OK, I guess for my first official blog I will spout off about these boards in general. I know many people have their own personal pet peeves about these boards, but for the most part I really enjoy my time here. Occasionally you run into an individual whose sole purpose in life is to act like an idiot. You have a few option when dealing with individuals like this. You can lose it with them, but this usually ends up bad for you since the guy causing trouble will just create another screen name if he gets banned because they don't care. You can ignore them, and they will most likely go away eventually. Or the final option, the one I choose to use is to use logic when replying to them, while at the same time choosing your words carefully so that they look more stupid than their post show. A way these boards could help with this would be give us the ability to ignore posters. We can add people to our favorites, so we know when they post, why not give us the ability to not even see the posts by these individuals.
Another troublesome item on these boards is the fact that if you rate a post high, it gets adjusted to half the value you wanted to give. If I wanted to give someone 2.5 stars, I would do that, if I choose 5 stars, then my rating should be starts. I rarely give out 0's, if I don't like a post I will reply and give my opinion which lets the person know what I thought just as much as a 0 would.
Are there other issues, sure. I hate when you copy and paste information, the post comes out with all sorts of html coding, thus making the post virtually unreadable.
I haven't played with all of the new functionality, still not sure what the permalink is designed to accomplish, but I'm sure I will figure it out.
I am glad we finally have the chance to post blogs. That has been listed as coming soon for close to a year now. I am also glad they give the option to the All-Stars as well because all to often a troll will rile someone up enough that they can give a bogus warning to the person knocking them down from SuperStar. While it is nice to see the top 1k icon on my profile, as I am sure the people in the top 100 or top 10 like it as well. I would like to see just how close I am to the top 100, so if anyone knows how I can get this information please pass it along. If I lost the icon, I wouldn't care too much, even if I get knocked back to all-star doesn't bother me. I have said many a time that I want to be able to post here, and upload my own av. Everything else is just not that important.
Well that's about it for my first blog, not sure how often I will create these, I guess if I have something long-winded to say I will use this forum. Usually, I use postings since I don't have that much to say.
