Best way to deal with negative reputation?
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Posted on: 2009-08-04 18:49 in Player Questions
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Um. There are actually forum games right now dedicated to boosting rep for no reason at all. I don't think it really matters. xD|
Originally Posted by TonyV
I don't know; I assume that negative rep works just like positive rep, but to be honest, I don't know. The only reason why I know what I posted above was because I created a demo forum at the vBulletin site.
And I'll remind everyone again that those are the default settings. I don't know, in fact, what the exact levels and/or equation is, because it's configurable on the back end. My underlying assumption is that they didn't bother to tweak it, but I could be totally wrong. If I were them, one thing I would do is change the post count factor to something like a million so that it doesn't affect the rep level, because I wouldn't want people padding their post count to increase their rep power. I'd offer to help test it, but really, I don't want to get caught up in rep padding, which that might be viewed as. ("Okay, give me positive reputation and I'll tell you how much it adds!"...) If someone else wants to, by all means, post what you find out. |
It's just fluff...
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Do we know how the number of green dots is derived?
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Originally Posted by TonyV
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Reputation Description ---------- ------------------------------------------------- 0 User is an unknown quantity at this point 10 User is on a distinguished road 50 User will become famous soon enough |
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Bit I want MOAR DOTS!
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Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
It looks like one for every hundred.
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Originally Posted by Bright_Shadow
Bit I want MOAR DOTS!
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Well, you can always farm for your dots. I hear that's quite popular.
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Nah. I'm an innocent, honest person. I wanna work for my dots!
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Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
Well, you can always farm for your dots. I hear that's quite popular.
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Make a guide that's useful to all?
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My favorite piece of negative rep commentary was given for, and I quote:|
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I received negative reputation the other day...for talking about negative reputation.
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| replying to a PK thread... |
Food for thought!
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Nifty. Thanks for posting this, TonyV! |
Originally Posted by TonyV
By the way, here are the default vBulletin settings. Whether or not the admins have changed them, I don't know:
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Reputation Description ---------- ------------------------------------------------- < -99999 User is off the scale -99999 User is infamous around these parts -50 User can only hope to improve -10 User has a little shameless behaviour in the past 0 User is an unknown quantity at this point 10 User is on a distinguished road 50 User will become famous soon enough 150 User has a spectacular aura about 250 User is a jewel in the rough 350 User is just really nice 450 User is a glorious beacon of light 550 User is a name known to all 650 User is a splendid one to behold 1000 User has much to be proud of 1500 User has a brilliant future 2000 User has a reputation beyond repute 1 + (years registered) + (posts / 1000) + (reputation / 100) It's integer division, so all remainders are tossed. So I've been a member now for four whole years, my post count is 4577, and my reputation is 215. Each time I give someone positive reputation (and if they haven't changed the defaults), I'm actually giving them: 1 + (4) + (4577 / 1000) + (215 / 100) = 1 + 4 + 4 + 2 = 11 reputation |
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It's not really the existance of reputation in and of itself, it was more the 'negative comments for no reason by people who weren't brave enough to stand by their words' thing. I've since worked past it, thanks to the wonderful community we have here.
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Originally Posted by Emberly
Very confused as to why anyone would care about negative (or positive) rep. What effect does it have on you?
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
It's not really the existance of reputation in and of itself, it was more the 'negative comments for no reason by people who weren't brave enough to stand by their words' thing. I've since worked past it, thanks to the wonderful community we have here.
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Anyone that is going through the same process of dealing with anonymous jerks, please visit the following link, but only if you're not easily offended.
Truth lies here.
Ok, I've just got another negative rep, this time for this very thread, and again because of spelling, like nobody ever makes typos… gah. Even goes as far as demanding that I never post again.... yeah, like that's gonna happen!
Well, whoever you are, give me as much negative rep as you like because I will continue to "hurt your sensibilities".
EDIT- Makes me wonder whether these people realise that they could be dealing with someone with learning difficulties or some sort of mental impairment, however small it may be!
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Then it's time for them to get off the cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and get over it.
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I do believe I linked that in another post. So very, very true.|
Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
Anyone that is going through the same process of dealing with anonymous jerks, please visit the following link, but only if you're not easily offended.
Truth lies here. |
Oh, and to the person who so graciously took the time to give me negative reputation for my first post with the comment "Who cares about reputation. It's meaningless" please have the courage to tell me your name, here, publicly, instead of hiding behind an anonymous comment about something that doesn't matter to you. Thank you, and have a pleasant evening.
Ignore it if it doesn't make sense and learn from it if it does. Other than that, don't worry about it. There are plenty of people who just like to say nasty things to/about others just because they can, especially if they're anonymous. It's not worth worrying about. If you find the good outweighs the bad and you think it's unwarranted, then turn it off publically and minimize the section on your CP, as someone else suggested.
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Bad spelling bothers me, but I worry more about content, clarity and intent than I do about spelling. If a person types/spells some words wrong and I think it's unintentional and the idea is clear, fine. If someone is trying to express an idea that has no clarity and the spelling is making it even less clear, that's a problem. If someone has an ok idea but it's made less clear by IM/AOL speak, I'm less likely to give the idea credit. If someone can't be bothered to take the time to add an "a" and an "e" to an "r," then why should I bother to spend any of my own time on his or her idea?|
Originally Posted by St_Angelius
EDIT- Makes me wonder whether these people realise that they could be dealing with someone with learning difficulties or some sort of mental impairment, however small it may be!
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That said, I haven't rated posts on spelling of any kind. The only negative feedback I've given has been in response to posts that are little more than name-calling or uncalled for meanspiritedness toward others. The vast majority of feedback I've given has been positive and I haven't "signed" any of it.
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lol, I was negged with "l" (that's a lowercase L) for the same post I linked above. Awesome! 
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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i wasn't behind that first bit of negative rep, but i'll take credit for hitting this stupid callout|
Originally Posted by SunGryphon
Oh, and to the person who so graciously took the time to give me negative reputation for my first post with the comment "Who cares about reputation. It's meaningless" please have the courage to tell me your name, here, publicly, instead of hiding behind an anonymous comment about something that doesn't matter to you. Thank you, and have a pleasant evening.
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what possible use could you have for their name aside from some measure of petty vengeance?
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Maybe he wants to meet and have a beer at the White House? |
Originally Posted by _____
i wasn't behind that first bit of negative rep, but i'll take credit for hitting this stupid callout
what possible use could you have for their name aside from some measure of petty vengeance? |
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
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Because the hundreds of harassing, foul-mouthed negreps would get reported and the mods would slap the people who wrote them?
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Originally Posted by _____
i wasn't behind that first bit of negative rep, but i'll take credit for hitting this stupid callout
what possible use could you have for their name aside from some measure of petty vengeance? |
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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putting aside that saying "rep doesn't matter" isn't harassing or foul-mouthed in the least
if you do think that whatever messages you've received are That Bad, pm a mod saying, "hey people are sending super mean things to me" and they are capable of taking care of it without you even coming into further contact with your invisible aggressor
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Nope, I do that semi-frequently.|
Originally Posted by SunGryphon
Is it bad I tried to scroll the screenshot?
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Originally Posted by TonyV
Negative rep doesn't bother me. So far, it's actually been pretty funny.
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Originally Posted by PhiloticKnight
I don't worry about negative rep, and you shouldn't either. Why? Because the amount of negative rep someone can give you is a THIRD of the amount of positive rep someone can give you.
The whole system is skewed to slowly bring people up. Which means that to actually get a negative rep over time you have to either:
I personally have received an EQUAL NUMBER of positive and negative rep votes, and look at my score. Proof positive. |
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Originally Posted by TonyV
By the way, here are the default vBulletin settings. Whether or not the admins have changed them, I don't know:
1 + (years registered) + (posts / 1000) + (reputation / 100) |
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FIRST...where did I say that saying "rep doesn't matter" is harassing or foul-mouthed? Oh, that's right, cos I didn't. :P|
Originally Posted by _____
putting aside that saying "rep doesn't matter" isn't harassing or foul-mouthed in the least
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There ARE people who have been HARASSED and cursed at in rep. YES, you can go to the mods saying "somebody said this and that", but having the names attached makes those people SO MUCH less likely to harass other people. And it makes it MUCH easier to report to the mods.
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Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know why Dink thinks she's not as sexy as Jay was. In 5 posts she's already upstaged his entire career.
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it appears we're having a failure to communicate. allow me to attempt a solution: read both of the following posts, in their entirety. the first one is the post i was responding to. the second one is my post.
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Originally Posted by SunGryphon
Oh, and to the person who so graciously took the time to give me negative reputation for my first post with the comment "Who cares about reputation. It's meaningless" please have the courage to tell me your name, here, publicly, instead of hiding behind an anonymous comment about something that doesn't matter to you. Thank you, and have a pleasant evening.
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Originally Posted by _____
i wasn't behind that first bit of negative rep, but i'll take credit for hitting this stupid callout
what possible use could you have for their name aside from some measure of petty vengeance? |
if you still are puzzled, please do not hesitate to voice your confusion and we can start going over individual words.
All I want to know is "Why?"
Is it fun? Do you get jollies off from it? Is your middle name Schadenfreude? Do you like to kick people for no reason? Do you simply use the anonymity of the internet to cause other people grief? I'm simply trying to understand why someone would do something that, to me, is totally abhorrent.
And I'll remind everyone again that those are the default settings. I don't know, in fact, what the exact levels and/or equation is, because it's configurable on the back end. My underlying assumption is that they didn't bother to tweak it, but I could be totally wrong. If I were them, one thing I would do is change the post count factor to something like a million so that it doesn't affect the rep level, because I wouldn't want people padding their post count to increase their rep power.
I'd offer to help test it, but really, I don't want to get caught up in rep padding, which that might be viewed as. ("Okay, give me positive reputation and I'll tell you how much it adds!"...) If someone else wants to, by all means, post what you find out.
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)