Total Members Voted: 36
Valid Reason — Things like “’cuz he’s cool” or "'cuz he's not cool" are not valid reasons for changing someone’s reputation. If you want to change someone's rep than please say what they did to earn their "cool" or "uncool" status. The logs will be scanned on a regular basis to ensure that people are providing valid reasons for changing someone else's rep. It’s all fun and games until an administrator sees it and decides to take away your rep powers.
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I'm fine with hugging reier
also lol at most toxic guy around calling others out on this sh**
I like the rep system, but I'd prefer if everyone could +rep and -rep, like it used to be. It's good to have a system to indicate that you liked/didn't like a user's post without having to make a reply.
im just waiting for meganerdbomb to come along and kick things into gear.
Quote from: Badger on March 30, 2016, 09:45:35 AMI like the rep system, but I'd prefer if everyone could +rep and -rep, like it used to be. It's good to have a system to indicate that you liked/didn't like a user's post without having to make a reply.Well, other forums have a system in which you can like individual posts and not a rep system. From what you said, I'd imagine you'd like that better.I dunno, it seems like something that can definitely be monitored if someone were to be given that specific task on the moderating team but it does seem to be so insignificant that monitoring it would be useless. I have never really had a strong opinion on this and I think I could probably be convinced either way, at this point. However, my current view is that, if we got rid of rep, it might make users more inclined to be a good member of the forum on a regular basis because they no longer have something already established for them (their rep) to tell the new guys how good they are. I don't know if anyone does anything here 'for the rep' but I suppose it would be a downside to get rid of the system if some people's good deeds were based on the assumption that they'd get rewarded with +rep later on. I also think that titles (AU, Vet, etc.) are a good way of judging who's a good person for a newbie to listen to, even though it isn't always reflected in their actions. On the other hand, the rep system isn't doing any damage to the forum and proportions are usually right (see Trov, Craaig, RedAce, etc.) Those blown out of proportion are HA and Racecarlock and I can't particularly think of any other user that has rep out of proportion with what they're actually like.Basically, I'm teetering on the edge of wanting to remove the rep system but I could vote either way, so I'm going to abstain from the vote, for now.
I couldn't agree with you more, Reier. Rep is a virtually useless system, as those who can give or take rep just spam absolute sh**e with it. An example of this is how I quickly gained masses of -rep. Sure, I was a total noob and a bit of a dick back then, but I have nearly as much -rep as playzooki, and that's not good.If you want to see some examples, just take a look:(Image removed from quote.)My personal favourites are "everyone else is doing it" and "gives better head than Reier"
the problem isn't so much whether it's accurate or inaccurate, but that it's way too easy to exploit. and as there's no way/reason to moderate stupid reps there's not really much of a point for the system at all.
Well, I don't see everyone with rep powers exploiting it, so why not just restrict certain people from being able to affect rep?
Quote from: yugitom on March 30, 2016, 11:25:58 AMWell, I don't see everyone with rep powers exploiting it, so why not just restrict certain people from being able to affect rep?but the thing is it would be a pain in the butt to do all the time and it would be "subjective" etc, because nobody would stay consistent in their rep quality. its much easier to just ditch it.either everyone should be able to do it or nobody imo. but everyone getting to do it would be a disaster so just don't.
Quote from: Reier on March 30, 2016, 11:28:48 AMQuote from: yugitom on March 30, 2016, 11:25:58 AMWell, I don't see everyone with rep powers exploiting it, so why not just restrict certain people from being able to affect rep?but the thing is it would be a pain in the butt to do all the time and it would be "subjective" etc, because nobody would stay consistent in their rep quality. its much easier to just ditch it.either everyone should be able to do it or nobody imo. but everyone getting to do it would be a disaster so just don't.If you see an unjustified rep you can just rep in the other direction to nullify it tho
It wouldn't be subjective if we were to judge those exploiting the system using the rules already stated about affecting rep. From then on, it wouldn't be difficult to just restrict rep powers from those who exploit the system if people raise a concern about a certain member.Quote from: Badger on March 30, 2016, 11:31:00 AMQuote from: Reier on March 30, 2016, 11:28:48 AMQuote from: yugitom on March 30, 2016, 11:25:58 AMWell, I don't see everyone with rep powers exploiting it, so why not just restrict certain people from being able to affect rep?but the thing is it would be a pain in the butt to do all the time and it would be "subjective" etc, because nobody would stay consistent in their rep quality. its much easier to just ditch it.either everyone should be able to do it or nobody imo. but everyone getting to do it would be a disaster so just don't.If you see an unjustified rep you can just rep in the other direction to nullify it thoHowever, that could just turn into a rep war between those two and clog up the karma change history of the unfortunate person they're fighting over.
But, imagine if someone were to do it for TRB and the amount of times he has received a -rep that contained an insufficient reason. That would definitely look very messy and those who want to keep his rep higher would probably just end up giving up.I think keeping this system would probably mean reform and I wouldn't mind seeing that, even if it's just banning certain users from having rep powers.