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Posted by: Pimp at Sea
I'm not sure why the Bungie.net boards have such a paranoia of elitism. Some people can explain their dislike of them, which I'm sure you can, but most people just leave it at "it's bad."Some people deserve better treatements then others, naturally. Why should a spammer be given the same privlages as a good, contributing, helpful member? They shouldn't. The member should get rewarded and the spammer should get punished. The latter already happens, thank God. However, I would really like to see some more rewards. Not for post count or for useless forum copping as seen above, but for really helpful things. For instance, MrAlexZander's Caption Contest. He put a lot of work into that, I think he should be rewarded.
And what about members who don't break the rules, but aren't very helpful either? What do they get? In a case such as this, you encourage good behavior. However, such encouragement can mean that some people will be helpful just to be rewarded. In some cases, positive reinforcement works. However, in a case such as this, we want to discourage bad behavior. That way less people are mean, and they are only being good so they don't get punished.
I'd prefer people being nice to not get banned than to be nice to be rewarded. Albeit there are some forms of help that are good (themes and avatars to name two), but if we reward making contests, who else will start making contests in the hope that they get a similar reward?
And I would like to point out that spammers are not given the same priveleges that normal members are. Spammers usually get banned, and normal members get to use the forums normally.