I'm a republican, I'd prefer the system to be destroyed than you filthy democrat benefiting from it !
should we remove nets
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Chukzombi
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the numbers dont really matter as much as the sentiment and effort behind them. at the end of this month i probably will have spent 12 or more real life hours simply handing out nets and updating the thread. if people really want their nets removed or kept, then i urge our wonderful mods to give the poll more than 2 days. give it til the end of the month and see whats on top.
The amount of effort you chose to put into that thread is your problem dude. You wasting your time isn't a valid reason to keep a broken system.
Chukzombi
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how is it broken though? its doing exactly what its always doing. i still gets negs from people for absolutely no reason other than i exist. negging people or nets them means whatever people want them to mean. if i have more nets or negs than some does that make me the awesome or the worst? for me a plus is never bad and to give them out i hope everyone who recives some nets from me gets a little thrill that somebody out there is wishing them well. thats only this month though. after december yall can go eff off!
It is broken because it is possible to rig it. I got 80 nets out of your thread with like 3 posts. Not because I was contributing something awesome, just because I posted. That is like giving a trophy to the losing team just because they "tried".
The FoH setup at least encouraged people to try and earn them. If someone had 200+ nets chances are they contributed something worthwhile. Not always, but it was a far more accurate rep system than this one.
The FoH setup at least encouraged people to try and earn them. If someone had 200+ nets chances are they contributed something worthwhile. Not always, but it was a far more accurate rep system than this one.
Chukzombi
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thats the whole point, we are giving away free nets to anyone who posts there, because we want to. what part of that is broken? its not a hard concept. til 12/25 anyone who posts on the netsmas thread will receive free nets. then i will do one more round on new years eve (or new years day if im too drunk during new years eve). after that people go back to their hateful cliques and spam neg someone or ask a mod for pluses like they usually do. but for this month everyone wins. if it rustles jimmies that im netsing everyone along with others then they can just turn their nets off and let others having fun have their fun.
Chukzombi
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nah i will keep doing what im doing. if some elitist board jockey doesnt like it because free nets for netsmas is rocking the boat then all the more reason to keep on rocking it.Whatever.
I wouldn't keep wasting your time in that thread if I was you.
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there is also a somehwat simple way of keeping nets and making them valid and even fun. just add some internet games (like those oldschool penguin toss games) for people to play and each net is a game token for plays. or you can use your tokens to buy upgrades for your account. x number of nets lets you purchase a larger avatar or colored letters or something similar. why should taking something away be an option when adding something can be so much more productive?
BrutulTM
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Even on FOH everyone that had high numbers or low numbers was usually due to some shenanigans in the screenshots forum. Anyone that thought it was an accurate reflection of your value as a poster was an idiot. I thought Astro's thread was some harmless fun and getting butt hurt about it is very un-Christmasy of you. Removing the nets system over it is flat out joyless nonsense. I have posted on plenty of forums with karma systems and they are all bullshit. Most people with big numbers on Reddit whored it up somehow to get them too. Taking it seriously is the mistake, not screwing with it. The only places where it signifies anything are heavily moderated shitholes where it is a reflection of a poster's ability to suck up to the moderators.
If I was a mod here my reaction to all this bitching would have been "Internets are meaningless, get a life".
If I was a mod here my reaction to all this bitching would have been "Internets are meaningless, get a life".
If internets are meaningless then getting rid of them/changing them shouldn't bother anyone.
Chukzombi
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and leaving them alone should not bother anyone either. your argument is like saying why should people own a porsche or cadillac when a toyota tercel does the exact same job and more reliably. lets ban any car with style or the ability to excede the speed limit. nets do not hamper anyone's posting abilitiy in any way. stop worrying about what people do with them. if people want to build them up and you dont care about it, then how does that affect you?
It doesn't affect me. I'm also not the guy pulling the plug. I just support them if they do end it.
Quineloe
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You said 81 people voted no, and three hours later it's just 70 no votes. What's going on here?
TrollfaceDeux
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