Top Ten Reasons Why the Term "Stat Padder" is Annoying

The Top Ten

1 Just because you are in the stats does not mean you care about them

Please don't take this negatively. I know stat-padding is annoying. But it becomes more annoying when things like these cause hatred and tension between users. I mean few days ago there have been some pop vs metal wars. An unnecessary war/argument. And I can see there may be another war about stat-padder vs non-stat padders. Ultimately this war/argument will stop. But it'll cause things like anger, trolling, hatred, user retirements etc. We can simply stop this argument or keep on going forever.

Thanks for making this list

2 If you have a similar list to somebody, they always claim you copied it

In all honesty, christan DID copy a list of mine, even including the same #1 item. The only reason it was accepted was because the way the searching of top ten list tags goes is off.

But it is true most of the time

Well, in most cases it's true.

3 Most of the people who call people Stat Paddlers barely have any content themselves

4 People believe because you are high in the stats, you did it on purpose

Here's the way I see it. Stat padders are afraid of having less stats than non-stat padders so that's why they stat pad. Just saying.

5 People act like it's a fact

6 People never believe you when you say you don't care about stats

7 People say you only try to get in the stats by making as many lists and comments as possible

I knew a user a long time ago who made a lot of lists and I wanted to know why he made a lot of lists. It turns out that skimming his profile page he agreed to an apparent competition that involved making the most lists on this site. I for one, think this is a load of crap. This site isn't supposed to be competitive.

I am very active

8 People use it on purpose

Some use such terms for the sake of complaining ya know, some people just need something to gossip about..thinking that they'll be able to keep up with the trend of annoying new "words".

9 People say if you are anywhere near the stats, you do it for the purpose of doing it

Yeah this is true

10 They use it for the purpose of using it

Sometimes, you make lots and lots of lists, because you have fun doing them. It's not necessarily all about "stat-padding"

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11 They are usually jealous about the fact that somebody is in the stats or ahead of them

Question. If TheTopTens was filled with stat-padders and every one of them took all the good spots on the stat page, what will become of those memorable users who used to be on there? Sure, they may have been awesome users on the stats in their heyday, but you know what? Maybe they deserve to be there. Maybe they also need to get off because they aren't active anymore. But if I decided to retire and then come back and found out that so many new names have been ahead of me on the stats, I'd be pretty mad.

Hey I have an idea. Why not, at the end of every calendar year, document each and everyone's member stats in the Top 100? That way, we can look back and see who used to be on top so they don't fade into obscurity or something.

Not gonna lie, I used to really want to get to a thousand remixes. But then I realised I have no interest in remixing lists I know nothing about. Same reason 80% of my lists are average to low quality.

Actually,I bet that the stat padders were jealous that everyone was ahead of them, so they decided to stat pad.

This is the most likley reason they call people stat paddlers

12 They only use it on people who like rock and metal music

There's a reason for this.

Stop looking for pity.

13 It's used as an insult

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