@lstormy10, I accept your apologies, and I am sorry for saying what I said. I never meant to do anything wrong here. I was doing the best I could do. However, the community has "rules" that I do not agree with, and they won't change for just a member when there are around 9,000. People will continue downbidding duplicates instead of ignoring them, always "forcing" people to remove them when it is the software that should be doing that.
I understand that, when a story is original you must up bid, when it is duplicate you must down bid, and you will be earning some dkps that, at the end of the day, will keep your account in green. I never downbidded a duplicated like you, but the community does. And it is virtually impossible not to post a duplicate when very few have post so many per day. It is not those people's fault, of course. Everyone spends here as much time as they want to. But as I said, when someone tries to do something and the community punishes him, what he needs to do? I have been a member for almost two months, and could only post five stories. Do you imagine the number of times I was going to post an article and someone else already had? But I never complained. The game, the rules.
As for doing the same in your position, sorry, but I wouldn't. I would never complain because, after spending 3 years in Wikipedia, and 1 as administrator, after being moderator for 3 years in gaming programming forums, after spending a year and a half as a professor at a University, if I learned something was to be tolerant with others. If someone posts a silly question in the programming forum, I would reply as soon as possible before someone else posts a RTFM, just to prevent him from being harassed. At school I would let them call me anytime because I knew they, even in their early twenties, sometimes had questions that their peers may think were stupid. And at Wikipedia, I always take my time to explain the guidelines and policies, never assuming the worst.
I fit as a teacher, I fit as a programmer, I fit as an administrator, but I don't fit here. Nobody fits everywhere, and this is one of those places I don't. It is nobody fault, it is just that. I wish everyone good luck with the game, and sorry for upsetting so many.
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I accept your apologies, and I am sorry for saying what I said. I never meant to do anything wrong here. I was doing the best I could do. However, the community has "rules" that I do not agree with, and they won't change for just a member when there are around 9,000. People will continue downbidding duplicates instead of ignoring them, always "forcing" people to remove them when it is the software that should be doing that.
I understand that, when a story is original you must up bid, when it is duplicate you must down bid, and you will be earning some dkps that, at the end of the day, will keep your account in green. I never downbidded a duplicated like you, but the community does. And it is virtually impossible not to post a duplicate when very few have post so many per day. It is not those people's fault, of course. Everyone spends here as much time as they want to. But as I said, when someone tries to do something and the community punishes him, what he needs to do? I have been a member for almost two months, and could only post five stories. Do you imagine the number of times I was going to post an article and someone else already had? But I never complained. The game, the rules.
As for doing the same in your position, sorry, but I wouldn't. I would never complain because, after spending 3 years in Wikipedia, and 1 as administrator, after being moderator for 3 years in gaming programming forums, after spending a year and a half as a professor at a University, if I learned something was to be tolerant with others. If someone posts a silly question in the programming forum, I would reply as soon as possible before someone else posts a RTFM, just to prevent him from being harassed. At school I would let them call me anytime because I knew they, even in their early twenties, sometimes had questions that their peers may think were stupid. And at Wikipedia, I always take my time to explain the guidelines and policies, never assuming the worst.
I fit as a teacher, I fit as a programmer, I fit as an administrator, but I don't fit here. Nobody fits everywhere, and this is one of those places I don't. It is nobody fault, it is just that. I wish everyone good luck with the game, and sorry for upsetting so many.