I have never spammed the site, I may not be the most popular user but I have followers and have definatly been noticed. It takes time to get noticed it doesn't happen over night and it doesn't happen through attention grabbing. I've been a user for what four years and I am only becoming more popular now.
Still when I competed against my fellow Canadians as the top Canadian user I only got one vote. I ranked at number 3 on rankings last month. Though that has slipped alittle this month to the 30's. But I'm still considered one of the bigger users.
My advice to getting noticed is get involved. Write threads don't just reply, nobody is going to remember the 150th reply in a popular thread but they will remember the user who created the thread. Also avoid pissing people off if you don't have too, I pissed many people off something I think has prevented me from becoming as popular as other users.
Post on as many boards as possible. Their are certain users who stick to certain boards those users may become popular on those boards but outside of them in the general site their popularity is down!
In the end spammers don't become popular. People don't like them, trolls same thing. If you wanna become popular be an active member of the forum!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
