[Rais83]

I think everyone should check out the current pole that www.globaltechatlas.info has running and seriously consider the ramifications of having something like that out there on a site that is so popular.

In short, because there is only one server, they have realized how easy it would be to single ppl out for certain things and then publicly labeling them a douch bag. By publicly i mean on the site not in game. But think about it for a little bit, think about how it could be abused, think about how some ppl say things that they later regret, or have had a little to much to drink, or were just having a bad day. Think about how the real douch bags out there, LOVE being douch bags and would only be glorified by being awarded with this. Think about what you would do if you logged on to their site, and saw that so and so has earned this weeks douch bag award...what would you do? would you add that person to your ignore list making it potentially impossible for that person to find a group...what if they didn't do anything wrong and were just "shamed" by a guild who decided they didn't like that person, and so nominated them for the douch bag award. Would you be at least a little wary of playing with someone who had been labeled a douch bag? i know i would be. But i would honestly rather get to know a person, and then decide for myself if they were a douch bag.

I understand that this may have been thought up "all in good fun" or a way to "keep ppl on the server in line" but i think the site owners failed to think this one all the way through. ppl pay for the experience they have in this game, and they have (directly or indirectly) taken it upon themselves to determine who gets to have a good experience. There is just way to much abuse that could...no WOULD come from this and i want the whole Fallen Earth community to be aware of it....because so far, in the pole, the YES's are beating the NO's and i know there are good ppl out there, so please...all of you good ppl...ppl who can shrug off the douch baggyness of others, ppl who don't want to be singled out for simply getting on the wrong side of some clan and then being added to everyone's ignore list...go vote NO...because it could be you...