Just replying to those who replied me. I've no more opinions about this thread. For now.
Ah Roger, you miss spelled pupolar twice. You replaced it with "popular". Da fauq man?
Ma bad. Pupolar people should really be addressed to as such.
The best line ever said,ever.*sniff sniff* that was beautiful, Killersup almost cried in his ghostly essence.
Hm. Thanks if that was for real.
Let's look at the people who are in the top 10 right now: FT, Ernie, Google57, Roadripper, plokkey, MrDayCee, Carlie, tennisman24, yours truly, and Xcalibur45. As I recall, all of us have at least a fair amount of posts, but the most important source of AP is the crapload of comments we've all made. Tru fax.
You're rather right. But I bet even your comments had some sort of quality.
Plus, when it comes to merits, it's probable that many of these people have buckets of them. Something very unusual to the general AG user.
This thread IS bias.
Eeyup.
And...
My point is, Roger said that the top 10 got to where they were because of the quality forum posts they've made. Not to insult the current crop of users, but I burst into laughter when I saw that. Going back to the past, I've seen people jack their AP counts up without making a meaningful contribution to the forums.
Hm... eh... yep. I've made an unnecessary and wrong generalization. My bad. But there are some on the top-most ranks who have done so.
And I think that the quality of the posts used to lead to more posts. If I see a crappy post, it's not probable that I'll want to start a discussion with this user. Or even wanting to talk to it more. It has happened before with me: I've saw a well-written post and went to the user's profile to comment on it. A convo was trigged and more AP was earned.
tl;dr -- plenty of AP /=/ respect
For sure. But with lot of AP, it comes the highlights of being in the top 10 and getting like a crowd of fans. How many comments FT gets a month from new users who see him at the very top?
Closing arguments: I felt like quoting this:
The Tavern is my home. Everywhere else is a rendezvous point.
Agree'd.