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Luis has to be the biggest troll on newgrounds, so yes i judge users.

Although I treat most people equally, some people have been here since 2000 and are only lvl 7

(this is completely made up and not based on any actual person)

I skip posts by users with lower levels than me, so basically I didn't read this thread at all. Zoink!

I mostly look at their post count, but I usually don't judge.

Not really. Although I am pretty ''new'' to Newgrounds. I found this site back in 2004 when I was looking for some Flash games I think. But I registered on 2008. But you know, post count tells how active he/she has been.

At 4/17/09 09:32 PM, Jonny879 wrote: do you judge users by their levels?

Not really. I judge people based on their posts rather than levels. If all you post is some one-liners just for the purpose of increasing post count, then I judge you as either an immature user, a spammer, or a troll. There are some intelligent low level users, just not many that I know of in the BBS.

At 4/17/09 09:34 PM, Jonny879 wrote:

At 4/17/09 09:32 PM, Jonny879 wrote: Do you judge users by their levels? Do you think just because someone is level 2 you think they're a troll?

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Double fixed and no I don't. I treat all users the same.

Anybody that is a pretty high level, like over 30, always gets my respect because if you have been here for that long there's a real low chance of being completely worthless.

For the lower levels, I look at post count first and if they have over 5000 I pay a lot more attention to them. Unless a user's a troll I don't pay much attention to smaller users (like <1000 posts and low level), especially if there's a long thread. I read the posts from the bigger users and those that I am familiar with.

I can be a bitch about this.

No, because level makes no difference. If they are a troll, they are a troll. If they are a good poster, they are a good poster. etc.

No, not at all. I always read the their post before the level or post count. I don't care if you are a lower level than me, but higher levels usually in my eyes have more experience so I respect them just a little bit more.

If I did Luis and the majority of the staff and a few other respected people would be worthless turds to me.

At 4/17/09 10:55 PM, Sawdust wrote: If I did Luis and the majority of the staff and a few other respected people would be worthless turds to me.

Luis is worthless. I mean, clearly he doesn't even vote on flash, what a stuckup prick.

Fuck no!

All your level shows is how long you've been obsessing over a website for, anyway. Yes, people with low levels can be stupid noobs, but only if they're completely new to the site (low level + recent signup + tiny post count).

There's a pretty easy way to tell if someone is a troll or not: READ the post. Simple as that. Just because they've a low level/postcount doesn't mean they're a troll. Everyone had a low level and post count once.

Conversely, just because someone has a high level etc. doesn't mean they're a decent BBS user either. Regulars often like to take the piss out of things and troll each other. Having thousands of exp and posts has done precious little to their love of that.

Posts should always be judged on what's actually in them, not what the numbers and picture next to it say. I don't even know why half of that stuff is displayed on the forums at all.

And if no-one agrees, I'm blaming my low level, so screw you all.

No, but I do hold respect for higher levels.

I usually don't judge people by their levels or post counts but more towards the quality of their posts. Any moron can have thousands of posts and a high level.

At 4/17/09 10:12 PM, wismty wrote: I skip posts by users with lower levels than me, so basically I didn't read this thread at all. Zoink!

You SHALL read this post.

As for the OP, I try not to judge based on level. But when I see a low level, recently joined, low post count user who's obviously trolling, I tend to ignore them.

Anyone below a level 20 I just don't take seriously.

Nope, because that's a stupid thing to do, and only stupid paranoid idiots do that.

When I was brand new (this is an alt so you won't see these in my message history) I'd use to contradict anything anyone a level below me would say; with my main argument being their sign up date and level. For whatever reason to me someone's sign up date and level (these usually go hand and hand) would be their identity, the higher your level was the more respected and intelligent you where, at least in my mind. Then slowly, however, I realized trolls and assholes are oblivious to levels, they exist in all of us, so judging people by their level didn't make much sense. Now I just think of everyone as the ignorant bastards they are. I saw that was a lot more common in '07, especially towards the end, now I hardly see it unless there's a troll being massively flamed.

At 4/17/09 09:43 PM, Headshot777 wrote: Their combination of level and aura. I hate the neutral aura, but you don't see many high-level users with a neutral aura. So I usually skip the low-leveled, neutral posts.

At 4/17/09 09:46 PM, EpicFail wrote: Level 1 and 2 tend to be trolls, but basically level 1s only. I don't really judge people by levels, because at one point we were all low leveled, right?

Higher leveled people have more respect in my eyes.

That's so fucking ironic. Just look at EpicFail's aura and level.

On topic.
I think 1 and 2 without aura are probably trolls too. But i when i was levels 1-3 i was neutral. Because i didn't know how to change it, not because i didn't know that they existed.

When i was level 1, 2 and 3, i didn't know what the hell a troll was, i was a noob, and my english was as shitty as hell

I would tend to take someone with about 1,000 posts more seriously then about 11...But then the- ....TROLL

TROOOOOLLL

LOLPOOSTZ

No. But I do judge by sign up date and number of posts. I just want to know a person is serious, and not some annoying troll or 10yr old kid.

At 4/17/09 09:34 PM, Digital-Terror wrote: When someone is level 1 they tend to be a troll. Most people sign up for the email thing, and most trolls just troll.

I don't usually judge by level, but if someone has a really high level, I'm more inclined to read their post.

Indeed. I signed up as a troll, and now enjoy the site rather than pollute it.

I judge users on their level, and by things they wrote. Did tramps post it? Fuck yeah I read that shit.

I judge by post count. I see no reason in judging by level.

At 4/17/09 11:00 PM, BlueHippo wrote:

At 4/17/09 10:55 PM, Sawdust wrote: If I did Luis and the majority of the staff and a few other respected people would be worthless turds to me.

Luis is worthless. I mean, clearly he doesn't even vote on flash, what a stuckup prick.

LOLLOLLOLLOL Is Luis posting in this thread using an alt or something?

I haven't read all of the pages in this thread

Naw, level has little to do with how I feel about a member or their posts. Which is good, I suppose; as I'm still in the lower echelon myself.

I don't. I judge them by the way they interact with others/me.

At 4/17/09 09:34 PM, Jonny879 wrote:

At 4/17/09 09:32 PM, Jonny879 wrote: do you judge users by their levels? do you think just because some one is level 2 you think there're a troll?

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fixed.

I used to, but ever since I stopped depositing, I really don't notice anymore.

Sometimes I do. I usually view users who are 1-3 as trolls or possible new users.

As it gets high up I tend to ignore them.

If there ridiculously high like 25+, I tend to view them as smug bastards.

I don't judge people by their Level, just the quality of their posts. Of course, my level isn't that impressive, but if you look at my signup date and posts, I would say I have been pretty active.

I mean you could have a person who's level 25 and is a troll and one who's level 5 and is a good poster. It's just quality over quantity with me.