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People read "Society For Creative Historical Revisionism" but they understood "Bizarro World" | |||||||
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I’m beginning to think this was a bad idea for a forum because it allows people to cross the line between funny and very special.
Most of the entries for thread titles I’m seeing are just pure and utter bizarre randomness, yet sadly they are within the boundaries of the description.
EXAMPLES:
Japanese Geisha were actually ninja spies for the Raja of India who was a puppet for the Aztec.
Evidence that Ingmar Bergman’s the Great Pumpkin army was funded by North Korea’s government.
And it goes on like that. There are a few genuinely creative entries, but few and far between, and as always, they are being voted down instead of up. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 9:50AM | male reproductive organFACEPANTS | # | ||||||
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I do notice that the ones that make the least sense has the highest scores. Maybe people automatically give them the benefit of the doubt.
There’s a “pbum” option, people! |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 11:12AM | View Inertia's Profile | # | ||||||
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We need more entries that make sense within the “Lets make history more interesting” theme of the forum instead of the “Lets just deny the holocaust ever happened for the sake of failing at trolling” **** that’s going down now. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 11:23AM | View SimplyTHEBEST's Profile | # | ||||||
There have been absolutely no good forum ideas for a long time now. It’s killed Forumbuildr for me, I don’t even look at it anymore |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 11:24AM | View Laguna's Profile | # | ||||||
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I was hoping for a mixture between the Society for Creative Anachronism and actual political historical revisionism.
Comedy fool’s gold. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 6:40PM | View PhineasPoe's Profile | # | ||||||
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Yup. I like the base idea, but I haven’t had such a horrible downvote heavy week in ages. Fully expect to lose 2 points off my buildr score. Log in to see images! |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 6:48PM | View scully's Profile | # | ||||||
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Forumbuilder will never be fixed untill downvoting is eliminated. It should be a simple “If you like it, vote for it” system. Chronic down voting kills a lot of good submissions. This is another good forum idea that will be killed by crappy submissions being mysteriously up voted, and genuinely good submissions disappearing because of the negative 5 rule. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 6:50PM | View CoreyJess's Profile | # | ||||||
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End the -5 Rule. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 6:58PM | View Raepdog's Profile | # | ||||||
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Raepdog Posted:
This.
I was monitoring my submissions today, and in the space of about an hour, every single one was downvoted exactly the same amount. Meaning, serial downvoters eliminated some of my suggestions before fair voters even saw them. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 7:00PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted: This is EXACTLY what happened to me. Do you think we’re looking at synchronized down voting? |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 7:03PM | View CoreyJess's Profile | # | ||||||
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MC Banhammer Posted:
Last time Lolicon was up it hit a positive 26. I was content just seeing it up there, this time when i put it up it got to 4, then before 12 hours had pbumed it hit -5.. leaving only one forum up for a vote.
Conspiracy..
Would putting it up again be bad, funny or unfunny, is it in poor taste? |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 7:12PM | View Raepdog's Profile | # | ||||||
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I think there is probably a number of people who downvote virtually every entry. If you get enough active at anyone time they are going to play havoc. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 7:13PM | View Vuron's Profile | # | ||||||
I agree with all of the above.
To tell you the truth, I never thought that Society For Creavtive Hisorical Revionism was that funny :/ There were better ones. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 7:53PM | View shrtcat's Profile | # | ||||||
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Don’t get me wrong, my ideas could be complete crap or maybe my humor just doesn’t mesh with what people are looking for in this forum. It’s not like I’m merry sunshine and upvote everything, there has been a hell of a lot of crap lately.
Just ranting a bit, since I felt like I’d finally hit that Apples-to-Apples niche where I knew how to play to the judges. |
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 7:54PM | View scully's Profile | # | ||||||
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How hard would it be for someone at CZ to go through and disqualify the votes of those people who down vote everything at once? Could someone at CZ even confirm if this happens a lot. We know they can see how we vote because we are labeled on our profile on how we vote.
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Posted On: 11/18/2008 9:15PM | View CoreyJess's Profile | # | ||||||
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Raepdog Posted:
I’d say keep posting it but try to improve on it with each week.
Lolicon deserves a damn forum. |
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Posted On: 11/19/2008 1:21AM | male reproductive organFACEPANTS | # | ||||||
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Vuron Posted:
I hear that a lot and now I’m pretty sure of it. |
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Posted On: 11/19/2008 1:23AM | male reproductive organFACEPANTS | # | ||||||
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have any of you thought that your ideas were just bad instead of complaining about downvoting hth |
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Posted On: 11/19/2008 1:28AM | View gigerth's Profile | # | ||||||
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I upvote getting rid of downvoting, at least until a better solution is found. One step should be some sort of minimum character activity before voting. This is probably going to sound lousy, but maybe you have to finish ep.1 before you can vote? |
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Posted On: 11/19/2008 1:29AM | View Shoot The Moon's Profile | # | ||||||
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I don’t have proof of this but it is easily verifiable by any admin:
One of the klans is coordinating ForumBuildr votes, probably with the purpose of increasing their ForumBuildr score so they get more entries, and thus more chocolate scoops, and thus more medals.
Personally I could care less about dom and chocolate scoops, but infesting the game with patended suckiness to get more medals is p sad. |
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Posted On: 11/19/2008 4:06AM | male reproductive organFACEPANTS | # | ||||||