Forum FAQFollow

I put together a FAQ for the forum. I'll get Illia to link it up later

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/Forum_FAQ.html

One thing I want to emphasize is the Karma system. If people start to use it, it should solve many of the complaints I see about anon posting. If you have received Scholar status of higher, you in effect become a limited forum admin. Please take advantage of this.

As you read through a thread, rate the best posts up and the worst posts down. Then when you get to the end, hit the rate posts button to enter your ratings. It only takes a couple people rating through a thread like that to move the dumb posts below the default viewing threshold and move the better posts up, which will eventually make those making the good posts able to rate as well.

Now just make sure you have your filter settings at "default" and not at "Never Filter". The default filter means that when you are on the main thread page, any thread where the lead is below 1.5 isn't even listed, and within a thread any post below that rating also disappears. If you choose to set your filter to "Never Filter", then I have to assume you want to see those types of posts.

We do moderate the forum as well, but only to get rid of the most outrageous posts. If people want to carry on a below the threshold flame war, then we won't interfere until it becomes indecent.

Edited, Wed Dec 3 13:08:08 2003 by Allakhazam

Edited, Sun Jul 10 20:59:54 2005 by Railus

I checked the site: http://everquest.allakhazam.com/itemhelp.html
and it I didnt see the mention of ratings anywhere. The ratings I am asking for is on the weapons, how are weapons rated. In my opinion it would be hard to keep this accurate due to ongoing and upraising of any new weapons. For instance the Epic weapons at that the time of Kunark would or should have been the highest but after PoP they are almost useless for what you have to do to aquire them.

Thanks

P.S. I like gathering the info on newbie quests and making a quick reference guide to the whole outfit. If there another place to post this info or is it advisable to continue to post the whole on all sites of the equipment. I suggest adding it to the main comments (or the beginning walkthru).

Why is it that a lot of my posts are being removed? Is it because of the karma system, or have specific people asked them to be removed? Removing some of my posts makes some other folks' posts make no sense, since they are replying to my now deleted post.
Should I stop posting on Allah? I would rather somebody tell me I am not welcome here instead of removing my posts.

I have changed the filter to never filter, but they still don't show up. I know I am doing something wrong.

Also, how are posts rated? I don't seem to have a button to "rate" posts. Do you have to be a scholar or higher to rate posts?

Edited- 3-31-04

Ok, now I know how to get the ability to rate posts. But I will never be able to, because my posts are all rated down. No problem; unless people can vote more than once to rate a post. Then it is a problem, to me. One person can ruin your total rating if that is the case.

Edited, Wed Mar 31 11:15:36 2004 by Vaanan

Dumb as I am, I finally figgered it out. But I am still puzzled as to why the community as a whole decided to rate one of my posts a low 1.4. I think it is that low.
It was the post I had written about inspection being a roleplaying aspect for some of us, and you, Sir Kerikdaven, even said that you liked it. ("Well said, Vaanan") I guess either you were the only one who liked it, or you were being sarcastic. No offense, sometimes it is hard to tell when someone is being sarcastic in written form.

No biggie; I don't feel the need to rate other people's posts. I'll just keep flapping my low-rate lips off when I feel the need.

Thanks for the kind words Psycho, I appreciate it, I enjoyed reading a lot of your posts, especially a recent one where people expect you to be the God of the Best Western. Very funny stuff. (oh, editting this to add that the filter setting is in fact most likely cookie based(personally though I recommend leaving the filter on as the posts that are rate that low will more often than not get you mad and into the more petty parts of the post, and that probably wasn't what you were looking for when you wanted to look at the thread))

Vaanan,

On that post I meant what I said. I'm rarely ever sarcastic, and when I am it's so blatantly obvious you wouldn't miss it. I think what I've seen happen is that instead of people merely rating a single post on it's merits, they go and trash all of them. Not nice, but when are people really fair? Everyone thinks they are fair, they also are always COMPLETELY aware of when someone has offend them, but usually oblivious to when they've offend other people(which is why people always think they are fair).

I agreed with you on one point completely and pretty much disagreed with you on another. As you and I make other posts I'm sure we'll agree and disagree on different things. Much like you and anyone else and anyone else and you. If you like the messageboards, stick with it. There is a lot of good information out there and I'm sure you might have an insight into things people can relate too also.

As far as ratings go, I agree with Psycho. They are well intentioned but poorly implemented. I don't mean to get back into that thread we were in, but respect and consideration are key points when posting(or doing anything that involves other people). That thread was especially heated and brought out the worst in some people. The crap pretty much hit the fan and flew in all directions.

That was a bad experience, you'll probably have more, but you should get a lot more good info from the boards than pettiness so I'd recommend sticking with it.



Edited, Sat Apr 10 09:59:53 2004 by KerikDaven

Vaanan, e-mail me the links to the posts that have been rated down the most. Kaolian@allakhazam.com

I'm not promising to do anything to them, but I'll review the ones that were rated down the worst. It is extremely difficult to get a 2.0 rateing without posting something offensive or annoying (such as an 0utwarz link)

My personal beliefs regarding the homosexual lifestyle are pretty offensive and annoying to some. Although I have never said homosexuals deserve to be tied up to barbed wire fences and beaten to death; still a lot of my posts regarding that subject apparently offended most of the posters.
Which is why I will stay away from said subject as much as possible.

I'm not asking for any special consideration or anything, I was just curious about the inner workings of the rating system. (Can a poster rate a post more than once? This would allow some folks who really dislike another poster to ruin their rating for life, I would assume.)

I have only been playing EQ for a little over a year; I consider myself very much a newb. Some of the terms that are used on this site completely lose me at times. I have no idea sometimes of what seems to be an even simple subject that I should know, if I played EQ more regularly. I have all the official guidebooks to the game, but they really only cover some of the basic stuff.
One advantage I have over some of the EQ players I have encountered on Prexus is that I own all the gamebooks for the PnP version of EQ and I can look up a lot of recipes for tradeskill items. So far they have been the same as the online recipe requirements. I guess that is really cheating, but I have never claimed to be a hardcore roleplayer in the online game.

The equipment score is based off an equation that takes in a few factors. weight, stats, AC, Delay, Damage, Effects, etc. For an in depth technical overview of how it works, you would have to ask someone else, but basically, a 14 ac 5.0 weight item would score worse than a 14 ac item with 1.0 weight, but a 2 ac item with Flowing Thought III would score higher than a 14 AC item.

It's supposed to be full of forum "Frequintly asked questions".

Is there some limit on the number of quoted passages in a post?

I've noticed a couple of times now that when picking a post into paragraphs to explain (or disect ) it piecemeal the first few work and then the "[quot]" and "[/quot]" show even though they are all applied in the same way with the Quote button.

Yup, it's limited, but I was thinkig that 4 was the limit for some reason.

I decided it was a hint that I was being too darn wordy.

i'm a gamer and i've been thinking of buying everquest but i not hyped about the subscribtion fee. Will it ever be free in the future?

How mutch are the monthly subscribtion fees.

oh i see, you mean EQ sry,

like �12 a month i think, not sure how much in dollars, www.everquest.com will know

aren't you the telegraph reader? i think that's the end of that argument Mr. facist propaganda

y=mx+b

Can someone tell me if their is a way to look at all my posts without hunting them all down?

I know it happens, the good ole boys do rate down intentionally. A couple made it a mission yesterday (first time I posted on that board). Nothing was personal, and they made it personal.

Posted they were going to rate me down and did. Not that it is a big deal to me. But even today I recieved an email from one of them laughing about it.

My point is, I agree the Karma systems sounds great. But when you have people on a power trip and their sole purpose is to run through a thread and rate someone down, you really don't have a moderator at all. You have a bully.

Seamy