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| Registered: April 16, 2009 |  Posts: 141 |
| | Posted: | | | | OK. Enough is enough. 441 accepted profile contributions, 400 accepted image contributions, a couple of hundred contribution votes cast and (it seems, as I have no idea what they are) 5 profle links submitted - not counting the 11 pending contributions as we speak (as it were)... AND STILL ONLY ENTRY LEVEL SINGLE STAR??? What's a girl gotta do? 7,500 people have 'viewed me' and still a single star???
I even now follow the (really absurd) Captilisation rules of ratings and painstakingly type the REAL overview in from the box 'till my fingers bleed... and what thanks? Nada.
NADA!!!
That's it! Gonna jump.... Gonna jump... | | | | Gonna jump...gonna jump... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Stars have nothing to do with any of those things. Stars are 'earned' by users clicking the  on your posts. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | (Folks can contributions as well.) Don't sweat it, tcremote; popularity isn't everything. Now step off that ledge and let's talk this over all calm like.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CalebAndCo: Quote:
(Folks can contributions as well.) I don't believe they can. They can do it for contribution votes...if you leave a comment...but not for actual contributions. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | yes you can Martian... Invelos just don't make it easy for some reason... when you go to database to vote on stuff... you must click the white paper bringing you to the contribution notes for that profile. There you can see the read and green arrows to give reputation votes on contributions.
If you go to see what you got in reputation arrows you see it says forum posts/contribution notes. So I guess you are actually giving it for the notes you make for a contribution... but either way you can click arrows for contributions. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: May 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,475 |
| | Posted: | | | | Stars really don't mean anything. It's not like you get a free DVD or something (hint hint  ) I know I earned the first one when I posted a really amazing video. A lot of people gave me a green arrow because they liked it too. Other than the first star I really have no idea how they are calculated. I usually give a green arrow when someone posts helpful information. Or, if someone contributes a lot of data on a profile. If a posts makes me laugh I usually give out one too. |
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,550 |
| | Posted: | | | | It's extremely hard to get a star. I once had a ton of green arrows on several topics (40+ IIRC) and still didn't get anything.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 17,334 |
| | Posted: | | | | I didn't have much trouble getting the first two... the third one however seems to be the tough one for me to get. | | | | Pete |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks Pete. I don't know how I missed that. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: April 16, 2009 | | Posts: 141 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm sorry, it's too late... I don't want to end up looking like 'The Movieman' - of course stars matter Kathy, it's the stuff of life! You can quibble amongst yourselves, you can brag about having 'earned' your stars... but it's too late... I can't go on... stand back... I'm Gonna jump... gonna jump... | | | | Gonna jump...gonna jump... |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting tcremote: Quote:
OK. Enough is enough. 441 accepted profile contributions, 400 accepted image contributions, a couple of hundred contribution votes cast and (it seems, as I have no idea what they are) 5 profle links submitted - not counting the 11 pending contributions as we speak (as it were)... AND STILL ONLY ENTRY LEVEL SINGLE STAR??? What's a girl gotta do? 7,500 people have 'viewed me' and still a single star???.. I don't even see the single star ... But posts and approvals won't ( as others have said)..get you that star ..,,, One of our resident members here has over 20.386 posts and has yet to get a single star either .......... | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Post about 100 LOLcats and you should have it. |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMovieman: Quote:
It's extremely hard to get a star. I once had a ton of green arrows on several topics (40+ IIRC) and still didn't get anything. You don't want many green arrows on several topics, you need a lot of arrows on a single topic. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,774 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMovieman: Quote:
It's extremely hard to get a star. I once had a ton of green arrows on several topics (40+ IIRC) and still didn't get anything. I'm not a 100% sure, but I think participation in the headshots-thread helped me a lot. Most users there are very generous giving green arrows when you point out errors, post correct photos or upload headshot database updates. If you're lucky you'll get ~10 green arrows for uploading a good load of headshots.  Helping in common name threads helps, too... Posting bug reports when a new beta is out... Helping people in the technical support area... And then there are the dog and cat friends...  | | | | Last edited: by SpaceFreakMicha |
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| Registered: July 16, 2010 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 526 |
| | Posted: | | | | Has anyone actually earnt a star recently? I’ve not noticed anyone do so.
I clearly make the most accurate contributions, the most helpful posts, the funniest posts and I’ve got a cat; basically I do the best and most of everything around here and have done for the most time too. (Not that I like to brag about it or anything.) I’ve even invented 10,000 fictitious profiles (and paid for the Licenses for them) just so I can give myself thousands of green arrows for everything, yet still I’m just one of the proletariat, milling about on the streets with the downtrodden masses, chavs and hoddies, instead of hanging out with the DVD Profiler Royalty, which is my true vocation in life. I’ve had to resort to sticking self-adhesive stars to my screen to give a fair reflection of my worth, so I don't burst into tears everytime I log in and see the blank space where the starts should be, mocking every aspect of my life, making me feel worthless and an all around bad person.
We need a Profiler Spring, (well okay Autumn* then) where we rise up and replace King Ken with a popular movement, (with me as, em, Emperor, or George Lucus or Captain Kirk, or someone). I bet George Lucas would tinker with the Rules every single day!
* For our American cousins, that means the same as Fall. We’ll need your help to do this too because, well, we always need your help... | | | | Do you ever find yourself striving for perfection with an almost worthless attempt at it? Guttermouth "Lemon Water". Also, I include in my Profiler database VHS tapes, audio DVDs, audio books (digital, cassette and CD), video games (digital, DVD and CD) and 'enhanced' CDs with video tracks on them, as well as films and TV I've bought digitally. So I'm an anarchist, deal with it. Just be thankful I don't include most of my records and CDs etc in it too; don't think I haven't been tempted... |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting SpaceFreakMicha: Quote:
Helping in common name threads helps, too...
Posting bug reports when a new beta is out...
Helping people in the technical support area...
And then there are the dog and cat friends... Helping someone in Technical Support gives you an almost guaranteed green arrow, but only one or two from the people that were helped. Showing funny dog and cat pictures can give you a lot of green arrows, even though that has nothing much to do with DVD Profiler. Go figure. To be clear: I am NOT advocating to stop helping people in Technical Support. Nor am I a cat and dog hater (just allergic). | | | | Hans |
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