OT: Llamabeast will become famous soon enough

[Ballbarian]

You can give someone a point of reputation via the little scales in the upper right hand corner of their post. It is like thanks, except you can only give it to the person once.

I haven't paid much attention to the reputation thing (I thought it didn't do anything), but I notice thanks. It's a good, cheap way to pay for free things and show gratitude for positive contributions. I hope it is not completely meaningless, because llamabeast deserves a fair bit of gratitude and positive feedback for all that he has done for this community.

Two penguins for llamabeast!

[Stavis_L]

Originally Posted by Ballbarian

I hope it is not completely meaningless, because llamabeast deserves a fair bit of gratitude and positive feedback for all that he has done for this community.

Two penguins for llamabeast!

To be clear, my thanks to Sombre is in regard to his informational posting, which answered my question, and not for the sarcastic commentary following (although I do find it ironically humorous.)

As to whether thanks/reputation are "completely meaningless", I suppose the value is in the eye of the granter and grantee.

And Llamabeast deserves as many penguins as he wants and can use.

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[lch]

I give thanks to a post when I am too lazy to write a reply based on the following factors:

• if somebody worked and created something, as thanks for the effort
• if the post takes the words right out of my mouth and correlates to what I'd have written as well
• if the post is funny and I like the humour

That requires one mouse click. Giving reputation requires two mouseclicks as well as having to enter a short explanation for giving the rep, plus it isn't directly visible to others as giving thanks is, so I tend to avoid that or only do it in special cases, with such useful reasons for giving reputation as "LOL", "Yeah, right!", "Totally, dude" or "This guy rocks/sucks".

We already noticed since the last few years that posts by llamabeast get thanked regardless of what he writes. Saying that the llamaserver is down will draw thanks just as much as announcing that it's finally repaired, or llamabeast acknowledging that it's wreaking havoc and spamming the email boxes of everybody because of a programming error. Thank you, thank you for that! Thanks for llamabeast posts are more a way of saying "llamabeast posted something and I have read it!" as appropriate for a celebrity. KO receives similar attention, while posts by JK go by largely unnoticed. You need to prep up your reputation on these forums, JK!

But to be honest, I don't have any quibble about llamabeast's thanks counter, since as Ballbarian already stated, the positive feedback is quite appropriate; or that I'd be concerned about Baalz counter because of all those playing guides that he writes. I'm more miffed at vfb because the guy only writes crazy posts like I do and his thanks counter is still bigger than mine. What's up with that?

P.S.: lch is on a distinguished road, as pretty much everybody else. Maerlande is an unknown quantity at this point.