I really hate how the negging system works. According to the tengaged blog ( http://blog.tengaged.com/category/tips/ ) you are penalized for always plussing and never negging... or never plussing and always negging. It suggests around a fifty fifty split. But that's ridiculous!!! I don't like negging people and I refuse to do it! Very very rarely does someone even say something that would make negging make any sense at all!! So I'm penalized? It's often hurtful and it's socially unacceptable for the most part.
In addition supposedly the number of people who neg you vs. plussed you is more important than the overall number of times you've been negged or your overall point total in the algo choosing who goes on the block. What?! So you say one thing that bugs 4 people and that's more important than saying 200 hundred things that everyone plussed?? Am I understanding this right? That sounds like a really easy way for a group of people to manipulate the game just going to back pages and trying to impact who they want to go on the block.
The basic concept of being able to say yeah this comment wasn't very good or someone is spamming makes sense. Sure. Going on point totals makes sense. But the system as it stands seems incredibly flawed.
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i totally agree! that's silly that u get penalised
I did well just plussing in my first game too... but their blog suggests otherwise quite clearly... maybe they exaggerate it? Or... since few people actually do that everyone is penalized so it's a wash. It's just supposed to make you go on the block more often.. and while I made it to 2nd in my first game.. I did go up quite a bit.
