DarkFather said:I like them. Then again, it's their approval you want. Making threads like this is one of the more harder ways to do that. To become part of an already established pack, you're going to have to buddy up with the Alpha Male. Don't let man-made forum ranks deceive you. The moderator is only Alpha from a shallow perspective. Look for the one that everyone agrees with most, asks the most questions to... the one with the most social proof. Time is running out before the precedent you've set becomes cemented in the pack's collective mind, Axia. You're a straggler. Nobody wants to be the straggler when night falls and DarkFather rises. Tick tock.
WTF? Lol!
That was random, and interesting. Now it has me worrying about my status at OT.com and plotting out ways to rise in prominence. So who, in your view DF, is the current Alpha Male in our little sausage fest of a forum? I can think of a few candidates, but no one definitively. I can't think of any member who is asked as many questions or agreed with as much as Adywan. But it can't be a guy like Adywan, because he has a whole freakin fanbase of his own who hang on his everyword and think he can do no wrong, and who confine themselves to his threads. You go in there it is a whole different community, most of his followers I have never seen post outside of the SW fanedits section. Ady is most definitely Alpha Male of his little wing of the forum, but that has very little impact on the pack as a whole.
What constitutes "social proof"?