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How to minimize thumbs received while still contributing to BGG
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Please do not thumb this geeklist.

In case there are any folks who, for whatever reason, want to limit the number of thumbs they receive on BGG, I thought a guide might be useful.

So, for the modest, the self-deprecating, and the thumb-phobic...

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1. Board Game: Twin [Average Rating:5.33 Unranked]
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Rule #1: Make contributions to little known games

The most brilliant review of a relatively obscure out-of-print game of no particular note will languish, while far less technically proficient reviews of well known games will soon be covered in thumbs.
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You should write one for this. If it's any good I might even consider playing my copy.
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It's not my fault that the games I like are obscure to board gaming circles, but well known in other circles.
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Heck, this is the whole angle of my reviews: obscure kids games.
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JoSch wrote:
You should write one for this. If it's any good I might even consider playing my copy.


Done

It's hard to write a very interesting review of the game, but at least now there's something...
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huber wrote:
JoSch wrote:
You should write one for this. If it's any good I might even consider playing my copy.


Done

It's hard to write a very interesting review of the game, but at least now there's something...


I'm already considering to play my copy . Too bad that my girlfriend strongly disliked Diamant from the same series and it will be difficult to get her to play another one of these games.
 
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Rule #2: Contribute files

While it's possible to have any contribution receive little notice, files are definitely the best type of contribution to have ignored.
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I thumb any file I look at that looks potentially useful. And try to remember to go back and tip for any I actually use. I'm pretty good about remembering the former, but the latter is somewhat hit and miss.
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Well, I just committed errors #1 and #2 together - twice.

However, I originally made these for my own personal use and figured, why not upload them. If even one person gets use from them (even if they don't thumb***), then it was worth the two minutes of my time.

*** I have downloaded lots of things previously and have never thumbed. Shame on me. I plan on going through my hard drive to see what I have and then remedy my negligence.
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You are correct Joe, as a ratio of effort to thumbs, game player aides can not be beat. Hell the two sentences you typed on this entry earned more than 50 thumbs. Spend the rest of the weekend making a great player aid and you'll be lucky to see a dozen thumbs.

Bonus non-thumbs for making a player aide for an old / unpopular game.
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In 1988, I programmed a Star Fleet Battles aid for the Apple IIC (yeah, old school!). It turned a 4 hour game into a 45-minute game. About 6 years ago, I programmed a visual enhanced version of my old program. I was going to post it up here to help my fellow SFB-ers, and get my glorious 1 GG for something that amounted to about 600 hours of work spread over years, but then I learned about Federation Commander (which simplifies SFB) and thought better of the idea.
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My Rules for Missile Cruisers in Supremacy, close to 300 downloads and...count it, 1 thumb. laugh
 
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Rule #3: Contribute in languages other than English

I suspect that the more obscure the language, the better at avoiding thumbs, but even common languages strongly depress thumbs.
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Yeah! The player aid in Klingon I uploaded for War got _nothing_. T'plah my ass!
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Oy. It's Qapla'.

Losers.
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Ipecac wrote:
Oy. It's Qapla'.

Losers.


Aaaaaand now we have a second. laugh
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Ipecac wrote:
Losers

They mangle the honorable klingon language and this is the best insult you can come up with? Your mother must have a smooth forehead, you incompetent coward!
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EndersGame wrote:
О'кей, поэтому я обжулил, я использовал для того чтобы перевести некоторую английскую язык в русского - поэтому посудите меня! И если вы сделали давать в численном выражении как перевести это, большие большие пальцы руки до вас!

Aprovação, assim que eu enganei-me, mim usei o babelfish para traduzir algum inglês no russo - assim que sue me! E se você figurou para fora como traduzir isto, os polegares grandes até você!

좋습니다, 그래서 나는, 나 이용했다 러시아어로 약간 영어를 번역하기 위하여 를 눈 속임했다 - 그래서 저를 고소하십시오! 그리고 이것을 번역하는 당신이 방법을, 큰 엄지 당신까지 파악한 경우에!


I have no idea what this sez, other than it includes a Babelfish mention. For the record, if you want no thumbs then translate English into obscure languages and not the other way around.

My translation of Cartel rules from Portuguese into English is getting lots of downloads (102) and a nice bunch of thumbs (2,) just so you know.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/34074

I used Babelfish and other online translators. That, helped by my Spanish, did it, since I don't speak Portuguese.
I haven't gotten one complaint yet, so I assume I did a good job.

That was a lot of work for (2) thumbs.
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Rule #4: Don't write geeklists

Geeklists tend to be one of the most thumbed contributions; the easiest method is to avoid writing any. If you do feel the need, a personal geeklist with no comments or comments of no general interest are best; trade lists can work as well, and not publishing to the front page helps quite a bit.
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Better yet, just don't make it public. Then when you do get a thumb say "how did that happen?"
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I find myself clicking on Brazilian flags, mistaking them for the green thumb boxes...


Hey, I didn't know you could search users by country!
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StephenV wrote:
MIB 8686 wrote:
I find myself clicking on Brazilian flags, mistaking them for the green thumb boxes...


Hey, I didn't know you could search users by country!
On the other hand, most of my geeklists take much longer to compile than most of my reviews (which take generally 3 to 6 hours each). I think my most time consuming geeklist is really representative of about 100 hours of effort. Mind you, most of my photos really take at least half an hour each and some have taken all day for one photo.
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Here's a little hack to minimize thumbs on geeklists that I've unwittingly used on more than one occasion: Create a private list, submit it, wait several weeks or more, and then make it public. It won't appear on any "recent" lists, and no one will likely see it.

It will feel as though you have buried it at sea.
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Cavedog_pdx wrote:
Your geeklists maybe, but not mine. I wish I was a better writer.

I wish you were, too, Nate.
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Rule #5: Eschew milestone announcements

Forum threads used to be a safe haven from thumbs; this is changing in general, but most speicifically milestone postings always seem to engender significant volumes of thumbs.
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pssst... I reached 5k thumbs today! Don't tell anyone
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You guys are jerks!
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I can't believe the nerve of these people, You clearly said you didn't want any!

Geze, It's bad enough I have 200! Two Thumbs are plenty! what am I going do do with 198 extra thumbs!?
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kaellinn18 wrote:
You guys are jerks!


That was hilarious
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Corwin1980 wrote:
kaellinn18 wrote:
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That was hilarious


If only I'd read item 11 before posting my comments.
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6. Board Game: Itinerary [Average Rating:5.68 Unranked]
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Rule #6: Submit bad pictures of games that don't have any

Before geekmoding, getting bad pictures through was much easier. Nowadays, about the only way to manage it is to take photos of games with absolutely no pictures, such that any picture might be considered better than none.

But pictures often find thumbs; bad pictures - perhaps emphasized by the obscure games laking photos - can usually avoid them.
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I give sarcastic thumbs to crappy photos...
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Rule #7: Make contributions that can't be thumbed

For example:

Submit new games
Make Wiki edits
Tip good content
Make trades
Add useful tags
and so on...
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The majority of my 'contribution' here is my game comments. I have a high standard for reviews and don't feel the effort I'd give is worthy of that level, but my game comments are often lengthy enough to serve as a mini-review. I make an effort to update them with repeated plays. Its impossible to receive thumbs, too, so....no conflict of interest.
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Absolutely.
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cornjob wrote:
The majority of my 'contribution' here is my game comments. I have a high standard for reviews and don't feel the effort I'd give is worthy of that level, but my game comments are often lengthy enough to serve as a mini-review. I make an effort to update them with repeated plays. Its impossible to receive thumbs, too, so....no conflict of interest.


Cornjob's game comments are one of my first stops in researching whether or not I might like a game. I always hit "Geekbuddy Analysis" and always read Cornjob's if he has written one. And it's not just whether or not he liked the game. "Hmm, it looks fun but Cornjob says the theme is wooden, it has a beat up the leader problem, but it has an overall Amun-Re feel about it... I'd better check this one out."

Contrary to this, though, most of my game comments are silly quips that not only fail to inform you about the game at all, but most likely annoy you a little bit and make you want the 3.2 seconds back that it took to read it.
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Hey, cool! Thanks for saying so. I usually think I'm just writing comments for my own benefit.
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Ok, submitting new games might help you avoid thumbs, but then you'll get that damnable GeekGold instead! Now I'd like to see a Geeklist where you give instructions on how to avoid getting GG.

p.s. I tried submitting Icelandic games (see the advice on submitting material in some obscure language) but still I got some GG.
 
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8. Board Game: Chit Chat [Average Rating:4.30 Unranked]
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Avoid chit chat at all costs.

It doesn't matter if your post is not funny or lacking insight: You can get dozens of thumbs by just repeating their memes.
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That is fine advice
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aladdinsdad wrote:
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What's chit chat?
No really.


Simon: chit chat is a lot of geeks expressing themselves in a carefree and easy manner.


I disagree. Chit chat is an exceuse for Geeks to let off Steam. Or to let off about Age of Steam. Or Steam. Or Age of Steam 2nd Ed.


This is just so much horse manure. Chit Chat is Ameritrash!



Well hey...at least we speak English!
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aladdinsdad wrote:
aladdinsdad wrote:
aladdinsdad wrote:
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What's chit chat?
No really.


Simon: chit chat is a lot of geeks expressing themselves in a carefree and easy manner.


I disagree. Chit chat is an exceuse for Geeks to let off Steam. Or to let off about Age of Steam. Or Steam. Or Age of Steam 2nd Ed.


This is just so much horse manure. Chit Chat is Ameritrash!



Well hey...at least we speak English!


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Bravo for holding up both ends of the conversation. I will definitely avoid this chit chat of which you speak. Sounds like another time fill that will keep me from playing my beautiful games.
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Where can I chat about chits?
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9. Board Game: Weekend in Vegas [Average Rating:5.22 Unranked]
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Rule #9: Contribute on the weekend

Contributions of any variety on the weekend seem to consistently get less attention than those made during the week.
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Really? I thought you just had to keep self-pinging to make it a 'hot' item. I've been trying to give up self-pinging because I have it on good authority that it will make you go blind.
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Really? I thought you just had to keep self-pinging to make it a 'hot' item. I've been trying to give up self-pinging because I have it on good authority that it will make you go blind.


But it feels so good.
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You're right. People have things to do on the weekend. There's only time for the Geek when you're at work!
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I've been working on the assumption that the reason weekend-content gets less thumbs is that so much of it gets posted that any given contribution gets moved to the dreaded Second Page (organ sting), and is promptly forgotten.

Of course, this self-pinging of which I've just heard might help alleviate that problem, but I've never tried it.
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10. Board Game: Green Thumb Cards [Average Rating:6.10 Unranked]
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Rule #10: Beg for thumbs.

We don't appreciate blatant requests for thumbs, because they are selfish, smug, ego-centric, and in poor taste. If you want to minimize thumbs received, grovel for them.
Case example #1: "Please thumb this comment" (see comment #2 below)

On the other hand, contributions that specifically request that they not be thumbed, often receive lots of well-deserved thumbs.
Case example #2: "Please do not thumb this geeklist" (see list #42404 above)
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So it's a reverse psychology thing with asking for thumbs vs. asking to not be thumbed?

What about reverse reverse psychology where someone asks for thumbs in an attempt to not be thumbed?
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If you use two different posters you have too many variables. You have to use the same poster twice.

How do you know that the first post was thumbed because people here have an unnatural affinity towards sheep, for example?

Or that less people thumbed the second post because there is a number thirteen in one of the badges and readers who did not thumb have TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA?

Or maybe the angry cartoon face badge had something to do with it.

You have to reduce the variables to simply the don't in the sentence.
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herman_the_german wrote:
If you use two different posters you have too many variables. You have to use the same poster twice.

How do you know that the first post was thumbed because people here have an unnatural affinity towards sheep, for example?

Or that less people thumbed the second post because there is a number thirteen in one of the badges and readers who did not thumb have TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA?

Or maybe the angry cartoon face badge had something to do with it.

You have to reduce the variables to simply the don't in the sentence.


I think I'll thumb the last post instead...
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Please do not geekgold this comment.
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11. Board Game: Good Humor Game [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Do not have a sense of humor.

Its too easy to make someone chuckle, be it a forum reply, geeklist item or a clever photo-rebuttal in the midst of a flamewar. Geeks with no sense of humor are far more successful at avoiding thumbs.
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I don't get it...
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12. Board Game: Donny and Marie Osmond TV Show Game [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Be nice.

To avoid unsightly thumb stains, be sure to keep your criticisms constructive and well-mannered. Snarky remarks and sweeping, inarticulate generalizations about how a particular game, game designer or subset of gamer classification "suck ass" or "blow chunks" will draw like-minded malcontents out of their bunkers to importune you with unwanted approbation. In the worst-case scenario, you will be labeled as a fearless revolutionary and someone who "tells it like it is" and will become the hero of high school dropouts everywhere.

Other words and turns of phrase to avoid are "hack," "crap," "crap-ass," "pretentious goofball," "torquing the incentive grid" and "boner."
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I recently received the results of my SAT exam. It said that in a room of 100 people, I would be smarter than 4 of them.

THAT'S OK! Because I can find those guys and we can hang out.

Hey, I'd be the leader!
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If you torque a grid hard enough, you'll get a cylindrical coordinate system.
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torque the incentive grid
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StephenV wrote:
If you torque a grid hard enough, you'll get a cylindrical coordinate system.


OMG
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Being nice, constructive and well-mannered is also a great way of avoiding responses to your posts.
 
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13. Board Game: Formula Dé [Average Rating:7.03 Overall Rank:281]
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Avoid the weekly thrift list

Fifty thumbs for finding Formula De? Why not? Did I upload an awesome file that enhances my experience of FD? No. Did I post a cool new variant? No. And I thought the reward was the money I got selling this game. Fifty thumbs.
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After a year and a few months I have over 5000 thumbs. Mostly from the thrift list.

This week alone I've received 167 thumbs (so far) for my thrift finds.

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You beat me to adding this. That's no way to keep from getting thumbs.

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I haven't been to a thift shop in ages, so I've never looked at those lists. I must be good at avoiding thumbs!
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Gee and I have been avoiding those list as a complete waste of time. Now I know better.
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I dunno, it seems like a lot of effort goes into posts on the thrift lists...
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14. Board Game: Gloom [Average Rating:6.29 Overall Rank:1187]
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Don't post about the tragedies in your life

...otherwise you'll receive many thumbs of support and encouragement from the BGG community.
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Yeah, I can't get my head around giving tragedy the thumbs up. Tragedy's doing just fine without my support.

Maybe we need a group hug option.
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15. Board Game Designer: Reiner Knizia

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Squirrel away eminently thumbable images in one's personal gallery after said content is mercilessly declined by Geekmod.
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Nice photo.

That gentleman is rather handsome.

I'd buy a game from him!

(Hip thrust)
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Where can I get that belt buckle?
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It's David Hasselhoff!
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If only I could give something more than one thumb...
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Someone posted up there that if I mention the word "boner" I'd get thumbs.

Let's test it:

BOH-NER!!!
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herman_the_german wrote:
Someone posted up there that if I mention the word "boner" I'd get thumbs.

Let's test it:

BONER


Something went wrong in those calculations I guess :]
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16. Board Game: Just Wait [Average Rating:5.98 Unranked]
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Adding an Item to a Geeklist:

If you decide to add an item to a geeklist, wait until there's been enough bad entries before it. People will lose interest in the list and jump to the home page before reaching your contribution. Quality aside, they won't thumb what they didn't read.
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Better yet, wait until your contribution isn't among the first 25 entries...
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17. Board Game: Busen Memo [Average Rating:4.94 Overall Rank:7640]
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Do NOT add Busen Memo to a geeklist. Someone will thumb it.
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I couldn't help thumbing this one...
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I thought it was obligatory. Isn't there a script now that just selects a random account and publishes this game against it?
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18. Board Game: Groovy Girls Sleepover Game [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Wear a shirt.
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Now that's comedy...
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Wearing an outfit like that at a game con is certainly going to get you a lot of stares. And she got her 15 minutes of fame last week when her photo op swept the hot pics gallery.

Next time put a damn Burka on! Who wants to see those, those... things hanging out!




I do! whistle
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Yes guys, please wear a shirt!

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....and for those of you with the damaged retinas, when playing Twister, wear pants....the image has been mercifully deleted except for the ones in our scarred minds....(I bet we could start a guild based on it, wonder how many people would sign up looking for therapy).
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19. Board Game: Sex is Fun [Average Rating:8.17 Unranked]
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Rule #8: Do not post sexual innuendo vaguely related to games. People tend to ignore these postings and flag them to the admins.
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I congratulate this boardgame in winning the "Truth in Advertising Award".
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My GeekBall Team is a case in point. They're getting beat horribly in the competition...
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Geeklists that offer any sort of GeekGold reward tend to get thumbed pretty well. Avoid posting them at all costs.

Edit to add: Since I added this, the author of that list removed the "Win GG!" from the list title. A classic move.
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21. Board Game: Last Word [Average Rating:5.51 Overall Rank:6423]
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A great way to minimize your thumbs is to add an item to a geeklist after everyone else. Best is to wait 2 or 3 days (or more) before adding the item to the bottom of the list. That way few geeks will notice it. In general the lower your item is on a geeklist the more chance you have to receive thumbs.

Many items on this geeklist have received a bunch of thumbs. I am hoping to show that my method is the best and that this item will receive the fewest thumbs. (and hopefully no geekgold whatsoever.)

It will be tough to receive less thumbs than item 19 so I am aiming for a tie.
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2 to 3 days later? Nonsense. A real pro posts 2 to 3 years later.
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In the same vein, you could also see that you post it low on the page too. Most people thumb the topmost items.
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Even better: post an item that's already been posted by someone else.
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22. Board Game: Beat the Competition [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Do not run contests where the most thumbed entry wins GeekGold

I have took the friggin' time to offer my hard, slaved over geekMod lovin' GeekGoldbagbagbagbag to run many a fun friggin' contest.
But I receive a minutia of thumbs...
Why?????
Because the guys that entered don't want the contest on the front page so there are more entries!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I am gonna fix 'em by offering
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23. Board Game: Tet Offensive [Average Rating:6.40 Overall Rank:5155]
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Use the tertiary content to offend as many people as possible.

You can post the most insightful analysis of a popular game possible but if your avatar is an animation of a cat being thrown in to a chipper and your sig line insults the parentage of AT fans you won't get any thumbs.

The trick is to offend everyone at once. Some people will thumb you just for a cat mincing picture, you have to isolate their demographic with another insult in a different spot.
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24. Board Game: Firsts and Thirds [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Leave the third comment. The first one (and sometimes the second one) gets the majority of the thumb traffic. When the comment thread is compressed down to show only the oldest and newest posts, yours will be hidden from view by "Show XYZ more comments...". You're safe!
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25. Board Game: Loaded Questions [Average Rating:6.02 Overall Rank:3037]
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Spend most of your BGG time contributing to GeekQuestions. Thumbs there are just for show.
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Hear, hear!
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I Thumb you list completely devil
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In some places "a thumb" is what the middle finger is to us. Think about that before "thumbing" stuff! devil
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May I indicate now that I don't intend thumbing any item in which the author displays ignorance of the difference between 'less' and 'fewer'.

Who's with me?
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SteveO
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Sounds like a new statistic waiting to be exploited - Thumb-to-Contribution ratio. or T/C ratio. I'll go first 178 thumbs, 63 total contributions (forum replies,file, session reports etc.including this one). T/C = 2.82. Do i qualify as a thumb-minimizer?

fun list,
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  • Posted Mon May 11, 2009 3:54 am
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ousgg wrote:
May I indicate now that I don't intend thumbing any item in which the author displays ignorance of the difference between 'less' and 'fewer'.

Who's with me?


You certainly may, but I don't "intend thumbing" any item in which the author so tetchily uses a gerund where only an infinitive would do.
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