Who are we seeking attention from? Because if your answer isn't @Lord_Roke, I couldn't care less. :v
(hi Rokie, I know you read these messages. <3 u bb)
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idk, I am sure there are some people around who still can join in on the convo occasionally... that or we're literally just the only people still posting on here.
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Same lol. But, I like seeing all the old faces. Maybe one day I'll go back through and read all my old stuff. Reconstruct the Randy lore and all. I hardly remember what exactly was going on so long ago.
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Mine are cringey, but I'm still proud of some of them. I was the guy who came up with the idea for an intro section. I was also one among a few who made a thread asking for the removal of negative ratings (which to this day I believe was for the best given how they were abused and the problems they led to. Our community was toxic enough without them.)
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I disagree. Sure, some have used these as negative ratings, but they have the benefit of being ambiguous. Even if they are used to express contempt, it's not as clear when this is the case. Also, since using them as negative ratings can only be discerned in the context of a specific post, one can't tell how many "disliked" posts a person has by looking at the chart on their profile.
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I think that it's telling that nobody, at least that I saw, got upset about ratings after that point, especially when people were getting upset about the before.
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I really disliked the removal of negative ratings. I never saw anyone abuse them and if you were smart and just acted reasonable, you wouldn't get any negatives. Not to mention, if a person does abuse negative ratings in some way, then the mods could just... idk, punish them instead of removing them completely? Also, why remove the goddamn disagree option?! It was so much easier to just have it as it was.
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Yeah, I know it was a controversial issue. Still, people weren't uniformly reasonable in their use of the ratings, so even if you were reasonable, you could still get hit with some. For example, people used to dislike people's posts wishing a clan success back in the day.
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As for the reasoning behind removing them, aside from their abuse, they contributed little to nothing meaningful to the conversation. It's better to encourage a post stating one's reasons for disagreement. That's more beneficial to everyone.
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Also, may I mention that Xenforo lacks an option to batch-remove ratings? There were cases in the past where I had to go through 30 posts individually to remove spammed ratings.
Tbf, I remember having... 2 or 3 negative ratings even though I was a twat most of the time. Also, sometimes it was just easier to show support/disapproval through a swift rating instead of having to make a pointlessly short post.
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I'll exchange ease of disapproval for more information since a post is almost always going to provide more information than a rating. I can't remember anyone just replying "disagree" on a thread. With posts, there's almost always reasoning supplied. (Also, have we sufficiently farmed this topic for posts here yet? :P)
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On the topic of negative ratings, I absolutely hated it tbh. Glad it got removed, hated that stupid pointless rating the most (the box). Not saying my negative to positive ratio was bad, but I felt like something I say which could have a point, people rate pointless, got to me. Then again, I was like what 13-15? When that was around.
I’m remembering my staff applications now, I’ve had 3? 4? 2 accepted, I was so happy when I got accepted the first time, in what 2014? I was so immature, got demoted in like a week. Fast forward a year or 2, reapply. Accepted again, maturity better but... was a jmod for 9? Months
Well, it was mafia, soulless, and I that applied around the same time to be the first WW mods, all accepted. Don’t even remember why maf didn’t make it past trial, soulless resigned shortly after (always assumed because maf didn’t make it past trial.) I think 2 or 3 batches of trial mods, got global mod before I did, got it same time snacks did.
Literally the gamemode that made me change my name from Captain_Mark to iMacro permanently. So many of the older WarZ players used to call me Mark even after my name change, and it’s not even my name.
Early 2013 or late 2012, I played a zombie survival server on shotbow “MineZ”, Most frustrating experience tbh, map was massive, zombies were OP, players betrayed me. I found 2 other players, leedog and calyg. Befriended them, they were a lot younger than me, I was 12-13 they were 9-10? After playing MineZ a bit longer, while in a call with them on skype, they told me about a “cooler” zombie server. Brawl’s Mc-WarZ
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