Reputation Law Discussion Thread

[GarvinTheGreat]

There is a major fault in getting rid of the rep system

Say we have a major noob. New members won't be able to tell if that person is a noob or not, because there is no number to indicate. New members would be taking in bad advice and they would have no way of telling which members are good and which ones are bad

They would catch on soon

Would they?

If there is a new member who JUST picked up RA2 and knows nothing of it, and a noob came along and said "Use pinks for batterys, they are the best" the new member would not know any better.

[Mecha]

I'm all good with having a rep system being based on posting quality.

Yeah, that sounds good to me. Hopefully should cut down on the complete jerks having overinflated Reps and those who do post good stuff having very little.

Examples (other than me, of course) ?

The only person I can badmouth for having too much rep relative to his behavior is FOTEPX, who definitely does not deserve as much as Sage.

OPERATION DOWNVOTE FOTEPEX GOGOGOGOGO

But that wouldn't be right, you have to have a good reason to rep someone down, and not just because it's too high.
but however, if that was a joke just ignore me.

[Naryar]

There is a major fault in getting rid of the rep system

Say we have a major noob. New members won't be able to tell if that person is a noob or not, because there is no number to indicate. New members would be taking in bad advice and they would have no way of telling which members are good and which ones are bad

If we have a major n00b, you can bet I'll ask ACAMS to make sure he can't post in the showcases, or only in his showcase.

Besides, there are custom titles, and other stuff like this.

[GarvinTheGreat]

There is a major fault in getting rid of the rep system

Say we have a major noob. New members won't be able to tell if that person is a noob or not, because there is no number to indicate. New members would be taking in bad advice and they would have no way of telling which members are good and which ones are bad

If we have a major n00b, you can bet I'll ask ACAMS to make sure he can't post in the showcases, or only in his showcase.

Besides, there are custom titles, and other stuff like this.

Like you did with me 

[madman3]

There is a major fault in getting rid of the rep system

Say we have a major noob. New members won't be able to tell if that person is a noob or not, because there is no number to indicate. New members would be taking in bad advice and they would have no way of telling which members are good and which ones are bad

They would catch on soon

Would they?

If there is a new member who JUST picked up RA2 and knows nothing of it, and a noob came along and said "Use pinks for batterys, they are the best" the new member would not know any better.

Naryar would probably sail in and correct said noob and warn the newby about certain sources of advice; he's done it in the past.

I also think liking Nickleback should be punishable by downrep failjokeisfail

I'm all good with having a rep system being based on posting quality.

Yeah, that sounds good to me. Hopefully should cut down on the complete jerks having overinflated Reps and those who do post good stuff having very little.

Examples (other than me, of course) ?

The only person I can badmouth for having too much rep relative to his behavior is FOTEPX, who definitely does not deserve as much as Sage.

OPERATION DOWNVOTE FOTEPEX GOGOGOGOGO

But that wouldn't be right, you have to have a good reason to rep someone down, and not just because it's too high.
but however, if that was a joke just ignore me.

Nonsense, rep should represent the quality of someones behaviour. FOTEPX has been posting more poorly recently anyway, especially when compare to Sage, who has has the same rep level as.

[Mr. AS]

There is a major fault in getting rid of the rep system

Say we have a major noob. New members won't be able to tell if that person is a noob or not, because there is no number to indicate. New members would be taking in bad advice and they would have no way of telling which members are good and which ones are bad

They would catch on soon

Would they?

If there is a new member who JUST picked up RA2 and knows nothing of it, and a noob came along and said "Use pinks for batterys, they are the best" the new member would not know any better.

other more intelligent members would say that his advice was BS

also

Vertigo (+6/-2)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      On request... Good job on your RWS2 project =)   March 09, 2012, 02:02:44 PM
plazmic inferno (+1/-0)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      awesome work on series 2 game   February 26, 2012, 06:05:33 AM
Squirrel_Monkey (+7/-1)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      Awesome Work!   February 25, 2012, 02:54:41 PM
SKBT (+8/-0)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      On behalf of Thyrus   February 25, 2012, 02:54:05 PM
SKBT (+8/-0)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      Game Development   February 20, 2012, 12:28:01 PM

"daleksec7" has as much rep as fotepx/sage without even contributing to ra2 nearly as much as they did (he did try to host some failed "robot warlords" thing back in 2010, but still...) just for working on some rw series 2 game which has little to nothing to do with ra2

[Badnik96]

That plus we have about 50 people who will tell this new member who the noobs are.

[GarvinTheGreat]

There is a major fault in getting rid of the rep system

Say we have a major noob. New members won't be able to tell if that person is a noob or not, because there is no number to indicate. New members would be taking in bad advice and they would have no way of telling which members are good and which ones are bad

They would catch on soon

Would they?

If there is a new member who JUST picked up RA2 and knows nothing of it, and a noob came along and said "Use pinks for batterys, they are the best" the new member would not know any better.

other more intelligent members would say that his advice was BS

also

Vertigo (+6/-2)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      On request... Good job on your RWS2 project =)   March 09, 2012, 02:02:44 PM
plazmic inferno (+1/-0)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      awesome work on series 2 game   February 26, 2012, 06:05:33 AM
Squirrel_Monkey (+7/-1)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      Awesome Work!   February 25, 2012, 02:54:41 PM
SKBT (+8/-0)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      On behalf of Thyrus   February 25, 2012, 02:54:05 PM
SKBT (+8/-0)   daleksec7 (+5/-0)      Game Development   February 20, 2012, 12:28:01 PM

"daleksec7" has as much rep as fotepx/sage without even contributing to ra2 nearly as much as they did (he did try to host some failed "robot warlords" thing back in 2010, but still...) just for working on some rw series 2 game which has little to nothing to do with ra2

dalek certainly desrves that rep and more. He may not be using ra2, but hes making a whole NEW game

and woot for 1111n posts

[Resetti's Replicas]

The ratio is more telling than the number.  A high positive number means that a handful of people love you.  A high ratio means that a lot of people respect you.

[GarvinTheGreat]

But my ratio before was +17/-56 after I improved. That doesn't make sense that people would still hate me that much after I improved

[System32]

I find it funny how a Racist's opinion is worth more than GF's, Enigmas and SOTG's.
 
 

[madman3]

The ratio is more telling than the number.  A high positive number means that a handful of people love you.  A high ratio means that a lot of people respect you.

What about all we free men who have be slammed by Serge for "that thread"? I'm not sure that represents my current posting quality in the slightest.

[Wacky Bob]

I think the rep system would be good if it was balanced out a bit more (Namely reputations of pony fans).

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=ownkarma;u=1162

All ten of his repups have been for random reasons and six of those have come from J.

[GarvinTheGreat]

True. But it was wrong of serge to do that in the first place. Just beacuse you posted in that thread didn't mean you were negative

[Mecha]

"Nonsense, rep should represent the quality of someones behaviour. FOTEPX has been posting more poorly recently anyway, especially when compare to Sage, who has has the same rep level as."

I know, but shouldn't it just have never been given to him instead of randomly taking it all away?

if your wondering why im using the old fashion way of quoting instead of quote feature cause its not working for some dumb reason. run on sentence ftw

[Resetti's Replicas]

The ratio is more telling than the number.  A high positive number means that a handful of people love you.  A high ratio means that a lot of people respect you.

What about all we free men who have be slammed by Serge for "that thread"? I'm not sure that represents my current posting quality in the slightest.

I didn't say you had to be perfect, one neg is nothing to be ashamed of

[madman3]

"Nonsense, rep should represent the quality of someones behaviour. FOTEPX has been posting more poorly recently anyway, especially when compare to Sage, who has has the same rep level as."

I know, but shouldn't it just have never been given to him instead of randomly taking it all away?

I never gave him any. For some time his behavior was okay but I certainly wouldn't have given him a rep above 1.

[Mecha]

I never said you gave him any.

[Enigm@]

Serge was funny, damn good member. Shame he's too busy to post now.

[cephalopod]

I haven't exactly read this thread in depth, but I've thought rep needs to be sorted for quite a while. Maybe even just removed.
It was almost balanced by only AU etc being able to give them, but then that's gone bad too, and without pointing fingers, I think maybe the Roboteer group shouldn't be able to rep, unless they're worthy of an AU state too.
One final point. This is NOT a BAWWW, however, seeing people have higher rep than me after I've hosted tournaments and put out AI packs and they've done nothing really does nothing to encourage, and I'm sure others feel the same. (Badnik is a possible example)