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Is there anyway I can get/bribe/pay/intimidate/blackmail/beg an admin to turn mine off? Completely disable it?
The rep system on this forum, as just about every other forum where it is used, is quickly losing any form of credibility. It is fast becoming a tool that is more akin to high school cliques than any form of reputation system.
The way I see it is that the reputation system should show (mostly new) people who is reputable on the forum. It should show them who could be depended upon to give good answers to questions.
Instead it has degenerated into some popularity contest where even blatantly rude people has their friends showering them with positive rep for picking on the "unpopular kids".
It also favours those people that makes 100's of posts in the Off Topic / Games forum.
Lets look at a couple of examples:
You have someone like Da Twista that is helping people out a lot, answering questions and making a good contribution to the community. Yet he sits with 1 green bar on the reputation scale. His recent promotion to mod may change that as more people will start to look for his favour (Lots of people just look for favour from those people with some measure of power). Edit: Going by contribution to the community, he should have more rep.
Then we have Elmyr Always helping out and very rarely getting involved in heated debates. He sits with a long string of green bars - as it should be.
Then on the other side we have John Rose He makes his name by insulting people, picking on the "unpopular kids" and just being generally unpleasant. Not much of a gain to the community. Yet his green bars almost match those of Elmyr. A classic case of the bully being "supported" by people just so that they do not get bullied themselves.
And then there is the various people that blatantly beg for green rep and shower green rep on anyone they see just so that they can receive green in return.
The whole rep system is not working as intended. If the current use is the intended use, please change the name to "Popularity", as that would be a more true description.
Some suggestions to improve the rep system and have it better reflect the reputation of the user:
Increase the number of users you have to rep before being able to rep a previous user significantly. 50 or even 100.
Reduce the amount of rep you are able to give per day to 1 or 2.
This will make people think a bit more before repping someone, and hopefully lead people to positively rep those posts that are of value, and not just willy-nilly.
Alternatively look at another system that does not promote the popularity concept like it is now. Something like Thank you hack.
This was posted in Debate and discussion. Please treat it as such.
The rep system on this forum, as just about every other forum where it is used, is quickly losing any form of credibility. It is fast becoming a tool that is more akin to high school cliques than any form of reputation system.
The way I see it is that the reputation system should show (mostly new) people who is reputable on the forum. It should show them who could be depended upon to give good answers to questions.
Instead it has degenerated into some popularity contest where even blatantly rude people has their friends showering them with positive rep for picking on the "unpopular kids".
It also favours those people that makes 100's of posts in the Off Topic / Games forum.
Lets look at a couple of examples:
You have someone like Da Twista that is helping people out a lot, answering questions and making a good contribution to the community. Yet he sits with 1 green bar on the reputation scale. His recent promotion to mod may change that as more people will start to look for his favour (Lots of people just look for favour from those people with some measure of power). Edit: Going by contribution to the community, he should have more rep.
Then we have Elmyr Always helping out and very rarely getting involved in heated debates. He sits with a long string of green bars - as it should be.
Then on the other side we have John Rose He makes his name by insulting people, picking on the "unpopular kids" and just being generally unpleasant. Not much of a gain to the community. Yet his green bars almost match those of Elmyr. A classic case of the bully being "supported" by people just so that they do not get bullied themselves.
And then there is the various people that blatantly beg for green rep and shower green rep on anyone they see just so that they can receive green in return.
The whole rep system is not working as intended. If the current use is the intended use, please change the name to "Popularity", as that would be a more true description.
Some suggestions to improve the rep system and have it better reflect the reputation of the user:
Increase the number of users you have to rep before being able to rep a previous user significantly. 50 or even 100.
Reduce the amount of rep you are able to give per day to 1 or 2.
This will make people think a bit more before repping someone, and hopefully lead people to positively rep those posts that are of value, and not just willy-nilly.
Alternatively look at another system that does not promote the popularity concept like it is now. Something like Thank you hack.
This was posted in Debate and discussion. Please treat it as such.
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