" Maybe it would have worked better if the quest were for your own personal post count. Since you can't post more than twice in a row, it'd be a lot harder to spam for it. Might encourage people to converse more? "
That's how exactly what I was thinking. It would encourage participation in the community but the systems that are already in-place could be used to prevent spam. Win-win. "
This would work, be hard, and still encourage conversation without rewording spam.
" @killerjt: As long as everyone can at least have a chance, I'm fine with it. Being first on a video? Load of crap. Now I have to wait at Giantbomb's front door like so many other assholes with the hope that I can be the first person to type a period and hit submit on the next video that comes out. "
Ya, but even if you do that, you still have to have the fastest internet to get it. My internet at school is not fast enough to do that.
" Well, assuming there's a relatively small number of us here that REALLY want it, we might be able to just organize and help each other out. One person posts a comment, gets the quest, then deletes their comment to make room for the next user in line, and so on. It would be a pain, though... I can sort of see the reasoning behind something like this, as it might be nice (in theory) to have certain quests that people literally just stumble on without looking for them. However, it does seem like it will only welcome spam, and reminds me of a lot of early Xbox 360 achievements that might have made sense in theory, but were really only a pain in practice. "
This is just like the Xbox achievement for Qake 4 that made you be ranked # 1 in the world to get an achievement. If less than five percent of players can get an achievement or a quest, then it is too hard or. I have no problem with one being hard as long as a decent percent of the people could or have attained the award.
"So this is really about having the 300th comment on a video? That's kind of sadistic. Having 300 comments or forum posts would have been a more reasonable way to go. This is now the only Quest I hate. "
Amen, brother. "
If that is it, then this is not good for the quest system. Why take a good site and mess it up with a quest that requires people to SPAM?!
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