What is the point of upvoting yourself?

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I see this a lot across various forum posts; people creating some random generally unimportant post and then getting on their alts and upvoting themselves.

I sincerely do not get it. Does it somehow make one feel better seeing all those little :heart: on a post? Are they pleased people will think they are beloved and wise? And does no one get that it is possible to check to see if alts on the account are doing it?

This, as much as over-flagging and alt-commenting, is another reason to institute a one-character-per-account ability to post and comment on the forums. Whether it be by creating a single avatar per account for forum posts or somehow blocking alts from interacting with their own posts, it really needs to be done. While it isn’t exactly life-altering, its rather annoying because you often don’t know if you are responding to one person or half a dozen separate people.

If they can stop you bidding on your own alt sales on the AH, they surely can do the same thing here.

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I don’t know why people do it, but they have said they are working on making everything account-wide rather than character-wide.

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I hadn’t seen that, and that’s good new I think. It will make for a much more reasonable discussion environment. :upside_down_face:

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To quote Asmongold.

"Why would I post something, if I didn’t like it?"

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My self-esteem is rock bottom and needs that little extra boost to stop the claws of existential dread and self-doubt digging into my flesh.

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Eventually you’ll lose enough sanity and think “Hey! This isn’t so bad!”

…while waxing your new 2020 Vette in your driveway…

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I can’t imagine why, you are so attractive! You make me want to create a Dark Iron Dwarf which, given how lovely Gnomes are, is really something. :heart_eyes:

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Because of this.

I don’t post on my main because this guy was my main and now my actual main has no stats.

And because this guy is trust level 3 I can share you a nice WoW comic from some random website, something I cannot do on my other characters: http://www.darklegacycomics.com/673

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People will sink to any depth to get others to adopt their opinions.

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It’s the new age of social media where we have generations of kids that grew up treating themselves as a brand. If you can astro turf your own opinions that’s just second nature.

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They think it makes their opinion more valid.

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On the old forums you’d alt hop and support yourself through various means like bumping/throwing out support/just arguing to keep the thread alive and you could get away with it because the ignore feature was character specific. Then ignore became account wide, but I think that’s gone with these new forums? I think post count is still account wide though

RIP cogshanks.

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Yeh and it does not help if Blizzard are forcing us into higher forums levels for more benefits.

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There’s a serial post liker going around spamming likes on his army of alts presumably to discredit OPs. People generally don’t care to discuss a topic you make when it just looks like you mass upvoted yourself.

It’s pretty scummy but is hilariously effective at derailing a topic.

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I think this is the most obvious reason for setting up the forum avatar system.

I know ESO, for example, has this method and it works well. If you want to use the forum, you have to create a forum avatar and any post or comment you make is via that avatar. I’m presuming the only way around that would be if you had multiple accounts but I’m guessing the number of people who have more than one account is far less than those on singles.

If we had to sign on our avatar to post and comment, that would avoid all that sort of nonsense.

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That’s a good point as well. Anytime you create some sort of quality / performance metric people are going to find ways to game the system.

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That’s why it’s good there is a rumour they are going to make everything account and not character based, people will have one less reason to do this.

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Some people have far too much time on their hands.

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Agree. The whole reward/rating system is stupid in my opinion. Give everyone the same level, and only put in limits if they abuse it.

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Some people have that much spare time on their hands they can freely switch between alts on the forums. I can only dream of such freedom.