Originally posted by MaxodexOriginally posted by Samantha"The negative categories gave some users an excuse to remain shitty users because they could be rewarded for it with a most (most likely to x before becoming staff, rudest, etc). Being a rude user should not be rewarded..."
"Really though? From my experience the negative categories never "rewarded" or encouraged bad users to continue being assholes, in fact they generally made the user who earned them to get angry or pissy with the community for being so rude with
them instead, and that usually caused lots of shitstorms."
I do agree with what you're saying about negative awards causing problems,
Maxodex; if anyone was given an award in relation to a bad quality, then it would be natural to get angry or frustrated over it. But I do think there is more to the removal of negative categories than just simply to prevent a user from bursting in anger. To start,
Samantha's point that users will continue being negative if they're rewarded for it does apply if they're just trying to get more badges. I know from personal experience that most newcomers will try to snag a badge to try and look sophisticated or experienced- especially when it comes to large contests like
VLDC or
CLDC. So if there was a badge reward for being the rudest or most negative, then these people would very likely remain rude or negative just because they can get a badge for it; this especially applies for the '
Biggest Pervert' and '
Rudest' categories.
Additionally, some negative categories may have been removed because of certain events on the site that occurred. For example, the category '
Most Missed' has been recently removed because of the death or
eXcavator that happened during 2016; because of the user's death, the category's meaning suddenly changed from well-known users who have been gone for a long time to users who have died or who are deceased; as a result, it was decided that the category would be omitted from every Mosts event after Winter 2018.
Overall, the main point that I'm trying to say here is the removal of the negative categories may be the result of multiple issues that came up because of them, rather than just one outcome. So by removing these categories, these issues can be mitigated or avoided- allowing the Mosts to be a more comfortable and friendly event for users.
That's all that I can write for now. I would love to discuss this topic some more, but I have been writing this post for a while and I need to get things done. It's interesting to talk about the history of the Mosts since a lot has changed since the event's reveal in Winter 2007. I hope this topic could be discussed further, and that we could see how we can make this event better in the future. Anyways, I'll see you later, and I hope you guys have a good day!
Adios!