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No, but when someone has over 2,000 posts, their default post rating is going to be, at best, phenomenally resistant to change. That's just how the karma system works.

imo you should take that energy and rate me up to guru.

it would be much more of an accomplishment. REALLY!

Also, people rate up and down on the manner of post, aside from the content of it. Good content loaded with unnecessary insults make some reluctant to rate it at all.

You know... if I wasn't an extraordinarilly brilliant person who knew better... I'd almost be willing to think you were making some kind of off-hand reference to me...

Good thing I'm an extraordinarilly brilliant person who knows better, huh?

Don't worry, ToJ. Gaudion and bodhi will get right on that. They'll have you back to scholar in no time.

Edited, Mar 25th 2008 10:49pm by zepoodle

Okay, just Gaudion then.

You know, we should really get Dil to sage as well. Even with him being retired and all.

I don't rate people down out of spite. I'm liberal with the red arrow, but not vindictive, and I'm usually not even that unless I see a post that I think contains wildly bad information has been rated up to good or excellent. It's not like I'm going to go rate down all of his old posts and every new post he makes from now on. Even if I did I doubt it would change much. When someone writes a FAQ it's practically auto-sage anyways, and the Ret fanboys tend to be a pretty cohesive bunch.

I'm sorry, I'm really not trying to be that cynical about it, but the guy just doesn't have enough worthwhile input to warrent the sage title and I don't think many, if any of the regular scholars here have made it a point to rate him up for many posts other than the FAQ. Maybe if nothing else, this'll help people understand that you can't take people's advice at face value based solely on the color of their names.

The ironic thing is, when he first came here even I rated up a lot of his posts. He was pretty reasonable then. In fact, I think I made a post dedicated entirely to praising him for being that reasonable. Somewhere along the lines he evolved into a second tommyguns and decided that Ret was cruise-control for the top of the DPS meter. Which are the posts I will continue to rate down.

Edited, Mar 26th 2008 6:56am by Gaudion

Lol... Well, I'm glad someone rated my last post in this thread up to good. Someone(s) took it upon themselves to go seek me out in the Shaman board and proceeded to rate down every single one of my posts in the most recent thread.

Good times, good times.

I would have less fun too. If I cared one bit about the color of my name I would amend my ways drastically. Right now I'm too abrasive, argue with too many people, and don't suck up to enough people to ever hope to see green. I'd rather reserve the option to call someone an idiot if I think they're an idiot; I'll take the rate-down, I really don't mind.

However, it is slightly annoying when some boob and his posse make it a point to locate every single one of my posts they can, most of which are actually insult-free or completley inconsequential, and rate me down just because someone got a little butt-hurt from my voiced personal opinion of them on a message board which means absolutely nothing whatsoever in the broad scheme of things.

lol, are you trying to refer to me? maybe you didn't read my last post in the most recent ret thread... i do beleive it was me answering a RET pally and mentioning that his flaming of bodh and other vets was unwarranted and earned him the first (and so far only) rate down i've ever done. as many times as bodh has flamed me i've still never seen him post anything so outrageous that i thought it deserved a ratedown. trust me you've never been as much of a bad @$$ as you think to earn even a thought of rating you down. i have done many rate ups including probably some of your posts, but the ONLY post to earn a ratedown from me was a "ret is l33t, you all suck for disagree'ing" post....

oh, and if i'm not as reasonable anymore it has more to do with the vehemence of the anti-ret community her which has made it impossible not to commit fully one way or another. trying post helpful pro-choice on here apparently made me a full blown ret fanatic in many peoples minds. you're not one that cause it and i'm sorry if you feel offended by it. my inention in most posts is to help those who want to pay ret for whatever reason. certain individals turn every helpful thread into yet another ret debate leaving me very little choice - i can abandon the ret i am giving advice to or make my arguements.

i don't think anyone here wants to see this become a civil, helpful forum more than i do. i may post less about holy and prot than ret but thats more because those threads get more positive advice in general.

in the end i think its amusing that you guys have turned a thread where i was admitting i deserve sage LESS than dilbert who is HOLY and posts LAWL RET posts as often as anyone else into "why does that mean nasty ToJ keep rating us down".... way to turn yet another attemt at a positive thread into mud flinging. just keep in mind who started this downslide in the future...

Well you know I didn't hit sage too long ago. Honestly the best thing you can do is just write posts trying to be as helpful as you can be. I don't believe anyone hear is writing posts trying to be an a$$hole. Guadion may rate you down and argue with you because he truly believes that you don't know what you are talking about, and it's his right to feel that way. I don't believe he does it out of spite, or just to be a jerk, he feels the Paladin community deserves to hear the truth, at least in his opinion, and he will fight to the death for that. And it's the same thing for you Tool. This is why I stopped getting offended by people like Guadion or Bodh or anyone else really who agreed or disagreed with me, they are really just trying to help, and sometimes can get carried away with it, and maybe someone's feelings get hurt, but that's their personalities and I have to accept it. Because I would rather them be here and brash than not here, because they have good input and advice that can benefit many young Paladins.

I dunno, I didn't get the implication, and I think Guadion is the type of guy who would just flat out accuse you rather than imply that you did it. He said a guy or posse did it, it's happened to me too. I've been rated down on several posts unrelated to anything before, and it pissed me off.

On another note... personally, I'm rarely one to use the kharma system, I rarely rate someone up or down, and in all honesty I probably rate down more than I rate up simply because it's easy to be a moron or a jerk, but it's hard to write something profound and concise.

Yeah Gaud, it probably was. Some people are vindictive and will do stuff like that because they didn't agree with one or more of your posts. I don't believe Tool would do that, you may not agree with him, but he's a good lad.


Anyways, you kids go play nice outside now while your mother and I have some of our special grown-up time.