Most helpful forum users should be rewarded!
I can see the rage at not being voted “most helpful”. Then the ensueing link spam to try to win that popularity contest.
I can see the rage at not being voted “most helpful”. Then the ensueing link spam to try to win that popularity contest.
no what I see…the guy who is the biggest troll winning….the guy who reply’s to everything but never gives any positive input only tries to lock up every post….
I’m against this. As nice as it would be to have a reward for being nice to new players, the forums really isn’t the place for that. It’s isn’t a Forum Wars, or a MMOFPG (massive multiplayer online forum playing game), but the forums are just a place to go find answers to questions which you may not be able to get in the game while playing it.
I’d rather not see the forums become little more than a popularity contest where people spam as many responses (regardless of usefulness or helpfulness) as possible just to get noticed. Being helpful should be its own reward, surely?
I’ve seen this sort of thing happen on other sites, where people start “Ask me anything!” threads only to not have the slightest clue on how to answer peoples questions, or answer every single thread they come across with a load of rumour or speculation instead of hard facts just to earn some meaningless reward.
I stole a special snowflake’s future by exercising my democratic right to vote.
I can see the rage at not being voted “most helpful”. Then the ensueing link spam to try to win that popularity contest.
no what I see…the guy who is the biggest troll winning….the guy who reply’s to everything but never gives any positive input only tries to lock up every post….
See what I was thinking is sometimes, when I offer the actual, helpful solution… the person calls me a troll and says “u dont work for anet!”. Or they want to argue about the TOS. And then the thread either gets locked, or Gaile comes in and repeats what I (and by that point 6 other people) have said.
So who’s deciding what “helpful” is?
I am destruction itself. I also bake cookies.
ArenaNet should consider Rewarding the most helpful Forum users. If someone answers to many questions, gives specific links for more information and is passionate to help his gamemates, this person deserves some Gems or other in-game stuff.
