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Instead of asking us "why does someone feel I deserve to be default," maybe you should ask yourself "why do I deserve to be decent?" Because right now all this thread is, is a massive karma whine. You contacted an admin; if someone was camping you, then they got dealt with, and if they weren't, then multiple people think you're an idiot. Either way, quit trolling for rate-ups.

I rated down every post of yours in this thread, FYI. Unless you have some proof someone is actually camping you - and probably even then - I don't care to hear your "omgz someone is trying to make me sub-scholar!1!" whining. Karma is meaningless, embrace it.

Well Gaudion, at least now you know who's doing it...

Oh, hi.

No, I'm not the one. However, building on Nocturnal's comment, I'd like to add that sometimes you do come off as a pompous prick. Especially back when you decided to convince me that Warlocks > Shamans in any given situation. I still don't agree with you on it, but I decided to back out because it turned into a ***** fight.

I'm a pacifist when it comes to a great many things, especially online ***** fights. I'm not the one rating you down, but I'd understand if someone got offended by a comment of yours and decided to silently return the favor.

For the record, I was rated to default around 1,000 posts or so. Got scholar back at around 5,000 posts and I've stayed here since then. It's really no big deal. Your fans will make sure you don't drop below scholar and unless you care a lot about rating others, scholar doesn't matter that much.

It's just a different color.

So, I'm thinking of rolling a shaman so I came to the shaman board and now I feel pretty confident that I'll be camping this guy Gauidon till he's no longer a scholar. Oh, I might roll a shaman, too.

You make asinine comments like that and then you wonder why people karma bomb the **** out of you. Meh...you had it coming and probably deserve more of it. Only this time, I hope the, "awwww Gaudion's got a bloody **** for being a loudmouth" crowd won't come around and give you sympathy rate-ups to nurse your rightfully bruised ego back to fighting form.

Keep QQing.

So I had looked at the suggestion thread and I have no clue what you're talking about Gaudion.

Every post of yours I see is excellent, minus one that's.... *gasp* decent, which is your default rating anyway as a scholar.

Edit: Sorry, you have one good one too.

Edited, Apr 11th 2008 8:11am by xNocturnalSunx

"First time caller, Long time listener"

I run a 70 NE Druid (Caladin) and a 70 Draenei Shaman (Caladan), both into Kara/Entry ZA, so I am constantly checking the forums for useful information that I can use to better my gear and my playstyle. I find it somewhat disappointing to see Druids Forum on the Up and Up progression wise and helping each other out when I turn to the Shamans (Plural?) Forum and see threads like this or the "Lock > Shaman thread" that ran on endlessly/needlessly. This post here in the Shaman Forum just seems to follow that needless thought process. I am sure I am not the only one who turns to the "More Learned WoW-crafters on these forums to learn to play better. It's just rather discouraging to see threads like this that pop up and take more time/attention from what is already something of an "underdog class." Mind you, I am not bashing the Shaman Class, I love my Shaman and have played all 3 specs with it (including variations), I am just stating the obvious and none too subtle undertone in the Shaman forums.

Gaudion, I read alot of your posts while perusing through here. When you do post useful information, it is quite helpful. You should wear the title "the Invidious", not me. And that's not a bad thing, it's refreshing to see someone just lay it out bluntly. But to see you take this much effort to rant on and on about your "Karma" really lessens my opinion of you. Why would you bother so much about a "Karma" score because someone has it out for you? I expected to see it happen from my watching post long before now. It happens, let the admin take care of it, that is what they are here for.

I'm just stepping out of obscurity because to be honest, I would love to see the Shaman forum show something other then "QQ" threads or "What if" threads. We see how many posts you people make each and every time you post. We know whom is worth just scrolling past and whom is worth listening to. Alot of those like me who come to this forum to read up do so in hopes we will find something of use that might give us something more of an edge on our "underdog" class. And generally, we are gonna look to those with who are on here posting all the time because, hey, obviously you might have a little more know how then then others of us if you're taking the time to post this much.

As I've seen gurus posting initially at good or excellent, scholars posting initially at decent or good and non-ranks posting initially at default or decent I've always assumed that your post rounds to the nearest number based on your overall karma, so a scholar could be above 3.5 but below 3.66 (the lowest score for sage) and be posting at good initially. I could be making this all up of course but to post as a non-rank at "default" you'd have to have overall karma <2.5 else you'd be decent.

Have a wander round the quest and item posts and you'll see new non-rank posters posting at decent, meaning that default isn't quite as default as decent :P

Edited, Apr 11th 2008 4:23pm by cococj

Yarg, me head be hurtin'.