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Fyron · #1 January 16th, 2002, 05:00 AM

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while you are working on ways for people to get themselves promoted on this board, do you have any idea how i can get myself DEMOTED?

I was NOT working on ways for people to have self-promotions. I discovered it accidentally. I posted it so that maybe some Shrapnel tech guy will see it and figure out some way to solve it. Maybe deleting a post should lower your # of Posts by 1. Or, maybe you could be allowed to make a free post-deletion once or twice a month, so that people that need to legitimately delete a post can do so.

And Puke, I'll give you a 1 star rating.

Puke · #2 January 16th, 2002, 06:51 AM

right on, Imperator. Thanks!

i dont think shrapnel has a whole lot of control over how the board handles Posts, and if they did its probably not a big priority for them. since its just some canned software from infopop, they might not have access to the code. if they do, i can imagine that writing the next 'sarge' article and publishing the next Airborne 101 scenario are a touch more significant than helping us enforce our imaginary little ranks

its a good idea though, maybe somebody should email the infopop guys about fixing it in the next Version of UBB. everyone and their grandmother uses this software for web Boards, im sure they would appreciate the suggestion. besides, im sure that there is a community out there somewhere, where they actually have to wory about people pulling the very trick you describe.

Fyron · #3 January 16th, 2002, 07:18 AM

I wasn't really worried about people here doing that, I just thought people would like to know about it. The ranks don't really mean sqwuat anyways.

If I could give you more 1's, I'd do it. Hey, I just thought of a circuitous and rather dishonest way of getting your rank average lower. You could create a lot of dummy Users and have each of them rank you with a 1. Not that you, or anybody, should do that. I am just trying to come up with ways to get you that crappy ranking you deserve.

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Apparently, somebody thinks I am a good contributor and ranked me with a 5 in the past hour or so, cause my average rank rose by 0.3.
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[ 16 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Puke · #4 January 16th, 2002, 07:46 AM

anyone who speaks such ill of me deserves a solid vote of confidence. is just good sense. hell, i voted for you. i was actually hoping to find a way to get busted back down to private or something, since my (lack of) stars never seemed to show anyway. I dont want to re-register and loose my swanky handle though.

Atrocities · #5 January 16th, 2002, 09:01 AM

Its called GHOSTING. It is a practice that is despised amoung many forums admins. On one board, I had, as a Moderator, to delete 30 plus members accounts for Ghosting. If one Ghosts by accident, posting a double, then deleting it, then that is understandable. However, if it becomes habit, a sudden and swift reducting in total post count could occur.

Here, its content over post count. Keep that in mind when you Ghost.

Saxon · #6 January 16th, 2002, 12:51 PM

Sorry, I am a bit lost. Why would you want to have lots of Posts next to your name? Sure, you get called a General eventually, but the good posters get a reputation based on what they say, not how many times they open their mouth. For example, I probably have a reputation for being the person with the most Posts who still has to ask newbie questions. And there was that guy a while back who kept posting nonsense and was eventually Banned, he had lots of Posts and no one had any respect for him. It is quality, not quantity.

This whole Ghosting thing frightens me, are there really people who want to look so important that they will create fake Posts? I have not spent much time on other Boards and I know that many people have cited the high quality of this board. Are things really that bad out there? Maybe I do need to get Gold, if only to avoid the Boards of other games!

Growltigga · #7 January 16th, 2002, 01:33 PM

Saxon, I agree with everything you have said. I thought the purpose of forums such as this was for people to have discussions and share knowledge on common interests. I personally cannot believe that people are so petty minded that they resort to ghosting.

Surely the only purpose of ghosting would be to increase your number of Posts and thereby increasing your rank. Does anyone really want to be a general that much? after all, you would only end up being like Puke (NOI puke)

Atrocities, is this really what you have found on other forums and BB's?