Why is the points system being deleted?

Echuu Shen-Jon · 07-08-2003, 02:33 PM

Why.

And which features, we could buy earlier will be gone in a while?

-=ReApEr=- · 07-08-2003, 03:00 PM

Point system is going, as it has been misused and out lived it's time. It is being replaced with a new kind of store though.

And again, many of the features have gone due to certain people misusing them.

Semicolon · 07-08-2003, 03:53 PM

I heard that some of the stuff you can buy now will be available free with the new system..

*James Isaac* · 07-08-2003, 04:28 PM

I liked the points system...

It gave a reason to get people posting.

And what features will we still have, and what will be new?

-=ReApEr=- · 07-08-2003, 04:28 PM

That is correct, for example sig images will be avalible to everyone.

**coupes.** · 07-08-2003, 06:05 PM

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Originally posted by james_isaac
I liked the points system...

It gave a reason to get people posting.

Well i think it's a good thing that the point system is on its way out. I think the [only] reason to get people posting should be to have a good discussion and to bring interesting ideas to a topic. I think it's really stupid to want to be the top poster, simply to be the top poster.... I'd rather have 300 posts but everyone thinking i always bring good points, than having 3000 spammish posts.

note: i'm not saying here that people with high post counts are spammers, not all of them.

Mex · 07-08-2003, 06:18 PM

It's being deleted? *Does happy dance* I never liked it from the start.

-=ReApEr=- · 07-09-2003, 04:12 AM

Sure you didn't.

*James Isaac* · 07-09-2003, 04:26 AM

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Originally posted by -=ReApEr=-
That is correct, for example sig images will be avalible to everyone.

Yay! I have this sig. image and avatar I really like - it is for Day of The Aleins:

avatar:

sig. image:

Semicolon · 07-09-2003, 06:38 AM

Interesting AV and Sig....

Echuu Shen-Jon · 07-09-2003, 09:00 AM

Coupes said it. I will also continue to post, it's not that. I just asked why it's deleted!

Oh, and James: You can't use your av and sig. The maximum allowed is av: 70x70 and sig image 500x80!

Semicolon · 07-09-2003, 09:02 AM

Yeah I enjoy posting...Loosing the point system won't affect me at all.

***matt--*** · 07-09-2003, 09:18 AM

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The point system is being removed for several reasons.

It isn't generally accepted.
It creates a lot of spam.
It creates a hostile environment.

Ray Jones · 07-09-2003, 09:36 AM

Yeah, but if everyone is able to get a sig pic ..

1. from start on .. it will cause much more traffic, beside of all the XXX-pics the newbies will send .. So have fun you admins and mods with handle it then.

2. depended from the posts count, it will cause spams again.
(also for anything that will be available at a number of posts)
So keep on having fun as it is all you admins and mods.

some people cant just let it flow.

everybody's greedy if someone has more points and can do this and this. Yeah. What about wait some time, and the be able to do it too? Crap.

So it isnt the pointsystem.. YOU DAMN PEOPLE IS IT. YOU CANT BEHAVE, i say.

Plus it seems that Admins had almost their 19th nervous breakdown. Because of some one cut some custom titles ..

Semicolon · 07-09-2003, 10:09 AM

Ehhh....I don't think anyone will be uploading any porn pics....

SPAM will always be an issue, it can't fully ever go away...

Ray Jones · 07-09-2003, 10:35 AM

OK ill use ### instead XXX because .. it just was meant as placeholder..

Semicolon · 07-09-2003, 12:11 PM

OH! LOL...Oops...

*James Isaac* · 07-09-2003, 03:22 PM

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Originally posted by Echuu Shen-Jon
Oh, and James: You can't use your av and sig. The maximum allowed is av: 70x70 and sig image 500x80!

Ahh... Oh well... I'll just cut down my av. (because it is only 5 pixels too big, and there is that much space at the edge) and I will cut down and scale down my sig. image.

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Originally posted by .:CoupeS:.
Well i think it's a good thing that the point system is on its way out. I think the [only] reason to get people posting should be to have a good discussion and to bring interesting ideas to a topic. I think it's really stupid to want to be the top poster, simply to be the top poster.... I'd rather have 300 posts but everyone thinking i always bring good points, than having 3000 spammish posts.

I'm not saying that the points system made me want to spam. It made me want to stay on the forums over time. If there was not points system, then more people will probably only stay for a week or so, then leave. The points system gave them a reason to stay.

And also, how will we get a username when the system goes? Will it be free? And what about a custom title?

The Cheat · 07-09-2003, 05:54 PM

i dont need the point system because that is not what kept me at the forums, it was the people that kept me here

**RoxStar** · 07-11-2003, 02:34 PM

Will we still be able to get Custom Titles with the new system?

Echuu Shen-Jon · 07-11-2003, 03:12 PM

It has always been possible to do that without points

Just achieve 1000 points.

ZBomber · 07-11-2003, 07:36 PM

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Originally posted by Echuu Shen-Jon
It has always been possible to do that without points Just achieve 1000 points.

You mean, posts, not points. Don't be so mean to the new people.

STTCT · 07-11-2003, 07:48 PM

*points and laughs...

*gets kicked

Yes be nice to the newbs. Nobody besides the higher people know what is really going to happen. The rest is just us guessing.