GiantBomb, its not about points.
By Player1 32 Comments
I'm going to start this all of with a quote from my good friend LtColJaxson, who happens to be a mod.
"If you came to GiantBomb JUST for points, then you shouldn't be here. GiantBomb strives for original content over anything, but it also strives for its community. One of the community features is Wiki Points, which should be considered more of a bonus but users are thinking they have to compete to have more points than other users. This is a very big annoyance to Moderators because this leads to useless submissions and many duplicate submissions being sent in to us. And ontop of that, we have users complaining that submissions are taking too long to process."
Im ranked 61st on this site. I've accumulated over 2,700 points. I've added multiple articles, and educated people on some games, that they probably wouldn't have known any otherwise. Does that make me a better user, then the guy ranked 2,000th with 70 points? Absolutely not.
This will sound cliche, but were all in this together. Were all working towards one common goal, to make this the biggest gaming wiki on the internet. My submission of Backyard Baseball 2001 is just as valuable as Joseppie's and Jeff's article on GTA 4. Unlike other gaming sites, it isn't a popularity contest here. Jeff will be just as happy to have a conversation with that user ranked 2,000, as he would with the number one ranked user.
We need to stop trying to one-up everybody. Instead of spending time writing a brand new article for a game that already has one written, write on for a game that has nothing. We need to take pride in our site, and start filling up even the most obscure game pages.
I don't want to go too long, for I went extremely long (for my taste) yesterday. And I don't want to bore all of you with this cliche talk about how were all in this together, but I take pride in my submissions, and so should everyone on this site. Add articles for games you really care about, it shows in your article. Add images that you really think are cool. Don't just google the game, and add the first five screenshots you see. Remember that every time you add something, it will potentially seen by thousands. So make it worth their time.
Everyone will make to 1000 eventually, just let the number come to you, don't rush towards it. I'll admit when I joined this site I thought it would take me months to get to 1000. But hey I didn't worry about my score, and look at me now. I'm at 2,726. Am I guilty of adding certain stuff for points? Of course I am. But now I realize that its not about that, and that I was foolish to do so.
Thanks for reading.