What's With The Following Feature?

Kou_Leifoh

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#1 Edited By Kou_Leifoh

Lately I'm been getting a good amount of PMs (Fourteen was the last count) of notification of users following me. Now I don't mind that users are willing to following me, but the amount of users whom are now following are pretty abnormal than how it was before.

Is this a glitch? Or is there's nothing wrong? I need to know.

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#2 Edited By Yummylee

It's one of the quests that awards you for following so many people. =/
Or of course you've just gained a massive boost with your popularity.

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Kou_Leifoh

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#3 Edited By Kou_Leifoh

I just got two more users following me.

Has this been occurring with anyone else?

14 years ago

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#4 Edited By natetodamax

@Kou_Leifoh said:

" I just got two more users following me. Has this been occurring with anyone else? "

Yep. I woke up today with 27 messages in my inbox, 26 of which were follower notifications (but to be fair, most of them were duplicates)

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#5 Edited By DystopiaX

as the site spamming has shown, people are willing to follow random people for achievements.

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#6 Edited By Sanryd

Well, I did receive new followers after the quest system was implemented proportional to my popularity: 3. That's coming from 0, mind you. Random people just wanting that quest completed I suppose, ah well.

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#7 Edited By Kou_Leifoh

@tdk08 said:

Random people just wanting that quest completed I suppose, ah well. "

Why the hell would the staff allow that? That's just cheap.

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#9 Edited By Sanryd

@Kou_Leifoh said:

" @tdk08 said:
Random people just wanting that quest completed I suppose, ah well. "
Why the hell would the staff allow that? That's just cheap. "

Am I missing sarcasm there? If not, I obviously agree, I just think there's not really any way to police that sort of thing.

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#10 Edited By Kou_Leifoh

@tdk08 said:

" @Kou_Leifoh said:
" @tdk08 said:
Random people just wanting that quest completed I suppose, ah well. "
Why the hell would the staff allow that? That's just cheap. "
Am I missing sarcasm there? If not, I obviously agree, I just think there's not really any way to police that sort of thing. "

No sarcasm.

@Godlyawesomeguy said:

" Thats why so many people have been following, I am now disappointed. "

Yep, not so godly after all.

14 years ago

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#11 Edited By armaan8014

Same thing happened to me.
Man... hope this quest thing doesn't get out of hand.

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#12 Edited By Kou_Leifoh

Okay, the PMs were getting annoying (Every five minutes I get a new PM).

I decided to turn off the notification.

14 years ago

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#13 Edited By armaan8014

@Linkyshinks: So you don't like the quest system?

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#14 Edited By Yummylee

@armaan8014 said:

" @Linkyshinks: So you don't like the quest system? "

Everyone besides the other 40,000 users, that only lurked the forums until now, don't from what I can tell.

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#15 Edited By deactivated-6418ef3727cdd

Giantbomb, I am disappoint :(

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Yummylee

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#16 Edited By Yummylee

Also it's the same review recommendations too. I've noticed that people have been recommending my reviews aswell as like every other user-review for that same game, no matter what score is given. =/
I was excited at first to think that people were finally reading my reviews without my own self-promotion. =P

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#17 Edited By KingBroly

Yeah, some of the Quests are probably not for our best interest.

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#18 Edited By TheHT

@DystopiaX said:

" as the site spamming has shown, people are willing to follow random people for achievements. "

Truly though, it has proved to be an asset to the study of the the gamersapien.

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#19 Edited By Jazz

@Linkyshinks said:

" It has to do with the bullshit quest system that results in severe lag, an uptake in spamming of topics, and this bullshit:

164 PM's in 7 hours:
http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/linkyshinks/blog/ "

Damn you and your overblown popularity
DAAAMN YOU!!!!

(i only have 4 more people following me)
Hopefully it will cool down over the coming days...everything has glitches to begin with, but it is a wee bit annoying I agree.

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