Political posting

[skip spence]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

Spoken like a true Romantic.

A cynic would say that the love is never as strong as when it walks out the doors.

[mormegil]

I am guilty of this and admit if freely. There have been threads where we have vote off's and I've sold my vote in order to further my own cause. There have been some fiendish schemes on those threads...bluffs, deceit, double crosses etc...

I don't start many of my own threads and I realize that most of mine are fairly lame anyway so why kick a dead horse?

In a former era (meaning when I was more active and prior to the rep reset) I was quite the rep hound and hoped that in giving rep I would receive rep......I have since changed and no longer do so...at least that's what I tell myself. But be it known that when I give rep it is sincere. I won't rep something I don't like.

[The Might]

Well, firstly, here's my take on the rep system:

I think it is meant for newer people to see who is and who is not a quality poster here on the forums. Because after a while you anyway form your own opinion and decide who is for you a quality poster and who is not. Also, with red reps you can see who you should maybe stay away from.

With everyone spreading rep around nothing will really change, the distibution will probably be similar, say with many people here repping some of the current top rep members for their continous great posting and fewer people repping people who don't do that much or great stuff according to the general opinion.

Meaning that by spreading love, Lommy, the only thing I expect to change is that you will have six green dots and I will have two. It will all just proportionatly go up, I see no reason for anything else.

So in the end, the quality poster recognitions will remain the same in here, the differences between posters as well, only the reasons for repping will no longer be as "serious" and some will no longer wait for something special so as to rep.

Anyway, since repping people is not and cannot ever be standardized you cannot really say that the rep levels represent the general opinion here on the BD, but just an approximate.


So as to sum up all this:

1. By spreading more love overall nothing will really change.

2. New members will always see by the reps who is a good poster and who is not.

3. Members who "fight" for rep and take pleasure from surpassing someone in rep levels have in my opinion misunderstood the point of it all. It's not about being better methinks.

4. Even if people still so to speak "fight" for rep, it won't change anything about the system, because bad posters won't receive anything no matter how much they rep in return.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by skip spence

A cynic would say that the love is never as strong as when it walks out the doors.

Not that I've ever been accused of being a cynic....

[Lalaith]

The only political skulduggery I ever indulged in was in the old Survivor games, but that was because I was under the evil influence of the Machiavelli twins, aka Saucie and Kuru.