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  1. Hello, This is just a heads up that I have disabled "downvotes" and negative reputation on the forum. It may take some time to reset all users with negative reputation to the new minimum (zero) so if you're reading this and that hasn't been completed yet, please bear with me for some time. It's been suggested many times that we revise / eliminate the reputation system, and I've finally decided to act. "Downvotes" are really just the laziest way to voice disagreement with someone, and contribute to the negativity and toxicity that is plaguing the game currently. If you disagree with someone's post, you'll be forced to type a response explaining why. Single word posts like "no," "this sucks," etc. are still spam and will still earn you warning points as they always have per the Forum Rules. Also, I've enabled the "Thanks" react to posts as well. Feel free to try it out on this post here
    28 points
  2. tries to downvote Alex's post... cannot
    25 points
  3. I feel that this community as for too long been only positive support, but what if I want to show negative dissaproval without the hassle of making a toxic reply. This would subtract reputation from the user to show that they typically aren't very respectful on this community. Ideas of icons could be ?, ?, middle finger, thumbs down, downv..... I mean water.
    23 points
  4. With the removal of our sacred downvote, we must find a replacement. Clearly the obvious choice is "Thanks". From this day forward if you want to downvote something, merely give it a "Thanks".
    19 points
  5. I've got a feeling that "Thanks" will take a sarcastic undertone fairly soon.
    19 points
  6. Greetings, friends! I would like to take a moment to appreciate my favorite moderator: Chief Wiggum! He consistently manages to hit that balance between humorously indulging our bullshit and enforcing the rules of this forum. His approach to moderating is refreshing. A genuine thank you to doughnut man for putting up with us! https://gph.is/1VPe5iR
    17 points
  7. Hi all! This will probably come as little surprise to anyone I've really spoken with, but time's come for me to take another step back and do virtually anything other than play this game. No regrets at all: learned a lot, grew a bit, and met a lot of really awesome people. And I'll be keeping in touch with them, so little loss to not log in and push the buttons. I'll pop into VM for a while longer (It kind of seems like a waste to delete a nation with so many amusing city names? :D) and hang around in the CoS discord still. If you'd like to say hey I'll be there, please do. This'll be my last forum post, and it would probably be a waste to not use the chance to use this video. Please enjoy.
    15 points
  8. Making a poll because I think removing downvotes is ridiculous and I'm pretty confident a lot of others feel the same. Going to not make this a poll-only topic though because I want people to discuss it. Maybe I am wrong.
    15 points
  9. Shout out to Noctis for spurring on this change by being a prolific downvoter of others post while complaining that he had negative rep and taking it so seriously that he made a new forum account just to change the numbers and beg for the community to lose a feature of these boards. Don't bother quote responding because I still have both your accounts blocked. In all seriousness, this change needlessly limits interaction on the board and will do literally nothing to toxicity levels. Might even increase them as people seek other outlets.
    14 points
  10. Excuse me sir. Stop being toxic.
    14 points
  11. Now we can voice our discontent in the Moderation forum with a thanks. Thanks!
    14 points
  12. Could you make it so Haha reacts are neutral instead of positive then? I feel like the desired effect could have been reached by just making a rep of 0 be the floor instead of removing downvotes.
    12 points
  13. @Alex come on add it back please.
    10 points
  14. Took you long enough, but finally the only good thing that the forum still had going for it has been eradicated.
    10 points
  15. I've been successfully goaded into an effort post: It's actually not great, if you care about the political meta at all. GOONS, and specifically DNFJ, didn't want to be involved in the war at all. The whole reason GOONS was founded when it was is because it was believed that peace would be coming relatively soon after. Our plan was to continue to take loans from multiple locations and tier incredibly fast to city fifteen all around. TGH's totally disproportional response to two rogue spy attempts convinced GOONS government to enter the war only after negotiations had broken down. GOONS hit TKR in lieu of TGH because hitting anyone on the Coalition A side meant we were involved full tilt, so we wanted to maximize our usefulness to coalition B. So, yeah, at the start of GOONS entry into the war there were some pretty bad beiges by GOONS members as we were all largely new to the game and still learning the proper war mechanics, since they they have died off dramatically. Instead you've giving a group of players that number close to 200 in total; four months of war experience from the founding of their alliance. GOONS is now a militarily competent alliance, as shown by our blitz on Arrgh, Typhoid, and others; let alone our net damage stats (if you are someone who cares about that). Then it gets better, talks stall, GOONS leadership begins interacting with Coalition B leadership on a higher level instead of talking only to NPO. This creates friendships and war-time allies that eventually lead to the creation of Opus Dei and Drinking Buddies. TKR, Rose, Soup, and a few others were simultaneously trying to court GOONS friendship in the post war world. DNFJ personally wrote Drinking Buddies, Opus Dei, the GOONS TKR declaration (and bait by Roq), as well as created the "In defense of" meme post for hitting Typhoid. So yeah, it's gone very well for you. You've managed to create a group of players in a now hyperactive alliance that are 1. War tested & 2. Playing the game solely for their own bemusement at your "tears" in the form of forum posts and ingame messages. TGH spying on GOONS and not being diplomatic when approached is the reason why Opus Dei, Drinking Buddies, and by extension Apex exist. So congratulations, you've managed to play yourself by ensuring that GOONS actually become a hegemonic power in 2020, a power which you've managed to put yourself on the opposing side of by constantly spewing non-sense like this, instead of speaking to us reasonably. As anyone who has dealt with us, have all seen that we are very reasonable, up to and including @Akuryo, @Princess Adrienne, @Leo the Great, @Kevanovia, and yes, even managed to get along with @Buorhann on a radio show after airing our differences (as members of opposing coalitions usually do). As one of the most reviled players of the game, I can honestly say I don't really give a shit about the opinions regarding the war, the leaks, or anything related to it, as it does not change my position, nor the position of GOONS, or even the peace talks honestly. This whole thread is a side show meant to demoralize Coalition B and help spurn activity and excitement for Coalition A.
    10 points
  16. Because forcing people to type out a response is going to decrease toxicity in this forum. Genius move. If you rather have 20 angry comments rather than say the double amount of downvotes on a post (just as a theoretical example), then that's up to you. Have fun moderating.
    7 points
  17. Glad your word means nothing. See you soon.
    7 points
  18. OP is concern trolling and should've been ignored, but this somehow grew to 4 pages in a few hours so I'll bite. As a member of a Coalition A alliance, I'm fine with whatever my government decides. However, with the terms that have been leaked, I would prefer to remain at war indefinitely than to accept the terms. I think there are many on Coalition A who feel similar, especially considering that Coalition B members have repeatedly said they're fine with us quitting or wanting alliances on our side disbanded. Knowing that our opposition has that consensus about us did a great job pissing us off.
    7 points
  19. It's gonna be a... Thanksgiving in this thread.
    6 points
  20. This is clearly a ploy to farm upvotes. Somebody please downvote this man.
    6 points
  21. okay. This comment was necessary.
    6 points
  22. Bad game update incoming, he doesn't want to be downvoted
    6 points
  23. Alex just gave rise to new social construct of thanks meaning down vote, remove that, then heart will be the new down vote people agree about, remove that then upvote will become the new down vote and so on. I don´t see how removing the laziest form of criticism and way of people to vent their anger at things will improve anything, if anything it will create more toxic in length forum posts, some of which while not very constructive in their criticism of any given situation might just lobby more people to their cause of just being angry at stupidity...
    6 points
  24. TFW you think making people effort post will reduce toxicity instead of increasing it as you've now increased the stake they've put into it thereby creating a stronger drive to resist the "enemy". Don't think Alex realized that sometimes a downvote is the nicest way for someone to respond. I'm a giant !@#$ myself, and I ain't the only one around, a downvote is often nicer than what I'd actually say. Also literally what durmij said.
    6 points
  25. @Elijah Mikaelson no need to reroll, dear. Just embrace the pirate life when you lose 90% of your infra.
    6 points
  26. Mind if you stop using even farewell messages for your own political reasons? You aren't mentioned in Thrax's message at all. The logs aren't mentioned. You are free to send him off, but using his message to try and present a reality different than the one presented by your own words (the logs you brought up here for no reason) is not only out of topic but frankly just unacceptable. Please, at least respect that much.
    6 points
  27. Perhaps you're genuine? As a Co A line member (which includes t$) (and someone not in gov), I'd like the leaders/negotiators of Co B to consider the line members of Co B. Through the release of many Co B logs as well as posts such as yours on this very forum, there is a theme that some Co B players are not supportive of the agenda to bully Co A members into deleting. As a Co A member, I am worried about the welfare and wellbeing of Co B players who may feel disjointed from the narcissistic and immoral motivations of their leadership, and otherwise under threat of the very same bullying tactics to not stand up for yourselves. My plea today is for the leaders/negotiators of Co B, put aside your ego and pride and act in the best interest of your alliance members. There has been a lot of posting recently about the allegation that Co A line members are willing to acquiesce to Co B terms but for our leaders, but I think that this is really just spin and displacing the responsibility of Co B to act in the best interest of their members. Please post below if you also agree that Co B should consider the welfare of their alliance members, and the overall health of the game by reviewing their approach to achieving peace.
    6 points
  28. I agree. I used to be able to express my distaste via a downvote. Now, I will have to post a comment. On a wider scale this would lead to more toxicity. #AddDownvotes #AddSadFaces
    5 points
  29. I disagree with this action. Downvotes were a quick and convenient way of showing disapproval, and I don't see how removing them will affect toxicity. This is just removing a good feature to combat something that I don't think moderation can really control anyways.
    5 points
  30. 5 points
  31. "Bans and warning points" are really just the laziest way to voice disagreement with someone, and contribute to the negativity and toxicity that is plaguing the game currently especially on P&W discord where people receiving em doesn´t even get a reason why at times While i can understand Alex´s desire to make forums and discord more pleasant for all involved, removing problematic people or expression of human emotions like simple act of downvoting to reflect someone´s anger or disagreement to any given stimuli, I do not think removing down votes will not result in more pleasant exp, if anything it means more oppression, less speech and adds to the "toxicity" that is anonymous human interaction online. If Alex´s goal was to slowly kill his forum and discord and drive Orbis community to their own small parts of discord, furthering playerbase´s growing disdain for the game and it´s owner, then all I can say is Thanks Alex!
    5 points
  32. Well, that was per the Game Rules. If you take an alliance bank and hide it in Vacation Mode, 20% is deleted and the 80% returned. So, in this case, I apparently deleted $5,449,577,952.00 worth of money and resources, which means @Elijah Mikaelson went into Vacation Mode with $27,247,889,760 worth of money and resources that had just been withdrawn from the alliance bank in his nation. In my opinion, it's very clear that withdrawing $27,247,889,760 from an alliance bank and going into Vacation Mode is a violation of the "Hiding Alliance Banks" rule. I suppose you could disagree with my interpretation of the rule, but, I imagine most reasonable players would agree that taking $27b from an alliance bank and hiding it in VM is a violation.
    5 points
  33. Confirmed video of @Chief Wiggum attempting to sift through the forums for the mythical "good post"
    5 points
  34. Leo the Great11/1/2019, 6:01:53 PM I don’t think the discussion was about about actually finding peace Leo the Great11/1/2019, 6:02:08 PM Rather two different ways of prolonging it till they are dead I'd say we are going to keep fighting then since defiance is all we have left.
    5 points
  35. ITT I will be posting handy dandy collections of real authentic quotes from IQ leaders that you can quote any time IQ tries to tell you "No, that didn't happen" To start off with we'll be covering IQ deliberately stalling and/or trolling CA representatives, as well as IQ making the aim of this war to disband blocs/alliances and force players out of the game. More categories will be added as the need arises. This resource has been brought to you by The Council to Restore PURE DECADENCE to Orbis, Dongminion LLC, and Viewers Like You.
    4 points
  36. idk about you Alex but I'm not sure that the toxicity was caused by downvotes...I think it's caused by the people actively trying to kill the game.
    4 points
  37. Adding downvotes was an awful change and it's better for the health of the forums that they are gone again. However, I can no longer flex my low downvotes given compared to all the other people who handed them out like candy.
    4 points
  38. @Chief Wiggum When the Chief logs on each day and sees all the new drama they have to deal with.
    4 points
  39. Gratitude, friend! Most of my days at the forums, I am like this... So, thanks for your consideration.
    4 points
  40. Hope y'all enjoying your Saturday. #nomoredownvotesSIKE
    3 points
  41. How do u have negative reputation Kill her she's a witch!
    3 points
  42. I'm down for a new era where these forums aren't full of garbage.
    3 points
  43. Yeeting your spies out of existence was a proportional response to you spying our coalition
    3 points
  44. Part the first: Trolling CA reps and stalling peace negotiations underlordgc11/3/2019, 7:55:58 AM Anyways, I can give a link to kertogibdvsujs to join the peace server underlordgc11/3/2019, 7:56:43 AM And we can just stall them by saying we want people to get organized or some random bs like that ### TheNG11/1/2019, 4:46:18 PM I mean there’s plenty of ways to slow down talks TheNG11/1/2019, 4:46:29 PM We have reps demands in our back pocket TheNG11/1/2019, 4:46:40 PM The various humiliating joke terms ### Leo the Great11/1/2019, 6:01:53 PM I don’t think the discussion was about about actually finding peace Leo the Great11/1/2019, 6:02:08 PM Rather two different ways of prolonging it till they are dead Roquentin11/1/2019, 6:02:17 PM ah Roquentin11/1/2019, 6:02:26 PM well the not including thme is a goood stlal tactic Leo the Great11/1/2019, 6:02:33 PM Drag peace talks vs insist on separating them Roquentin11/1/2019, 6:02:44 PM separate talks for anyone not kertchogg proper ### underlordgc10/2/2019, 8:41:11 PM super memey if we start refusing to reconmize their reps Leo the Great10/2/2019, 8:41:16 PM sisyphis underlordgc10/2/2019, 8:41:22 PM def will give us two more months of infra grinding ### underlordgc9/27/2019, 10:07:43 PM in 3 days they'll have their surrender chance again underlordgc9/27/2019, 10:08:42 PM(edited 9/27/2019, 10:10:11 PM) but, october is such an Inauspicious time for surrendering underlordgc9/27/2019, 10:09:00 PM November is much better imho underlordgc9/27/2019, 10:09:33 PM I propose we replace ng and sphinx with george and myself so that we can ensure their won;t be an october peace ###
    3 points
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