What amount of forum posts, rank and/or points make a veteran user? Or is it post quality? Can veteran users be called veteran just from time? I'd like to hear your opinion (obviously.
Has anyone got a merit before they took out the rating up of comments?
Plenty of people have. Ask a mod.
A verteran = long activity time.
I second this, except those are called Veterans
Merits are hard to get due to spammers (not the mdos fault)
I can't really be spammers either, since the mods sift through the spam and look for merit-worthy reviews, while deleting the spam. Reviews are naturally longer, and since spam is generally small, they just sorta blend in and not cause a disruption for anyone looking for reviews.
I can't really be spammers either, since the mods sift through the spam and look for merit-worthy reviews, while deleting the spam. Reviews are naturally longer, and since spam is generally small, they just sorta blend in and not cause a disruption for anyone looking for reviews.
Yes it can. If there is one merit per 10 pages of spam. you have to click, and delete that spam one, by one. This over multiple gmaes, is not worth a mods time.
Yes it can. If there is one merit per 10 pages of spam. you have to click, and delete that spam one, by one. This over multiple gmaes, is not worth a mods time.
That doesn't mean reviews are affected by spammers. All the mods have to do is locate a review, merit it, then proceed to delete spam if they wanted. It isn't where the reviews are drowned in spam comments, because the reviews are clearly more noticeable than they are.
I've scanned through old reviews and looked over the old standards of giving merits. I realise how easy it was to get 'em back then. This comment was only a couple of sentences long and it got a merit. That's why I have to disagree with Eddie.
Well at this point I think there are so many news game and games in general with thousands of posts per minute the only way to get merit is basically write a comment for an new game and hope the mods check it. Which doesn't really sound like a solid system to me.
I agree with you. I also note that the standards were tightened and merit giving was restricted. There used to be a Merit Recognition thing going on where people could nominate others but it got abused by freeloaders who nominated themselves with sockpuppet accounts.
It's just that the Merit Recognition they had back then was to exposed into thin air. As Knight explained, people abused it.
Yes it can. If there is one merit per 10 pages of spam. you have to click, and delete that spam one, by one. This over multiple gmaes, is not worth a mods time.
Agreed. Even when there are a bunch of mods put to delete spam. It's not the fun you are looking for in a flash gaming site.
veteran users are those people you always see everywhere, are well known, respected, i dont think it has anything to do with how long you've been here at all
In my opinion veterans are the users who have been here long enough to be called "experienced". This quality has nothing to do with the amount of posts or points that would indicate a regular.
If you know how things work, if you know how things used to be and what changed and how because you remember (not because you were told), then you're probably a veteran user.
I've been around since August '08 and know most of what's been going on since, so I assume I count as one. :P
