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you are only deemed worthy of rating people posts if you score is 3.01 or above.

Basicly this means if you don't toe the party line and 'Conform' to the normal views that people who can rate posts, you will never be able to post as you will be below 3.01 since the children will rate your posts down.

This is most important in the first 1-50 posts since after that it gets increasingly harder to 'Raise your score.

i have 10x more posts rated above my 2.70 than below but because the majority of low post where at the begining when i was least experianced it means that the positive posts i make make little impact on my total score.

conclusion the system is hugely flawed.

<Edit: i was bored and ran through my post log i have 47 posts rated down vs 96 rated up and my score is 2.72 down from 3.00 hmm twice as many good posts as bad yet my score is lower than i started.......disparity here somewhere>

do not make the same mistakes i have. <i.e read what Gbaji and Patrician write and write similar posts and raise your score early then you won't end up bitter like me >

Edited, Sun Mar 28 03:10:40 2004 by tarv

i agree i was at one point able to rate posts but recently i defended someone who was being attacked( ok turns out they were a spammer most likely) but at time it wasnt completely obvious

(and i still believe the best way to handle a spammer is to ignore if you respond to tell them they are stupid you are just doing their job of keeping posts on top for them)

and once spoke out against certain people my rating went down i think the problem with the ratings is that there are vindictive people who wont like what you said or be offended because you said something different from them so they automatically give you the lowest pssible score where as the people you might help will give you above average but not the highest so it is hard to balance them out

valid reason and if i thought that was why i was voted down i wouldn't be bitter about it

but i was well over 3 until i jumped to someones defense against some people that have been around board for a while then wow all of a sudden even in threads where i had higher ratings before that i sarted going down


and by the way just because someone doesnt feel the need for punctuation and grammar online doesnt mean they don't understand the concept

and for someone who seems to care i might as well let you know written is spelled with 2 t's

Tarv, your rating is showing up as 4.68 now... ?

i agree i dont really care about my rating except for the fact i liked voting on other posts when they were helpful i never voted one down because if i disagreed with them i just ignored it(you know that old if you cant say something nice dont say anything at all thing) but if someone was helpful i voted them up to help keep them above the cutoff

Edited, Sun Mar 28 12:48:01 2004 by mkbailey

Don't ever post in the item forums. If you say anything besides "Oh I love SOE and this is a great item" people give you a awful rating. And don't ever complain about something ******** you over, they rate you bad for that too. In fact I think they just rate you bad just to be jerks in those forums.

The whole Post Rateing system is a joke.

yeah mkbaily, i think i finaly agree with oyu, i dont ever remember rating anyone down (apart from 1 occasion when people were being downright offensive) and i always tend to rate people up when they have something constructive to say or if i agree with them hehe

For the same reason people buy plat or accounts, twink, powlvl, KS or anything else:

Because they can.

(Sarcasm noted)

Good one Leiany...but that wouldn't leave much time for EQ...I would rather spend time in EQ skilling up my toons than waste time in EQ Forums trying to raise my posting level so I can do what exactly?

(Sorry, testing markups so I can get better ratings...now where is the :asskiss: smiley? ???)

The real issue in the EQ forum is the amount of complete children that post here. An opinion in this forum is the kiss of death. If you are not willing to get on your knees and serve needs to the egomaniacal emotional 14 year olds that frequent this side of the house, prepare for the nukage. I don't post here much because a) I don't give a **** about other people's feelings, b) the majority of the threads over here are on the same crap over and over and could be completely avoided if people would just hit page down (but that isn't good enough, because you are all special little flowers whose individual problem is so unique as to warrant its own thread) and c) well, there is no c. The first two sum it up pretty well.

mkbailey, I did rate some of your posts in this thread down. I do it to anyone who ******* about their karma, as a general rule.

also, if your rating gets too low, your message(s) can be filtered out by the default message filter.

Which should be a genuine indication of how fair we really are on the OOT side. Regardless of how much most of us would like to see you filtered right out, you still haven't been nuked. :)