Good Post / Bad Post!

[HawkeyeSPF]

Sigh, I'll miss the old theme (Lord of the Rings) and this one (Core) will take some getting used to, but I guess if it will let me have the full experience...

[TheJord]

This is indeed the will of the Council

[TheJord]

Oh, no, this is getting kinda like youtube... "thumbs up if you agree" and so on.

Just so you know, this was specifically banned on CC so I am sure we can do the same here

[Kralik]

I'm not sure I catch your meaning -- care to elaborate?

[TheJord]

Gold begging was banned, and if you did it, you got the Unholy Sword of Ridiculousness. Which meant your profile picture became a ferret

[Kralik]

Incidentally, once/if I program a mod to show the results of polls, I can also do the same to show who added/subtracted from each post's rating.

[Witchkingx5]

But as it seems, the whole stuff with "thumbs up" isn't really that special. I mean, you give gold to someone after a succesful trade or if he makes like a really good comment. But now it's more like. "Yeah, I like this comment. Thumbs up."

[ket_the_jet]

But as it seems, the whole stuff with "thumbs up" isn't really that special. I mean, you give gold to someone after a succesful trade or if he makes like a really good comment. But now it's more like. "Yeah, I like this comment. Thumbs up."

Does this devalue the previous gold received by members? Yes. But you might as well embrace it at this point because it looks like it will be here to stay.

Also, I want to publicly thank Kralik for adding GCCG usernames to the Member List. If you are a member and you play on GCCG, please post your username in your profile.
-wtk

[Kralik]

But as it seems, the whole stuff with "thumbs up" isn't really that special. I mean, you give gold to someone after a succesful trade or if he makes like a really good comment. But now it's more like. "Yeah, I like this comment. Thumbs up."

I considered that, and also considering weighting the old gold 2x, 3x, 5x, etc. However, I think when it comes to trade it's better to establish a trade references post (and there are some) rather then just toss a stray .

[Gate Troll]

The post that was reply #32 on this thread apparently rubbed people the wrong way, because my gp took a drop from 64 to 61 overnight. Ironically, the point of the post was that if someone had enough time, they could go around increasing or decreasing another member's gp, and manipulate that member's total to their advantage/disadvantage. To prove this point, I said "as thanks for this crazy system, I'm going to up Kralik's total to 200 gp". My intent was for people to realize how easily this could be abused by someone with a grudge against other members, but the irony was that no one realized what I was trying to say. I decided I better get rid of the 'offending' post, but interestingly enough, removing a post doesn't restore any gold lost. At this rate, my gold total is going to be like SmaugTheGoldHorder's. I don't really care terribly much about the gold, what bothers me is that nobody got my point, and instead of at least offering up a decent retort, or even a response, decided to be lazy #$&*@!, and merely whack . 

[TheJord]

Manipulation will be dealt with.

[Gate Troll]

@Gate Troll:

First of all, I am not the one who "thumbs down-ed" your recent post. Want to get that out of the way.

I appreciate that. I guess there's some good in everyone, eh? (j/k)

I believe that the way that your previous post, notwithstanding your personal credo of being "TLHH's Own Conservative Nutjob,"  came off as being a little, well, crazy. Rather than saying, "Wow, the new system is any easy way to circumvent the old karma system and damage or improve someone's gold stock," it came off as:

"thanks for this crazy system, I'm going to up Kralik's total to 200 gp." I think the best thing for everyone to do is to forget about the previous gold system and move on to the new system.

I tend to make points in a slightly back-#$&*@!-ward way. As for the whole 'personal credo' thing, I know that many times I come of as an arrogant asshat, and its a way of making light of myself so that people realize that I don't always take myself seriously.
 

Trust me, I know that I can be a little...blunt (direct? rude? #$&*@!-ish?) and I suspect that my gold will suffer for the browbeatings I deliver.

To be honest, you tend to be right most of the time (although I didn't understand your hating on everything from Brett Favre to The Dark Knight, and I think the Death Star ethics debate was completely pointless because of the moral relativity that seemed to cling to everything) but I will 'cling to God and guns' until someone convinces me otherwise.

But the easiest way to avoid that is to lighten up in general. Maybe you should look at the new gold system as a reason to start your profile anew--you know, remove the Wonder Showzen gif from your profile and put a picture of Gandalf or whatever on there. Just a thought.

The little self-deprecatory assessment of myself is an attempt to lighten up. I try to avoid being an 'over-zealous bible-thumping Rush Limbaugh' sort of person, as most people of that sort can never see when they're wrong, and generally have the listening skills of a brick wall. The gif is ironic, because it's a great little representation of political correctness these days, and I find it quite entertaining in a childish sort of way.

I will also say that, in spite of my directness (bluntness? rudeness? #$&*@!-ness?), I don't hold any grudges against members here and even if there are people that I like less than others, it is not worth my time to spam people's gold piles.
-wtk

P.S., SmaugTheGoldHorder is the newest incarnation of "The New Guy" or "Sweetness 34." Sigh...
P.S., Number 2, Deleting the post shows that you do care about your gold count and your standing in this site. Just an observation.

Of course I do care about my standing. I don't like being the #$&*@! anymore than I like being wrong.

[Kralik]

Just a reminder folks:

Please thumbs-down posts that are blatantly rude, unhelpful, obnoxious and so on. If someone asks a question in the Archives that seems obvious or posts a deck that you don't like, it's not a good reason to make them lose . In the future I will try to program in a way to see who clicked and for the record. It's just a matter of implementing the same thing for polls (votes) and tweaking the code.

[TheJord]

I think Kralik meant that the mods/admins would be able to find out.

[legolas3333]

The Lord Of The Rings theme does not have the thumbs up/thumbs down buttons