15 post Scholor, 38 Post Guru? Lame...Follow

Does it bother anyone else when someone new writes one post where someone agrees with them, they somehow grab a 4-5 rating, and within a few posts get scholar/sage/guru status.

Sometimes these people turn out to be great additions to the forum, but alot of the time, they turn into hungry, hungry karma trolls, who look to rate down anyone who disagrees with them, and who really don't post anything constructive overall. I've just come across a plethora of these situations lately, and it's just getting pretty old.

I propose that allakhzam AT LEAST holds off giving scholor status until the person has a 3.1 rating over the course of 100 posts, Guru 200-300, and Sage 500+. That would give these people time to show their true colors in the posts they write, anyone can get a rateup/ratedown on a single post or two, it doesn't doesn't show anything.

It'd cut down on the people who nuke posts because it doesn't agree with them, and just help people respect the Karma system better. When I see a Sage with 38 posts, it really demeans the whole karma reward system, and is overall highly detrimental.

easily explained: Sockpuppets.

Got a problem with it make one of your own.

Your rating has little or nothing to do with knowlage, humour or ability to write a coherent sentance.

I has everything to do with apeasing the masses and rightious self rating up via sockpuppets, ask Skeeter he is a Grandmaster of this.

it has something to do with it, a lot of people with higher ratings than tarv who can spell knowledge

http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=3&mid=1083819041446429203

They say that they changed the system after this so that this wouldn't happen, but really we still ended up with another insta-guru and I got the No-Rate status.

I dunno, but I predict you're going to (legitimately) surpass my post count before Monday. Get a job, you hippy.

You sound like my wife. I've started telling our freinds that she's my "sugarmomma".

Would you work if you didn't have to and could instead play poker on the internet and post here?

I think not!!

I think the people that have few posts with high titles prolly have several email accounts and just register new names then rate themselves. My 2cp.

how about per every say..thousand posts, the Rating you give someone is worth more..karma points or wahtever...

This giving the older posters the power to Nuke threads essentially, and Nuke each other, and wouldn't that be fun to watch.

Boy, some people are touchy about that little number over there, aren't they? Like it should really matter to anone who posts in here.....

I agree... 15 posts isn't enough to rate someone... hell I have only posted about 20 times and somehow I managed to be a Scholar... and half the stuff I say doesn't even make sense!!

I think you're right Smash.

ya know, it ocurrs to me that NO i dont actually give 2 ***** what people think about my posts or if they bother to waste their time rating me.

in the same way i dont care if other people get rated or not or whether they get some stupid title or not, because in the greater sceme of things it doesnt make the slightest difference to my life.

go on, rate me, i dare ya!

Edited, Tue Jun 15 18:49:36 2004 by sickseventwenty

Just wait until you have 10,000+ posts like me-- 100 upward ratings or downward ratings doesn't affect my number karma one iota.

I am impervious to your anklebiting.

Totem