Lion Heart said:
Frosty, your example can be shot down.
You stay in Fan Fiction right? Well, OC is alot more popular than FF..
What I mean here is more people see thepost, the more people that see the post, the more likely it is someone may rep you from it because more people = More of a chance someone liked the post.
You can't possibly compare things like that since not alot of people even go to Fan Fiction, which means there is less of a chance of someone seeing your post and liking it.
OFF TOPIC: Why did you give up on the Battle Analysis' in Strats and MS's?
Unless absolutely *no one* visit Pokemon fanfiction at all, then you can still earn reps just as fast in theory. There aren't as much visitors in the fanfic forum, that's true. But at the same time, this means that your post is viewed more easily as there will be less traffic to push your post to another page so people will not simply skip over your post. If you start a thread, it'll take a *huge* amount of time before it's pushed down to the next page in fanfic in comparison to other chat because at most you get 2 or 3 new fanfic started in a day. Fanfics also get an advantage that you can double post and the thread is almost always nothing but you. Your post quality really shines easily because there aren't any posts but you in that thread (unless it's a chain story but there is only 1 chain story ever.) In other chat, it is true how there are more people who view your post, but at the same time there's many other competition in terms of "eye catching." Also, PC has a poor tendency to skip everything and jump right to the last page and only read the last page in the thread, so if your post is in page 2 and the numerous amount of posts have pushed the thread to page 4 already, well safe to say that you have lost all chance to gain a rep in that post.
So in theory, you get as much reps as you do anywhere else in Pokemon fanfic. Regardless of where you are, you *should* be getting the same amount of reps. However, that's not happening because there's a flaw somewhere in the system, which needs to be fixed. If the flaw can't be fixed, then you decide to either live with the flaw, or just destroy the whole thing along with the flaw.
As for the off-topic thing:
it's because I no longer go to the Strategy forum? I am still interested in the metagame, but I quitted playing it for quite awhile now... I could have continued, but then I really don't see why I can't just quit a volunteer work since it's just... volunteer work. Technically, the mod should be in charge of establishing new FAQ or other various methods to assist the members within that forum, which is something all staffs should strive to work for. Afterall, mods are elected/appointed (or bribed their way) to do these type of things. When I'm no longer the mod there, well obviously I don't have to continue working on it. Fanfic is more... fulfilling. You have to learn equally as much, if not more... Have to be equally keen and calculating just like the game, but only in Pokemon fanfic can you actually learn some facts that can benefit you outside of a game. The Pokemon game can never do that...
Someone of great sentimental value asked me to promise this person and stay there to assist the game forums... I did my end to the promise and have fulfilled it. Now that the person isn't here nor did she remember any of these things, I'm no longer bounded to the hideous job of modding there either... I never liked it in the first place... But that's all in the past now.
