raltd9245 Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Thanks for the post Ron, I had not seen anything new in two days so I was thinking I had been banned by CA..... no such luck....... You were not banned but Joe was willing to pay us not to answer you and to give you neg points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dshall Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 You were not banned but Joe was willing to pay us not to answer you and to give you neg points. Joe is now paying me to give him rep points so he can out point me..... that guy is so competitive. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raltd9245 Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Not sure how I feel about this. Is there accountability involved? Does the person being rated (either positively or negatively) see who is rating them? No they do not. The whole thing is Bogus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raltd9245 Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I just had the same problem. quoted Rich and the post was lost on not posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCC-1701 Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 the whole idea is a farce Lew More like a 'fart'. It stinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Not sure how I feel about this. Is there accountability involved? Does the person being rated (either positively or negatively) see who is rating them? No they do not. The whole thing is Bogus. Agreed Ron, I soured on the whole concept when I was slammed with a negative point when I posted the quote you just referenced. I didn't even take a position on the issue, just asked how the process would work. Initially you could see who gave you points, now they have changed it so you can't. For my money I think they should just do away with the whole negative reputation point thing. If we want to have some fun and throw around positive points I'm OK with that but I think it should be up to the forum monitors to deal with the negative stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raltd9245 Posted April 29, 2014 Share Posted April 29, 2014 Me thinks Doug is out riding his Bike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 I don't want to sound disrespectful, but I think you guys are making a much bigger deal out of the whole "reputation point" thing than you should be, and Its actually your joking about it that's likely gonna screw it up. Leave it alone and I think it will do exactly whats its designed to do...encourage helpful responses and discourage unhelpful ones. If you look at the list of posters (until the recent Reputation Point Games perhaps) you will quickly see that those with the highest reputation points are among (arguably) the most helpful and knowledgeable posters. Its just another tool that may or may not be useful to you. No need to rip it though. Regarding the idea of getting rid of negative points...Without negative points, the system wouldn't work quite as well and there would be no "check" in place. By limiting negative votes to one a day, it should work just fine. If you want to push me over and take my lunch money for being a nerd...go ahead (at least try), but I like the reputation point idea. Its a better gauge than simply how many posts a person has. Think of it this way, how do you filter through advice you get on a day to day basis in general...what do you use as a gauge?? -Experience? -Referrals? -Reputation? Being able to see a post count as well as a person's "reputation" sort of helps replace those things in an online forum situation. Granted its not perfect, but its a good tool in my opinion. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 OK, so I have this idea how to make "Reputation Points" more meaningful. Generally speaking what type of posts would be the most helpful? Obviously the ones that were deemed by the OP to have solved the problem (i.e. the ones selected as the "Best Answer"). I propose that any post given the Best Answer designation should automatically generate a Reputation Point for the poster. I think that this little tweak would steer the whole point system in the direction of being a barometer of who is supplying useful information and away from the present "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" type of situation. We have all seen situations where a simple "ditto" or "I agree" post gets a Reputation Point and a spot on informative response that solves a problem gets nothing. What do you think? The system is far from perfect but I think this little change would steer it in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Carrick Posted May 16, 2014 Author Share Posted May 16, 2014 Maybe add to that a Rep Point for every 5-10 downloads of an attachment. IAE, I agree that it really should be for a useful thread, suggestion or answer. In the long run, maybe we just need to be judicious and award a point when it's warranted and not award one when it's not. I rarely award a negative point - but there are a few posts that deserve to get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbuttery Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 positive reputation points could be a good thing IF handed out reasonably as suggested negative reputation points can only lead to trouble most likely causing flame wars and retaliations etc CA should disable negative reputation points Lew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJPotter Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 The idea that lessoning or increasing anothers "reputation" annonimously is irresponsible and unethical, so I intend to ignore what is by default BS. DJP 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raltd9245 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 The idea that lessoning or increasing anothers "reputation" annonimously is irresponsible and unethical, so I intend to ignore what is by default BS. DJP Agreed Lew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennw Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 My opinion is that the reputation points thing should be turned of. They are meaningless and of no value. This forum is to foster communication and help other users. I can see no purpose for "reputation" points. It especially erks me when I see users offering help and at the same time touting for reputation points for offering that help. We seemed to get by OK on the old forum without reputation points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 I whole heartedly agree with all of the above. However, since Chief seems loath to abandon the feature I was just suggesting a simple way to make it more effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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