Agreed, people downvote witty suggestions just because they don’t get the reference.

Is it time to restart the “no more downvoting” bandwagon? Just upvoting and pbuming, it would get rid of stuff like klan mbum-downvoting and the “Fran is Fat” type downvotes where people downvote every other forum in order to promote a “protest” forum.

Maybe you should petition ET to advertise on more “intellectual” and “refined” websites instead of on sites like jj.am and encyclopediadramatica.com. If he did that (and actually attracted new players) then maybe there would be a change in both the types of entries which are submitted and the type of submission that actually ends up winning.

Until then, think about the kind of people who come from the sites that this game is advertised on, and realize that NO AMOUNT OF ****ING is going to change the way things work around here.

Fran is Fat is winning because it’s funny. Unlike any other submissions.

Fingerz Posted:

NO AMOUNT OF ****ING is going to change the way things work around here.

Really? Because it seems like ****ing usually works pretty well.

ITT we discuss why downvoting is not at all conducive to better entries winning because FWZ is populated almost entirely by bumholes.

Ever think that people are smart and just think your unfunny? Or you can bumume your comedy gold and that were all slack jaw morons.

Just my thought, also cater to your audiance. Look at what you have, what wins, and think. Think. Next time you do better.

RopeBert Posted:

WTF!! What the hell is wrong with people on here? They see a forum that they don’t understand so instead of just pbuming, they downvote them. This is ridiculous. Encyclopedia Aynrandica, Cruel Britania, and some of the others have some major potential but if some twerp has no clue and misses the point, it gets sent to the bottom of the pile and all we are left with are sophomoric sex forum ideas.

I don’t think you should bumume that everyone who downvotes forums like the ones you mentioned because they don’t understand the references. For instance, I got those references, but I downvoted them because I didn’t think they’d make interesting forums. Personally I just couldn’t see anything fun coming out of, say, Encyclopedia Aynrandica (ITT: Existence exists…Discuss!). The forum title and description might be witty and original, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to an interesting forum.

Tig O-Bitties Posted:

I don’t think you should bumume that everyone who downvotes forums like the ones you mentioned because they don’t understand the references. For instance, I got those references, but I downvoted them because I didn’t think they’d make interesting forums. Personally I just couldn’t see anything fun coming out of, say, Encyclopedia Aynrandica (ITT: Existence exists…Discuss!). The forum title and description might be witty and original, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to an interesting forum.

I get your point and it is a good one.

But you have to admit that ITT: Existence exists…Discuss! would be funny to see what kind of **** would come up. Maybe someone would finally be able to put their philosophy degree to work.

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I actually really like the idea of only having upvoting, I think it could only really improve forumbuildr. It can hardly make it any worse can it?

p.s. OP I’ll put Cruel Brittania back in next week and see how it does

For research, and choc scoop, purposes I have submitted the same 7 forum ideas for the last few weeks. Whilst I wasn’t attempting to have one of my idea’s win (I already did that with my first ever submission Log in to see images! ), I’m fully onboard with getting rid of down voting.

I know others didn’t think my ideas were total **** because, at times, they have received upvotes in the hundreds. At other times they got the -5 bum**** within a short period, so didn’t get the chance for others to check out.

My main ideas have been a bit more obscure than generic paedo, sex and homo, race & religion bashing. But I think they provided fresh angles to come up with new replies and stuff.

I guess the problem with getting rid of downvoting is the amount of entries there would be. Which could stop people voting “well” simply because they can’t be arsed to read through hundreds of submissions and spend time evaluating them.

So, I think there is a need to have some kind of elimination process. The problem is what is a “fair” elimination process?

Maybe elimination should be have a time element? Like if the submission hasn’t achieved X votes within Y period of time it should get booted out? X & Y don’t necessarily have to be fixed numbers. They could be based on total votes casts for all submissions and amount of submissions entered in a period, for example?