I just want to toss in, that with regards to some of the stuff that was said earlier on reputation boosts...
I really love getting them. I don't post often, so I certainly don't have a 'following' or anything. Thus they feel extra special to me. However, I can CERTAINLY see where someone being snarky, brutally honest or a downright jerk would net them a hefty return. As I said to Verad, they're basically the epitome of high-fiving someone behind everyone else's back, after they burn someone.
Do I think this is a big enough problem to warrant removing them? Naw. The phenomenon of people being jerks on the internet is as old as, well, the internet. The rep system just sorta streamlines the usual 'lol nice one' process.
I think if there's an unusual amount of aggression lately we can safely blame boredom paired with anxious anticipation. We all want the expac to be here already. Also, I don't know about you guys? But for me, the MSQ KINDA felt like a downer at the end there, leaving me wanting to stab someone. We sorta got owned, hard. I've seen a lot of IC backlash, a lot of 'I'm gonna RP stabbing some Blades', and I can't help but think it's having an insidious effect on attitudes as a whole. And so people come here, big RP central, with their IC attitudes in the back of their minds, and what comes out but a self-actualizing kind of unheeding forwardness.
Change is in the air, and most of us probably don't think we'll even maintain most of our current RP affiliations and/or stories once the expansion hits and we have a hundred new venues and a thousand new concepts and themes to work with.. so if ever there was time to tell people we never REALLY liked (or complete strangers) to go eff themselves, it's now!
Well, it's just a theory! I could be totally off-base. Just mah two gil, as they say~
I really love getting them. I don't post often, so I certainly don't have a 'following' or anything. Thus they feel extra special to me. However, I can CERTAINLY see where someone being snarky, brutally honest or a downright jerk would net them a hefty return. As I said to Verad, they're basically the epitome of high-fiving someone behind everyone else's back, after they burn someone.
Do I think this is a big enough problem to warrant removing them? Naw. The phenomenon of people being jerks on the internet is as old as, well, the internet. The rep system just sorta streamlines the usual 'lol nice one' process.
I think if there's an unusual amount of aggression lately we can safely blame boredom paired with anxious anticipation. We all want the expac to be here already. Also, I don't know about you guys? But for me, the MSQ KINDA felt like a downer at the end there, leaving me wanting to stab someone. We sorta got owned, hard. I've seen a lot of IC backlash, a lot of 'I'm gonna RP stabbing some Blades', and I can't help but think it's having an insidious effect on attitudes as a whole. And so people come here, big RP central, with their IC attitudes in the back of their minds, and what comes out but a self-actualizing kind of unheeding forwardness.
Change is in the air, and most of us probably don't think we'll even maintain most of our current RP affiliations and/or stories once the expansion hits and we have a hundred new venues and a thousand new concepts and themes to work with.. so if ever there was time to tell people we never REALLY liked (or complete strangers) to go eff themselves, it's now!
Well, it's just a theory! I could be totally off-base. Just mah two gil, as they say~
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