Re: Observations of a Lurker.

[Ebon]

Now this is probably not going to fly, but I didn't have the chance to reply in topic before it was locked and I wanted to clear some things up.

Original Thread:
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/sugges...ns-lurker.html

As I had imagined people misinterpreted my post as a QQ about not having access to the private parts of the site. As seen here:

If a person closes it, it's for good reason. Don't repost it.

I'm not interested in trying to contribute to the site, nor am I trying to leech. I haven't played WoW in a very long time and have no intention of playing it again. And I'm not saying that you should just be handed everyone's respect at the door, it has to be earned but posting useless crap no one cares about isn't the way to do it.

I have no problem with this, I think it's great you restrict the good stuff to trustable members who've invested their time in the community and not just anyone off the street. That's the way it should be.

Yeah, what stuff have you done? Why do you deserve to call stuff "useless crap"?

I also did not anywhere in my post suggest going by post count, it's a horrible system and only encourages people to spam. People would post and post just to get their post count up, and I did not suggest removing the Rep system. But the current way the Rep system is implemented does close to the same thing post count does. It encourages people to basically make "Spam" topics in hopes of increasing their Rep.

I'm suggesting tightening up on what people can post trying to "contribute" or revise the Rep system.

The Post Count doesn't matter. Every two thousand posts you get a single Rep Power. Also, leave Rep alone.

The kinds of posts I'm talking about are these:
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-ex...g-mistake.html
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-ex...ight-club.html
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-ex...thing-rfc.html

I would honestly consider those joke topics, and people wouldn't be so inclined to post that kind of thing if they didn't think "Hey I might get rep.. mine as well."

... What kind of topics have you made?

Again, not suggesting post count, not saying you should hand leechers all the goods on a silver platter for simply hitting that little "register" button. I'm saying the site would be a lot cleaner, and a lot more efficient if people didn't post random junk topics that don't contribute in no way to the community.

Yeah, and you stated that you don't want to contribute(you also stated you don't want to leech.). ... Umm...

Not trying to get anyone riled up, just wanted to point out from a observers point of view taking each forum at face value the contributions are a joke. That the was the point of my original post.

Again, what contributions have you made?