In my last blog post I mentioned this line, a factor every builder needs to respect in order to gain fame and success. I did however not explain what it is or why it is so important, not only to yourself but to the whole community. The Douchebag-Line will decide your fate as a new or comeback builder, it's what makes your existance widespread and makes sure your track will be the one that is chosen to be tested instead of the thousands of other tracks on mx.
Certain statistics are available on your account page, the two single statistics we are going to use are the "Awards Recieved" and "Awards Given" numbers. With these we need to use only the simplest of maths to calculate whether or not you are a douchebag:
Recieved > Given -> Douchebag
Recieved = Given -> Douchebag
Recieved < Given -> Not a Douchebag
Notice how Equal values place you right on top of the douchebag line, this is simply because you must be trying hard to stay over it in order to benefit yourself which makes you a douchebag!
A douchebag in the process of redeeming himself or
a newly appointed douchebag not yet realising the
troubles that lie ahead? (absolutely not taken from
my account... ahem)
So why does it matter? Imagine yourself sitting there below the douchebag line: you're a leech, sucking the soul out of the community by taking more than you give back. Much like an oil company stationed in africa. This is how it affects the community.
If you try other peoples tracks they will be more likely to try your tracks, thinking something like this: "This person always tries my tracks, I should probably try some of his, would be really selfish of me not to". This is how it affects you as an individual.
Beware though, in the second example you might beentering a 2-way douchebag-line relationship. What this means is that both users feel the need to award the other users tracks until they have as many or more given awards to the other user than what the other user has given to ones own tracks. This is destructive behaviour since it could cause friend-awarding and a silent rivalry. Remember that constructive criticism works just as well, friends will appreciate your advice and perhaps spit out a track you really want to award next time.
The Douchebag-Line does not apply to the most popular builders; one cant simply ask a person to award loads of tracks just because a few of his own has gotten so popular. The factor is now upweighed by the obviously much appreciated tracks the user has given to the community.
// Tuta (first class douchebag/leech)
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