Grayson81 Posted:

Do you think that it might have had anything to do with the ad you took out asking people to vote for your idea?

People were probably worried that an idea would be chosen because you’d paid for a community ad that they decided to vote against it to balance out those who voted for it without really giving the idea any thought.

This, in its entirety, is the sole reason it’s at -5, and probably will forever stay at -5.

For god’s sake, you made people LOOK for an entry. I didn’t even know it was a forum suggestion. I thought it was a submission under one of the categories, and I said “**** that ****, I’m not doing all that footwork”. There were probably quite a few people that said “What an enormous bumhole, I’m going to actually search for this guy’s **** and downvote it”... OR… the name stuck in their head the next time they visited forumbuildr, and when it appeared in the list of suggestion forums, bam, it gets a downvote, just for being such a poorly written ad.

People are bumholes, you’ve just gotta play on that.