Immortal Platypus

NO! CHAOS SCARY!

My bad, I thought that sentence was referring to the following paragraph. While this does deserve to be considered, I don't think that it is the idea of Shardbuddies that is causing this. I think that many people give out rep fairly commonly, especially in FGaRS. It's not uncommon to see random posts with a rep or two. I myself have had some posts that I didn't think deserved rep but got some. While I doubt that it is shardbuddies causing this, it is possible. I think that this is more likely a result of people being friends and following one another so when they get notified of the post, they check quickly and often rep it. I think that without Shardbuddies, this pattern would continue, just with followers instead of Shardbuddies. It is very likely that it is a subconscious action, but one that has more to do with being friends and following each other than it has to do with "Shardbuddies"

Me: doesn't know who Dr. Stone is

The scene around Platypus faded. The door dissolved and Platypus sat on the ground in the arena where he had fought Subversion. He sat there, and he wept. It's over. The end of an era. The time has come for him to depart. My time approaches. He shuddered internally for a time, then he stopped shuddering. He stopped moving. He sat there, tears streaming down his face, for days. Weeks. Months. Time flowed around him, yet he didn't change. He was the same. He was Eternal. Often, immortality is not a blessing, but a curse. Years later, he rose. The world was a different place. Many had left in the time since he had joined. It was time to reset. The Era of Plot had died. There was one true way to begin then next era. Suddenly, Pineapples. And so it was that the next Age came and the Era of Randomness returned to TLT. It's been a good ride Thaid. May your days be blessed and may you be sheltered from the worst storms in life by the Father's hand.

fair enough

I object to the notion that Shardbuddies encourage rep. If you have signatures turned on and see mine, you can see I have a couple shardbuddies. I don't give them rep any more often than to anyone else. I've never heard of that happening either (but it is possible that it does and I just don't know). My Shardbuddies also don't seem to give me rep at disproportionate levels.

It's amazing. YOU GET OUT A LOT MORE THAN YOU PUT IN, BUT YOU DO HAVE TO PUT EFFORT IN!!!!!!! DON'T BE THE PERSON THAT IS JUST THERE!

yo! what's up! I'm not gonna read the 2 pages I missed

food

maybe. but not if there are multiple of us...

dinner time

That's what I'm saying. "Getting rep from roleplaying" is climbing a social ladder. But what about the people who don't RP? That's why I think there should be a couple different rep systems

true Don't worry Cat. Eddie loves us. And we could totally beat her if it came down to it

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no you didn't

counter-counter point: I too like rep. But it has some serious flaws. A fairly significant part of your premise is found in the second paragraph. "And frankly, with how conservative Sharders tend to be with giving rep" is not an entirely accurate statement. This is not entirely true. I know that several people run out of rep multiple times a week. I've seen posts about upping the rep limit. Now compare these people to me. If we went through all the rep I've given in my entire year and a half ish on the shard, it would probably be less than 100, almost assuredly less than 150. Addressing your first paragraph, the point about "climbing the social ladder" is also not entirely correct. I don't have a ton of rep (and I don't really care how much I have), but I would say that climbing the social ladder is not a great way to put it. For example, I would guess that most of the rep comes from SUs and RPs. Some people don't use those very often, or at all, instead spending their time in the Q&A or Discussion areas. These people have an inherent disadvantage when it comes to gaining rep. Compare that to someone who doesn't spend time in Q&A or Discussion at all, and instead is in RPs and AMAs and SUs. They have more rep, but that doesn't meant that the person in Q&A is lower on the social ladder, just that they hang out in different circles (which is fine). (I too love the ranks.) IMO, we should have a couple different rep systems (one for RPs, one for Q&As/Discussions, etc.). We could also take down leaderboards/winning the day. This is a very tricky topic with a lot of nuance to it, and I'm sure the mod team will put thought into it, and if we see a change, I'm sure they'll explain it, if we don't, I'm still sure they'll explain it.

they're very useful

go read 2nd Nephi 9:34. then stop lying

I use soles

if @Edema Rue tells you we're bullying her, she's lying

what? bye wiz! we'll miss ya!

it took a lot of time any many spare souls

@Edema Rue I HAVE RETURNED! bye now. have fun!

with a lot of time on my hands

I once made a cowboy cowboy