Yes, you should be contributing important things.
Forum posts with more downvotes than upvotes shouldn't count for the Participant achievement
Sort:
23 hrs ago
0
#4
Raymond_Parker wrote:
The best way is to disregard idiots.
Doing nothing does nothing to address the problem.
23 hrs ago
0
#5
I don’t care about achievements, and I have no patience for idiots. I’m here to play chess—nothing else. Anything that doesn’t help me improve or add something positive, I simply ignore. I don’t need anyone’s appreciation, nor do I care about increasing my ELO rating. I’m here for the pure enjoyment of the game, or even better, for a tough fight and a respectable loss. I learn far more from losing than from winning. You can call me a hedonist—and you’d be absolutely right.
23 hrs ago
0
#6
Pro tip: don't use the colouring options. They make content unreadable to people who use colour inversion in their OS or browser.
23 hrs ago
0
#7
KitMarlow wrote:
Pro tip: don't use the colouring options. They make content unreadable to people who use colour inversion in their OS or browser.
can you read it now?
23 hrs ago
0
#8
Raymond_Parker wrote:
KitMarlow wrote:
Pro tip: don't use the colouring options. They make content unreadable to people who use colour inversion in their OS or browser.
can you read it now?
Yes, it's readable now. Thanks.
The Participant achievement is awarded for posting 100 messages on the forums. This has encouraged spamming and meaningless messages.
Since it's possible to downvote spam and meaningless messages (and reporting spam has no observable effect), I propose that forum posts with more downvotes than upvotes don't count towards the Participant achievement. This should remove an incentive for posting meaningless messages on the forums.