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#32 01-08-2007 11:17pm
Mr. Presentable

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A compromise. Rep for all except mods. And rep awarded only by mods

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#33 01-08-2007 11:20pm
Healio

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Boston wrote:

I was a top ten at one stage.

Me too, i was a right little rep pimp or should that be whore??

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#34 01-08-2007 11:20pm
Nevyn

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nipplenuts wrote:

A compromise. Rep for all except mods. And rep awarded only by mods

No that way lies maddness

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#35 01-08-2007 11:26pm
David Michael

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psi wrote:

Yeah merc, amazing really considering I didn't partake in any of the games people were playing.

I'd say no one recalls it. Your word is good for me though.

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#36 01-08-2007 11:26pm
Kinetic^

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#37 01-08-2007 11:30pm
CuLT

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psi wrote:

Its like the ancient ones in Anne Rice books, we all tend to go underground after a while, usually in sheer disdain at the way boards.ie has changed and we lose touch....

I don't think you count as a meme, psi.

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#38 01-08-2007 11:30pm
David Michael

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Kenny 5 wrote:

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#39 01-08-2007 11:35pm
GuanYin

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CuLT wrote:

I don't think you count as a meme, psi.

Probably not, although I've been around longer than you think, in various different guises

Ask Amorak

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#40 01-08-2007 11:40pm
CuLT

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psi wrote:

Probably not, although I've been around longer than you think, in various different guises

Ask Amorak

If you didn't start out here with the nick sykeirl then you'd have me baffled

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#41 01-08-2007 11:44pm
GuanYin

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CuLT wrote:

If you didn't start out here with the nick sykeirl then you'd have me baffled

Thats not the username *I* started with - it is the first username of this account tho

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#42 01-08-2007 11:44pm
The Bollox

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*pretends to know what he's talking about*

ah fúckin' A, the rep system was the shít

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#43 02-08-2007 12:57am
Terry

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nipplenuts wrote:

A compromise. Rep for all except mods. And rep awarded only by mods

No.
Equality for all.
2 legs good.

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#44 02-08-2007 8:32am
Red Hand

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Last edited at 8.36 by a number of mods. Reason: for being such a decent chap and all round good egg, he could not possibly have been let to voice an opinion that supported such a system, and took away from his unspoken reputation. Hail Jeremiah 16:1-thou art the fulcrum upon which all boards hinges on

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#45 02-08-2007 9:11am
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Rep sux donkey balls.

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#46 02-08-2007 9:25am
Mr. Presentable

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Thaedydal wrote:

No that way lies maddness

And I thought that was the point

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#47 02-08-2007 9:33am
seamus

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There were two main abuses of the system, IIRC:

The first was that the default setup meant that all rep was anonymous, but you could leave a comment. So two jokers decided that it would be funny to start leaving negative rep and signing the comments as DeVore and ecksor. Unsurprisingly, although the user couldn't see who repped them, the admins could see who repped who and could see who made the comments. They got temp sitebanned for that one.

Then Cloud edited it so that it was no longer anonymous, and the phenomenon of mutual repping started. I rep you, so you rep me, so I rep you, ad nauseum. A thread even emerged where if you posted in it, everyone who saw your post gave you positive rep.

In some isolated cases, it was also seen by aggrieved posters as a method by which they could abuse someone or tell them that they disagreed with their post, without posting on-thread.

This all kind of made the system a waste of time.

We can still see people's rep though, the data still exists...

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#48 02-08-2007 9:52am
GoneShootin

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CuLT wrote:

Don't we have a gathering card for this?

Yes YOU do:

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#49 02-08-2007 1:10pm
faceman

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So what if in a thread you had a difference of opinion than someone else. Chances are that person will diss your rep regardless of who's argument is stronger or correct.

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#50 02-08-2007 1:23pm
AlmightyCushion

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My reputation is bad enough in the real world, the last thing I need is to lose it here as well.

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#51 02-08-2007 1:45pm
Fysh

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I've no idea if this is feasible in vbulletin, but could rep be enabled as an optional feature? As in, you can disable viewing your own rep and that of other people in the same way as you can turn off viewing signatures?

Overall I kind of liked the heyday of karma/rep, although the karma-whoring threads did get tiresome. With the number of active users as it stands, would it cause a significant increase in traffic/extra load on the servers?

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#52 02-08-2007 2:02pm
Crash

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I think you're all overthinking this.

simple fact: boards + rep = hilarity

most people + hilarity = happy

thus, boards + rep + people = happy.

Very simple. No one can say that rep wasnt the funniest ****ing thing ever

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#53 02-08-2007 2:12pm
CuLT

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GoneShootin wrote:

Yes YOU do:

I was thinking of the Karma card, but I think all the old ones are gone.

I do lke my little collection though (of nearly entirely other users work)

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#54 02-08-2007 2:15pm
AlmightyCushion

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CuLT wrote:

I was thinking of the Karma card, but I think all the old ones are gone.

I do lke my little collection though (of nearly entirely other users work)

Are these what you're looking for.

http://www.boards.ie/gathering/

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#55 02-08-2007 2:18pm
Giblet

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seamus wrote:

We can still see people's rep though, the data still exists...

What was mine!

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#56 02-08-2007 2:25pm
tba

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Bring back REP, also bring back lynching and opel fruits.

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#57 02-08-2007 3:07pm
Tar.Aldarion

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I was not here for rep, bring forth rep.
I await the decline.

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#58 02-08-2007 3:18pm
Ruu_Old

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Giblet wrote:

What was mine!

3746! :eek:

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#59 02-08-2007 3:44pm
Sarky

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God, he was such a whore...

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#60 02-08-2007 3:51pm
seamus

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Dammit Ruu...

Officially, I will not service any "What was my rep?" requests. I couldn't be bothered...

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#61 02-08-2007 4:34pm
miju

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tba wrote:

Bring back REP, also bring back lynching and opel fruits.

are they not called starburst now??? showing your age there tba oohh err

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