Why is there even a downvote option?

Personally, I think that every user should be able to give one forum idea a week. All submissions have to be in by a given time (like Wednesday night or something) and the voting begins. Everyone is given 3 votes, and they can only vote for each forum one time (that way someone can’t vote 3 times for their own idea). That way the good ideas are seen, no downvoting, and it is a fairer process.

Yes, chocolate scoops are too easy to get compared to the others.

I think the current system is a little off because you essentially get two votes per item – a downvote on all opposing items and an upvote for the one you like – it’s just kinda weird.

Cyberface207 Posted:

Scoops is easy to fix. Make it every 10 positives instead of every five. Log in to see images!

Says the player with 19 Chocolate scoops. After being “The bumhole”d for 10 of them.

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One idea is to cap the number of scoops you can get per (something). Possibilities for (something) are:

1. week

2. day

3. submission

4. category

5. combination of the above

More debate would be required for me to take a stance on any of those options though. Anyways the idea is if you submit a reasonable amount you get rewards, but after a point you would be submitting solely for contribution or for fun. Obviously this “point” is up to the wizards holding all the statistics. >_>

Skyreal Posted:

One idea is to cap the number of scoops you can get per (something). Possibilities for (something) are:

1. week

2. day

3. submission

4. category

5. combination of the above

More debate would be required for me to take a stance on any of those options though. Anyways the idea is if you submit a reasonable amount you get rewards, but after a point you would be submitting solely for contribution or for fun. Obviously this “point” is up to the wizards holding all the statistics. >_>

I would say per category per week. Max of 10 from forum idea submissions, and a lower max for everything else in descending order of value. Also, raise the number of upvotes required to get a scoop.

I must say, the first paragraph made me laugh rather hard.

Jalapeno Bootyhole Posted:

Hey man, I feel your pain. I’m supposed to be the creative director of Forumwarz and ****s vote my **** down too, often with no apparent rhyme or reason.

Let’s see how this pans out. We’ll also try to keep track of the “Negative Nellies” better, and discount their votes.

As an admin, I’m tempted to revive some of the obviously good user subs from the dead, but that’s a lot of work. I guess the competitive aspect of this makes people act like jerk-offs.

In the future we plan to have more truly collaborative and not so competitive forums (Klan-based, pool-based, etc), but for now we’re relying on the herd mentality. The forums that emerge are still pretty gold, you gotta admit!

****s voting your **** down? I say instant bans for those ****s! Unless I happen to be one of those ****s.

Anyway, as far as an admin reviving a submission, I have no problem with it. If an admin is going to take some time out of their day for that, it was probably a really good submission.

On the subject of Copy Cats; We all can agree having someone copy your idea is infuriating, and then to have people start voting your idea down thing you’re the copy cat is rage inspiring.

But it’s perfectly reasonable that someone would come up with the same exact idea. Especially if it is something popular; Digg, #chan, ebay, dating sites and so on. I don’t think a copy cat bumon would work though, I would imagine people would abuse it.

Klan Up/Down Voting takes some of the fun out of Forumbuildr. Having the ability to instantaneously bring an idea to the most up votes, and also being able to one shot ideas sucks.

I personally think that taking away the possibility of Klan members voting for another members submission is unfair.

But something needs to be done about it. It can seriously be unbalancing.

I didn’t get too much time to implement all the ideas we talked about in this thread, but a few are in place for next week.

Everyone has a ForumBuildr score now. You can see it on your profile, and as you browse forumbuildr. Everyone is starting with the same score, 0. We will update it weekly, based on how you did.

Your score limits how many submissions you can make in a week. It’s set to 7 right now, which is based on an average amount of submissions users make in a given week. The number isn’t set in stone — we will probably revise it as time goes on to find the ideal amount.

There is now a “Pbum” option when voting. If you pbum, it will be considered “Voted” yet you will not have changed the score in any way.

Evil Trout Posted:

Your score limits how many submissions you can make in a week. It’s set to 7 right now, which is based on an average amount of submissions users make in a given week. The number isn’t set in stone — we will probably revise it as time goes on to find the ideal amount.

There is now a “Pbum” option when voting. If you pbum, it will be considered “Voted” yet you will not have changed the score in any way.

Is that total submissions across all groups, or per category?

Total, mayne.

Gah. I was waiting all week for today Log in to see images!

Also. I think it’d be good if enemies were half priced or something. They’re just a picture and a name.