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Originally posted by Bill
This whole linking the Quality points to Tech forums is kinda rubbing me the wrong way. I'm a Honda guy and it's just damned painful to go into that forum. Feel like I want to rip my eyeballs out and beat the screen with 'em sometimes...
This whole linking the Quality points to Tech forums is kinda rubbing me the wrong way. I'm a Honda guy and it's just damned painful to go into that forum. Feel like I want to rip my eyeballs out and beat the screen with 'em sometimes...
I agree 110%. 
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Originally posted by Bill
This whole linking the Quality points to Tech forums is kinda rubbing me the wrong way. I'm a Honda guy and it's just damned painful to go into that forum. Feel like I want to rip my eyeballs out and beat the screen with 'em sometimes...
This whole linking the Quality points to Tech forums is kinda rubbing me the wrong way. I'm a Honda guy and it's just damned painful to go into that forum. Feel like I want to rip my eyeballs out and beat the screen with 'em sometimes...
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If you don't mind me asking (since I am too lazy/tired to read through the FFA thread), why exactly are we doing these "quality points"? I see this increasing needless posts (i.e. post whoring) and decreasing overall quality of the board. Hopefully I'm wrong, but thats how I look at it.
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thats not how it works Alan.
What it does is take the focus away from post count.. and moves it to tech related posts.. you get alot more points for posting in a tech forum than say FFA.. infact in FFA you need to make alot mreo characters in a post to even get a point at all..
its working ery well so far.. all our other forums have renewed activity..
it wont encourage post whoring because we are going to have moderators who are ALOT more active in there tech forums.. organising meets.. making at least 2 tech / new related posts a day.. and moderating so that post whoring doesnt take place (in a nice tactful kind of way)
there is another side of this mod we have chosen not to implement right now.. we have quality points.. there is also SPAM points.. it works exactly the opposite.. in a tech forum.. you'd get next to none spam points.. only gain a spam point if you post under the minimum character limit.. in FFA.. posting under the limit gets you more SPAM points.. we could then do quality - spam = over all posting effectiveness.. and have it display a graphic of some kind..
but were not up to that stage yet.. not even sure we need to go that far..
as for post whoring.. kinda hard to post whore when in FFa you need over 1000 characters to get any kind of reasonable points.. and posting gibberish will have one of our mods remove it
.. cant type that many 1000 character posts in a day.. hence this should actually reduce some of the crap.. maybe just a little..
anyhow.. main idea is to get users back into the Tech forums.
What it does is take the focus away from post count.. and moves it to tech related posts.. you get alot more points for posting in a tech forum than say FFA.. infact in FFA you need to make alot mreo characters in a post to even get a point at all..
its working ery well so far.. all our other forums have renewed activity..
it wont encourage post whoring because we are going to have moderators who are ALOT more active in there tech forums.. organising meets.. making at least 2 tech / new related posts a day.. and moderating so that post whoring doesnt take place (in a nice tactful kind of way)
there is another side of this mod we have chosen not to implement right now.. we have quality points.. there is also SPAM points.. it works exactly the opposite.. in a tech forum.. you'd get next to none spam points.. only gain a spam point if you post under the minimum character limit.. in FFA.. posting under the limit gets you more SPAM points.. we could then do quality - spam = over all posting effectiveness.. and have it display a graphic of some kind..
but were not up to that stage yet.. not even sure we need to go that far..
as for post whoring.. kinda hard to post whore when in FFa you need over 1000 characters to get any kind of reasonable points.. and posting gibberish will have one of our mods remove it
.. cant type that many 1000 character posts in a day.. hence this should actually reduce some of the crap.. maybe just a little.. anyhow.. main idea is to get users back into the Tech forums.
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Originally posted by Zate
thats not how it works Alan.
What it does is take the focus away from post count.. and moves it to tech related posts.. you get alot more points for posting in a tech forum than say FFA.. infact in FFA you need to make alot mreo characters in a post to even get a point at all..
its working ery well so far.. all our other forums have renewed activity..
it wont encourage post whoring because we are going to have moderators who are ALOT more active in there tech forums.. organising meets.. making at least 2 tech / new related posts a day.. and moderating so that post whoring doesnt take place (in a nice tactful kind of way)
there is another side of this mod we have chosen not to implement right now.. we have quality points.. there is also SPAM points.. it works exactly the opposite.. in a tech forum.. you'd get next to none spam points.. only gain a spam point if you post under the minimum character limit.. in FFA.. posting under the limit gets you more SPAM points.. we could then do quality - spam = over all posting effectiveness.. and have it display a graphic of some kind..
but were not up to that stage yet.. not even sure we need to go that far..
as for post whoring.. kinda hard to post whore when in FFa you need over 1000 characters to get any kind of reasonable points.. and posting gibberish will have one of our mods remove it .. cant type that many 1000 character posts in a day.. hence this should actually reduce some of the crap.. maybe just a little..
anyhow.. main idea is to get users back into the Tech forums.
thats not how it works Alan.
What it does is take the focus away from post count.. and moves it to tech related posts.. you get alot more points for posting in a tech forum than say FFA.. infact in FFA you need to make alot mreo characters in a post to even get a point at all..
its working ery well so far.. all our other forums have renewed activity..
it wont encourage post whoring because we are going to have moderators who are ALOT more active in there tech forums.. organising meets.. making at least 2 tech / new related posts a day.. and moderating so that post whoring doesnt take place (in a nice tactful kind of way)
there is another side of this mod we have chosen not to implement right now.. we have quality points.. there is also SPAM points.. it works exactly the opposite.. in a tech forum.. you'd get next to none spam points.. only gain a spam point if you post under the minimum character limit.. in FFA.. posting under the limit gets you more SPAM points.. we could then do quality - spam = over all posting effectiveness.. and have it display a graphic of some kind..
but were not up to that stage yet.. not even sure we need to go that far..
as for post whoring.. kinda hard to post whore when in FFa you need over 1000 characters to get any kind of reasonable points.. and posting gibberish will have one of our mods remove it
.. cant type that many 1000 character posts in a day.. hence this should actually reduce some of the crap.. maybe just a little.. anyhow.. main idea is to get users back into the Tech forums.
Also...as a side note. This 1000 word limit thing is just going to further force Tony to be long-winded...
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Originally posted by Zate
thats not how it works Alan.
What it does is take the focus away from post count.. and moves it to tech related posts.. you get alot more points for posting in a tech forum than say FFA.. infact in FFA you need to make alot mreo characters in a post to even get a point at all..
its working ery well so far.. all our other forums have renewed activity..
it wont encourage post whoring because we are going to have moderators who are ALOT more active in there tech forums.. organising meets.. making at least 2 tech / new related posts a day.. and moderating so that post whoring doesnt take place (in a nice tactful kind of way)
there is another side of this mod we have chosen not to implement right now.. we have quality points.. there is also SPAM points.. it works exactly the opposite.. in a tech forum.. you'd get next to none spam points.. only gain a spam point if you post under the minimum character limit.. in FFA.. posting under the limit gets you more SPAM points.. we could then do quality - spam = over all posting effectiveness.. and have it display a graphic of some kind..
but were not up to that stage yet.. not even sure we need to go that far..
as for post whoring.. kinda hard to post whore when in FFa you need over 1000 characters to get any kind of reasonable points.. and posting gibberish will have one of our mods remove it .. cant type that many 1000 character posts in a day.. hence this should actually reduce some of the crap.. maybe just a little..
anyhow.. main idea is to get users back into the Tech forums.
thats not how it works Alan.
What it does is take the focus away from post count.. and moves it to tech related posts.. you get alot more points for posting in a tech forum than say FFA.. infact in FFA you need to make alot mreo characters in a post to even get a point at all..
its working ery well so far.. all our other forums have renewed activity..
it wont encourage post whoring because we are going to have moderators who are ALOT more active in there tech forums.. organising meets.. making at least 2 tech / new related posts a day.. and moderating so that post whoring doesnt take place (in a nice tactful kind of way)
there is another side of this mod we have chosen not to implement right now.. we have quality points.. there is also SPAM points.. it works exactly the opposite.. in a tech forum.. you'd get next to none spam points.. only gain a spam point if you post under the minimum character limit.. in FFA.. posting under the limit gets you more SPAM points.. we could then do quality - spam = over all posting effectiveness.. and have it display a graphic of some kind..
but were not up to that stage yet.. not even sure we need to go that far..
as for post whoring.. kinda hard to post whore when in FFa you need over 1000 characters to get any kind of reasonable points.. and posting gibberish will have one of our mods remove it
.. cant type that many 1000 character posts in a day.. hence this should actually reduce some of the crap.. maybe just a little.. anyhow.. main idea is to get users back into the Tech forums.
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