Loosey-Lou Posted:

But it doesn’t kill existing chocolate scoops, merely prevents otherwise (possibly) worthy submissions from earning scoops. And unless you know who posted which particular submission, how are you going to target anyone?

You’re right, it doesn’t kill them, but it prevents them from being generated. And you can’t specifically target anyone, but if you hit everyone then you hit your targets. This method is inefficient to get the job done, but as long as some people believe it works, it will continue. (Kind of like religion or alternative medicine…Log in to see images! )

More of my submissions got downvoted last night. I’m might start saving my forum submissions to put in after domination resolves.

Okay, Domination round’s over! You can go back to voting up my entries!

... please?

I try to be fair in my voting, but this week’s forum ideas are patchy at best. Also, it is clear a lot of people just vote randomly. I mean, there’s a forum suggestion that is nothing but question marks, and it has 5 or 6 votes.

Hi there.. I just started on this game and I’ve never posted on any forum before, but I saw this thread and thought I’d contribute my shiny new two cents.

I was so excited when I first submitted my entries. It was fun! And I was funny! And if other entries were funny, I voted them up! If they weren’t funny, I pbumed and if they just plain didn’t fit the theme or, for some other reason, just sucked, I downvoted.

I soon had plans to contribute to everything! I started with enemies first, but then realized I’d blown all my building points. Still excited! Wishing I could contribute more! I’d already lost all my scoops to domination cards, so it wasn’t even about competing, just creating. And then, suddenly, everyone hated everything I had done. I went from 10s to -5s overnight. I can’t even describe how depressing it was. Especially when so many UNFUNNY ones were doing so well.

At this point I don’t know if I’ll continue to contribute. It doesn’t seem like it’s set up to promote the highest quality entries. Maybe if it wasn’t competitive, just cooperative? I don’t mind putting effort into things if it’s appreciated, but…from what other people have written it seems pretty random as to what goes up and what goes down. At least in the Enemies section. Maybe if it wasn’t part of Domination? But I suppose people would still sucker downvote folks over the cash prizes.

Velveteen Posted:

its hard the first time when you realize your sense of humor doesn’t quite match most of forumwarz

The recognition that 90% of the world is stupid is always a bit of a shock no matter how many times it happens in a day. Mostly you don’t have to deal with other people’s moronic senses of humor, but Forumbuildr actively enlists morons, so what are you gonna do?

Dropping the LCD even further is the fact that many participants are mere welps whose idea of humor is not much more evolved than a badly told poo poo joke. (As an example, many of the voters on Forumbuildr seem to be completely unfamiliar with genital piercing, and have down voted an entry of mine that involves the a piercing being named after royalty. Since they don’t get the joke due to their lack of worldliness, they down-vote it. Basically they’re saying they prefer a McDonald’s Cheeseburger to more exotic faire, since their mom only took them to McDonald’s.)

I think the reason this seems so appalling is that FW is created by some smart people, and clearly there are some smart people who enjoy it. This is misleading, especially as one enters a “democratic” part of the game, like Forumbuildr.

So, my practice is this: I downote the 90% that is pure **** and upvote the 8% that is funny and smart. About 2% get a pbum because I DON’T GET IT, but I suspect the problem is on MY END. If I was stupider this percentage might be higher, so long as I was willing to recognize that NOT GETTING a joke might be due to a deficiency on my part. This is called wisdom and I’m glad I have at least that much.

Anyway, to sum it up, 90% of you are ****ing idiots and **** you. The remaining 10%, and you know who you are, I adore you.

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One possible solution would be, before a new forum is unleashed upon Forumbuildr, someone do some basic research to provide information links for those who want to get an overview of the subject. Perhaps people wouldn’t be such lazy morons if you spoon fed them the information required to create a minimally relevant submission.

Another solution would be do take this out of the hands of the mbumes, at least to a certain degree. A cadre of Forumbuildr artisans could take the raw material submitted by the hoipoloi and craft something decent.

Lastly, Teams or Klans (or individuals with lots of time on their hands) could submit finished forums in which they’ve done all the work. This could be incorporated as a competition.

If you like these ideas, please send me BPs.

did you miss the reference to the prince albert? I can’t tell.