Bring back rep comments!

Your debating skills astound me, sir.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Here's some more for being so darn cute.

If she's gonna be like that then here's some rep for your kitty.

Funny that you should blame the "whiners" and not the schmucks who were posting innappropriate Rep comments.

In fairness, I only make people read slash if they anger me.

And it's Harry Potter/Twilight slash.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

You mean stuff like:

"I wish you would die"
"Stop posting forever"
"Air is wasted on you"
"I feel bad for your husband, because your such a *****"
"hurry up and die"
"Stop playing City of Heroes"
"i hate you"
"dumb *****"
"stupid **** *****"

too much work.

Yes, since we weren't asked BEFORE they activated the silly unnecessary "game" that trolls used to BLATANTLY break the forum rules.

So I really couldn't care less if the mods didn't ask anyone before they turned off the comments.

Very fair.

Well, I guess it was easier than doing their job and leveling punishment against those violations.

Lay-zee!

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

I think I tend to fall on this side of the line on comments. If you want to interact with somebody, there's better ways to go about it than leaving an insulting, vulgar, or just plain mean private message that can't be directly responded to.

There's also another aspect of the argument that very few of the people neg-repped, publically neg-repped with the red bars, ever actually changed their positions. You wouldn't see people go, Oh, wait, I was wrong, I should rethink what I'm doing. Case in point would be the various threads about server merges, tying local names to global names in the chat system, or basically picking a feature from a competing game and implementing it in this game.

There are also other cases when a clique of various posters get together and deliberately go after a single poster. The neg-rep stalking. A bunch of players trying to support a factually flawed argument... well. It's an inverse of the above situation. It's also a freaking pain the neck for the moderators to deal with.

I have wondered before whether or not the moderators have the option to treat the rep system in a serious manner, to let it be more than just another forum game. I suspect with the typical player population most Massive Multiplayer Online games draw, and from the various evidence derived from the posts made in this forum, that a section of the player base simply won't allow the rep system to be used as a valuable tool.

With that, well, depressing point of view, I'd have a hard-time advocating a return of a central viewing area for rep comments. Yes, only a few bad apples truly spoiled the system... but maybe this is a better way of actually getting those bad apples to engage in a constructive conversation

This would be useful.

Seeing as how the rep comments or system weren't part of their original jobs in the first place (as in not on the old forums), and they CHOSE to put it upon themselves . ..

no. not really lazy.

This is all that needs to be said, and isn't rocket science to figure out. Had they asked BEFORE they turned on the silly "forum game" they could have been told that.

But they didn't ask.

Or simply not turn on a system that has no use without FIRST getting feedback from the community, and especially those who remember how USELESS other similar systems, on the old forums, were.

Or paying attention to the comments that came immediately upon finding the system, asking for it to be turned off - as in, not just the first day, but the first few HOURS.

Or remembering the abuse of the PREVIOUS rating system, and not having it turned on in the first place.

It shouldn't have been here in the first place.

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And see, when I get these kinds of comments... I find them to be HILARIOUS. Especially when they feel bad for my husband.

In all honesty, he really is too good for you.

Tramp.