PC popularity

[Tsutarja]

To be honest, I am talking from a non-popularity perspective here, but I am glad to be rather unpopular. In comparison, being very popular on an extremely active forum (such as PC) can almost be comparable to the paparazzi going after a celebrity... you'd get VMs almost everyday, you'd have a lot of friend requests on a daily (if not daily, then weekly) basis, and much more.

Then again, while I am social in both real life and online (just not much here at PC), I wish I could help myself become more active here and more social amongst the community, but maybe one of the reasons that people here are so popular is because they balance their time to have more time here at the forum than other things, but that's just my sole opinion of the question.

Anyways, sorry about the rant. Back to the original assumption by the original poster: Of course I do see people here that are mods and not popular; same with those who are extremely helpful and are PC Supporters (especially at levels 5 and 6). The only reason I think many members here grow to be popular is because of their post counts, though feel free to get me wrong if I am or if you disagree.

Apologies for the rambling, just my two cents on the subject.

 

[Harmony]

Just because you obtain a position of power in the community, doesn't mean you'll gain popularity with that power. Yes, you'll get more people stalking your profile page and watching every move you make. But just because your name is highlighted doesn't mean everyone will like you more as a person. I've grown close to quite a few ex mods, some I am still close with and they never really considered themselves popular. Sometimes you run into mods that aren't so pleasant to be around and most people don't flock to. Basically in my opinion, its all a matter of how much you have in common and how you communicate with others that determines how well liked you'll be.

It kind of irks me that popularity is even an issue though. I just don't understand why people care so much about it. I feel like you should just make friends with whomever you have a lot in common with. That way you don't feel pressured to always be somebody you're not to stay in whatever you view as the "in crowd". But yeah I especially don't see why it's a big deal here on PC. I mean not to down play the community or anything but it's just a pokemon forum. So what you're not everyone's favorite member! ( lol MoTM flashbacks) Get over it and laugh with the friends you made on the forum. Life will go on. ;)

 

[Kenshin5]

I am quite the example of when you become a moderator you aren't any more popular. I essentially talk with the same people before I was modded, just my page views are up a bit more.

I don't try and equate Moderating and Popularity together. As other says you gain status through social interaction, with the friends you meet, the groups you are apart of. Moderating for me is keeping the forum tidy and trying to create a general habitual productive atmosphere in your said forum. What comes out of things you have done, such as new additions you instituted may make you a bit popular, but ultimately it is up to persons willingness to interact with others that gets them noticed. Not to mention I think the best Moderating work occurs behind the scenes anyways, so for me it's not about popularity but a job you were picked to do.

 

[Deleted member 143209]

"The only way to really become popular here is to get modded."

I in fact lost popularity when I got "modded", so no. Don't agree with that.

The way to get popular on PC is to lick a lot of boots, go on irc, talk a lot, brainwash users who post in your sections (if you're a moderator), join fads, join a clique, create a clique, demand to be involved in everything, and take as much territorial range as you can.

 

[Hybrid Trainer]

PC's guide to popularity right there ^

But no I disagree with that statement. There are some staff here that aren't popular. To become popular you have to know the right people. If you know higher staff then you'll gain popularity. If you know some of the more well known staff members then you'll gain popularity. If you've done something for the benefit of the community, like design a good style that gets its own announcement thread, then you'll gain popularity.
Being popular however will usually gain you moddship nine times out of ten though.

 

[TRIFORCE89]

I was once a mod here. Both then and now I don't see myself as a popular user

 

[blue]

Not necessarily, you can impact other people in different ways, you can become popular it just depends on how you act, albeit being staff improves it but you can still become liked without being a member of staff.

 

[Shiny Celebi]

I think you would get more attention when modded but it would slowly die down, and then people might try to be nice to you just cause you're staff, which I dont consider popularity. If you were social in a lot of sections and talked to a lot of people and became well know, I'd consider that true PC popularity, whether you were modded or not.

 

[Nick]

PC's guide to popularity right there ^

But no I disagree with that statement. There are some staff here that aren't popular. To become popular you have to know the right people. If you know higher staff then you'll gain popularity. If you know some of the more well known staff members then you'll gain popularity. If you've done something for the benefit of the community, like design a good style that gets its own announcement thread, then you'll gain popularity.
Being popular however will usually gain you moddship nine times out of ten though.

That isn't true at all. It gives you a better chance at getting modded, but it doesn't make you gain popularity.

 

[Jellicent♀]

Yeah, knowing or befriending staff doesn't make you popular, and becoming or being a staff member, from what I've seen, doesn't make you more popular than other people. There are regular users I see everywhere talking with more people than most staff members. In my opinion, you just have to be nice. I'm not exactly popular, at all, but then again, I don't wander around the site that much past this section and the Pokemon General Gaming Discussions. Even then, not many people know me at all.
Just talk to people, it really is that simple.

 

[Rogue planet]

PC seems to get all worked up over this "other", a mostly non-existent group of people who love sucking up to the mods and are obsessed with popularity. Who actually does that? I want names people!

Anyone who thinks either they, or someone else, is some sort of PC popularity king/queen, get a reality check.

 

[twocows]

PC seems to get all worked up over this "other", a mostly non-existent group of people who love sucking up to the mods and are obsessed with popularity. Who actually does that? I want names people!

Anyone who thinks either they, or someone else, is some sort of PC popularity king/queen, get a reality check.

Clearly I'm the popularity king of PC, long shall be my rule. Reality can give me a check for $1 billion whenever it feels ready, I'm totally down with that. Hail to the king, baby.

 

[Livewire]

PC seems to get all worked up over this "other", a mostly non-existent group of people who love sucking up to the mods and are obsessed with popularity. Who actually does that? I want names people!

Anyone who thinks either they, or someone else, is some sort of PC popularity king/queen, get a reality check.

Yes. I'd like to see this group of so-called sycophants, because I rarely if ever see anyone do that.

 

[LightOfTruth]

I say popularity is good but making quality posts is better for any forum :)

 

[Kura]

I wouldn't say it's to get modded; I would say it would be to be a brown-noser to a certain crowd of people who are already staff. And make obnoxious posts/ blogs. That's how it works.

The way to get popular on PC is to lick a lot of boots, go on irc, talk a lot, brainwash users who post in your sections (if you're a moderator), join fads, join a clique, create a clique, demand to be involved in everything, and take as much territorial range as you can.

Yup, Gavin's got it right!

Yeah, knowing or befriending staff doesn't make you popular, and becoming or being a staff member, from what I've seen,

You should've been here when Dawson was around.. hot damn, that got bad quickly!

 

[curiousnathan]

I'm glad his topic has been brought up because it really gives me the opportunity to express my opinion on the subject. To me personally I do believe popularity is granted toward those who become moderators, or a part of the staff team. I'm not saying that this is the case all the time but in most cases I've found that this happens. It's true that one does gain popularity through other methods like chatting with other members, but I notice that with this members talk to the popular members or staff, because again, they're the most popular. It's all a cycle. And it's sometimes dismaying since those who don't case about popularity want to talk to other members who are popular, are ignored and treated like they don't exist. It may not be overt, but it does happen. I've probably stray a little off-topic, but I still think some of the above is worth noting.

In my opinon, popularity is majorly gained from becoming part of the staff team. Not in all cases this happens but in most. And it's harsh that others are ignored due to such popularity within some members.

 

[moon]

I don't agree with that.

Once anyone is modded they're popular for about a day, or however long it takes for the VMs to stream in. Past that it depends on themselves as a person, rather than their position. For example, PC's had some staff members who were completely overlooked, despite their positions. It depends on the effort that you put out, and no colored username is going to hand you a position of automatic popularity. It might be easier to pick you out in a crowd, but that doesn't automatically mean that you'll be genuinely liked or appreciated. You have to work at that. :/

This was pretty much what I wanted to say here, until I thought some more about it. In the long run, like over the course of several years, what you say is probably true. But...

Sometimes some members become so popular they get noticed more easily (Ryan...)

oh lol yes

He's right, I may not be a staff member yet but I still get popular in most areas, especially Other Trivia.

Also, my famous "I herd u liek Cute Oshawottz" slogan got me a lot of fans here.

Are you sure you know what popularity is? I'm not sure I know. Is it to know many people or to have many people knowing you, or is it to have many people like you or what is it really?

Hardly anyone ever talks to me on here, so I'm inclined to disagree. :[

That's because you are one of those scary staff members. :]

I in fact lost popularity when I got "modded", so no. Don't agree with that.

The way to get popular on PC is to lick a lot of boots, go on irc, talk a lot, brainwash users who post in your sections (if you're a moderator), join fads, join a clique, create a clique, demand to be involved in everything, and take as much territorial range as you can.

The wannabe's guide to the forums.


... and here's where I do have something to say on the topic. I don't think I was ever popular on PC as a whole, whatever that is now. I didn't post enough in the "right sections" where people who cared about popularity were, I almost never post there now xD I never went on MSN and certainly never the chat. But I kind of know I was rather well known and not really disliked around my particular forum of interest even before I was modded there. Then when I was a mod, I swear it was my fat blue name that attracted people to me rather than what I was actually saying or doing. It felt kind of false or weird sometimes and thinking back I hope I wasn't using it too much O.o;

Anyways, nowadays I hope that I'm still rather well known and at least not really disliked by anyone in the Roleplay Corner. And I hope that it's not because I'm the ex-mod but rather because of what I say and do. Hm, actually, I think I just figured out what popularity is. At least what I want it to be :3


So my final answer to what Forever stated is probably that part of being popular is to have a certain level of power. Whether that comes from having many people liking you and listening to you/wanting to do things for you, or from being a moderator... well, if you have both, you are probably really popular, but if you have one of those things, you can still be somewhat popular. So it's not the only way, no, but it certainly helps.

 

[Mana1]

Mods have both an advantage and disadvantage I think - whilst more people may want to be friends/ly with them, it is more likely just because they are a Mod than the fact they are interesting. It really depends on how a Mod carries out their duties on if they are popular, if they keep the punishments discrete and know what is joking around and what deserves a punishment, then they'll still be liked and popular.

Saying that, I think the easiest way to be popular on PC is to (a) start interesting threads and (b) be polite and reply to everyone equally, rather than only favouring previous friends/mods.

 

[Turn-it]

I think being a mod could also be a double-edged sword. On the one hand it could grant you popularity but as soon as they have to mod i.e. ban, spam, delete posts, etc. If a regular member doesn't like that, there isn't much they can do about it. So their so called best friend could delete a meaningful post to them and now they could have problems with their friendship all because one was just trying to do their job. Being a moderator may not be as serious as a manager and an employee, but there still has to be a thin line somewhere. I could be wrong it's just what I think.

 

[TheFattestSnorlax]

I'm pretty sure that being a mod has it's ups and downs. I mean, How much is it blatantly obvious that you've seen a thread get deleted? Tell that to the moderators. For a specific reason, they are inquired to close the thread for the time being. I'be been a member since Febuary 2011, and i think that some people say that the older joined people get to be moderators. Well... Not exactly. there's probably a couple of moderaters that has joined in 2010 and so forth. moderators will probably gain popularity but when they have been demodded, popularity will rise down from 1/4. At least that's what I think. Oh, and most mods i've seen here have wayyyyyyyyyyy more posts than I do.