. It actually wouldn't even hurt to show the users that "Liked" an individual post at that point, since the negative parallels wouldn't exist.

That said, I would like to sick the Forum Hitman upon TJ Spyke. He can never have enough minuses.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #38 on:** October 16, 2012, 01:22:50 PM »

I think Morari is responsible for at least half the smites I have. I found it funny when I stopped posting for about 3 weeks and my smite count still went up by like 20.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #39 on:** October 16, 2012, 01:30:06 PM »

I find it funny that anyone honestly cares about their smite count. The way I see it, if you're dumb enough to be upset by that, you deserve to be upset by it.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #40 on:** October 16, 2012, 01:46:12 PM »

I don't care, I find it funny that it seems like some others do. I know Morari does, as he smites me all the time for no reason, and whines whenever he thinks I smite him.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #41 on:** October 16, 2012, 05:45:19 PM »

but MOMMMM

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #42 on:** October 16, 2012, 09:34:48 PM »

Quote from: Pixelated Pixies on October 16, 2012, 02:02:27 AM

Quote from: Dasmos on October 15, 2012, 08:58:41 PM
Quote from: Pixelated Pixies on October 15, 2012, 12:42:37 PM
I mean, I guess it's funny to people under the age of 16 but it's not terribly conducive to discussion.

I'd like to think people with the mental maturity of someone over 16 wouldn't get their knickers in a knot about something so trivial.

You say that like it's in conflict with the sentence you quoted. I think it's dumb on both sides. It's dumb to get a kick out of it and it's dumb to take it seriously. That's why I think it should be removed as a system. Clearly I'm in the minority though.

You are in the minority, because the Majority of us don't give a **** either way.

The Majority of us only even notice it when someone starts complaining about it. To which we then will have fun at their expense.

They mean nothing. If they did, then Mega's number wouldn't be fixed, my negatives would be added to my positives

some posters would have a much higher positive and certain other posters wouldn't have a positive score at all (you know who you are, don't look at me like that

).

and with that being said, I now welcome the aftermath upon my score.
bring on the smites!!!!

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #43 on:** October 17, 2012, 12:04:50 AM »

"Nobody should care" is not really a glowing defense of the system. Ditch it today. Or when broodwars hits -1000

Stogi · « **Reply #44 on:** October 17, 2012, 12:14:18 AM »

I endorse it mostly because people hate it.

Even though it is trivial.

But I won't lie, I smile when I get an applaud for a quip or well thought out post.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #45 on:** October 17, 2012, 12:18:10 AM »

Quote from: Stogi on October 17, 2012, 12:14:18 AM

I endorse it mostly because people hate it.

Even though it is trivial.

But I won't lie, I smile when I get an applaud for a quip or well thought out post.

+1

broodwars · « **Reply #46 on:** October 17, 2012, 01:32:39 AM »

Quote from: S-U-P-E-R on October 17, 2012, 12:04:50 AM

"Nobody should care" is not really a glowing defense of the system. Ditch it today. Or when broodwars hits -1000

Considering I get smited pretty much regardless of what I say in a given post, that shouldn't take too long. $:-\$

I think it says a lot about the applause/smite system that the most positive response I've seen to it on this site is sheer apathy, and the only reason it remains is because the establishment doesn't want to go through the hassle of removing it. I've said my piece on it in the past, though, so you all go ahead and whine about it without me.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #47 on:** October 17, 2012, 03:12:26 AM »

The main reason I'm against getting rid of it is that generally the only people who are really against it are the people who get smited a lot, and most (not all, mind you) of those people deserve the smites they get.

TJ Spyke · « **Reply #48 on:** October 17, 2012, 03:20:31 AM »

Maybe do a poll or something to see what people think about the system and what should be done?

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #49 on:** October 17, 2012, 04:53:37 AM »

I am indifferent to the the system to be honest. It just isn't implemented well on the forums. If the system was suppose to be a way to change posting habits of people then it hasn't done that well because of how it is implemented on the forums.Sure you can smite people but if they don't know what post got people upset then its as most people are saying pointless to have it. At this point it is just a way to cause discord on the forums.

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