Originally posted by muzzleflash
Originally posted by Republican08
I mean people still discount anything I say, because i'm not at a one year mark
Dont worry, everything i say gets discounted as well generally.
Same story with like 99% of ATS IMHO.
Some people just become popular and create like thousands of super flagged threads
I think alot of why lies in how ATS rewards it's users for posts and threads.
Attention or noticeability doesn't, and shouldn't, substitute for overall intelligence and maturity level. But still.. Someone posting a new thread
is going to get alot more people looking at their threads if they've been here a while. Thus, the newer people trying to bring up valid and
thoughtful discussion get lost in the background.
With the star system, people would post stuff like
"Great post! Starred and flagged"
And they would get like 20 stars for their post.
That doesn't make any sense at all, man. That's something that could've been handled via U2U. How does it contribute to the discussion in any
way? Yet, they would get the stars and the points.
Also, some people sit on ATS all day waiting for new threads. Take 2 or 3 highly popular threads in any one section of the discussion boards here and
chances are the first page is always going to be posts from the same members.
Just because of how ATS works statistically, someone posting a thoughtful, well-sourced, valid argument on page 1 is going to get more stars and
points than someone posting that same content on page 10. There's a few reasons for this.. But, mainly, I think it's just because most people
don't read the whole thread; just the first few pages.
How it all works.. It isn't perfect and I think the mods and the ATS leadership all know this. That is one reason they just did-away with the old
points system. I don't think any one way of crediting members for their efforts is going to be perfectly fair and reasonable. There's simply alot
you just can't program when it comes to member activities and members giving other members stars and flags.
But it still is generally true that threads from the newer folks just get washed out by all the other ATS activity. When it could have been an
extremely thought-provoking and interesting thread. It just hits a brick wall sometimes. I can attest to that.
Recently, I posted alot of other comments on this matter in the ATS Issues thread. You can see that post
HERE .
-ChriS