I understand that tully posted a related post to this, but in my opinion, he missed the opportunity make a specific and important point, that I will cover instead.
As many of you know, today marks the anniversary of a particularly noteworthy incident in recent American history. I understand that many of you are American, and that many of you are not. I understand that many of you witnessed the events that unfolded 16 years ago, and that I understand that many, if not more, of you were not born by that time, or, like me, were still children at the time. That is irrelevant though, as I will not be specific about the September Eleventh attacks.
What I wish to provide some insight on, if not guidance, is memorial posts. I noticed that, last year, these posts were quite controversial, and they continue to be so, for a specific reason. This reason is effort. Last year, users uploaded haphazard, and low effort "memorial" posts. Many gained a large sum of points from them, too. For that, a rule was made about those posts; none were to be made after that. This year, the norm seems to be forum posts - none of which have any substance. If I used word-count as a metric, this forum post would out-score the memorial posts that I see by a factor of, perhaps, ten. These posts are often about 6 words long, and may include a picture. About ten seconds of effort.
Now, I actually don't have a problem with memorial posts. If effort is put into them, then they can be a great thing. If I remember correctly, one memorial post is one of the highest rated creations on the site. To summarize my thoughts, I will finish with the following:
Til next time
This wraps up the 9/11 posts for this year
You said it better than I could, and with tact. Thank you for taking the time.
I was a very young when this happen but still remember that on one of the news stations that there was a fire fighter in there at the 200 something floor and was on the phone with the news station and said he was not going to make it out so he said that he loved his wife and children and that he was using the phone in the building and he was almost done talking and it went silence then the building collapsed. sadly he never will get to see his wife or kids which he was brave to say thoughtful word before the building collapsed and yet I still remember it to this day
Lol I didn't think people would actually start up voting a copied thing
I didn't see any things for today so I just copied one and submitted it to make people talk about it
@BaconEggs Oh, he was the one copying the 11k part memorial from last year, he uploaded thrice and deleted the other two to get around the successor system lol
I saw many a post like this and I agree that if your gonna reflect, you might as well put some effort into it. I called someone out on this and they blocked me. Man I love the community we got here, a really great and intelligent group of people.
@Jfalix You shouldn't post 4 comments randomly like that, nobody likes spamming..
I have to agree with this post, especially that he who should not be named (let's just say a sphere-headed cloth) flew a plane into what looked like in the picture just two large blocks painted silver... then he started saying he was going to milk it.. he who should not be named
With a change of engines, nose shape, and added winglets
Oh btw I uploaded a livery for the Legacy American Airlines 757
I read that wrong
Oh ok
@Jfalix I never said that it should be ignored. My point was that people should put effort into memorial posts. I tried to emphasize this in the bold, blue text.
I agree with part of that but I don't agree that as it's a noteworthy event we should ignore it.
Preach!
@TheMutePaper I agree, especially if it isnt a forum post
Atleast someone did point it out. Because it is more like point grabbing to me
Not to mention all the copies of previous plane posts, it's turned into a cluster#### of kids trying to get attention, plus the trolls who try to bait (at least I hope it's only bait) people