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Oddwen 08-27-2005 09:02 AM
Hmm...got to wondering last night...if one year of being Dead = one rep point, do those who joined in "1969" have 34 points just for that? :eek: Or...not?

wilwarin538 08-27-2005 09:27 AM
Well Lal is now back on Taniquetil. ;)

Bęthberry 08-27-2005 09:53 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Eomer of the Warghirrim

You'd make a good politician Bb.
Alas, alas, Eomer, what party would I join? Once upon a time there was a Rhinoceros Party in Canada ... but only in Canada. Would you be thinking of starting up a Wargian Party?

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rűdh

If you're not careful you'll be back to 'getting the hang of it' before too long.

Serves you right for talking posh. Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity.
Always the grammarian, eh Squatter? Actually, I wouldn't be too surprised if I do start 'slipping'. I've actually for some time now been expecting something like that to happen as in my experience the reps I receive have at times been somewhat random.

Quote:
Originally Posted by HI

Let's try and translate, though:

Quote:
Instead of talking posh and being accused of pomposity, cause the question there may have been misunderstood since it sounded like having more than one hidden meaning, it would have been more appropriate to use plainer sentence construction, which is one of the requirements when talking over the net. There are some which won't get this one either, though it is a good sample of what clear talking is


There, I hope it is more or less corresponding
You're a braver man than I am, Heren-Din, taking Squatter's words and putting their facsimile in his mouth. ;)

Gurthang 08-28-2005 01:56 AM
I would just like to take this oppurtunity to thank all of you who gave me reps for the WWIIX game. I didn't quite expect that many... for losing! Imagine if I had won...

I also want to point out that there are 31 downers who have now acheived the once coveted eleven boxes! I am very new to the number.

It was a secret goal of mine to achieve eleven before the first page in the Members list was full of such highly reputed members. Alas, The Squatter came up and passed me just prior to me turning to the Straight Road. Congrats to you Squatter, you stole my goal, as mundane and pointless as it was. :rolleyes: :D

Glirdan 08-28-2005 07:38 AM
I would like to at this time thank all those who repped me for my "Crazy Captions" posts. I was really, REALLY surprised at that. But all the same, thanks. And thank you to those people who got me to being "As Faithful As Samwise"! Thank you a lot.

the guy who be short 08-28-2005 11:00 AM
Quote:
Well Lal is now back on Taniquetil.
Hmmm. The implication here is that she (and the others) had to come off Taniquetil to perform all the other tasks in their rep levels. So we can presume there were no petty-dwarves on Taniquetil - unless perhaps they just don't stalk people up there.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Squatter
Serves you right for talking posh. Rather than risk an accusation of euphuism through a potentially equivocal use of the indirect question, it would have been more felicitous to employ the more lucid prosody that is a sine qua non of electronic discourse. After all, there are some people who wouldn't even understand the foregoing sentence, which exemplifies limpidity.
Bold words are words that I didn't know the meaning of prior to Heren's interpretation. Thanks to both Squatter for extending my vocabulary, and H-I for allowing me to do so with minimal effort on my part. :D

wilwarin538 08-28-2005 04:55 PM
My Eru! :eek: Saucie is now above davem in the rep list.

wilwarin538 08-28-2005 05:49 PM
Well I just got a rep for my latest Crazy Caption which had this message:

Quote:
Sounds like one I did ages ago, but it's still hilarious. Have you heard the "Angie" one?...§
It wasn't signed, but now I'm curious to what this "Angie one" is. Could whoever this was pm me and tell me about the "Angie one". :D Thanks for the rep...whoever you are. *stares dreamy eyed into the distance* ;)

The Only Real Estel 08-28-2005 05:55 PM
*puts on detective hat*
 
That symbol looks like the one Boromir88 uses on his rep notes. Hmm... ;)

One a reputation note, I remember once in this thread the B-W posted the most repped post. I wonder if davem still holds that distinction or if someone else has wrested it from him? :confused:

Ainaserkewen 08-29-2005 10:30 PM
Quote:
My Eru! Saucie is now above davem in the rep list.
Wil, when I read this it conjured up a mental image of turtles racing.

"And now ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, Saucie the Turtle has past Davem the turtle at the breakneck speed of a good post=a good rep! I'm on the edge of my chair and my backside has fallen asleep! Isn't this exciting!"

HerenIstarion 08-30-2005 12:28 AM
Interesting data
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bb
overcome this slighting by one who robbed me of, well, it was less than 10 points actually
Just found out - the negative 'power' is half that of the positive. I.e, if you get 9 negative points it means that if you were rated positive by the same member, you would have got 18

Just an info

Bęthberry 08-30-2005 06:35 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by HerenIstarion
Just found out - the negative 'power' is half that of the positive. I.e, if you get 9 negative points it means that if you were rated positive by the same member, you would have got 18

Just an info
Fascinating. And how did you find this out, HI?

HerenIstarion 08-30-2005 06:41 AM
Rated my alter ego negative and than checked up alter ego's CP

the guy who be short 08-30-2005 07:02 AM
Poor Roggie.

Eomer now steals taters. May your coming revenge be sweet, Horsemaster. ;)

wilwarin538 08-30-2005 07:11 AM
Congratulations my dear Eomer! :D ;) I myself am this close to getting my tenth box. ;)

EDIT: Ok maybe not that close, but I did just get box #9!

Bęthberry 08-31-2005 09:52 AM
Rumour has it that reputations are being won and lost in a party game in Rohan. And apparently squatters are being allowed!

All Downers are Unforbidden in this celebration of the return of the dark screen.

Meneltarmacil 08-31-2005 03:57 PM
Reputation update
 
Boromir88 was lately seen stealing taters from confused gaffers. Fordim probably won't be far behind. davem is back on Taniquetil, while The Saucepan Man is going out with a creepy Nazgul. :eek: Meanwhile, Bęthberry looks like a muddy-booted Baggins, probably due to "Unforbidden."

I wonder if there are more new titles to be had after one "has mounted Taniquetil again"?

Orominuialwen 09-01-2005 01:43 AM
I have just discovered something new about the reputations system. I recently neg-repped somebody for the first time. (It was for very bad behavior, and it was signed.) After doing so, in order to not run into problems because I forgot my rep was set to negative, I decide to give positive rep to a post I'd been meaning to give rep to anyway. When I went to do so, my box had been automatically reset to positive. I don't know if this was just a fluke or what, but hopefully it will help eliminate accidental neg-reps in the future. Just wanted to let you know! :)

Lhunardawen 09-01-2005 02:36 AM
I think I know who you neg-repped, Oromin. I was about to myself, but I figured it would be all too pointless.

The Saucepan Man 09-01-2005 03:48 AM
Hehe. I negatively repped Immasamurai, not because I thought that anything was likely to be acheived by it, but because it seemed a suitable opportunity to try to discover the next level of unpopularity.

And lo and behold, Immasamurai is now known to make more trouble then Gollum. Rather appropriate, doncha think? :D

So, the known neg rep levels are:

... is slipping.
... has been acting a bit like Ted Sandyman.
... is as unpopular as Bill Ferny
... makes more trouble than Gollum.

Lalwendë 09-01-2005 04:35 AM
I've never yet neg-repped anyone (mainly 'cause if I think someone's been out of order then I'd rather take it up privately) but I am now tempted to do so with this Troll. I'd normally ignore them until they crawled back under their stone but it is tempting to find out what the lower levels might be...or should I just carry on ignoring? :rolleyes:

Hookbill the Goomba 09-01-2005 04:47 AM
Why not make an experiment? Someone should make a new user just to get neg-repped so we can see the lower levels! That's one way.

The Saucepan Man 09-01-2005 04:53 AM
Immasamurai now has two red boxes! The first such boxes ever seen on the rep table.

I am sure that his(?) account will be closed before long but, until then, I say that we should continue to experiment on this troublesome troll. :D

Bęthberry 09-01-2005 06:32 AM
I was just so gosh darned frustrated last night. As soon as I or Child deleted one of Immasamurai's posts or threads, he'd start up another and there wasn't an Admin in sight. Lal was so right about the uselessness of PMing him. So, I decided to negative rep him because, well, as other have said here, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to nether side of our repuptation system.

But it wasn't our troll who was the most frustrating. No! It was the failsafe system of our rep system.

It was so frustrating not to be able to give every one of his posts their rightful due attention! (We have to rep another 10 people before we can rep the first person again.) Nice to see others have come up with the same idea!

So, an important question to you all: shall I undelete his threads in Rohan so everyone has more posts to negative rep? Shall we have a bit of sport with this fellow?

Apparently on IGN there is a name for this kind of spamming. It's called "rioting." I think that is a very fascinating use of the word--evidence of how the internet has inspired linquistic creativity!

The Barrow-Wight 09-01-2005 06:36 AM
Do not feed the troll. Let's instead forget Immasamurai. He's been banned, but he'll only come back if he sees the reactions you are having. Let the troll find another forum to harass.

The Saucepan Man 09-01-2005 07:17 AM
It does illustrate, though, how impotent the efforts of these minor trolls are. Every time they try to post or start a thread it gets deleted, sooner or later they get banned and, in the meantime, life on the Downs carries on much as normal.

Admittedly, they provide extra hassle for the mods and admins, but it is vaguely amusing (and also slightly sad) to witness their pathetic and futile attempts to grab some attention.

Bęthberry 09-01-2005 08:07 AM
Well, I have to admit, Saucey, that it was a bit of sport trying to guess which web comic he would quote next in each new post, although certainly his comments about the Shire personal were rude and offensive in the extreme.

I'm just glad that he appeared to give up once I stopped deleting his posts. It was the deletion that was encouraging him to post on!

So, I suppose now we will not know what comes after "makes more trouble than Gollem."

Morsul the Dark 09-01-2005 09:28 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hookbill the Goomba
Why not make an experiment? Someone should make a new user just to get neg-repped so we can see the lower levels! That's one way.
Should we?...I could make a quick account....I mean I'll only do it though if the Mods let me

HerenIstarion 09-01-2005 12:24 PM
No need to do that
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Barrow-Wight
Since it seems that no one plans to earn those dastardly negative titles (and would we really allow anyone to sink that low?), I guess I can go ahead and reveal what I chose for each one. But first I will remark how the designers of the reputation system must have been aware that few people would end up on the disreputable side of the line, because in the default titles that came with vBulletin, there were only a few levels beneath 0 and several on the positive side. Assuming the software developers had chosen these setting intentionally, I decided I would not add any levels. I did change the number of posts needed to ascend (or descend) a notch, and, of course, I changed the titles. The original titles were all non-Middle-earthish and terribly uninteresting.

Here are the realms of rottenness that none of our member have managed to fall to.

10 This is where everyone "has started the path to adventure."
0 This person "is slipping."
-10 This guy "has been acting like Ted Sandyman."
-50 This girl "is as unpopular as Bill Ferny."
-150 This creep "makes more trouble than Gollum."
-500 This loser "ruins every discussion like Wormtongue."

And now you know the rest of the story.

P.S. Please don't ask how many positive levels there are or what their titles are. You'll have to find out when you get there :)
11-25-2004, page 8 (if you view threads in linear mode, 40 per page), post #282

the phantom 09-01-2005 12:50 PM
I was here when the little twerp went on his binge, and I immediately hopped over to the chat room to see if any admins were lurking there. I didn't have any luck, so I came back to the forum and proceeded to...

...give him a positive rep!

The message I sent him was obviously one that should accompany a negative rep, but since I hardly ever give out a negative rep (I think I've done it twice), I completely forgot to switch my thing over to negative.

I realized what I had done the instant I did it, but it didn't really upset me. I thought it was pretty darn funny, and I knew that he'd get more than enough negatives from other people to balance out my positive.

Mithalwen 09-01-2005 01:00 PM
I always miss out on the " fun" - could someone enlighten me by PM on what exactly went on?

Boromir88 09-01-2005 03:16 PM
Quote:
I always miss out on the " fun" - could someone enlighten me by PM on what exactly went on?
And once you got it, kindly relay it to me. I'm dying to find out, ahhh the suspense is killing me. Well not really, I guess I'll live.

the guy who be short 09-01-2005 03:35 PM
Send that to me too Mith, please. It sounds annoying and interesting and interestingly annoying.

arcticstorm 09-01-2005 04:11 PM
I also want to find out about it, it sounds interesting that we actually had a saboteur and spammer ont he site.

Glirdan 09-01-2005 04:13 PM
OOO!! And me! Send it to me!! as TGWBS put it:

Quote:
It sounds annoying and interesting and interestingly annoying

Lalwendë 09-01-2005 04:16 PM
I'd like to know too. :p

Mind, I think it was one of those same no marks that did it a few months ago. They have a thing about trolling sites to cause trouble 'cause they've been kicked off loads of forums in the past. I recognised the 'tone' they used.

Orominuialwen 09-01-2005 04:28 PM
Somebody by the name of Immasamurai went around posting various completely off-topic and vaguely obscene threads last night. (S)he was quickly banned and his/her posts were deleted. It was rather typical of the behavior of many spammers/trolls--you've seen one, you've seen them all.

On a more on-topic note, thanks to the someone in very high places (approximately 51 points! :eek: ) who gave me an anonymous rep on this post. I'm glad you agreed with my assignments!

The Only Real Estel 09-01-2005 04:35 PM
I'd take the info too; if we're talking about more specific stuff. I'm pretty much caught up on the general trouble caused.

Lhunardawen 09-05-2005 01:18 AM
So now I'm dating Bęthberry. :eek:

I see Sauce has intruded the supposedly invincible Lalwendavem.

Feanor of the Peredhil 09-05-2005 01:55 PM
I'm very amazed... in the past few hours, I've gotten not one, but two unsigned pos-reps. Commented, yet unsigned. And I'm not even sure how much they're worth because I have no idea how many points I had before. How intriguing.


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