The General Chatter Thread.

[Jonzu95]

Hmm... Interesting...

Analysis: As you can see, it's alot harder to be veteran/AU nowadays...

[NFX]

Not really. You just need to contribute effectively. Contributing effectively does not directly correlate to post count.

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Kihara = Curly

Random finnish translation.

I think it refers to a character in this sense though. The thing I said's in Japanese, and I know that Ni-san is a name with an honorific, and nani means what. Kihahara-kun must also be a name. I just wonder what taberu could mean

[Jonzu95]

Not really. You just need to contribute effectively. Contributing effectively does not directly correlate to post count.

There are still some weird names in AU's... I have no idea what for example, Dexterhunter has done in the community back in 2006-2008 exactly...

[madman3]

Realistically getting to AU probably requires general contribution and the right forum attitude (unless your Sys32 in which case you relentlessly trash everyone with an ego issue).

[Jonzu95]

Nowadays there are a LOT contributers... For example, Freez hosting 5 Battlebots tournaments, me hosting 4... etc. Times have really changed

[GoldenFox93]

And hopefully someday, I'll take my place amongst them   =D

[Jonzu95]

And hopefully someday, I'll take my place amongst them   =D

No chances... You haven't hosted single Tournament, Built only few bots and I don't even know can you AI.

[kill343gs]

Not really. You just need to contribute effectively. Contributing effectively does not directly correlate to post count.

There are still some weird names in AU's... I have no idea what for example, Dexterhunter has done in the community back in 2006-2008 exactly...

It's interesting, really, how one may come to be an AU or Veteran. A lot of it is based on time, obviously. If you are to be a ranked member, your location essentially depends on what era of the community you come from. If you are from the earliest days up until around the time Infinite showed up, you are considered to be a veteran. If you are from the time following that, you are considered to be an AU. Obviously these are broken up more on the Wiki with New World Veterans vs. Old World Veterans.

Furthermore, when someone is considered for promotion to a forum rank, historically it has been completely objective based solely on whenever the hell the staff feels like. The only exception to this is the Roboteer group, but I don't really count that anyways (Unless your name is MikeNCR, sorry guys) That's why there is such a disparity between what you would call a contributing AU or Vet (GK, Sage, etc.) versus one who doesn't seem to contribute much, at least not publicly (Dex, Sys32, Myself before I became a Mod.) There are a lot of people who get overlooked for various reasons, ranging from post history, to activity, limited contributions, to plain and simple whether ACAMS actually likes you.

EDIT: And this is case in point:

And hopefully someday, I'll take my place amongst them   =D

No chances... You haven't hosted single Tournament, Built only few bots and I don't even know can you AI.

I never hosted a tournament, I hardly built, and I knew how to AI for a grand total of 5 minutes. These are hardly considered to be the end-all be-all measures of whether or not someone should be an AU. I've said it before and I will say it again, GF has (in my opinion) in the past been much closer to being an AU than most people on this forum realize.

[ty4er]

i probably wont get au for a while until i can do tournaments and stuff but i dont know


also i just had my booster jab and now i feel weird and i cant sit or do anything properly :P

[madman3]

Nowadays there are a LOT contributers... For example, Freez hosting 5 Battlebots tournaments, me hosting 4... etc. Times have really changed

You still kind of have an arrogant attitude, no offense.

Not really. You just need to contribute effectively. Contributing effectively does not directly correlate to post count.

There are still some weird names in AU's... I have no idea what for example, Dexterhunter has done in the community back in 2006-2008 exactly...

It's interesting, really, how one may come to be an AU or Veteran. A lot of it is based on time, obviously. If you are to be a ranked member, your location essentially depends on what era of the community you come from. If you are from the earliest days up until around the time Infinite showed up, you are considered to be a veteran. If you are from the time following that, you are considered to be an AU. Obviously these are broken up more on the Wiki with New World Veterans vs. Old World Veterans.

Furthermore, when someone is considered for promotion to a forum rank, historically it has been completely objective based solely on whenever the hell the staff feels like. The only exception to this is the Roboteer group, but I don't really count that anyways (Unless your name is MikeNCR, sorry guys) That's why there is such a disparity between what you would call a contributing AU or Vet (GK, Sage, etc.) versus one who doesn't seem to contribute much, at least not publicly (Dex, Sys32, Myself before I became a Mod.) There are a lot of people who get overlooked for various reasons, ranging from post history, to activity, limited contributions, to plain and simple whether ACAMS actually likes you.

EDIT: And this is case in point:

And hopefully someday, I'll take my place amongst them   =D

No chances... You haven't hosted single Tournament, Built only few bots and I don't even know can you AI.

I never hosted a tournament, I hardly built, and I knew how to AI for a grand total of 5 minutes. These are hardly considered to be the end-all be-all measures of whether or not someone should be an AU. I've said it before and I will say it again, GF has (in my opinion) in the past been much closer to being an AU than most people on this forum realize.

Really I think AU should be for the people who hold the forum together and have the right attitude; freeziez has hosted 5 successful tournaments yet I would not personally give him AU because he doesn't really have the right attitude for it, whereas someone like NFX, who hasn't done a successful tournament, is a better candidate simply by attitude.

If I won 8 tournaments and hosted 4 but acted like an arrogant, unfriendly prick all the time I wouldn't be given AU, I'd be mildly respected but considered a complete jerk. Of course, sometimes it can be played right (see Nary and Inf on occasion) but it really doesn't play to my advantage at all.

[RammingSpeed]

I agree.

[NFX]

I took a scout through the thread that was in Forum News when there was a bunch of promotions at the end of 2010, and I found this explanation:
 

Possibly. The truth is, they're a little bit pointless. As long as you have fun here, that's all that really matters. =D

ding ding sing

and thats why you got one :P

Best thing to do, I reckon, would be to stop worrying about it. Enjoy your time here, try and help out as much as you can, and generally find some way that you can keep the forum ticking over. Those that ask don't get, was another line from that thread. It's like what happened with JoeBlo and Backlash, if you keep asking for it, the chances are you're going to annoy the people who make the decisions, and eventually your chances of actually getting it are going to go right down the toilet.

[Philippa]

Kihara = Curly

Random finnish translation.

Ugly = Laid

Ironic French Translation.

[Gazea2]

i probably wont get au for a while until i can do tournaments and stuff but i dont know


also i just had my booster jab and now i feel weird and i cant sit or do anything properly :P

Haha, same happened to me when I got mine.
In other news, my computer completely broke somehow. I turned it on and Google Chrome, RA2 and a bunch of other things had been un-installed, despite the fact that no one had used the computer. Now Skype refuses to work and it's stupidly slow. D:

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

In other news, my computer completely broke somehow. I turned it on and Google Chrome, RA2 and a bunch of other things had been un-installed, despite the fact that no one had used the computer. Now Skype refuses to work and it's stupidly slow. D:

That's called having a virus

[Gazea2]

In other news, my computer completely broke somehow. I turned it on and Google Chrome, RA2 and a bunch of other things had been un-installed, despite the fact that no one had used the computer. Now Skype refuses to work and it's stupidly slow. D:

That's called having a virus

I've been running a scan and it hasn't found anything yet. Anyway, skype is now working and everything has re-appeared.

[Scrap Daddy]

Choke on my veteran-ness n00bs

[Scourge of teh Galaxy]

Choke on my veteran-ness n00bs

Not until you do

[RammingSpeed]

*Chokes to death*