Rikifive

To everyone who plays in these boop threads...

... before there will be misunderstandings and surprises, please read that. 

I hate to say that.. I tried to remain quiet for a long, long time ... but it is slowly getting insane. 

Please, do not take it personally.

This is what I got yesterday:

These are notifications coming from just one member. Each notification contains exactly the same wall of meaningless mentions posted to farm brohooves. Getting that many notifications from exactly the same post thrown into few places is an overkill. 

Also yesterday, two new "mention @everyone to farm brohooves" forum games were posted. Is there really a need for hundreds of these? 

At first (most of) people were using these threads in an acceptable way- - mentioning just few members they had something to say to or at least, typing something meaningful above/below the mentions. There was a reason, there was a value in the post and/or each mention.

Nowadays? I'll be honest, because I see it that way: It's just minimal effort, copy pasting the same list of mentions in every possible game, not because someone cares about people they mention, but because they see them as a potential source of brohooves. People even stopped typing anything; just one word and paste the list. Rules are simple, the more people you bother, the more brohooves you get, then multiply that by amount of threads on top of that and voila! Victory is yours! You want to appear in the leaderboards and be that top member after all, don't you? Farming brohooves became a competition of some sort. Also there's that pro tip everyone uses - why bother typing names? Create a list of brohooves once and store it somewhere, then, just copy paste it all over the place and wait for profit. Soon, members will write bots, that will be automatically posting walls of mentions in these threads every x hours. That's the direction it goes in.

Now be honest - do you actually interact with people you mention (maybe aside that one or few)? Do you even remember their names and/or that they even exist?

Where my thoughts came from you may ask? ... Because I was doing pretty much the same. At first I was like "yeah why not" and wanted to "play" too, but I quickly realized, that even though no one (except one member ) says anything, it causes harm. Not only I was poking members absolutely randomly without any reason (and we all know how people love random @everyone mentions on discord, for example), it also was making the value of my brohooves much lower. Many brohooves I have now required effort from my side and/or actually interacting with the others and I prefer to keep it that way. Having 9999999 brohooves? Yeah, cool, congratulations, but what do these mean? These are empty.

Look, imagine a member you don't normally talk too, yet you keep booping him in all these threads - literally, the ONLY interaction you have with that member is by randomly mentioning him among 100 other people (about 10 times in a row on top of that). How is this supposed to make anyone feel better, especially when they see, that it's literally the same copy&pasted list over and over again? No one even puts the effort to type these names, it's just effortless farming.

That is why I stopped participating in these threads myself. Rarely I'll post something there, but I limit myself to one, up to few mentions, that were done for a reason.

Not only someone gets something at the others' cost, it also completely ruins the value of a brohoof. Now when a member has a high reputation, it doesn't mean, that he is a valuable and/or just helpful member in any way, now it just displays how often and how intense that member is spamming by pasting the list of mentions and idk, maybe how often is posting a number in the counting thread.

These mentions became absolutely meaningless, the mentioned members are nothing else than just that one more tree among 999 others, that gives brohooves.

This is the current value of brohooves:

Literally, now the more brohooves someone has, the more 'spammy' the user is in my eyes.  It's absolutely not a number one could admire, that's for sure.

Heh, and that wall of text just to introduce to something I wanted to say.

A long time ago I had to disable notifications from status updates, because my notification box was a hassle to work with, due to many people I follow. It wasn't because of the amount of notifications, but the quality of these. Whenever I woke up the next day and came back to forums after work, I had like 50+ notifications from "good morning" and "goodnight" status updates, that were posted 5-16 hours ago. There's nothing wrong with these statuses of course, but at that point there was absolutely no reason to view these, as these simply "expired", so to speak. So yeah, it was spammy, it was giving me a bad time, for real. There were times, where I accidentally overlooked important notifications. That is the reason I decided to mute status updates.

Now, the same thing starts to happen here. 8 exactly the same, meaningless notifications from just one member. And of course, this is not the only member playing these games, so of course, in the end I have even more of these. More and more of these threads start to appear and it began to be a hassle. If nothing will be done, I'll end up having 100 notifications each day, that basically will be meaningless. Following the content I really care about starts to be harder.

So, as much as I hate to say that, if this will continue, sadly I'll have to start doing this:

One thread, mentioning once, would be more than enough. What is the point of doing that multiple times in different, yet the same threads? Plot twist, I am not blind, there's no need to send 8 the same notifications.  Mentioning me once in one of these threads is okay (some users mention me once in a while, which is okay), but come on, doing a combo is made purely for farming purposes and it only shows how much you care about me - that for you, I'm just a tree of brohooves, that you like to kick multiple times until brohooves start to fall. ... especially that some members who mention me never talk to me. I'm just that one face in the crowd, thanks for reminding me that. 

Many members tend to mention me and sweet Celestia, if everyone would do the same and mention me 8 times each... and if that would keep happening every single day....

So yeah, I hope you understand that and please don't take that personally.

Thank you for understanding and ...

*looks to the right*
*looks to the left*
*boops everyone who reads that*