Response to This is all getting awfully elitist

I think BeeJay addressed most of the issues honestly here.

QT, I know you were singled out in his post, but you are not alone in the critical backlash that this new "post any score on every game and don't call my scores lame" method that seems to have grown quite popular as of late. The problem is, in your case QT, that you do seem to possess decent game skills in a number of games you have submitted on. So why would you want to embarrass yourself with some of these scores? No, everyone is not required to submit monster scores to gain respect of other MARPers (a little show of honest effort usually does the trick), but good grief...btime, centiped, kaos, mtrap4, scobra, shollow2 among others...you can submit these kinds of inps with a straight face? These were far below your ability and not worth your time submitting, especially in light of your abilities on many, many other games you've shown us that you can kick ass on. If you are not that familiar with these games, well, heck...BeeJay said it best when he stated that this is an incredible way to improve yourself by having a good player's inp at your disposal to help you learn some things that maybe hadn't occured to you. All the good players at MARP use this method and we're all better players for it...in other words, take advantage of this fact!

So, QT, you're a top 10 player in my opinion and you'll probably be hanging out there for some time so quit wasting your time with the stuff that's beneath you by concentrating a little more on quality than quantity. Believe me, the quality submissions are going to keep you up there a lot longer than the myriad of 5 and 6-pointers. Some of your 100-point scores may eventually dwindle as time goes on (I've got first hand experience in this happening to me!)but that's the nature of MARP. We've got many great players here with more to come and no score is totally safe.

As for some of the other "lame" submissions...another glaring example surfaced today when I saw some defender/ defender clone scores in the uploads...come on! Get serious...what exactly is acheived with this crap other than wasting valuable MARP resources? And I say valuable because it's just that much more pressure on the resources that we are already in danger of losing. I can't help but think that the overzealousness lately isn't one of the culprits in our current dilemma. If I'm wrong about this, Zwaxy, please tell me and I'll stand corrected. :p

Enough ranting...I suspect some MARPers are now thoroughly pissed...

JoustGod

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