rep improvements.

[Rawrbomb]

This may seem long winded, but I assure you I have a valid suggestion.

Well, let me start by saying that yes, my rep is low. I joined this site a while ago when I had something to share (don't quite remember what), and have posted one or two things since then. Afterwards, I stopped playing WoW period for 8 months or so, but I still frequented these boards, because I like reading about the glitches/bugs people find, and clever use of game mechanics.

Now that I play WoW again, I have about 8 hours a week to play, very casually, so I don't have the chance to lpay around with various game mechanics, thus do not find things worthy of posting.


However, in the past few months I have noticed a huge trend sparking up, about the same time that leecher status was brought about, and some of their priviledges removed.

Whenever I check this site, I can guarantee that the first page of the exploits section has maybe 3 actual threads, containing usefull things people found on their own. Most of the rest fall under 2 categories; reposts and flat out useless.

Some reposts are of old topics, but most are blatantly obvious reposts, copied from threads made less than a day ago).
I find it hard to believe that every time a new bug or exploit is found, 5 different leechers find it all within an hour of each other.

The useless posts are, well, useless. Most are just random stabs in the dark by leechers trying to get out of leecher status by sucking up a few votes from other sympathetic like minded leechers.
Some examples of recent posts include:
- Some kid saying he played his friends hunter, and found out that you can aimed shot, arcane shot, and auto shot for lots of damage. This is not an exploit, this is common sense.
- A mage who spellstole the fel armor buff from the caster in MgT had amp magic on himself. He went to bandage, and it healed him for more. He assumed this was a bug with amp magic, which had never done that before. He didnt bother to check what other debuffs he had, or try it a second time to confirm. This is lazyness.
- Some one posting that if you use multiple items/buffs that give stealth detection, that they stack. This is not an exploit, this is a game mechanic.

Now, obviously it gets annoying to find the shaman "kill your own faction" bug 7 times on the front page. It is far more annoying, however, to see that every single one of these threads made, be it repost or fraud, gets at least 1 rep before being exposed, sometimes more.

Then you get into all those people that just broke out of leecher status with crappy posts that now get to flame other leechers for their crappy posts. It's rather unsatisfying.
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What I am trying to get at is this;

From my perspective, The exploit section has become less of a place to share exploits and bugs people find, and more of a Rep-farming zone. There are no reprecussions for reposting (stealing) another authors work, or for posting things that do not work, or for just spewing forth something "brilliant" that the poster was too dense to realize was a simple game mechanic (and often has been for years) that could have been found by any one willing to read a tooltip.

I suggest that something be implemented, like a report feature, or an unabusable (-) rep feature, to try to keep these posts to a minimum.

I can't speak for others, but I for one have lost the desire to visit this section (and therefor site, sine it was the only section I read really). Now I know many reading this will brush it off, I don't have all that much rep, and haven't found much to contribute, so no big loss. I would agree, it's not like the site is losing anything from me not visiting.

The thing is, if I DID happen to stumble across something thread worthy, I would be reluctant to post it, only to have 10 other people copy and post their way out of leecher status and then have it drowned out by posts about glitches about hunters with scorpid pets having their traps break early even though they dont touch them.

Sorry if this comes off as whining or a nuisance, if it is then I will just be on my way.

Thanks for the time.

[KuRIoS]

we had the -rep function, dickheads abused it so we removed it, if our elites cant even retain from abusing it then how should the lower usergroups...
we have a lot of members of course we are gonna have reposts, luckily we have mods to clean them up and if you could see the ammount of deleted posts.... there are many.

[Piersd]

report button

just report the threads and let the mods deal with it, half the time people just spam repost instead of actually reporting the threads

[KuRIoS]

report button

just report the threads and let the mods deal with it, half the time people just spam repost instead of actually reporting the threads

which is something that we will look actively upon punishing.. we encourage ppl to report threads that break the rules..

[ChrisC]

which is something that we will look actively upon punishing.. we encourage ppl to report threads that break the rules..

I felt very encouraged when after constant reporting Glitchy gave me a few rep :P

[Kuiren]

Usually in the WoW Scams section I have a whole page of deleted threads.. Just use the report button and let us Mods do our job. :]

[2dgreengiant]

Too bad D[Sky] is getting fed up of my reports haha

[~David~]

no reprocussions for reposts? BS. You get infractions and deleted threads and all.

[Demonkunga]

I'm going to go clean up the scams section now actually. Remember to report posts guys. It helps us out a lot more then you know. You might even be rewarded.