Dear Lord almighty it was just a suggestion people.
'S cool, we like suggestions. We just like tearing them apart too. :P Or is that just me?
I didn't say that. I said saying there would be spam is no reason to down something.
This is a reasonable point, however, more spam means more that we need to hunt down and delete. If we were more mods or more efficient, it would be a lot less of a point against suggestions like this. However, more work + basically no actual gain from the suggestion... Yeah, uhm.
It's just another way to gain AP, but it could cause a lot of useless mess in the forums, and a lot of unnecessary work for the mods. Given that "new ways to gain AP" are in the List of Common Suggestions as something we really don't need to see more of... Well...
If you don't think that a moderator hasn't seen a long comment on a game, read the first few sentences, and gave it a merit, you are sorely mistaken.
If any of us have actually done so, whoever has been doing it very wrong. It may be that the standards just vary some, but if you seriously think a merit has been given out on such loose grounds, I wouldn't mind a link to it for further "investigation" (not really as serious as investigation, but words).
Two mods? Jeebus. Anyway, well if you are in relationships (Sure) have jobs (Sure) and have lives (Sure) then what are you doing here?
Lol. Just like a the majority of the users we come on here when we're not busy with real life. The time that this is varies from mod to mod - Asherlee has a lot of work hours and can only get on every so often, Cenere has just had a bunch of exams and papers that needs writing, Strop is very busy doing his "ninja business" and whatever else it is he actually has to do to become a doctor. I've been away, busy with scraping money together to get to keep my apartment and finding something to do to keep an income. We all have some form of life outside the internet.
What we are doing here is voluntary work for the site. We do not get payed anything. We are spending our free time voluntarily dealing with spam and questions and whatnot. We have a limited selection of tools that we have been entrusted with. We're here to help keep the site running smoothly, cleanly, and with a minimum of confused users.
Totally forgot if I was going somewhere with that.
Just because you apparently can't control the forums doesn't mean a forum idea is bad.
It's not that we can't. If someone starts creating a bunch of spam threads, we can just go delete them all. However, that's a bunch of time wasted. Why waste that time?
Look at it this way: Do you get two points for making a game? No. You you get more points for making a game than for commenting on one.
I'm assuming you're comparing this to "Make a thread vs. Comment on a thread" - however, it's not a fair comparison.
Creating a game requires a LOT of work, ideas, coding, drawing, writing... Ton of work. Actually the 20 AP is a rather silly amount to award for all that, but the general impression is that the game developers do not care about these points anyway. They want their games played.
Commenting on a game requires nothing more than the ability to press keys on a keyboard, not necessarily in a coherent matter (although a comment is a lot less likely to be deleted if it's actually showing the commenter played the game before writing anything).
Creating a thread, however, requires absolutely nothing more than replying to a thread does. Well, except for knowing where the "New Thread" button is.
