This “controversy” regarding gaming is getting on my nerves. When a certain person (who I have mutually followed for a long time) got ticked off because his or his friend’s tweet didn’t get enough stars as he thinks they should have garnered, he lashed out at others for starring too much and driving the respective tweets off the board, and at the same time attacked a particular tweet of a fellow who gets many stars as not being worthy of the number of favors it had received. Then he made a statement he’s going to unfollow the ass kissers and gamers, which he subsequently did, thinking his choices were solid based on his “research.” It’s my understanding there were a couple of people involved in “researching” the gamers and together they did the unthinkable and “unfollowed” them, breaking their poor little hearts for being “caught.” I wasn’t mentioned personally but their unfollows took place during the purge, after no interaction between us regarding the issue, which makes me assume somehow I’m implicated.
I buy bonus features for the purpose of using them and enjoy giving trophies to a tweeter, because I particularly liked their tweet and it makes people feel good. My starring activity usually takes place between 8:30 PM–10:00 PM or so, while watching TV, then sometimes in the morning before going to work, if I’m up early enough to participate. I star more on the weekends. I mostly star people on my Favstar list, which is upgraded frequently by adding those I find to my liking. It’s really my only chance to read tweets, because I have a job and can’t read during the day, except the occasional trip to the bathroom for a few minutes. How anyone finds the time to “research” star-giving behavior boggles my mind. Unlike many of those on here, I like my job and prefer to perform it well; therefore, can’t tweet and “research” all day. In between tweeting, I probably average about 2 to 2½ hours a day favoring, except on weekends.
I don’t star tweets that contain words like: retard, homeless, anything ethnic, rape, and several others. Or tweets that are misogynist in nature, a TotD thank you, memes, hashtags, gay bashing, and @s. This narrows down my choices since so many tweets contain those references. Even after filtering out the ones I won’t favor the “research” may reveal there are still many stars I have given and received over a period of three years, including several months on Favrd and on Favstar from the beginning. I rarely have a tweet go over 100 stars, so to be indirectly accused of gaming makes no sense; particularly since the accuser was a big giver of stars when he started. If I were gaming I’d get 150–200 stars on nearly every tweet.
It’s ridiculous how tweeters have no objection to giving and receiving lots of stars when they are new to Twitter, but once they have several thousand followers it is construed as unacceptable behavior. Everyone who starts with Favstar can only be read if they star someone to get their attention. Once they are discovered, they get retweeted and starred and the attention we’re all seeking is laid upon us. There are only a very few on the Popular Page who didn’t start out this way. It bothers me when they become “Rock Stars” and are then too aloof for gathering with the lowly and underfollowed. Because a lot of people were targeted and pissed off, the stupidity of the whole thing lead to a couple of parody accounts slamming him; although I’m not sure they came from the children who make up SeriousBizznass or butthurt as many do (the Beef_Tongue and SUCKYBOT parodies come from that group).
The point is no one has a monopoly on what’s funny. It’s all subjective and about time people stop bitching about what others are tweeting and discontinue the jealousy over the number of stars someone does or does not receive.
If Twitter is your life get another one.
