MissInformed

I like the fact that users can choose to disable it. I also like being able to randomly leave feedback for people without having to leave the thread and open a PM. Yesterday I left feedback for people I know and people I don't know. The vast majority of it was positive and the negative concerned only what was expressed in the post and only if it was a pretty harsh post. I was careful not to rate anything based on my feelings for the author and I tried to be constructive. I'd much rather give out positive feedback than negative.

I like it when I can leave genuine positive feedback for authors I don't really like most of the time, too. Both because I think positive reinforcement can help modify behavior and because, even when it doesn't do that for the author, it does help me modify my own feelings about the person or what's going on. Sometimes having just one positive thought about someone I generally dislike can help me have a less stressful and more pleasant day.

Seriously. It really seems that way come October.

Also, I officially declare October 17 to be Flea's Birthday (Observed).

It's not my birthday. It could be anyone's and we wouldn't know because the new forum software converted some birthdays incorrectly. I've asked everyone to check his or her own to make sure it is correct. Better?

Isn't it Diet for a reason? Wasn't it created to be a leaner version with less filler? If that was the intent, seems that's a reason for it not to be an overflow channel. Why would anyone order a Diet Coke when they want the real thing? And likewise, wouldn't the person who wants the Diet version be upset when someone else came along and changed it to the regular version? There was a reason for creating Diet JFA in addition to the regular version. The reason for having the alternate Diet version wouldn't go away just because JFA is full.

It's full. That seems like a perfectly good reason for people to be unhappy with its performance and to make a change so that active players can join. If he, or anyone, were really "over-moderating" the channel as you say, why wouldn't he or the other mods just start kicking people from the channel if the people haven't been on in a while? That would be over-moderation. This allows people who want to join the new channel to do so, people who want to stay in the current channel to do so, and people who want nothing to do with either to form their own channel and/or ignore JFA entirely. Seems like a win-win to me.

The only drama I see is the drama you keep trying to create.

Like, totally! B-L... Oh, I dunno!

I'm not running against that Other Guy. He still has 50 gajillion dollars in his campaign coffers. I only have the one coffer and all it has inside is a dust bunny.

Everyone is going to have a different "why." Right now, you're giving some people an additional why: because you've just let everyone know how much it bothers you. You've just painted a giant target on your back for anyone with "I'm not touching you" syndrome, like the guy I knew who only ate corn nuts only at staff meetings. When none of us reacted to it, he eventually stopped. (Only to start again as soon as he got transfered into a new department.) I'm not saying it's ok to "blame the victim," but you should understand that if you make it attractive for those kinds of people to spend their time pestering you, they will. It's not your fault they do it and you can't control them, but you do have control over your own actions and reactions. I'd urge you to do what you can to prevent being an attractive target for this kind of behavior and you will likely find that most of it stops.

Some kinds of harrassment need to be reported. Others are better just being ignored. This is the kind that is better off being ignored. No one's physically harming you and you have listed very few examples of it happening, so it doesn't seem like it's an ongoing issue or burdon. I'm sorry your feelings are hurt, but that happens sometimes. Learning to cope with that is a useful life skill and one you may want to get started on, because I've yet to see signs that the ******** are dropping off the internet.

But if I wanted to work, I wouldn't be reading/posting to the forums from the office!

I understand it not keeping "long quote-trains" or quote pyramids, but it seems that if Person B has already quoted Person A and I'm replying to both, making me locate and tag Person A's original post as well as Person B's response is an unnecessary extra step.

Thanks to TehVyze, Enrious2, and Manoa for the examples and explanation.

Thanks, Manoa! That was the missing piece.

Bad spelling bothers me, but I worry more about content, clarity and intent than I do about spelling. If a person types/spells some words wrong and I think it's unintentional and the idea is clear, fine. If someone is trying to express an idea that has no clarity and the spelling is making it even less clear, that's a problem. If someone has an ok idea but it's made less clear by IM/AOL speak, I'm less likely to give the idea credit. If someone can't be bothered to take the time to add an "a" and an "e" to an "r," then why should I bother to spend any of my own time on his or her idea?

That said, I haven't rated posts on spelling of any kind. The only negative feedback I've given has been in response to posts that are little more than name-calling or uncalled for meanspiritedness toward others. The vast majority of feedback I've given has been positive and I haven't "signed" any of it.

He's already said EMT in real life and wants to emulate that in the game. EMTs do not, and aren't supposed to, focus on "prevention."

Why are you so worried about what stereotype he's perpetuating? He can play however he wants and shouldn't have to defend his chosen AT or Empathy style to you or to anyone else. My first character is an Empath and I don't give a damn what kind of stereotypes other Empaths are out there working on. I don't "rock the aura" and never have. I have and slot my blasts and use my Nova whenever I can. I let my own personal reputation speak for me, not the stereotypes others perform to.

Agreed. I do a lot of Task Forces, so I would rather have these on my characters than most any of the other day job powers. Heck, even my Empath wouldn't cry if she had two Rezzes. Don't let the Howling Twilighters have all the fun of being able to Rez more than one person at a time.

It's absolutely worth it. While you may log out at the Base Teleporter each session, there are many of us who do not. There are, for example, lots of other badges to get and powers to charge. There are lots of people who are getting other badges. There are lots of people who can't be bothered to log out anyplace specific and don't care about badges or accolades that need charging. The Vet power is permanent. Once you have it, you have it on all characters, even ones without Accodades or access to an Ouro portal. You can use it in combination with other powers. Why not have two or more powers to get you where you want to go? If you're playing Heroes, there are plenty of big zones and hazard zones with no base teleporter and a power like this is useful, especially if I don't have to charge it up.

Anything that helps me get to where I need to be without passing through multiple zones or crossing from one end of a zone like Indy Port to the other is good by me. The more ways I have to get around, the better.

I do, but I miss the feature on the old forums where I could check a box to preview all posts before a final submit. Now I have to remember myself, which is certainly not the end of the world, but it's an extra step I have to make sure to do now which I didn't have to before.

Apparently not. I tried to use the multi-quote feature on your last post, in which you had quoted Katfood, but it only got the quote from you. That's the second time I tried the feature and it did the same thing both times: left out all but the last quote.

It all depended on how you set up your original NCSoft account, I think. When I set up my original account, there was an option to choose a different password for the forum than for the game. Until now, my account has always had forum a passwords that was different from my game password. I'm with Mac on this one; I preferred having separate passwords. Off to the official suggestions posts!

Hahaha. And also, ick.

Sorry Green, I'm not with you on this one. I don't like the RP catgirls, but they have the right to do it in peace, even if it does creep me out.

They weren't better, they were just familiar. They did look nicer, I think, but they didn't function as well as they look. Once we play around in the new system and get used to it, I think people will like the new system just fine.

I do miss the option to automatically preview all posts before submitting them for real. I haven't figured out how to make that work here.

This. I think if you do your 1-50 blog without any Power Leveling, it could be pretty neat. I wish you luck with that. That said, please don't demonize AE and the story arcs there. Playing AE arcs does not automatifcally PL anyone. You have to go in there with that as your intent.

There is a lot of good content there, much of it not on the Dev Choice lists, and I think it's a shame that so many people seem to assume ANYTHING in the AE equates power leveling. You can get from 1-50 playing only AE arcs and learn how to play and level at a normal pace.

To borrow an old slogan: AE doesn't level characters, players level characters. How they choose to do that has little to do with the MA feature itself.