Scholars and Above...Follow

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Knowing full well I'll get my karma absolutely tanked for this, let's just make a concentrated effort to get all these damn idiotic posts below 1.50...after all, it's not karma camping when it's for the good of the forums. (^.^)

Ive been doing this for months now, i havent been actively posting on FFXI boards but i have been rating up those that are deserved or funny etc.

But every time i see someone put up post on JP Vs Na, Botting, a pointless petition, ask a question that is easily answered by side toolbar, and on and on and on i lay the negative Karma.

Grey, I can understand where you're coming from, but, in all honesty, when was the last time you saw a 'good discussion' in a thread titled 'OMG JP CHETZ N HAX!!'? The fact of the matter is, all of these threads are simply rehashing the same old tired points again. How many times have people argued if there's a 1 second delay, or no delay, or if they see mobs first, or if they dupe, or if japanese players are all secretly robots that are using the tarutaru dance to control our minds and turn us into sex slaves?

There is nothing new under the sun in that discussion. I seriously doubt if there will ever be anything new in that discussion. Why do we participate in them? And by 'we', I mean the people that seem to have half an ounce of common sense. Is it to make ourselves feel better about our high and mighty opinions? I don't really think so, but I think we've gotten to the same place that a lot of frustrated academics get to...after so long, there's not a lot you can add to your base of knowledge in a particular subject that will change your arguments in any substantial way.

Same thing with 'common questions'. I do feel for non-premium members, because not being able to search does hurt them and leads to redundant posts. Perhaps a stickied FAQ would be helpful to correct that, but that isn't really the point of this thread. I think Alla's request for more guides recently was intended to solve the problem of redundant questions, though, so it seems that the admins have been thinking at least a step in front of us.

It just gets frustrating seeing the same damn threads come up all the time, you know? I'm set to never filter, so I see everything...and I rarely see a thread on the index that's sub-default. I see individual posts that hit that, but at the same time, it's still a fairly rare occurance. When you get down to it, I think that a lot of us have been shirking our responsibilities (and privileges) insofar as being our brother's keepers in rating others down (not so much up...feels like woodstock sometimes around here).

Also, something I should have added to the initial post - If you do see a bad thread, don't post in it. The residual karma of a scholar into a default thread just makes it that much harder to get the thread below sub-default...And, before someone accuses me of being an elitist ******* (which, admittedly, it sounds like I am), if you're helping someone who has a genuine question, comment, or brings up a good point, go for it. But, please...something's got to be done about the proliferation of crap.

Edited, Sun Jul 11 15:38:45 2004 by pomposity

Actually, I did see it. Read it, too. Thought it was good, and agreed with you on a lot of points, but I didn't feel like watching my karma bottom out that day.

But today...whoo. I wonder how long it'll take for me to lose scholar at this rate? This thread has almost lost a complete point.

*puts out more food for the karma trolls*

Meh, maybe it's just my masochistic side coming out, grey. Well thought out posts either end up getting great ratings but sinking to page 5+ due to lack of posts or become endless flamewars, and dumb ones (like this) get camped on. I'm half tempted to echo Lady and tell people that if they've got a problem, post in the damn thread instead of hiding behind the rating system, but that'd be the pot calling the kettle black, wouldn't it?

/em shrugs.

My ethics:
I rate anyone up that gives a good piece of information or posts something to lighten the air(aka "funny"). I very rarely rate people down. I only rate people down in the instances where they are acting like a total ***.

On karma trolling:
I don't like it when someone rates people down for no reason. If someone is bored and feels like rating down, so be it. It sucks, but there is nothing we can do about it. It just seems to happen on boards with a rating system.

On the rating system:
The rating system was established to show who was a good poster and who was a bad poster, not for people to randomly rate people down and not for people to rate someone down who corrected them. I wish people would use the system in the manner it was intended, that way we all could see who's information is reliable.

Concluding thought:
Regardless of the karma trolls, most of the people with good information are scholars, so that is decent enough for me.



Edited, Sun Jul 11 19:05:32 2004 by Asmodiel