Reputations

[Lalwendë]

Terrorising wood-elves eh? It's that Legolas, he drives me mad... Mua-ha-ha...

I wonder if the Barrow-Wight has created a 'Reputation Generator (TM)'?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

Well that has provided much laughter this evening! I shall have to buy davem a violin case.

I'm also laughing about being stalked by 'petty dwarves'. Why? Because the petty is another word for the outside toilet where I grew up so to me, 'petty dwarves' have always been pictured as dark, mouldy creatures who live in the back of the cistern and throw toilet paper everywhere.

I just imagined them as small minded and bickering .. btw Lal are you getting insane amounts of Rep or have the bands shrunk?

[HerenIstarion]

I suppose it must have reduced to 50-100-200 points sequence after 4000. Let's hazard a guess Lal has 4250+ points at the moment

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

My theory is that once you hit a certain plateau (aka the davem Lalwende line) the little reppy tags are either:

a) rewritten for you from time to time by the BW himself, or

b) selected from a random list of titles, and is changed from time to time

Or, possibly, you are given the ability to choose your own tag and Lal and davem are giving us glimpses into their sordid psyches...

[mark12_30]

Stop harassing us, Tra-La-La-Lally.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Speaking of odd reputations... I checked my User CP and noticed that I had a postive rep worth about a half dozen points that was not only unsigned, but had no comment. It was for accusing Sharku of being Christopher Lee, as I found out when I clicked the link (just to be positive of what the source of this mystery was). But when I clicked my rep scales, all it showed was another rep I'd gotten for that self same post. No sign of this mystery rep. So I clicked back to my CP and it was still there, and still just as mysteriously blank. Do unsigned reps always show up as... not showing up?

[the phantom]

If the rep is without comment or sig, then of course you can't see it, silly. There's nothing to see.

[Meneltarmacil]

Whilst looking at the members list earlier, I have observed the following:

The lowest reputation title yet received is "_____ is as unpopular as Bill Ferny."

Although Lalwendë and davem have both entered the realm of unbelievably strange reputation titles, The Saucepan Man, next highest on the list, still has not managed to steal any taters from confused gaffers. Why is this? Is all that clanging and banging giving him away when he tries?

[mark12_30]

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

My theory is that once you hit a certain plateau (aka the davem Lalwende line) the little reppy tags are either:

a) rewritten for you from time to time by the BW himself, or

b) selected from a random list of titles, and is changed from time to time

Or, possibly, you are given the ability to choose your own tag and Lal and davem are giving us glimpses into their sordid psyches...

I still miss having "the fame of Frodo". Tanequetil would be nicer if Frodo himself was visiting.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by the phantom

If the rep is without comment or sig, then of course you can't see it, silly. There's nothing to see.

I know that. But you can't even see the little positive green jewel box. You should be able to see that even without a comment, right? Because the points are there. And I got another unsigned rep! Only this one did have a comment. *sigh* Oh, but these mysteries of life are mind-boggling.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

" thus I deprived the Downs of the genius observation of one of my kind correspondents that they were the "Bonnie and Clyde" of the downs. I shall never think of them as Lalwende and Davem again.... !!!

I have been permitted to reveal that the author of that sublime thought was Lhuna!!! Step forward, take a bow and receive kudos!!!!

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by mark12_30

I still miss having "the fame of Frodo". Tanequetil would be nicer if Frodo himself was visiting.

I liked being no fool of a Took myself... and I must admit I felt that a boat then a mountain were poor exchange for Rivendell. Really didn't want to leave... on the whole I prefer looking at the sea and mountains to being on them........

Edit ..

Moment of Insight.. I have realised why I sometimes accidentally give anonymous reps.... it is my age.... I learnt to type on a manual typewriter and when I run out of space I automatically hit return forgetting that the box lets you type on....

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Fea

And I got another unsigned rep! Only this one did have a comment.

So did I, Fea. Not just anywhere, but in Werewolf VII...and I actually let that rep somehow direct how I played the game!

Speaking of Werewolf, a great many thanks to all those who repped me. I thought only the mod could have such a harvest of reps in that thread!

[Gurthang]

Strange...

I just got this message when I tried to give a rep:

You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later.

I hadn't realized there was a limit on the amount or number of reps you could give out in a day. It's kind of nice, though, knowing I've given as much as possible!

[The Only Real Estel]

Speaking of Werewolf, a great many thanks to all those who repped me. I thought only the mod could have such a harvest of reps in that thread!

I'll second that! Thanks very much to all of you, roughly two-thirds came from my last "in-character" Cobbler post that effectively ended the game. I'm glad you all liked that, I wasn't going to post anything like it until I was too bored the night before & needed something to do.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

There were so many brilliant posts in the game that I too found myself giving out too much rep in the last 24 hours.

In case anyone's interested, I received approximately 8 billion rep points from this Werewolf game. Thanks very much to everyone. It seriously does brighten my day. Makes getting up in the morning worthwhile.

[Firefoot]

I'm curious... so you people actually give out rep during WW games? I haven't, because I haven't wanted to influence the game in some way, but maybe it doesn't...?

[The Only Real Estel]

I try not to during the game. I think I started giving out a few congratulatory "great games" during the last DAY after I had voted for myself. At that point pretty much the only thing left to determine was whether Saurreg or Eomer was the wolf anyway (for those who hadn't yet).

edit: I usually do something like Morm only I usually try to find the villager's last post or their most significant post of something...it doesn't matter much. If I see something in particular I want to rep during the game I just write it down somewhere so I can come back to it after the game is finished.

[mormegil]

I give out a lot of WW rep. Although I always do it after the game and at times I pick out a specific post other times I just find the person I wanted to rep and rep the first post that I find.

[Orominuialwen]

I generally give out WW rep after the game is over, or at least after the person I'm repping has been killed. I've been a wolf twice, and I generally rep my fellow wolves, as well as other posts/players I particularly enjoyed.

Speaking of Werewolf, a great many thanks to all those who repped me. I thought only the mod could have such a harvest of reps in that thread!

I agree! I've gone up several levels due to the reps I've gotten from this game. Thanks!

[Gil-Galad]

i had a scary thought...Nilp actually sitting upon high Tanquietal...*shudders*

(edit: okay... i never meant it, i'm never cruel with my jokes and you should know that, i'm not saying that Nilp doesn't derserve the rank, just think of Nilp's character being a Valar! its for humour purposes! i posted this to make people laugh, and it really hurts me when i suffer for my selflishness of thinking for other people)

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Especially by the fact that I haven't left the first page of the Rep-ranks ever since it started. And before that, I was a relative nobody!

Thanks to all you people there. You know who you are.

Giving due to gratitude,
++Nilpaurion

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

I'm curious... so you people actually give out rep during WW games? I haven't, because I haven't wanted to influence the game in some way, but maybe it doesn't...?

It made me suspect Kuru in WW1 but unfortunately not enough to overcome my greater suspicion of Fea.

[The Saucepan Man]

I suggest that everyone avoids repping active players during a Werewolf game because, even if not meant as a hint, it could still be taken as such.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I agree with Teenage Wolf Pan up there. Given that whole clear hindsight thing everyone is always coining the use of... Even though my words to Lhuna were entirely ambiguous during last game's random unsigned rep, they still allowed her to see that she made someone happy with something she wrote. Not necessarily that she was right, but that she had back up. All I can say is I think I would have felt guiltier in hind sight had Eomer actually been caught for his base treach-wolvery. Since Lhuna's accusations were never actually listened to, I don't feel as bad because my mistake didn't particularly affect the game.

But someone else's might! *cue the scary music*

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

No way could anyone stop those wolves.

I repped someone during the game, while that person was still playing. But I made it very clear that it was for the humour in the post (which was very funny indeed). It is risky to even say "Good post", though.

[Amanaduial the archer]

...And the rest of us? I've repped several WW posts in various games, simply because, as seen by the number of quotes that have reached signatures, some of the posts are simply so witty.

[Morsul the Dark]

I find it interesting that I get more rep points now that i post only once in a while than in the good ol' days of frivilous posting

[THE Ka]

Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark

I find it interesting that I get more rep points now that i post only once in a while than in the good ol' days of frivilous posting

I agree, that does tend to help.

I'm curious though, has anyone else recieved reps from really, really old posts that you have to track down to find out what subject it was? I recently recieved one, without a name...

I'm not angry or anything related, but it does intrigue me.

~ Aesthete

[the guy who be short]

Originally Posted by The Ka

I'm curious though, has anyone else recieved reps from really, really old posts that you have to track down to find out what subject it was?

Oui. I think it's cos the thread got bumped (is that the word for reviving a thread? Momentary memory loss here ) but the post was from 2003, I believe. And it happened twice...

[Firefoot]

I really like receiving rep from old posts (I've only gotten a handful); it's nice to know that even though they're old, they're not forgotten. And I do rep old posts; sometimes when I have nothing else to do I go back and read old threads; the only problem is I often find more than one quality post by the same member!

[wilwarin538]

Davem is now also terrorising wood elves. Congratulations.

I only got two reps for WW during the game my other reps for the game came after it was finished. And because of the WW reps I now have 7 boxes. So thanks everyone.

[mark12_30]

"Hey, who's that terrorizing my cousins?"

"Davem. "

"Lalwende wasn't enough of a party crasher; now there's davem too? Ah, well. Think he can be bought off with a bottle of wine?"

"He's no butler! He's a professor."

"Hmm. We haven't seen any pipeweed since that fellowship came through during the war. What else do you buy off a professor with?"

"Try running him over with the White Stag?"

"Worth a go. Shall we?"

"Oh, no hurry. Can't leave the wine here all by itself. Your ivy circlet has slipped."

"Thanks. Who'll lead the hunt?"

"Whoever loses at the drinking song, of course."

[Mithalwen]

is sending me slightly demented (ie more than my usual self) .. I recently received a piece of with a sweet comment and but no name.....and not guessable with any degree of certainty...

Thank you whoever you are......

[Gurthang]

I've just noticed that The Saucepan Man now 'steals taters' and that Lalwende 'was once misplaced by a forgetful Maia'? Where did that one come from? Well, congrats to both of you!

[the guy who be short]

The question the begs answering now is: misplaced where?

I'm sure ye noble Barrowdowners will get to the root of this mystery.*

*If you are Lalwende, please read this post as: Congratulations! If you could also tell us where you were misplaced, it would be most helpful.

[The Barrow-Wight]

100 points to the first person who can tell how I came up with the most recent reputation levels. No guesses, your answer must be specific and complete.

[Gurthang]

Drat, I can't make heads or tails that makes much sense. But I'm thinking it's Bilbo, or something like that.

I don't know when he stole taters, but it's very possible, knowing his heritage.

The petty dwarves would be Thorin and Company when they tumbled into his hobbit-hole.

The terrorized wood-elves would have to be Thrandruil's(sp) folk while he was wearing the Ring.

The misplaced by a Maia... I don't know, maybe when Gandalf left him in the Misty Mountain tunnels?

Oh, that really can't be it; can it?

[Kuruharan]

The petty dwarves would be Thorin and Company when they tumbled into his hobbit-hole.

No. The petty-dwarves were outcasts from the earliest dwarven society in the First Age who migrated into Beleriand and eventually died out.

Thorin and Company were Thorin and Company and would have resented being called petty-dwarves (Thorin in particular would probably have had a violent reaction).

[Alcarillo]

The stalked-by-petty-dwarves rep level could refer to Mîm and the other petty-dwarves that were spotted by Túrin and his outlaws. In Andróg's eyes the dwarves could've been stalkers.