To use myself as an example, I've currently got 31 upvotes for 222 posts (not counting this one), which is ~0.140 upvotes per post. Since I was curious, I just did some spot-checking and that seems to be a relatively high ratio among random male users I sampled (which was a very small sample size of about 20 users). Since she used herself as an example, succubus_queen currently has 53 upvotes for 252 posts, which is ~0.210 upvotes per post, and which is also ~50.6% more upvotes per post than I have. Actually, she has slightly more than that because I just upvoted her for a thoughtful response she made to a question I asked her in another thread.
Now, here are some possible explanations:
1) Her posts are more well-written than mine.
2) More people agree with what she says than with what I say
3) Topics in which she posts get more eyes than those in which I post
4) She tends to post in threads earlier than I do and thus her posts are more visible and are seen before people move on
5) More people skip my posts because I tend to be longwinded
6) She's been around longer and has posted more than I have and thus has more people who recognize and like her than I do
7) She's more active on this site than I am (she has 12 friends in her list to my zero, for example)
8) The numbers are screwy (She's got 853 active posts but her count only shows 252, so are off-topic not counted the same way, and if not, are upvotes?)
9) She's a woman
Probably all of those are factors to some extent. I don't think that anyone ever thinks, "she's a woman so I'll upvote her." At most, I think they just notice her avatar / forum name, notice she's a woman and then pay more attention to her because that's what guys do. Regardless, I think that's a very small factor in her overall stats. The fact is that she's an intelligent, interesting and polite poster, and that, imho, has far more to do with the upvotes she has than does her gender.
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snared04drummer posted a message on CALM DOWN with this "its never coming out" ! read!Posted in: Diablo III General DiscussionQuote from falcompsx
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Keep in mind everything detailed in the article today is already in the game, and most of it is complete. Once you get Patch 10 and see that, I think it may sink in that these aren't theoretical changes we're still working on, they're changes we've completed. Obviously the potion button still needs a little work to hook it up correctly, and the character attribute changes need to be balanced and tested for itemization throughout the game, but overall these are changes we've already made.
I do not intend to impress that we're close to release, or infer any such "we're <-- this --> done" kind of statement, but most of these are fairly straightforward changes that are already complete and implemented. We do have more changes, skills and runes, affixes to add, more items, Battle.net features, testing, testing, and more testing etc. to do so we're obviously still not there yet, but none of the changes detailed today are theoretical or yet to be implemented.
sourc - http://us.battle.net...04644?page=5#81
so calm the F down lol. all they have to work on is skill/runes for the next few months to release the game, so they can stop focusing on all that stuff cuz its DONE.
why does everyone ignore the big yellow part? Bashiok said its not close to release.
Yeah, thank you, exactly. Calm down? First of all he says "not close to release".
Secondly, the changes that he DIDN'T detail but mentioned are being changed (skills, runes, etc.) could EASILY take months and months and months.
You know who needs to calm down? It's the Blizzard employees. They need to quit maintaining this nostalgic, normative view that every one of their releases was perfect or some shit like that. Every one of their games is awesome, but there is ALWAYS something, even some huge mechanic of the game, that needs to be adjusted afterward. It was true of Diablo, Diablo II, Starcraft 1 and 2, of WoW and every WoW expac that has come out, and it will be true of Diablo III. No matter how long they spend tweaking and fiddling and fixing and fucking driving us insane with delays it will NOT be perfect on release. Period. They need to get over themselves, and realize that it's much more realistic to say "We want to make a bad ass game, WITHIN THIS PERIOD OF TIME." Having a carte blanche, don't have to answer to anyone, take as a long as you need is ultimately counterproductive.
At this point I smell Q3, as much as it breaks my heart to say it. Why? Because that's exactly how they're talking right now. The words they're using smell of months and months of development left.
So either they're lying to us, or they can still say "yes "early" 2012". It has to be one or the other, not both. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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The pillar is a rune effect from the Wave Of Light attack found here: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/monk#..k!!..c
You can see him using the attack in the video if you watch carefully