What should I do when I come back to playing RuneScape this Monday?

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

I am thinking about getting back into this community, and I have a pretty bad reputation. I have made several threads that I'm not happy with. (two godawful rants on the rant forum, and then that thread about a dragon warhammer.)

 

Now let me ask, when I come back to the community this Monday, what should I do? I will avoid making threads, but I want to come back to the community and be respected. I don't want people to think I'm a troll or hate me. And I have a feeling people feel that way about me now.

[Low Levelled]

Be yourself. Best advice anyone can ever give, or receive.

[Ezee]

You said repetition instead of reputation. <_<

 

Ot: Just be yourself, haters gunna hate.

[Drazhor]

Just help out and voice good opinions every so often. Just have people know you for the right reasons!

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

Be myself, really? That's the best advice I can get?

 

Well, ok, then. Isn't the fact that I was being myself the reason I got bad reputation in the first place? I do think I need to change the way I am if I don't want people on this message board to hate me or think of me as a troll.

 

You know what? I think the best thing I can do is to mostly just stay in my blog and not post too much outside my blog. After all I need to focus on improving my blog as I now care more about what people read.

[Aurhora]

If you want to be respected, be respectful in return. If you're giving advice, do it in a non-judgmental fashion. Don't rise to the bait if someone's trolling you.

 

Be myself, really? That's the best advice I can get?

 

Well, ok, then. Isn't the fact that I was being myself the reason I got bad reputation in the first place?

 

Avoid belittling other people. Being yourself just means being genuine and sincere when you speak. You just need to think it through before you say something, otherwise you can be as genuine as you want and you still won't garner a good reputation for yourself.

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

If you want to be respected, be respectful in return. If you're giving advice, do it in a non-judgmental fashion. Don't rise to the bait if someone's trolling you.

 

Alright, I will admit that's one of the problems I had. If someone said anything I disagreed with I felt the need to defend myself. That's probably something I should avoid doing.

[Zaaps1]

Be myself, really? That's the best advice I can get?

 

Well, ok, then. Isn't the fact that I was being myself the reason I got bad reputation in the first place? I do think I need to change the way I am if I don't want people on this message board to hate me or think of me as a troll.

You know what? I think the best thing I can do is to mostly just stay in my blog and not post too much outside my blog. After all I need to focus on improving my blog as I now care more about what people read.

 

If you wanted a more specific answer, it's stuff like that.

 

When you ask for help, usually the response to your answers shouldn't be delivered with an attitude, and the greatest disrespect you can give to someone who is giving you advice (especially if it's at your own request) is to flat out ignore it.

 

Brings to mind a certain quote from Portal 2, which I shall use as comic relief and because I'm bored.

 

I was researching sharks for an upcoming test. Do you know who else murders people who are only trying to help them?

 

:unsure:

 

Did you guess "sharks"?

 

:lol:

 

Because that's wrong. The correct answer is 'nobody.' Nobody but you is that pointlessly cruel.

 

:-(

 

why yes this is a test good sir

[Bad911]

Coming from someone who has 3k+ posts, I'm assuming you mean this particular section of the forums in particular?

 

If that's the case. Remember that this is Help & Advice.

Listening comes first. Questions come second. Comments are the very last thing on your mind.

Don't be afraid to comment, but take a step back and imagine someone telling you the same thing and see if it'll invoke the same response you intended.

 

Questions are better than Comments in my opinion, because they rarely force an opinion on others.

 

^^ Last of all, we all make mistakes, if you realize it, change it.

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

No, I was talking about what I do in the general discussion forum and the rants forum.

 

When you ask for help, usually the response to your answers shouldn't be delivered with an attitude, and the greatest disrespect you can give to someone who is giving you advice (especially if it's at your own request) is to flat out ignore it.

 

I didn't mean to ignore the advice that people have given me. If I was disrespectful I'm sorry.

 

I will be a better member of this message board when I come back, thanks for the help so far, guys.

[Bad911]

So I went ahead and read your Dragon Warhammer thread. I don't see a problem other than:

1. You seem overtly formal (which might rub some people the wrong way).

2. You seem extremely attached to your topics.

3. You push for one thing and one thing only.

 

In regards to number 3, you can see it in this topic as well. If you create a topic, you should remain open-minded. Your replies make it sound like you record it to memory, but disregard it because it's already a thought you've thought up and refuse to change your ideas. You aren't thinking beyond your own box, that's my interpretation.

All of this will - I assume - be disregarded like all the other posts. You can't pick and select the replies you get. I don't know how to put this in a better way, but there you have it.

 

It doesn't feel like you want to change at all.

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

Trust me, I do accept all the advice you guys are giving me. And yeah, mostly in that warhammer topic I was defending myself and I did it even more in my godawful rant on the price of the dragon platelegs. That's something I should avoid doing.

 

I should be more open to other ideas, yeah, that is a flaw of mine. And you're wrong, I do wanna change. But if I will change I'm not so sure about that.

 

I will admit it right now, when people told me that I should just be myself, I shouldn't have said "Is that really the best thing you can tell me?", that was pretty rude of me to say that.

 

I will mostly focus on just improving my blog the week I'm back.

[Kimberly]

I am thinking about getting back into this community, and I have a pretty bad reputation. I have made several threads that I'm not happy with. (two godawful rants on the rant forum, and then that thread about a dragon warhammer.)

 

Now let me ask, when I come back to the community this Monday, what should I do? I will avoid making threads, but I want to come back to the community and be respected. I don't want people to think I'm a troll or hate me. And I have a feeling people feel that way about me now.

 

Care less what other people think about you, make less threads concerning what the community thinks about your image, learn when to let disagreements in threads go, don't expect instant "respect" just because you proclaim that you're changing your ways.

 

You will do fine, Blaze. And PM me if you have any questions on what is okay and not okay to post, or if you have any other questions with the forum rules.

[Sy_Accursed]

I think the main issue you had is learning to deal with the fact people disagree with you.

It is a fact a life, you don't have to shoot down people for doing so. They aren't 'attacking' you just stating their view.

 

You do come off as if you take any response that disagrees with you as a personal attack, often times you respond to things with this tone that don't even really need responding to.

Eg The warhammer topic there is no need to reply to nearly every reply that disagreed being highly defensive of your view, it's a discussion not an argument.

You only need to reply when someone raises an issue/reasoning/question you want to react to and even then you shouldn't be defensive and on the attack and only respond if you have something new to say.

 

Eg:

I think sentence X in BTS means Y because of Z

Reply:

I think Z actually implies A because B.

You respond:

But it reads to mean Y because of Z

 

This is bad, the response is being a bit defensive, asserting your view as fact and didn't actually add anything to the discussion just restated your original post.

 

Eg:

I think sentence X in BTS means Y because of Z

Reply:

I think Z actually implies A because B.

You respond:

Well it could mean that, it makes sense, but previously C has always implied Z so I still think Y is more likely

 

This is a better example. The response is not getting defensive, its sticking to to opinion opposed to asserting fact and you have added an extra reference to back up why you find their view less likely than your own.

[Blaze The Movie Fan]

You're right, Sy_Accursed. And I did it even more in my piss poor dragon platelegs rant. When I come back I will avoid doing that.

 

That post really helps, yeah, I will keep that in mind. And I mean it.

[Auror]

A Bad reputation? Could you enlighten me?

[highlanders]

I think you're too apologetic L You seem to post topics and then immediately apologize for everything you say.