Hypocrites

I'm sure everything written is being looked at, at the least I look at everything.

 

Stories really don't need tells to be good. Those Meatball stories rarely get posts, but they're usually long awaited and really good.

Edit: I hate predictive typing. The word I want is always next to the word it wants...

 

tbh, I agree on almost all of this, if not all of this, and I can support this with my own examples. I post a thread with my opinions and such, and it gets 14 views. Then, a person with higher reputation posts the exact same freaking thing as me, and it gets 8 likes and 300 views on the first day. I'd like to use this in an example called the reputation cycle.

Not all people with reputation are overlooked. For example, Mcc457 is a person perfectly looked. He never tries to hoard attention, and he's an epic person. 70% of threads and posts get attention, 30% does not. However, many are. I wont speak up the people who are, but viewing 3 of their non-report threads shows if they are underlooked, perfect, or overlooked.

Now, back to my example, the reputation cycle is a simple contraption.

Step 1: Gain reputation early on.
Step 2: Get liked, even for things that don't deserve one.
Step 3: People will notice you getting liked, increasing the reputation and making them even more liked.

If you didn't get reputation early on, chances are you won't "win" the cycle.
Just look at the first pages of introductions: the ones that were made up to 3 months ago rarely achieved the cycle.
I'm not trying to spread hate, I'm stating what I personally believe.

 

Yea, i agree.
It's just how it is.
The more popular you are the more you'll get likes and such.
But, I don't really care, it's not a BIG deal.
They do deserve it tho. i mean, they did work hard to get a good reputation.

 

Well, they act like handling that reputation is easy. And they get reputation for that

 

Yes, this is very true.
My story, which I need to get a buttload down after not continuing it yet ;-;, is pretty much crap yet people liked it. You put effort, and that's why I liek your story.

Let me do another example.
Saul, one of the crew, posted a thread on the day rs was added, which was 2+ weeks ago. It has 300-400 views.
Monday, I posted my 'The server is getting better' thread. 20-40 more replies and nearly 1200 views, if not that. That surprised me, as I knew it would get noticed, just, not the most viewed in rs.
Most you of might be wondering why I put it in rs, and not server discussion.
I've had two of my threads already moved from sd because apparently they aren't server related, and I didn't want to do it again.
Surprisingly enough, it got views, even in rs.
Now, the most surprising, is that I got more view count then a crew member. Even check, it's true. ;-;

Also, your title, hypocrite.

Definition: a hypocrite is someone who tells someone and does the opposite.
'Alright kiddies, don't do drugs, they are bad for you' -drug addict. That's hypocrisy.

Your title is wrong, cause no one here is a hypocrite, unless one of us said 'you don't need to be well known to have your threads noticed' and then made a thread that got a lot of views, and then replied with 'pfft I only got these views cause I am popular'. That is a hypocrite in their territory.

 

The definition of Hypocrite doesn't change the point of the thread

 

No, but I don't like words wrongly used.
Plus, a few people may learn what hypocrite meant, so yea :3

 

This thread, along with Mappy's thread, do bring up good points.
Sometimes, however, people look at things and don't comment on them.
Of course, this just pushes "recent threads" down more, which in case it gets less views.
I honestly don't know what to respond to this. It's how it works anywhere you go.
It happens in real life as much it does on the internet. Can't say it any other way.

 

Actually about 60 or so of my threads are ignored, I just don't really care. My first community is of graphic designers and modders it's normal to get very few views, until you start getting better at it.

 

explain to me how instantly, we're hypocrites? is it the story creators? is it the people who read it?
i don't read threads usually. i only focus on the threads in news, off-topic, random spam, and sometimes suggestions. i do look at the rest for what the hey but that's not common. i'm not a story reader. i usually like to chat about a topic.
either way, your term of "hypocrite" does not apply to people like me which consists of 60-70% of the forum members.
it doesn't matter how many replies you get or the number of views. i've had countless threads as mcc said that had no replies on them. just don't give two s***'s and you'll be perfectly fine.

 

To what I read, the real 'problem' is favoritism. Which, in all generality, isn't that bad. Saying not to have favoritism is telling someone not to have preferences. We live our lives with favoritism. Now, Ofcourse, there is the exception of using favoritism when choosing staff, because people usually choose their friends, and not those who are responsible.