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+ | The term '''Stat Whore''' is someone who cares too much about increasing their personal site statistics and, in some cases, against the goodwill of others. Examples of this include: Voting on Newgrounds to give the best chance of earning themselves Blam and Protect Points, rather than giving their honest opinion and posting worthless posts on the BBS to enlarge their post count. The term is also used more generally in a light-hearted, dismissive sense for people who are concerned with improving their personal statistics in any walk of life, or Newgrounds in particular. |
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The term Stat Whore is someone who cares too much about increasing their personal site statistics and, in some cases, against the goodwill of others. Examples of this include: Voting on Newgrounds to give the best chance of earning themselves Blam and Protect Points, rather than giving their honest opinion and posting worthless posts on the BBS to enlarge their post count. The term is also used more generally in a light-hearted, dismissive sense for people who are concerned with improving their personal statistics in any walk of life, or Newgrounds in particular.
Newgrounds encourages Stat Whores
Level 60, the highest possible level
The Newgrounds system encourages a user to increase their Voting Power by depositing their experience and achieving Blam and Protect Points along with earning in most cases better looking icons. The Medal system also encourages Stat Whores to play games with medals in order to earn Medal Points. Additionally, it gives more creditability to those with a high Whistle rank. In addition, a high amount of BBS Posts is often used as a mark of seniority on the forum. In other cases, there have been rankings between users in other non-traditional statistics namely reviews and the sum of reviews, BBS Posts, Blam and Protect Points, known commonly as Total Points.
"Statistics-whore (st@-tis-tiks-'hor) n. One who cares about his or her Newgrounds Profile more than he or she cares about the grades that he or she is giving" Highwatermark in NG User Guide:
NG User Guide with info on voting for stats
Who is a Stat Whore?
The Supreme Commander Badge
Whilst it is true that we don't know why anyone makes the choices they do on NG, you have to suspect that the highest ranked users put getting their experience and their BP points at a high priority. Hundreds of people regularly log into the NG Log to compare their stats with others, even though most NG users are not represented on this log, therefore the rank it shows is not usually complete:
Users such as Pimp, who joined way back in 1999 and has logged an average of over 9.9 experience points per day out of 10, clearly consider getting their points for a day a high priority. Interestingly, a number of users, such as Wylo, have, through Blam/Protect a more powerful total vote than Pimp.