Who are your favorite forum posters?

Oof, pass on the orange juice. Only time I ever have it is when my blood sugar is crashing and I hate hate hate hate hate it so much, bleh :nauseated_face:

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I donā€™t usually drink Orange Juice or any form of fruit juice, but I always do when I have psychedelics. The properties of citrus enhance the absorption of psychoactive compounds in the digestive system. I also only eat mangos when Iā€™m smoking or eating high-potency edibles because of the quercetin.

Yeah I always heard stuff about mangoes but never tried it personally.

According to my profile ā€”

Click the image to see the entire thing. I am really bad at giving out likes though. I should do so more often.

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ty alot pepole so nise on WOW form i love all of then !

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Took you long enough!

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i take longtime i am a busy , i think 70 yare later i gonna do somany post on the WOW form !

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Aw and we appreciate you showing up just for us <3

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We love and appreciate you.

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Me, myself, and I. Duh!

I didnā€™t realize it tracked this info.

Most Liked by:
Brew
Daark
Pyri
Sentenza
Taree
Nikolo

Most Liked:
Brewa
Annastasi
Sosari
Sentenza
Akston
Paeldryth

Yes!
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No wait, thatā€™s not him. Celebrate is a troll Druid Iā€™m pretty sure. A female troll for sure though

Iā€™ve been on and off WoW forums for ages through its various incarnations. Thereā€™s a bit of a secret sauce to it, for those who really want to pump up their numbers. Itā€™s pretty formulaic. Likes tend to accrue most heavily for early opposing replies to contentious threads. The most common pattern being:

  1. Someone makes a post with a position on some issue with opposing sides.
  2. Early post rebuts / mocks / makes light of the OPā€™s position.
  3. People throw a ā€œlikeā€ at that early (opposing / mocking) post to register opposition to the original poster. Thatā€™s USUALLY the most liked post in a thread where there are two sides arguing.
  4. People also throw likes at the original poster, and the first early supporting posts, though typically at a lesser rate than the first opposing posts. That rule can change if the subject is especially heated though with extremely high engagement, which happens the most on political threads (though moderators often make deletions, which can skew the ā€œlikeā€ breakdown substantially). Once every while however you do get a super heated thread thatā€™s purely on a game topic.
  5. Once you jump 20 posts down, the rate of ā€œlikesā€ drops sharply for everybody on any thread.

Leaving aside the rare super heated threads, on common threads (for some reason) even when people support an original poster in slightly higher numbers, thread-supporters tend to just be less likely to remember to ā€œlikeā€ the original post, and instead jump straight into replying in support with their own post (often in the form of a reply against the ā€œoppositionā€ to the OP rather than a reply to a fellow supporter - people just love to argue).

WoW forum posters, on average, are not very engaged in the ā€œlikeā€ button compared to a place like reddit, and the thing that reminds them to use it the most kind of reflects some inherent negativity (using it the most on the first opposing post(s) as a kind of substitute way to register a ā€œdislikeā€).

Kind of matching this, I think the period of highest engagement with the ā€œlikeā€ button was back when there was also a ā€œdislikeā€ button. I remember tons of posts back then having their votes change between +1 and -1 and back again through a day, because people only remembered they had a ā€œlikeā€ button when they saw people using the dislike button, and theyā€™d throw the ā€œlikeā€ to even the scales for someone on their side. Though even then, really deep in threads, players would still stop paying attention to their ā€œlikeā€ button, and youā€™d see various people arguing with each other all with ā€œ1 dislikeā€ because the only person voting on their posts was the person they were in a fight with (and you couldnā€™t vote on your own post). At the time, I thought that was one of the big reasons they got rid of the dislike button, that outside of the first few pages of a thread (no infinite scrolling back then), too many posts just had ā€œ-1ā€ scores as people used the ā€œdislikeā€ to strike at whoever was arguing with them.

All of that is to say, while it doesnā€™t sound like novel or deep advice or anything people donā€™t intuitively already expect, if a regular wants to increase their profile of likes, it really comes down to frequent engagement on contentious threads and especially having early reply posts lots of people are likely to see (and especially likely to use to register their dislike of the original post). If a regular is posting a lot on less contentious threads, and often jumping in on already-long threads rather than at an early stage, theyā€™ll have fewer ā€œlikesā€ than someone posting half as much, but who does so early in a threadā€™s life and in opposition to contentious original posts.

Not that unique personality doesnā€™t come into it either. Itā€™s not 100% formulaic. But I do think that formula is a pretty accurate description of how ā€œlikesā€ tend to function here as a rule. (At least, thatā€™s my view based on many years of observation).

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Eh, iā€™ve been here for years and never get mentioned in threads like these. It doesnā€™t bother me. Iā€™m not for everyone :slight_smile:

I did have a fan once, like, many years ago. It was weird. Not a friend, a fan. He would hype me in threads.

I have made some very good friends here, and through one of them i found my current guild that has many friends, including my best friend. So at the end of the day my time here has been worthwhile.

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Averax is rated PG13 by the ESRB board XDā€¦

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Idk how to describe itā€¦ I look around at ppl buying followers to seem more desirable on social media, ppl climbing over others for gains, ppl wanting to be tHe bEsT. Itā€™s so ugly. Very ugly.

News flash, there will always be someone better than me and you in every way (this isnā€™t pointed at you Tor, but do you get wut Iā€™m throwing down rn?)

There is a difference between some self confidence vs arrogance and being blinded by pride.

I look at someone who is naturally so beautiful on the outside to me and inside from what Iā€™ve deduced (but I will know the real her) - and that is Scarlett Johansson. She doesnā€™t have social media, she isnā€™t talking about mUH fAnS and going around saying eVeRyOnE lOvEs mE. Yes, she is famous and maybe this is a poor example but itā€™s the one I have. She just, is and sheā€™s got it and she doesnā€™t do stupid gimmicks to be ā€œsomethingā€.

This is how I feel about the forums and some folks here. Iā€™ve said some ppl are annoying, Iā€™m sure I am to many. I donā€™t really know anyone here to make that judgement call but Iā€™ve said it what from they have presented here. Weā€™re all flawed and I feel bad for some good folks here who may not have been mentioned.

Anyway, enjoy my unfiltered and unedited mess of text that spilled out of my brain onto my fingers and into this thread xD

Iā€™m on my way out of the forums. Not paying a sub to write here anymore and my kids are over WoW because theyā€™re playing games that are more fun to them.

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:smiling_face_with_tear:

Iā€™ve been on involuntary leave for a month, but it ended today!

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Oh snap you kept your TL. Welcome back!

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Yep, for reasons Iā€™ve never been able to determine, I seem to be immune to losing it.

Iā€™m not inclined to ask questions :eyes:

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