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.