1. Note from May 25th, 2023:

    Hello everyone.

    I am no longer able to lead the EcoCityCraft server due to several severe issues happening in my personal medical life. The Main server should hopefully stay up until the end of June, if we're lucky enough not to experience any major problems.

    Throughout this time I welcome any one or any group of people who may be willing to purchase the server and all rights to it. Absolutely everything will be transferred to the new ownership should a deal be reached and I will no longer have any rights remaining.

    I will be available for a very short set amount of time once per week for consultations, assuming the requests are reasonable.

    Feel free to reach out via [email protected] or by adding me to Discord (andrewkm#0001). Hopefully someone will be able to keep this community going, however if not, I want you all to know it's been one heck of a ride!

    <3 Through all the ups and downs, it really has been amazing being the leader of a gaming community for 12 years of my life. Perhaps if things look better for me one day, and no one steps forward, I will revive the passion to lead that once existed for me.

    - andrewkm

    PS: I'm bad at writing so forgive if this doesn't seem very well written and planned out.
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  2. Update from May 29th, 2023:

    Hello everyone.

    ClarinetPhoenix has decided she will be taking over as owner of EcoCityCraft until the end of June. During this time, we are still open to offers and acquisition requests. However, should one not be presented to our likings, the server will go on indefinitely under ClarinetPhoenix's leadership.

    My role on the other hand will change to developer, and I will only be available a short set amount of time twice per week, for internal up keep / consultations for ClarinetPhoenix and her team.

    I have also begun making plans with ClarinetPhoenix for the survival of EcoCityCraft should anything happen to myself and my health in the future. (Meaning if I get eaten by a dinosaur, Clare will have everything required - servers, files, databases, development, etc to keep the place going. If the dinosaur eats us both though, sorry...)

    More information to come from a soon to be made official announcement by ClarinetPhoenix.

    Once again it's been a pleasure! Although you will rarely ever see me around anymore in both Game & Discord, I will still be doing my best to help ClarinetPhoenix smoothly transition into her new role.

    - andrewkm

    PS: For those of you who know me quite well, you know this has been a long time coming, and I've been looking to distance myself and leave Minecraft for well into a year now. And even now, during these hard times, I just can't see myself closing what you've grown to love, hence the efforts to get new faces leading us.
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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by JBuks, Jun 10, 2013.

  1. JBuks

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    What significance do the forum ratings have, I have seen people rate people's post "Like" and "Agree" for example, I have done this, and people have always rated mine, but what significance do they have?
     
  2. sick24

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    Now that you mention I haven't thought about this either.

    To me I guess it shows that you have made posts that the community believes is worthwhile and adds to their forum experience.
     
  3. FiFyFoFumOtter

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    It's like Instagram or Facebook likes. What do they do? It's basically just impressive.
     
  4. CapitanRedRoach

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    I have noticed that they have the regular and then they have Trophy points, what do the Trophy points do?
     
  5. pokeboy24

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    Trophies sit on the shelf collecting dust to display their insignificance.

    Am I talking about real life or the forums? I can't tell. Same thing, I guess.
     
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    To show how cool you are
     
  8. Falconaire

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    They just show that the community likes what you have to say, nothing more really. It doesn't mean one guy is better than the other because he has 100 ratings and guy #2 only has 30. (By the way, this is my 100th post, woot!)
     
  9. Glackmore

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    IT means nothing to be honest since we can't have minus ratings, nuff said.
     
  10. MHXL

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    Damn right.
     
  11. D0rc

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    Minus ratings tend to make it more inaccurate. :/

    Someone will hold a grudge on another user, and then go dislike all of their posts, ruining their reputation completely.

    The same thing doesn't happen for things like youtube because of how they are set up, but it generally doesn't work on forums. We actually used to have it for about a week I believe, it was forgotten to be taken out when we switched, and one person had more dislikes than they had posts because a group of people disliked nearly all of his posts, even ones that were many months old.


    And none of this is even to mention that the number of ratings you have is hardly an indicator to how popular you are or how much people like you. (Unless you're Andrew or WeWin.) It's really just nice to know what people like my posts. To be honest, I wouldn't enjoy the forums nearly as much if people were able to dislike my posts. I am always happy to see a rating, but a minus rating is just depressing to see and discourages people from using the forums.
     
  12. MHXL

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    D0RC Y U NO PLAY ECC
     
  13. Revanrose6

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    Forum ratings aren't necessarily about 'how cool you are.' ECC is pretty good at only '+1' ing things they think were actually well done. I feel it shows how frequently you say something that people consider important, enjoyable, etc. Considering every rating counts the same in your ratings recieved file, I would like to have a statistical count of how often a person gets "Agree." v "Like" v "Funny" etc. I think that we could do a lot more with the ratings but that is just me.
     
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