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How to make people like you in Eve?

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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#81 - 2013-06-28 16:07:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Mallak Azaria
Find something you like doing in game, meet people that also like doing that thing. You'll make friends. And be a nice person, I've made a lot of friends by being nice.

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Vera Algaert
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#82 - 2013-06-28 16:36:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Vera Algaert
keep your head down and your mouth shut.

if you can't keep your mouth shut, there's a great analysis of upvote behavior buried somewhere on the TEST forums - look for it. I'm no longer in TEST otherwise I'd link it and I don't remember the author (possibly badasskitty?) but it had some good analysis on the characteristics of popular posters and advice on how to get there.

The tl;dr was along the lines of: build a reputation by following popular posters around drafting off them. Stay away from truly controversial issues (but try to be first to the circlejerk outrage), stick to parroting uber-posters and become a familiar face. Only once you have a solid reputation you can carefully exit the slipstream and start to float your own views on some issues.

(Of course I never followed this rule myself because I can't keep my mouth shut at all, but then I also had some mass-downvoted posts to my name on the TEST forums...)

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