Emblem Discussions

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:25 am

If it's the theory that's been presented, it has a pretty large hole in it. =p

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:31 am

Tural wrote:If it's the theory that's been presented, it has a pretty large hole in it. =p

Damn, well so much for 99%.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:33 am

I didn't say you were wrong, I merely said it may not be right. =p

Some people go unaccounted for in the "Popular Topics" theory, and some get over-accounted for. People such as Shout are absent, yet others with lesser counts have far more.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:36 am

Well I think/thought it's making a new topic and getting a certain amount of views in a short amount of time because the topic isn't considered "new" anymore or gets popular. The topic I just created I had barely any replies at the time but I had a crap load of views and it isn't popular yet.

Like get a decent amount of views before it becomes a popular topic or just get a decent amount of views before the topic is considered old.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:40 am

I'm positive phpBB doesn't store the dates of the views, just the count. Therefore, so many people couldn't have gotten it right when it was added, because it has no way to look into the past at the short-amount-of-time thing. =/

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:45 am

Edited.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:48 am

Not my intention. Whether it is done by the server or by a person, the server can't see the dates of views, nor can a person. How it's done wasn't important to my comment.

StalkingGrunt911 · Post by **StalkingGrunt911** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:04 am

Tural wrote:Not my intention. Whether it is done by the server or by a person, the server can't see the dates of views, nor can a person. How it's done wasn't important to my comment.

Okay I'll back off that subject then. Anyways I'm seriously stumped then I understand what you mean so that puts a big X on my guess. I didn't even expect getting that emblem, but I'm am sure it has to do with topics, because that is all I did do today was create one, maybe a few posts here and there but doubt it did something.

xzodia · Post by **xzodia** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:55 am

Tural wrote:I'm positive phpBB doesn't store the dates of the views, just the count. Therefore, so many people couldn't have gotten it right when it was added, because it has no way to look into the past at the short-amount-of-time thing. =/

then explain how the 'hot topic' thing works? you know when your topic gets one of these

Iron_Forge · Post by **Iron_Forge** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:29 am

Cuda wrote:Why is it so bad to actually know what each one means?

It's quite simple really...Emblems are rewards for doing something good, being in the right place at the right time, making a difference...However, in my opinion, being rewarded for doing something awesome isn't enough...Being rewarded for being awesome naturally, is completely different...

A scenario for you...There's a magical emblem for shaking the hands of 100 people...If this emblem were to exist, and no one knew with a 100% calarity, then those who do it, are probably pretty nice guys, and deserving of the emblem...Oh sure lots of people will have figured out it's for shaking alot of hands, with no real quantitative measure, and they'll probably give it a try, and either get bored or succeed...

The same senario, but now this emblem is listed on the mega list of emblems...Shake 100 peoples hands, and you get an emblem...The amount of hand shaking would skyrocket over night...Everyone would be shaking everyones hand until hitting that magic number, getting the emblem, then never play again...To be honest, this is not the raw natural people we want to reward...

I have alot of emblems...The contest emblem I have, I achieved while proving a point...I don't deserve it in the sense that I participate in alot of contests of that nature...It means much less to me, and I'm sure to others about me, than it does to them...

Emblems should be perceived as a purely positive, and never a negative...Having emblems should make you feel better, not having emblems shouldn't make you feel worse...They're just the communities way of recognizing other people for doing something that helped out in some way...Just because you don't have one doesn't mean you didn't help out, just that you weren't recognized...And in the end, that shouldn't be why you helped out, and if it is, the motivation was wrong, and you're not deserving of the emblem anyways...

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:32 am

O.o

I_F misspelled "scenario" and "succeed".

EDIT: However, after I read the entire thing, it really has a good point or moral to it.

Great job with the story. I love the last few lines about motivation.

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:34 am

DrXThirst wrote:O.o

I_F misspelled "scenario" and "succeed".

Is that helping the discussion of emblems? I think not.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:44 am

xzodia wrote:
Tural wrote:I'm positive phpBB doesn't store the dates of the views, just the count. Therefore, so many people couldn't have gotten it right when it was added, because it has no way to look into the past at the short-amount-of-time thing. =/
then explain how the 'hot topic' thing works? you know when your topic gets one of these

Like Tural said, it stores the count of views. Hot topics are based off the count of views, not a frequency over time.
I'm quite sure of that, at least.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:33 am

xzodia wrote:
Tural wrote:I'm positive phpBB doesn't store the dates of the views, just the count. Therefore, so many people couldn't have gotten it right when it was added, because it has no way to look into the past at the short-amount-of-time thing. =/
then explain how the 'hot topic' thing works? you know when your topic gets one of these

You get those with the view count. It has nothing to do with when it gets views. It could get one view the first day, and 14 sixteen years later and it would have that icon. (Assuming 15 is the number for that icon, I don't know what actually is.)

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 3:33 pm

I heard SG911 and I has flame. ;o

Supermodder911 · Post by **Supermodder911** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 5:21 pm

Yea you do.
Water Emblem ftw.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:22 am

The user who made this topic:http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=5260

Got those:

Supermodder911 · Post by **Supermodder911** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:59 am

neodos wrote:The user who made this topic:http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=5260

Got those:

Outstanding mbmb?

I got a reporting emblem yay.
Now im gonna go for 3 ^'s.

neodos · Post by **neodos** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:09 am

Oh i didn't know snitch was reporting ^^

Well That user made a lot of topics with skins and mods so...

Supermodder911 · Post by **Supermodder911** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 3:10 am

neodos wrote:Oh i didn't know snitch was reporting ^^

Well That user made a lot of topics with skins and mods so...

I think its for amazing the comunity or some sort. One emblem for skinning and one for modding.