Do u want a WEIRD thing?, look at this...

Guys,

Remember my thread about the best-worst-weird things in AO?, well, i have a weird thing to add.

Yesterday i wrote a thread called "NEGG me or BANN me... i don't care..." and it was having very good posts and answers from different members. All was OK. Night came and i went to sleep. Today i wake up, had breakfast, logged to AO and saw the thread went suicidal. I really couldn't believe it so i entered the thread and realized that 8 members that asked in it were CONSECUTIVELY NEGGED leaving their APs bars in a negative state. All of them exactly the same. Obviously i was the first posting there but weirdly i haven't been negged. The neggings start from the second post and i think the last members that post in the thread weren't negged too because the thread went suicidal before he/her/they could negg them.

I think this is pathetic, unfair and someone is meesing the things up here in AO.

Take a look a the thread here

Please, tell me what do you think?

Thanks,

DKRR

Edit: Like it or not i will green all this 8 members to balance this situation. I really detest that kind of unfair matters and i would stop it if i can, but i can't so at least i will do something to revert the unfair neggings.

It was killed by some one who doesnt like you..or the the thread or what not.....
ugh....I hate it when this happens...it's happened before.

that is weird. u were asking to get negged (as a joke) and you are just about the only one that didn't. i don't get it either

he did get negged.....but he had more +AP's added....so you don't see it that much.

Noia,

No, drew is right, i wasn't negged in that thread, that's weird too!!!

Bye,

DKRR

so the q is, why were you just about the only person not negged when just about everyone who posted said the same thing?

Edit: Just wanted to show you what we are talking about

Thread Starter
-DaRK-RaiDeR- AntiOnline Senior Member

People Given Bad AO points
neel - AntiOnline Addict
bshver - AntiOnline Newbie
Noia - AntiOnline Senior Member
Neo-Icarus - AntiOnline Newbie
mayhem991 - AntiOnline Newbie
techtech - AntiOnline Newbie
Dr Toker - AntiOnline Senior Member
zaggy - AntiOnline Addict

People left 50/50 (Last 3 posts)
Tedob1 - AntiOnline Senior Member
phaza7 - AntiOnline Member
mohaughn - AntiOnline Jr. Member

This really sucks..... Why did this happen? I cant imagine that the thread had any poor quality in it. I dunno what to think. It has happened before, yes Noia. It would be interesting to know if those negs were done by one person or more, was it newbies who did this, or members, was it a personal act against Dark, or the users who replied? I have mentioned the idea in previous antipoint complaint threads that maybe its a good idea to only let jr members and up have the ability to assign antipoints. Let it come as a site earned benefit once you have a certain number of posts. That would help to stop people signing up only to neg people. It would also allow newbies to understand AO better before using the antipoints feature. It can result in people leaving AO, or getting banned, and its the users on AO that make AO what it is. The people who have a higher status on AO obviosly dont missuse this (unless its a personal matter) because for someone who is on AO that long proves that he/she enjoys AO alot, and supports it. Let this idea be heard and let someone do something about it. Thats the only solution i can think of and keep the antipoints system in general. Unless you are thinking of taking out the antipoint system totally (which would mean that there would be alot of useless threads). I still dont think that the antipoints really matter that much, i dont care if i have many greens or whatever. But i would care if i get banned because of it (except if i deserve it ofcourse). Please let this be the last thread with this issue, as this issue is becomming boring and very annoying. Find a solution, and make it happen. Ofcourse there will be many other solutions (i cant think of any others, cause im to upset/bored to waste my time with these things), so give your ideas, and make em happen.

Cheers everyone.

Guys,

Here you have a screenshot of the balance i have made with the 8 members that were unfairly negged. I have greened all of them.

Bye,

DKRR

nice job DKRR.
it's good to know AO has members like yourself.

This is AP Abuse he/she is at risk of getting banned!

no insault to zaggy or any thing I mean he's a great member
but ive noticed is usually in a post that dies
I don't know my im being paranoid.....
and zaggy if you read this im not accusing u.
most likely it's coincidence

Hey,

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maybe its a good idea to only let jr members and up have the ability to assign antipoints. Let it come as a site earned benefit once you have a certain number of posts.

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I was under the impression that you did have to be a Jr. to assign pos/negg AP's anyway and that newbs can either just agree or disagreee with the post but couldnt assign them either way as one or the other... ive had threads/posts that received grey points with good compliments the person obviously approved or got something out of it that he/she liked and it didnt add or subtract from my AP's at all so thats where i assumed you had to be a jr. before you were able to

it does suck though what happen :( i saw the thread .. and most of the replies were just peoples opinions on the subject .. which is what DKKR was asking anyways :confused:

Antipoints can be assigned and be counted by anyone who has enough greens, regardless of rank. I tried searching to find the exact number but my search feature doesn't seem to be working today. I think it is 50 AP's.

It is extremely sad that some people on AO feel the need to abuse the AP system. In the past members who do this end up getting banned. They are unable to get away with it for long.

I agree with -DaRK-RaiDeR- that we have to balance things out when we see unfair AP assignments. I have done this many times with the note that the person didn't deserve neg's for their post.

I think it was all based on the twisted sense of humor of someone who thought it would be really ironic if a thread on negative APs and how they affect people, would get negged to death. Another possibility is that the person was trying to prove some point, and trying to show us we are hypocritical when we talk about APs not being important. I got negged in that thread and I don't think I deserved it, but that doesn't mean I'm going to leave AO, or anything like that. This was 1 person, and I know there are a lot of other good people here I can still learn from.

Oh, and straight from my post in the suicidal thread:
"Neg me if you want to. I don't care!! ;) "

Thread *yawn* closed.