OT: Llamabeast will become famous soon enough

[Stavis_L]

So...everyone around here "is on a distinguished road", except Llamabeast, who "will become famous soon enough"?

(In case you're wondering, I'm referring to the little icon at the bottom of the user info block for posts, under the thanks. The alt text, specifically.)

Doesn't seem to be tied to post count or admin status...so...anyone know? Llamabeast?

[Frozen Lama]

I'm guessing its tied to the amount of thanked posts. llama has like 400 vs everyone else with much less.

[Sombre]

It's based on reputation. You can mess with people's rep via a button on here somewhere.

So in other words, completely meaningless, like the thanked x times stuff.

I routinely give people bad rep when they use words starting with D. I give them positive rep when they used words ending with D. I get confused when they said damned or died.

[Ballbarian]

You can give someone a point of reputation via the little scales in the upper right hand corner of their post. It is like thanks, except you can only give it to the person once.

I haven't paid much attention to the reputation thing (I thought it didn't do anything), but I notice thanks. It's a good, cheap way to pay for free things and show gratitude for positive contributions. I hope it is not completely meaningless, because llamabeast deserves a fair bit of gratitude and positive feedback for all that he has done for this community.

Two penguins for llamabeast!

[Stavis_L]

Originally Posted by Ballbarian

I hope it is not completely meaningless, because llamabeast deserves a fair bit of gratitude and positive feedback for all that he has done for this community.

Two penguins for llamabeast!

To be clear, my thanks to Sombre is in regard to his informational posting, which answered my question, and not for the sarcastic commentary following (although I do find it ironically humorous.)

As to whether thanks/reputation are "completely meaningless", I suppose the value is in the eye of the granter and grantee.

And Llamabeast deserves as many penguins as he wants and can use.

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[lch]

I give thanks to a post when I am too lazy to write a reply based on the following factors:

• if somebody worked and created something, as thanks for the effort
• if the post takes the words right out of my mouth and correlates to what I'd have written as well
• if the post is funny and I like the humour

That requires one mouse click. Giving reputation requires two mouseclicks as well as having to enter a short explanation for giving the rep, plus it isn't directly visible to others as giving thanks is, so I tend to avoid that or only do it in special cases, with such useful reasons for giving reputation as "LOL", "Yeah, right!", "Totally, dude" or "This guy rocks/sucks".

We already noticed since the last few years that posts by llamabeast get thanked regardless of what he writes. Saying that the llamaserver is down will draw thanks just as much as announcing that it's finally repaired, or llamabeast acknowledging that it's wreaking havoc and spamming the email boxes of everybody because of a programming error. Thank you, thank you for that! Thanks for llamabeast posts are more a way of saying "llamabeast posted something and I have read it!" as appropriate for a celebrity. KO receives similar attention, while posts by JK go by largely unnoticed. You need to prep up your reputation on these forums, JK!

But to be honest, I don't have any quibble about llamabeast's thanks counter, since as Ballbarian already stated, the positive feedback is quite appropriate; or that I'd be concerned about Baalz counter because of all those playing guides that he writes. I'm more miffed at vfb because the guy only writes crazy posts like I do and his thanks counter is still bigger than mine. What's up with that?

P.S.: lch is on a distinguished road, as pretty much everybody else. Maerlande is an unknown quantity at this point.

[Sombre]

I have seen threads where a group of people go back and forth thanking each other for the drivel they post.

I hope this will be one of them!

I also enjoy that some people thank everyone who posts in their thread. I notice that they get a lot more replies that way too. Win win.

[Stagger Lee]

rdonj has been an unknown quantity since I joined this forum. I asked pyg about it once, but he thought I was drunk.

[Calahan]

FYI - Anyone can see their current 'reputation score' by going to their control panel (click on 'User CP' from the forum menu) and looking towards the bottom of the screen.

There you might (I say "might", because I have no idea what you see if nobody has left you any reputation at all) see a section headed 'Latest Reputation Received", indicating the posts you have made that people have left good (green) or bad (red) reputation for regarding those specific posts. Along with any (anonymous) comments left regarding those posts by the people who rep-ed them.

Also displayed is your current points total. But I have no idea what this number really means, what number of points new forum members start on, or what number of points corresponds to what reputation (on distinguished road, unknown quantity, etc). I'm sure the info is on the Shrapnel forums somewhere for anyone interested in hunting it down (Not It). If I had to guess I'd say everyone starts on zero, and unknown quantity kicks in if your points go negative from bad reps.

This theory also fits with Maerlande and rdonj, since they are both very cruel IRC thugs, who regularly threaten and abuse the genuinely good, kind and caring IRC members such as Sombre and Jurri.

[Edi]

Reputation can be added to the same person more than once, but you need to add reputation to 20 different people before you can give someone else another point. How it all works otehrwise I have no idea.