Personally I agree with you, some level of decided quality in threads should be a considered factor when choosing a denizen. It can be opinion based, it doesn't really matter, as long as people can't just write half assed responses and low tier posts without absorbing and participating in OT's culture itself, become a denizen, then disappear.Stomiks wrote:
Won’t that be better though? People would work harder to deserve their denizenship, making better threads, engaging in OT more and being an easily recognizable denizen. I don’t why climbing tiers would be bad anymore.Patatitta wrote:
quotePeople would still just post for denizen, just to climb tiers, and the problem still stasnds of what does it mean to actually contribute to OT,Stomiks wrote:
I agree as well.Patatitta wrote:
I think this is really a problem of definition of what a denizen means, if it means someone to has been active in ot, current system is fine, but if we instead take it into someone who has left a big impact then we have a problem
basicamint it on contrubiunton is a weird thing, as someone could be considered to be very impactful on OT by just being absolutely awful and being exiled, while someone who just does thsi cool threads from time to time and doesn't really doesnt change anything in the long run would be totally accepted
In the current age we're in the denizen tag does not offer you any value, it kets you a "you were here" pin and that's it, only real value i've seen in it was to vote in the elections and honestly I haven't really seen any changes in ot coming from parlament or so, and most ot focused threads like the song contests or the interviuwus really do not require it at all, which I think is totally fine
making it a more complex system would only increase the competition there is for it, not reduce it, the fact it's harder to get would only incraese their aparent value, even if the end product is the exact same, even if people start pushing for the highest quality thread to gain denizen, would that really even be a good a thing?
If you're going out of your way to gain denizen, those threads would be made out of obligation, not because a love to OT, can you really call a denizen someone who doesn't care about OT and only cares about their own status on it?
we need to define what being a denizen really means befoer we can disscuss any alternative models I feel like
What does it mean to be a denizen? Does it mean that you'd just posted continously for 8 months? Does it mean that you'd contributed to OT in a big way? There needs to be a concrete defintion of the term before we could make rules for it or else we won't really get anywhere imo.
Most people view it as a way to get clout, to be eternally engraved on a forum with millions of active users. Looking at that way, being a denizen really feels you were just here for that title, a "hey I existed" posted on this thread.
I personally think what it means to be a denizen is to be "a contributor to OT." It means getting involved with people, making threads, making friends here and just being a part of the community. You don't have to do something big like changing the OT landscape, just that you were worth remembering and that people here would gladly welcome you.
As a side note, I think I have an idea to solving this problem. Why not separate the denizen status into tiers? That would solve the "people would post just for denizen" by putting them in a lower bracket and we could recognize those who did something big OT into the higher ones. We could have past denizens vote for which future denizens are gonna be in each bracket, something like that.
But yeah, we still need to define what it means to be a denizen.
I'm not a denizen so I probably have less of a say on what goes on in that department, but that's just my opinion on it as if I was one.
" idea, you dont need to be good, you just need to be there
