Scrapping the Reputation System

Trojan · 03-12-2004 3:58pm

Some good proposals on here. Here's my pick from them:

a) - Make total rep disappear from under username but keep it in existance privately

and

b) - Make rep given to a user incl comments appear in their profile including post link (but do not display total rep)

and

c) - Zero all counters first

GreeBo · 03-12-2004 4:02pm

Trojan wrote:

Some good proposals on here. Here's my pick from them:

a) - Make total rep disappear from under username but keep it in existance privately

and

b) - Make rep given to a user incl comments appear in their profile including post link (but do not display total rep)

and

c) - Zero all counters first

I both second and third these options.

If the reason you get rep is private then your total should be too.

RicardoSmith · 03-12-2004 4:04pm

Since the post count started well before the rep system, a rep/postcount ratio is meaningless.

GreeBo · 03-12-2004 4:06pm

RicardoSmith wrote:

Since the post count started well before the rep system, a rep/postcount ratio is meaningless.

its meaningless if you have 5000 posts and 1 rep square, I would argue that its not if you have 20 posts and 10 rep squares.
Unless you are one charismatic mutha... :cool:

billy the squid · 03-12-2004 4:08pm

The difference between postcount and rep is that only the admins can change your post count.

http://www.boards.jp/forums/showpost.php?p=151919&postcount=1

that is the boards.jp slant on rep and it looks from reading the site that it is pretty much adhered to.

dealing severly with people on the internet might be a pipe dream the whole time. but the obvious breaches of some basic rules regarding rep would be pretty obvious.

making the rep count private would probably defeat the purpose of the system. but like greebo said, there should be rules. this system was introduced to boards before rules about its use were considered, apart from the obvious one that it should not be used to hurl abuse at someone.

magpie · 03-12-2004 4:10pm

dealing severly with people on the internet

I think there are sites that cater for this sort of thing if you look.

Giblet · 03-12-2004 4:12pm

Anything that goes on in the Cuckoo's Nest, stays in the Cuckoo's Nest.

Please stop complaining that you hate rep, then complain you have negative rep or complain about the thread in The Cuckoo's Nest. All that shows is that you indeed care about rep.

Giblet · 03-12-2004 4:13pm

GreeBo wrote:

its meaningless if you have 5000 posts and 1 rep square, I would argue that its not if you have 20 posts and 10 rep squares.
Unless you are one charismatic mutha... :cool:

Ohh boo-hoo, stop complaining and stop posting about god damn rep!

RicardoSmith · 03-12-2004 4:15pm

GreeBo wrote:

its meaningless if you have 5000 posts and 1 rep square, I would argue that its not if you have 20 posts and 10 rep squares.
Unless you are one charismatic mutha... :cool:

Who is adding more to the community, the person with 5000 or 20 posts....?

BTW is there someone with 20 posts and 10 rep points? Can we have a top 10 of these heros?

Giblet wrote:

....Please stop complaining that you hate rep, then complain you have negative rep or complain about the thread in The Cuckoo's Nest. All that shows is that you indeed care about rep.

Cuckoo's Nest?

Rep is a feature of the boards, you can't ignore, as eventually you'll see a thread about it, or someone will mention it in a thread

GreeBo · 03-12-2004 4:18pm

Giblet wrote:

Ohh boo-hoo, stop complaining and stop posting about god damn rep!

Anything that goes on in the Cuckoo's Nest, stays in the Cuckoo's Nest.

Giblet wrote:

Please stop complaining that you hate rep, then complain you have negative rep or complain about the thread in The Cuckoo's Nest. All that shows is that you indeed care about rep.

so basically what you are saying is that you have nothing to contribute to this thread?
thanks for letting us know.

Giblet · 03-12-2004 4:22pm

GreeBo wrote:

so basically what you are saying is that you have nothing to contribute to this thread?
thanks for letting us know.

I dunno where you got that conclusion, but then again, you are an idiot.

Search before posting a rep thread next time, and you will see that this subject has come up before.

DeVore · 03-12-2004 4:25pm

You *START* with 10 rep points if I'm not mistaken. :rolleyes:

DeV.

amp · 03-12-2004 4:29pm

The above just tells me that Greebo is in fact an attention whore.

GreeBo · 03-12-2004 4:29pm

Giblet wrote:

I dunno where you got that conclusion

because you keep posting with nothing constructive in it.

Giblet wrote:

you are an idiot.

Now thats the sort of boards Moderator we can all be proud of. :cool:

Trojan · 03-12-2004 4:30pm

How'd you do that!?

GreeBo · 03-12-2004 4:31pm

pam wrote:

The above just tells me that Greebo is in fact an attention whore.

or perhaps that its a thread that I started?
/me shakes head and walks away

woosaysdan · 03-12-2004 4:32pm

better make that 15 now!!!

therecklessone · 03-12-2004 4:32pm

GreeBo wrote:

/me shakes head and walks off a cliff

...and they all lived happily ever after...

mycroft · 03-12-2004 4:33pm

GreeBo wrote:

I both second and third these options.
If the reason you get rep is private then your total should be too.

The rep system, proving that shallow people recieve emotional trauma from a meaninless popularity system over the internet since late 2004.

aidan_walsh · 03-12-2004 4:35pm

mycroft wrote:

The rep system, proving that shallow people recieve emotional trauma from a meaninless popularity system over the internet since late 2004.

I like to think of it as our version of those bad angsty teenage dramas that keep getting imported fom the States. Its turned half of boards into Valley Girls...

GreeBo · 03-12-2004 4:36pm

mycroft wrote:

The rep system, a meaninless popularity system over the internet since late 2004.

so why do we have it then...

RuggieBear · 03-12-2004 4:38pm

GreeBo wrote:

so why do we have it then...

it came with vBulliten 3....and some of the admins enjoy the furore of it all

Sleepy · 03-12-2004 4:38pm

Because it's usually a good indicator of who's posts are worth reading. You have negative rep and everything I've read from you has been whiny and irritating this leads me to the conclusion that (rep-whoring aside) it's a fairly good indicator.

mycroft · 03-12-2004 4:40pm

GreeBo wrote:

so why do we have it then...

So the popular kids know who the gressy smell nerds are.......

therecklessone · 03-12-2004 4:40pm

Sleepy wrote:

Because it's usually a good indicator of who's posts are worth reading. You have negative rep and everything I've read from you has been whiny and irritating this leads me to the conclusion that (rep-whoring aside) it's a fairly good indicator.

That hit the nail squarely on the head there, so I've +repped you.

See, the rep system can work...

woosaysdan · 03-12-2004 4:41pm

i thought it was the other way around

GreeBo · 03-12-2004 4:45pm

mycroft wrote:

So the popular kids know who the gressy smell nerds are.......

ok, so which are which?

amp · 03-12-2004 4:47pm

Time for a list methinks:

What has the rep system done for us anyway?

1. Rewards users who are creative or contribute in some way.
2. Cuts down on one word "lol" type posts.
3. Provides a currency of sorts for boards, even rep whoring just enhances the community aspect building of the system.
4. Gives feedback to people who normally wouldn't have recieved any.
5. Makes it easier to indentify morons.
6. Gives the fight the power gang something to whinge about.
7. There is, of course, no seventh item on this list.
8. Provides interesting reading in Feedback.
9. Provides an alternative to flaming within a thread.
10. It's fun.

koneko · 03-12-2004 4:48pm

lol

amp · 03-12-2004 4:49pm

Your only being ironic cos you can't give me any more rep right now

(lol)

Scrapping the Reputation System

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