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PSwii60 said:
The behavior certain individuals are irrepressible no matter the case, point system or not; it's simply in their nature.


1) Intrinsic/External motivators can encourage or discourage certain behaviors. I don't think you'll deny that.

2) It may be impossible to completely erase a certain behavior. But you can increase or decrease the occurence of those behaviors.

 

... I don't know why I have to state the obvious -.- What a pretentious fucking post.



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Akvod said:
PSwii60 said:
The behavior certain individuals are irrepressible no matter the case, point system or not; it's simply in their nature.


1) Intrinsic/External motivators can encourage or discourage certain behaviors. I don't think you'll deny that.

2) It may be impossible to completely erase a certain behavior. But you can increase or decrease the occurence of those behaviors.

 

... I don't know why I have to state the obvious -.- What a pretentious fucking post.

You've been on this site long enough to know and i would expect you're old enough to know that in every forums there will always be spammers/trolls especially in gaming. Taking away the point system is not going to make any difference. Don't insult me by calling my post pretentious - it's anything but. You don't know me enough to know the motivations of my posts, nor do you know the posters well enough to know their main motivators are to gain points.

There are a few, I don't deny that.

Get over yourself.



It use to matter back when the database was usable but it don't matter much anymore, I do like seeing the credit I got for putting work into the site but it sucks I can't add on it.



PSwii60 said:
Akvod said:
PSwii60 said:
The behavior certain individuals are irrepressible no matter the case, point system or not; it's simply in their nature.


1) Intrinsic/External motivators can encourage or discourage certain behaviors. I don't think you'll deny that.

2) It may be impossible to completely erase a certain behavior. But you can increase or decrease the occurence of those behaviors.

 

... I don't know why I have to state the obvious -.- What a pretentious fucking post.

You've been on this site long enough to know and i would expect you're old enough to know that in every forums there will always be spammers/trolls especially in gaming. Taking away the point system is not going to make any difference. Don't insult me by calling my post pretentious - it's anything but. You don't know me enough to know the motivations of my posts, nor do you know the posters well enough to know their main motivators are to gain points.

There are a few, I don't deny that.

Get over yourself.


I agree that spammer will exist, but I disagree about the fact that getting rid of point is "not going to make any difference".

Bold sounds fucking pretentious enough to me.

Anyway, there's no good reason to fucking keep them. It's just a fucking marketing fad that the site owners jumped on, and people either don't care about it (making it pointless) or encourages bad behavior by the people that do care about it.

 

So anyway, it seems like everyone's in agreement that it's fucking shit. It serves no purpose. So then I see no real argument against getting rid of them, or for keeping them. So I guess we're all in agreement.

*pats hands*



pezus said:
^Akvod: No, we aren't. @Everyone: I'd like a list of spammers. My office. 10 minutes


You're out of line. Come back when you're sober.



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pezus said:
Akvod said:
pezus said:
^Akvod: No, we aren't. @Everyone: I'd like a list of spammers. My office. 10 minutes


You're out of line. Come back when you're sober.

My mind is clear as day


It's fucking night time.



JayWood2010 said:
Does anybody really pay attention to points?

Who are these people who are spamming for points exactly?




Okay, JayWood has convinced me to see things your way. Yesterday we had a fucking "What is your favorite color?" thread.

Get rid of this shit.



badgenome said:
Okay, JayWood has convinced me to see things your way. Yesterday we had a fucking "What is your favorite color?" thread.

Get rid of this shit.


Out of 300 threads.

Big one is JayWood.



Jesus Christ.