www.loopzorbital.com

The points wont just be about posts and if we end up with people posting crap to get their points up (or stats for that matter) then we will exclude them from it (which we can do). I'm just trying to make things a bit more of a community while we are waiting for solo Orbital action

Oh goodness, "solo Orbital action" sounds wrong.

*removes mind from gutter*

just replying for points, hahahahahah!

sorry.. couldn't help it after Hexaphim's post


anyway.. i can still talk about orbital all day.. that's not the problem

I don't see the whole points bit really getting out of hand... not with the group of people we've got here.

Another board I post on (http://www.tribe.ca), our top 20 posters all have over 18000 posts! The top poster is a few posts of 42000 (his average posts per day sits at 22). Insanity. I'm number 130 there, with 5373 posts... even that's a lot.

I can't imagine what it would be like there if we had points. General forum has over 1.8 million posts in over 55000 threads. The picture thread alone has over 1.5 million views and 24000 posts - I can't imagine the hosting cost.

I don't see the whole points bit really getting out of hand... not with the group of people we've got here.

yeah we post enough trash anyway, how much worse could adding points make to it

Hexaphim wrote:I briefly frequented a forum with a point system, and it was horrible. People were desperate to get points, so they replied to as many posts as they possibly could, mostly just rubbish or "just replying for points, hahahahahah" and stuff like that.

Topics moved to page 2 so quickly because so many people were posting bullshit.

On that site you could buy clothing and crap for your avatar with your points, though, I don't see any of that here yet.

And there's always the off chance that it might work out good on this smaller forum.

Exactly what happened on GYBO. They introduced the idea of buying a pet, which cost points as well as the food, grooming, cleaning etc. which all cost more points. You could get points in the Casino too, but the post count went through the roof and lets face it, some people post like mad around here already so if we get more drivel just to get points, that'll spoil it...

Probably.

Loopz wrote:The points wont just be about posts and if we end up with people posting crap to get their points up (or stats for that matter) then we will exclude them from it (which we can do). I'm just trying to make things a bit more of a community while we are waiting for solo Orbital action

I hate to pick a small hole in your faultless Middle Earth logic mate but how can you have "solo Orbital action'? Orbital was the combined output of Phil and Paul and now they're working individually, Orbital no longer exist as a collective unit, so what you said didn't make sense... Finkabowtit!

Dog - have you got your anal hat on this week

To all the point knockers! (ooer) - stop being so negative about the points. No one knows what is going to happen or what its all about. Loopz is not like the other forums. I'm trying to inject some fun in here.

When does Dog not have his anal hat on? (double oo-er!)

Rich

stargurl wrote: Another board I post on (http://www.tribe.ca), our top 20 posters all have over 18000 posts! The top poster is a few posts of 42000 (his average posts per day sits at 22). Insanity. I'm number 130 there, with 5373 posts... even that's a lot.

on another Dutch forum i visit i got 21072 posts and an average of 32 posts a day , there are several users with 100.000+ posts..

but then again, it's a really big forum with a lot of subfora in every direction.. so not like this, being a one band forum..

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You have exceeded the alloted amount of posts and will not earn anything for your post

Oi! what's that about?
my points! noo......

Oh yeah i forgot to mention that is in place :p

Now that is a good idea too... Stops people posting crap just to get points... Sensible idea.

As for the anal hat, that is one mental image I really didn't need!

and what do points make....























PRIZES

Dollydagger wrote:and what do points make....

Anal hats.

*greedy* just gimme points!

Dollydagger wrote:and what do points make....

PRIZES

First to 10,000 points gets a date with a Hartnoll brother!

(Good thing Bjorn has been absent lately, he'd already be past that point...)