When I visit the forum my first stop is the Best Of category. It shows which posts, discussions, etc are trending. The Best Of currently consists of posts from one year ago made by
@PHOEBESMOM601.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/bestof/everything
How does this happen? It happens when someone goes back and likes a post that already had a lot of likes. Thus, throwing it back into the best of category. You can also see that this poster is currently at the top of the leaderboard. Leading one to believe that someone has gone back and liked all of this users posts. What is wrong with people that put such stock in something so meaningless? I don't care but when it effects how the Best Of is actually supposed to work then it is a problem. So seriously. Just stop.
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What? I don't even look at the leaderboard. So what? I went to see what you were talking about and I saw a few of mine where they got a lot of likes (like seventeen, woo, that's a lot?) Maybe people agree with me? I think they do...sometimes. Best of used to have fights and rude comments as the very best..so now you want to change it to what? It depends on how many awesomes or likes a thread gets. And I'm pretty sure by going back and looking at the numbers on some of my comments I had posted last week or last month, those 'likes' were already there..because I'm funny. ROFL. Seriously I know many who agreed with me about C&D bugs.
Believe what you want but what does Phoebe have to do with me? and so what if someone (whoever) liked one of her post or comments? Who cares who is on a leaderboard? Only those that have an ego.
ETA: And if I am on the leaderboard this week, I have spent the last three months in TS2 section where we don't mind liking or disagreeing about stuff. Maybe I got a few likes for pictures of custom content and hoods I have been building/Sim modeling etc. I know I got a few everytime I change my avi to show what I have been doing...since I don't have a picture service I change my avi almost three times a week. lol
Just because a post is old doesn't mean that there's any reason why it shouldn't show up in the Best of section.
And maybe a poster saw an insightful post by phoebesmom and later by Cinebar and decided to go read more of their posts for more information on the games they play and they liked the posts they liked.
If you think it's a problem, how do you propose it get fixed? If it's even able to be fixed given the limitations of the forum software?
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Maybe the count is a leaderboard glitch? But considering how many points she and or I had, do you realize people would have to bump the numbers up into the thoussands. I have been the leader of the leader board only surpased by Rose and Sparkfairy live time points but got more involved when I went back to TS2. And I did comment often about the C&D EP before it came out. Go look at how many posts I have created, over 900. And how many replies over 20,000...and you want to tell me that's all fake? O.k. No one ever agreed with me in over 20,000 comments in three years. lol.. Be serious. The numbers bear out it stands to reason if you make more comments you would have more numbers. But who cares anyway?
So really, there's nothing wrong with going back to older threads and hitting Insightful, Awesome or Like.
And I hope that we do hear from one of EA_members that was tagged to see what their view is on this thread
And I also agree what @Seera1024 has said about someone reading an insightful post by Phoebesmom or anyone else that may be on the leaderboard list that might not have posted in a while. The people who have hit whichever button on Phoebesmom have every right to go and read other posts made by that person and give out whatever they think that post deserves.
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I'm on the Leaderboard again?: Oh well...
And Congrats to @Cinebar who is in the lead. +3 more points AWESOMED.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Also, @Nikkei_Simmer I enjoy your updates as well even though I haven't had much time to comment as much lately it is still good to see you posting and also thanks for your update in my Christmas thread.
As for the 'Best of' area I never look in there. It is one of those features that turn out to be useless a bit like the badges and of course the notorious 'points' which everyone seems to complain about from time to time
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
A like is a like, an awesome is an awesome, insightful is insightful. If I went to google to search for a TS4 problem I had in my game (or even use the search box on this forum). I'd possibly find a old thread that leads to here. Obviously I don't want to necro an old thread. So I would simply like it because it helped me out. It's no different from going to the EA help and hitting a "helpful" button.
Also not everyone has been on here as long as the rest of us have. Or are just learning about TS4 things (heck maybe even the older games I bet). If they look up a thread that helps them understand both sides, and perhaps they agree with a post that's (believed to be) a 'negative' or 'positive' should they honestly be shamed for that?
To be honest, I had no idea of this "Best Of" feature. I'm guessing they added around the time I took a big break from the forums. But c'mon, this isn't even advertised. I probably would have never known about it if this thread wasn't made. Imagine someone whose new to the forums and is looking at old threads to help them with either a bug, or why something is/not what they expected to be, or maybe a post explain why [enter feature here] should/shouldn't be and it's something they agree on. Any of those posts could be good or bad depending on the person's viewpoint. And if it speaks to the new person, why shouldn't they "like" it instead of necro'ing?
But to put into a thought of conspiracy....that's a bit much.
Over on Facebook you have similar reactions and a notification if you get a like. I get dozens of likes if I dare lets say, speak out against a certain politician for example (the one who thinks that he is PM for some reason) however I will also get someone laughing at me or the odd angry reply. The good thing is though when I get notified from who likes my comment and it is from a regular poster I know that they have got my back in a debate.
Now for The Sims forums I would expect for things to be taken less seriously but after the history of the forums over the past few yeas, experience tells me that the smallest of things can be blown out of proportion.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Y'know...where it says Categories, Discussions, Activity Best Of? At the top of the page.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
@Dreamie209, thank you for posting this. We do have new or even older members who end up using Google and any other search feature on the internet for issues with whichever game they're having a problem with and the web search brings up older posts made on the old TS3. So that person will then take a look at a thread or several threads that their search has brought up and hand out Insightfuls, Likes or Awesomes as well as doing a comment to either say thank you to the members who have replied to that older thread or to say that they had the same issue as the OP and that the solutions in the thread indeed works on fixing them.
Why some members seem to think that there is some foul playing going on here is beyond me. Maybe it's because "The Best of" seems to have more TS3 posts listed than TS4, so they seem to have the need to complain that their favorite Sims game isn't getting as much attention as the older Sims games is. Or maybe it's the other way around with TS4 being on there more than TS3. Maybe it's because they think that certain threads should be there while others have no place on that list. Or maybe they feel that none of their threads that they have created is ever on "The Best Of" page because everyone is still looking at older threads that's still being viewed and commented on day in and day out.
Some members are under the assumption that some of the people on the leaderboard have "other" accounts that they use to give themselves Insightfuls, Likes or Awesomes so that they can stay on the leaderboard week after week. But I really don't think that anyone is going to take the risk of possibly getting one or both of their accounts ban thus making them start all over on this forum to gain full membership.
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Wow... BWA HA HA HA HA... I think ALL of the people on the leaderboard are mature players who don't go for that kind of hijinks. Craven is close to my age, And I'm sure several on that leaderboard are older than I am. We don't deal in juvenile hijinks.
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This.
And if they should ever get rid of all the buttons, then the posts that would show up on "The Best of" would be threads that gets commented on the most. Meaning that if there are threads made 2+ years ago that still gets several comments made to them every day, then they would be the ones to show up on a daily basis on that list. And if that should happen, then there would be some people that would still complain about it. There's no pleasing anyone around here as there will still be complainers about this or that over here and yell that there's a conspiracy on everything that this site has to offer.
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As for the 'What happened in your game today?' thread, it gets updates regularly and has grown a lot in the last few months. It still has quieter days but it is the centre of the TS3 community at the moment and it is still likely to bring new members over time with most of those active six months ago still posting in it now. Many players do seem to give out likes and or awesomes and due to the huge amount readers, a few of with only seldom post themselves it makes sense that a few players get leaderboard boosts. There is still that mystery of why I once got twice as many points as anyone else but I do wonder if that was when the mods had to fix my profile after the mysterious 'incident' involving my profile a few months ago. I will say that I have mentioned this to the mods myself and I hope that they keep an eye on things to prevent that ever happening again.
@Nikkei_Simmer, exactly... Most of the people on the leaderboard could care less about it or didn't know anything about the leaderboard as they're not into such things. I think that the ones who assume that this is happening are ones that have never been on the leaderboard even though they do make several posts during the week. And because they post a lot during the week, they probably also expect to get several Insightfuls, Likes or Awesomes on their posts.
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Why are my visits 20 when I have over 2056 posts including those that aren't counted in Off-Topic Chat?
One reason: I hate logging out and having to log back in. Thank you Sims Forums for letting me Camp Out so that I'm ALWAYS on when I open up my browser and come onto the forum.
Update: Now I'm curious... Refreshed...Guess what boys and girls...it now rolled over to the new week... I'm still on it.
Whoopie.
Update to Update: And now...I'm off. Hey @igazor.... saw you were up there now.
...and no I'm not interested in the Leaderboard...nor am I posting just for the sake of getting on there.
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@Nikkei_Simmer, exactly... My Visit count is 1220 but that doesn't mean that I have an extra account. It just means that even though I tend to stay logged in that there are times that I will get logged out due to the fact that when this site puts up the little notices up top of the home page to let everyone know of new updates for TS4 or for maintenance on the old TS3. Or when I have to clear out my browser history and have to log back in since it clears out my log-in info. Or when I'm using my tablet and I've been logged out due to having to clear browser history off the tablet to make it run better.
I'm like you, I would rather stay logged in even when I'm not on the internet but sometimes that doesn't happen due to the reasons that I've stated above...
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Like if my visit count was 10K from the time that I first joined in March.
Always "River McIrish" ...and maybe some Bebe Hart. ~innocent expression~
Exactly this...
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