Recs!? come on guys...

get a life! if your life depends on you getting a rec and you decide to make a ton of posts to try and get one then...well...go outside and try to enjoy the sunshine 😉 i'm gettin kinda sick of seein all of the posts about this silly subject, so i hope that this will be the last one 😛

thanx,

Edit: A rec is supposed to be if u like a post not if someone asks for it

Originally posted by knapster
get a life! if your life depends on you getting a rec and you decide to make a ton of posts to try and get one then...well...go outside and try to enjoy the sunshine 😉 i'm gettin kinda sick of seein all of the posts about this silly subject, so i hope that this will be the last one 😛

thanx,

Edit: A rec is supposed to be if u like a post not if someone asks for it

I think that the problem is not people who posts trying to get recs,but people who gives meaningless recs for meaningless posts.
This way recommendation loses most of its value.

actually, what is the value of a rec? why are they such a big deal?

Originally posted by oishi
actually, what is the value of a rec? why are they such a big deal?

Originally posted by Saint Nick
Agree 100%. I don't pay any attention to rec's. I don't really care if someone get 20 or 30 for a post, because I never look to see how many rec's the post has.

It's not like anyone can trade them in for a free queen 🙄🙄

I thought "rec" stood for "recreationally inclined" and had to do with clandestine references to some "members only" chess swinger's club...Red Hot Pawn meets Sexy Black Queen and Well Endowed Knight for some three-dimensional chess-ercize and mating techniques...

😲

Please read the proposal in the "Recommended ... it's about rec's" thread in the Forum Issues forum. First post.

Originally posted by ivanhoe

Please read the proposal in the "Recommended ... it's about rec's" thread in the Forum Issues forum. First post.

Originally posted by Exy
And beware all the other mindless drivel in there about Cribs, it's bad for you! 😛

No-one can MAKE you press the Rec button you know.

I thought we were just having some fun. Everywhere has its own in jokes, this was one of RHPs.

weren't they started so that people could see all the important/decent posts? but has anyone treid to trawl through all the recommended ones?

but-personally-i couldn't really care about them. i don't rec very much, but am always thrilled when i get a rec! 😀

it's a symbol of status!

hail to the recs!

Suppose each thread with a recommended post in it got just one entry in the Recommended threads page (with the latest rec'd post displayed). The user can then browse the thread to see all recommended posts. This should cut down the current scenario where Recommended posts over the last 7 days runs into 30 web pages!

Fundamentally, I think the recs idea is good and should stay - it's a nice way of identifying meaningful (atleast some) posts and for readers to express their appreciation without bloating the thread with "I agree" postings.

Well, I see that my post has made no impact on the needless recommending and the needless asking for these recs. There have already been at least two new threads that were made for the sole purpose of gaining recs. I now have 12 recs and 8 from one post. My first 4 were what i would call earned. I put a lot of thought into these posts. Since i haven't been posting much and rather just reading. I used to scan through the recommending posts, but now i see that this is useless because of some very silly posts that just asked for recs. Well, i guess that i'm gonna have to put up with this for a while, and hopefully it will get dull to everyone else, as well as me and stop it.

with thought,

Knapster, I think that's exactly it: it will get dull. It's a joke that will run it's course, and I think it would be a mistake to get too worked up about a phenomenon that's lasted about a week. Just wait and see and will probably die down on its own.