EVE General Discussion

Didn't your friends like you?

I am note sure who is not trolling in this discussion .... maybe noone

I definitely do not want the Forums to become the pay-to-win cesspit that the actual game has become.

In the forums today we see the classic evolution of the uncharted frontier: it happened in the Wild West of the USA, it happened in null sec in EVE Online, and it is happening in the forums and Evelopedia today. As a new frontier is opened up, the enterprising individuals who are first to enter that space have free range with few restrictions on where they can go and what they can do: resources are plentiful, unclaimed sov is easy to find, unexplored encyclopaedia articles are easy to fill with text.

Over time the barrier to entry increases: there is less wild in the wild west, there is less unclaimed sov in null sec, there are fewer questions unanswered in the Evelopedia, and fewer interesting new topics to discuss which haven't been done to death already.

Ultimately, every like you get today is worth many more likes from a few years ago simply because likes were so readily handed out, and there was new ground to explore on the forums. These days we've just about had it with "why do you create female characters if you're a guy", "I know how to fix AFK cloaking" and "margin trading should be removed from the game." It becomes harder to achieve likes, but that doesn't make the low-like forum poster less powerful or interesting than the high-likes forums whores such as Tippia and Malcanis.

Hang in there, and know that you are appreciated for who you are, not how big your likes count is.

This is why we need a dislike button or block out post button

What we really need is a 'dislike' button.

I object to all this nonsense.

CCP should not spend their precious resources on trivial matter such as PLEX for Likes. They should focus their resources on improving the forum mechanic, graphic and rebalancing forum stats. This is a much worthy cause which will improve all posters forum experience.

Our subscription money should be used wisely; CCP should not go off tangent with silly projects which add no value to posting..

Remember BURN JITA!

Lighten up Ciba - its a pixel centric GAME. Have fun

Hey it is OUR subscription money that they are planning to use for this nonsense. It is bad enough that the posting mechanic is designed for the benefit of large alliances with huge member. Where is solo posting or small gang posting? they all but extinct in the forum. They are turning blind eyes to broken posting mechanic because it benefits large alliances with their huge RMT operation.

Some people have multiple accounts and will use these to give themselves some likes in order to "boost" the credibility of their replies. Other people are just popular and have a lot of *ss kissing fans. Some posters understand the "culture" of most forum readers and will post replies that is in line with "the culture" just to get likes. Some get likes because their are really funny. A few get likes because their posts make a lot of sense and are contructive.

But bottom line, do not let yourself influenced by that statistic.

says the person with over 100 likes

How bout I care.
CCP has been buffing trolls and ignoring quality posts for almost a year now.
How are we suppose to get our forum alts trained If we cant even hold our own against big Alliance rhetoric and propaganda threads. There needs to be something that we can use to get our topics liked.
We're not all Chribba and we're not all Harry Forever either.