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- JasonLeung
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New here!
Hi all!
Just want to say hi to all of you, finally I have found a forum room which has a lot of people who know a lot about the game. Hope that I can help people in this forums room who have problems and also to get helped by other people.
Just want to say hi to all of you, finally I have found a forum room which has a lot of people who know a lot about the game. Hope that I can help people in this forums room who have problems and also to get helped by other people.
Silence dog!
Your only purpose of living is to die by my hand!
Your only purpose of living is to die by my hand!
Welcome to the forum. Don't expect much help from me though, I'm quite new to the game too 
"Come on, let's go whack something eeeeeeeeevil!"
"Faster than Chiktikka FastPaws!"
Shadow Mages - Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible.
"Faster than Chiktikka FastPaws!"
Shadow Mages - Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible.
Hello there!!!!! Post your problems and we'll solve them....
Help and you'll be helped.
And yes.....this forum is the one and only!!!!!! GB RULES
Help and you'll be helped.
And yes.....this forum is the one and only!!!!!! GB RULES
Edwin, mighty founder of the Council of Mages; Co-founder of the Shadow Mages
Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible. The Shadow Mages.
Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible. The Shadow Mages.
- JasonLeung
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- THE JAKER
- Posts: 1211
- Joined: Tue Jul 17, 2001 10:00 pm
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The ratings: The five blue stars that you see under Edwin's name mean that everyone thinks he's cool. But this can be deceptive - if you click on his profile, you'll see that 21 people have voted for him. This means that he really IS cool (that's a good number of votes).
On the other hand, under my name, you also see 5 blue stars, but if you click on my profile, you'll see that only one person voted for me, so although ONE person thinks I'm cool, that is not a statistically significant sample size, and hence I may not really be cool (although the person who voted for me most assuredly is - thanks whoever you are!).
The more white stars you see under a person name, that means they're not so cool
On the other hand, under my name, you also see 5 blue stars, but if you click on my profile, you'll see that only one person voted for me, so although ONE person thinks I'm cool, that is not a statistically significant sample size, and hence I may not really be cool (although the person who voted for me most assuredly is - thanks whoever you are!).
The more white stars you see under a person name, that means they're not so cool
May you walk on warrrrm sannd....
Just stay out of the Debt to Sarevok thread!
It's getting hot in there!
There's nothing a little poison couldn't cure...
What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, ... to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security.
What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, ... to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security.
- Yshania
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The rating works as follows:
People vote you 1 to 5 stars depending on how helpful you have been, how useful your information etc etc. 1 being the lowest, 5 the highest.
You can only vote for a particular person once. You cannot change your rating of them in the future.
The weighted score means the average of your ratings over the number of people voted for you. For instance, 5 people voted for you as follows, 3, 5, 4, 4 and 5, then your weight score is 4.2, which is rounded to 4. So you will have four stars.
If we are talking about coolness, then Edwin is cooler than me as he has 21 votes averaging 4.5-5 stars each (the system rounds up or down) and I have 18 votes (thanks for the one today!) averaging 4.39(!). This coolness score I will settle with Edwin in the Gamebanshee members Fantasy Football competition:
Fancy Taking Part in Fantasy Football? - Free Fun [url="http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=001081"]http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=001081[/url]
The thing is, the more voters you have, the less difference it makes to your overall rating...my overall rating has not changed over the last 6 or 7 votes as the average is shared out over more voters.
Phew. Hope that helps
[ 08-10-2001: Message edited by: Yshania ]
People vote you 1 to 5 stars depending on how helpful you have been, how useful your information etc etc. 1 being the lowest, 5 the highest.
You can only vote for a particular person once. You cannot change your rating of them in the future.
The weighted score means the average of your ratings over the number of people voted for you. For instance, 5 people voted for you as follows, 3, 5, 4, 4 and 5, then your weight score is 4.2, which is rounded to 4. So you will have four stars.
If we are talking about coolness, then Edwin is cooler than me as he has 21 votes averaging 4.5-5 stars each (the system rounds up or down) and I have 18 votes (thanks for the one today!) averaging 4.39(!). This coolness score I will settle with Edwin in the Gamebanshee members Fantasy Football competition:
Fancy Taking Part in Fantasy Football? - Free Fun [url="http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=001081"]http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=001081[/url]
The thing is, the more voters you have, the less difference it makes to your overall rating...my overall rating has not changed over the last 6 or 7 votes as the average is shared out over more voters.
Phew. Hope that helps
[ 08-10-2001: Message edited by: Yshania ]
Parachute for sale, like new! Never opened!
Guinness, black goes with everything.
Guinness, black goes with everything.
Well, people have explained really well how the rating system works.....
And thanks everyone for the nice words....
And thanks everyone for the nice words....
Edwin, mighty founder of the Council of Mages; Co-founder of the Shadow Mages
Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible. The Shadow Mages.
Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible. The Shadow Mages.
- UserUnfriendly
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Don't fret, jaker. I just gave you a good rating, because you were not pissed when I pointed out your mistake in a thread that mentioned summoning creatures near a demon. (Never ever summon creatures near a demon you've gated in. Standard monster demons I think are ok, but a gated in demon will automatically turn your summons hostile)
anybody who can take constructive critism like that and not retaliate by pointing out how badly my typing sucks is a good guy.
(I can't touch type, and am partially blind due to a brain tumor that affect my sight which I had operated on a few months ago.)
anybody who can take constructive critism like that and not retaliate by pointing out how badly my typing sucks is a good guy.
(I can't touch type, and am partially blind due to a brain tumor that affect my sight which I had operated on a few months ago.)
They call me Darth...
Darth Gizka!
Muwahahahahhahahha!!!
Darth Gizka!
Muwahahahahhahahha!!!
Just to show everyone how the rating system works....a couple of minutes ago iwas a 5 stars= COOL
Then 2 persons have rated me low (don't know why..) and i'm again a 4 stars......
So don't give much value to this rating

Then 2 persons have rated me low (don't know why..) and i'm again a 4 stars......
So don't give much value to this rating
Edwin, mighty founder of the Council of Mages; Co-founder of the Shadow Mages
Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible. The Shadow Mages.
Sorcery and Shadow together as one, the arcane and the dark united. Through our knowledge and skill none can stand against us. We are as one, infallible and invincible. The Shadow Mages.