the point system works. book it.
The Rise of Bouje has proven to me the point system can, and will, work.
He made an objectionable argument in one thread and was down to -400000000. But because he stuck with it and didn't deliberately troll, he has quickly climbed out.
Contrast with BlueFront, a deliberate troll who made one thread and then continued to be a douche. Still -400000
Ipso Facto, it works.
Should posters who make ridiculously wrong predictions be docked points retroactively? I say yes.
He was banned because people elsewhere were 1) taking him seriously and 2) confusing him with MGoBlog as a whole. The credibility hit was unacceptable, and since he was just a schtick I didn't feel too bad about killing him. I bet someone who still comments regularly was THE KNOWLEDGE.
What I'd like to know
Is who the Haiku guy is
His posts are soothing
and feel less informed now that he is gone
so much KNOWLEDGE to pass on to all of us. He was like a more pissed off assured of himself Bistro from the Scout Michigan board a while ago.
For anyone who remembers Bistro his posts were kind of like GBMW saying that someone from the team will leave before the season starts. Ya know vague predictions that can come true but if they don't he still has the outs of "well I guess they upped their grades" type of thing.
People like Bistro make the message boards fun, sure they're an idiot but with their crazy predictions it was a good time.
That I have no idea how the hell I'm positive. I counted easily like -300/400 (when I finally got positive) in that thread alone and even some more today when I first started posting again. I really have no idea where this 200 points came from....
And if we were to get retroactive points for ridiculously wrong predictions we'd all be -400000000 for last year
I think you have Brian or some other benevolent MGoOmniscient being to thank.
Thanks to whoever gave me the +200 hp boost. If it was Brian again thanks I promise I'll be good from now on. I swear though it wasn't me I don't pad stats lol
You are on a Rolle
Excellent
I didn't do it.
EDIT: and I just checked like five pages of his point totals and they're all upvotes. WTF has he been posting?
In that case, I'm somewhat at a loss. I'm not about to start adding them up, but maybe this thread partly explains where a good percentage of the points came from:
http://mgoblog.com/content/rivals250-updated-3-um-commits
thread. I had at least 10 -20/-40 posts in the "Rolle Fiasco" so like I said I have no idea where these magical points came from.
There you go, July 21, 20009 will be known as the "Rolle Fiasco" from here on out.
Why wait 18,000 years.... let's start it now. :)
He posted every other line in the second thread about rivals. It actually was more annoying than him talking about FSU.
I actually think it's a result of the community self-correcting. Bouje said something moronic, and doggedly defended it. He came back the next day, acknowledged that he said something moronic, and established that he wasn't a troll. A number of people clearly felt that he had been torpedoed a tad excessively, and upvoted his ensuing posts. If I were you Brian, I'd be amazed that this was a rare case of people in an internet community being nice to each other.
Agreed. I think that folks felt a bit of pity.
Though the insane number of posts he makes also definitely played a role in getting him back from the dead.
Look at Bluefront he made a ton of posts and that only made things worse.... I still have no idea how I came back from the dead.... The plus 1 or 2 that I get for the post is well and good but only if I don't get negged -10 lol. It can work both ways
Definitely, infinite posting along can't make it happen.
But not totally comparable to BlueFront because you're not coming out of left field - seemingly on purpose - every time you post, so people felt bad about all of the negging and helped you out.
You got in a rut and found a way out - kudos for that! It would have been just as easy to just give up or turn into an angry troll.
I think we all felt sorry for him
I just wanted to slowly grind my way back from the abyss by September.
But now I'm back to even higher than I started.... I think that I've had enough and people need to start treating me normal again. I didn't ask for this I didn't want pity.
I want to see somebody go from INTMIN to INTMAX through integer overflow.
where's bluefront
... and some day Shock and Bluefront will bump into each other on the 2's complement circle and do a little jig together.
is to reach 1000 points and then crash spectacularly in an epic flame out.
And then step three is profit.
I thought you were on step two. I'm sorry. Retroactive points coming your way.
Props to your name and avatar. But I'm just wondering - did you edit your identity or were the beneficiary of similar kindness since I never saw you post before today?
Maybe you won't answer this question. That's alright.
But the cigar avatar is new.
...as a matter of fact. Before that I was just another name.
But no, I've been Foote Fetish ever since I started commenting.
Foote Fetish has definitely taken a step forward with that exceptionally fresh avatar.
I will finally get an avatar if and when I find something similarly awesome.
Yeah took a little while to find something not Steelers related.
I'm kind of shocked I have positive points.
NEGGED
I think one of my favorite posts of the past few days was bouje's explanation of the two different definitions of the verb "neg."
I think that was my best post of the day by far. It not only explained what he wanted to know but also gave a brief look at pop culture and showed off humor.
I give it an A-
i was pimping the bar as i usually do -- see-through nylon shirt, leather pants, authentic Sioux head dress, medieval leg armor plates and boots -- and some chick started looking at me. she was about a 7.2. i told her that she looked like a female cow that had been domestically assaulted by her bull husband, and that i'd rather stick my dick inside a bear trap. she laughed, i told her i was completely serious. she said it'd be good to get to know me better - i said not good enough.
I won't even mind that you overtake me in points, as long as it's due to this post.
You'll look like no one else in the bar! Girls will either think "What a wild stallion I want to tame him" or "What an idiot". Obviously go for the former.
i'm in a good mood so i'm going to go ahead and assume you are joking
whew
I thought I'd never run into anyone else that's into "Beartrappin".
In a community of like-minded individuals.
once.
I don't think the laws of science really allow you to try it twice - that is, if you do it right the first time.
Maybe after a heavy investment in reconstructive surgery.
I would have fell like a rock.