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Fighting the Scourge of Gaming Addiction

Posted by michael on from the five-years-for-peddling-evercrack dept.

speby writes: "With the growing popularity of LAN parties and other such channels to game (which the article at Wired doesn't mention) is it possible that gaming has become a real addiction? How can a person become addicted? And why?"

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  1. No kidding by RedOregon · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Of course you can become addicted... just as you can become addicted to smokes, or scratching your nose, or giggling in an irritating way. What's the news flash here... I just don't get it.

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    1. Re:No kidding by blkros · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Why is this modded as offtopic. Some snotty nosed moderator, so addicted that he can't remember what the subject was?

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  2. karma cap by DunbarTheInept · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The karma cap of 50 is so low that users are not
    going to be doing what you claim. It takes very
    little time to cap it off and then you're done.

    (Karma cap rant: The cap is implemented in a rather unfair way. Imagine two people starting at zero karma. Person 1 then gets 97 positive
    mods in a row followed by 3 negative ones, giving him a total of 47. Person 2 gets 30 positive mods, then 10 negative ones, then 30 positive ones, then 10 negative, then 20 positive. His Karma is now capped at 50. But out of the 100 modded posts both of them have had, clearly person 1 is the more positively modded poster, with 97% positive mods, while person 2 had only 80%. I think karma should be implemented as a percentage rather than a raw count. The mistake the karma cap tried correcting was that the volume of posting affected the karma, which made abusive excessive posting a path to high karma. But, using a score that indicates the ratio of posative vs negative mods would have fixed it too, but in a more fair way.)

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  3. Re:Psychologists are getting bored by aka-ed · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Games also make you stupid. Check out the addicted high-schooler's web essay:

    Hello, I to suffer from an addiction to computer games, namly EVERQUEST. To tell u the truth, i just deleted the game now(03/05/01 11:20 est). I feel this sence of empty ness, this feeling is just tearing me up inside and i know that it is my withdrawl pains.

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