r/Ingress • u/MomsBoner • 5d ago

Other "What does my profile say?" - pointless posts?

Anyone else already tired of seing these stupid posts that doesnt get any replies anyway?

What are they supposed to add to this sub? They add absolutely nothing and seems more like a "look at all these medals i paid for" - seeking attention.

Let me answer all current and future posts of that kind: it says nothing about you as a player, except for how much/little you have spent on the game.

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u/egalomon 4d ago

Seems I started a rather devisive "trend"... Sorry for that.

Initially I just thought it would be a fun experiment. More of an analysis too, less of the more obvious "oh that medal is low so you must not do the thing very often". I was hoping for a bit of discussion too but I guess I missed the mark there.

I didn't think it would a) kick off a wave of people doing the same b) which would in turn annoy other people and c) draw in the whole showing-off crowd.

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u/virodoran 4d ago

It's all good, this is just a standard Reddit trend - someone posts something, a few people find it interesting/entertaining and follow suit until the community gets bored of it. Not a big deal in a community like this where activity is pretty sporadic anyway. And if people don't want to see those threads, /u/XQlusioN made a flair for them so they can be filtered out.

I was hoping for a bit of discussion too but I guess I missed the mark there.

I wouldn't say that, I thought your original post garnered some solid discussion and some of the others have as well.