See topic. Discuss. No trolling.

Good idea.

Though I have little medals myself, starting to get into domination, would be nice to have a place to post where people have the same mindset.

EDIT:

CrinkzPipe Posted:

I disagree. What if a newbie doesn’t understand it fully, or wants to know how to get some medals?

Perhaps make it still viewable, just not postable?

Plus getting 10 medals is p. easy as long as you know how to streak/speedrun/vanilla

CrinkzPipe Posted:

I disagree. What if a newbie doesn’t understand it fully, or wants to know how to get some medals?

Fran Posted:

The topic doesn’t suggest not being able to read the threads does it? I was talking about posting.

I think you need to get to like level 3 to be able to post in flamebate now right? This would be similar.

Nah, I don’t like that idea. Everybody should be able to read and post in the dom forum

Aldo_Anything Posted:

Nah, I don’t like that idea. Everybody should be able to read and post in the dom forum

Everyone would be able to read, and the wiki explains how to get scoops if I remember right. But if you look at the new bingebot poll, there are alot of people with 0 medals discussing how klan raiding is currently working.

CrinkzPipe Posted:

It’s a poll, they probably know what’s going on with it

Based on my experiences here, I cannot even begin to hope that people would know what they are discussing before trying to join in.

CrinkzPipe Posted:

Plus, looking through the thread it seems only TWO people have posted who have 0 medals. Plus, you have no clue if their alts have more medals than the current postings. While I do not, I’ve been around long enough to know why it’s hurting.

Yeah, you can’t discriminate what people know by how many medals they have. I got the 3 medals I have on complete accident.

Well, I don’t think a person necessarily needs a lot of medals to comment on a point, clarify a position, or add to a discussion. Of course, I’m biased (and a stupid newb, with too few medals).

However… since medals show up right next to the post, it should be pretty damn easy for anyone with a clue to take anything a newb says with a grain of salt. If they say something very special, you can easily go “That idiot hasn’t got the experience to understand this ****” and move on – if they say something smart, they can inform the debate and help you out. Don’t see why we’d need to be weeded out automatically when it can be more intelligently handled by the reader.

If, on the other hand, you’re concerned about the effect on polls like the one you’re posting here… LOL, you pretend numeric polls are a meaningful way of building consensus or taking the temperature of a populace. The vast majority of the polls I’ve seen online are heavily biased in phrasing, completely ignore a perfectly valid option, or otherwise invalidate themselves.

Asking “Who’s with me, here, amirite? [Yes/No]” doesn’t accomplish much. Starting a discussion is the way to go – and in a discussion, you’re perfectly welcome to weight every response by the medal count next to the post.