My rep has been going up and down like a yo-yo
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2010-01-14 23:06 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
As it stands, Rep is a cowards charter.
I'm pretty thick skinned but I've been quite surprised at some of the vituperative vitriol spewed forth my way via rep simply because I have not followed the herd. Some of the comments received go way beyond what would be acceptable in the forums and if anyone said similar to my face they'd be chewing on my knuckles before you could even say "Jack Spratt" (or something similar.)
It's anonymity allows those who don't have the wotsits to say what they think openly and within the rules of the forum to snipe and backstab.
I've only ever given neg rep about twice I think and when I have I've signed my name. There are a couple of other people who do that too, but the rest are simply mealy mouthed cowards ;-)
The big problem is that it places the onus on the recipient to get any offensive comments removed - and that then takes up time from mods who have better things to do - and the anonymity it affords makes little children very brave.
I have thought about turning it off but as people have pointed out it doesn't actually disable the Rep system it just prevents the results displaying. Added to which I'm not here to curry popularity - shooting sacred cows and tilting at windmills is a worthy method of operation at times and (hopefully) can make some people think, but on the whole I don't think the rep system adds anything positive to the general forum experience.
(and now watch my green blips turn red.)
Thelonious Monk
I don't think I post enough to get on anyone's rage radar.
Although I have noticed that threads about Knockback are excellent places to farm negative rep.
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This is true. Regardless of how innocuous you may be on a reply in one of those threads, it's guaranteed to make somebody upset.|
Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
Although I have noticed that threads about Knockback are excellent places to farm negative rep.
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"The sky has a tendency of appearing blue."
-rep: "no! the sun, skie is not..!"
I do miss reading the random responses though.
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Red: ~Undoing of Virtue on [3 guesses]~
Actually being able to find out what comments people had on your posts without having to wade through every single post was actually nice, but apparently convenience isn't Working As Intended because this day in age convenience takes a back seat to people who don't really want to see what people are saying about them but are too dense to take steps to that end.
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I just kind of want to know what all the mouse-over messages for different levels of rep are.
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I was thinking that rep was the cumulation of positive and negative awards, each of which counted one point to your rep. That could actually have some use, but that is not how it works.|
Originally Posted by Olantern
After many months on the new forums, I was up to two little green dots four hours ago. Between now and then, I either offended someone or got in the way of a deadly rep-bomb, apparently! I'd prefer green, but if I can't have that, the red still looks way better than grey, so I'm leaving rep turned on.
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Instead, the more rep you have, the more you affect the rep of the recipient when you make a positive or negative award. So a poster with a lot of rep points can have a MASSIVE effect on the rep of a poster with few rep points. It is a proportional effect per post, not the cumulation of single point awards.
Rep is a "game;" it has very little informative value on the community's opinion of a particular poster, although it is possible that it might. More often than not, it reflects a few heavyweights affecting the rep of a particular poster, for good or for ill.
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I've said that here before! Posters laughed at that idea. Well who's laughing now???|
Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
As it stands, Rep is a cowards charter.
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Uhm... ha, ha, ha! There, see?
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I'm pretty thick skinned but I've been quite surprised at some of the vituperative vitriol spewed forth my way via rep simply because I have not followed the herd. Some of the comments received go way beyond what would be acceptable in the forums and if anyone said similar to my face they'd be chewing on my knuckles before you could even say "Jack Spratt" (or something similar.) It's anonymity allows those who don't have the wotsits to say what they think openly and within the rules of the forum to snipe and backstab. |
And that's what I think. If someone doesn't even have the guts to stand by their words on an Internet forum of all places (It's not like anyone's gonna be knocking down your front door if you say the wrong thing, folks! The worse that'll happen is... what, you'll get banned? ONOEZ!!!), then I don't think their opinions really mean all that much in the first place, don't you agree?
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From what I can recall I've been on 2 green bars since pretty much the first month of the new forums, but last night they turned into 1 red one. I can't say I'm fussed - Internet popularity for its own sake means about as much to me as celebrity culture in general (i.e. its fairly pathetic/egotistical - like/respect deeds and their doers, but worship and/or sycophancy are a step too far) - I'm just here for laughs, info and good discussions - but I was intrigued at what caused such a big swing (and whether I'd unknowingly upset someone).|
Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Used to be two green bars, then it went to two red (probably because of that PVP thread), then one red, then two red again, and now it's one green.
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There was only 1 thread I'd been mildly confrontational in, and sure enough it looks as if all the negative rep came from a single comment ("oh please") for this single post - that's what I get for sticking my head above the parapet, defending the Devs (that's probably what did it, heh) and rationally expressing a dislike for forum drama
So yeah, I don't think you need to attract much attention to suffer a huge swing from green to red, nor back again. Isn't contributed rep weighted by your own total rep? (green rep = big plus/minus rep contributions, red rep = tiny contributions). If so then I guess I ruffled the feathers of someone with lots of green blocks who either likes bashing Devs or enjoys a good rant now and again 
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Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
I have thought about turning it off but as people have pointed out it doesn't actually disable the Rep system it just prevents the results displaying. Added to which I'm not here to curry popularity - shooting sacred cows and tilting at windmills is a worthy method of operation at times and (hopefully) can make some people think, but on the whole I don't think the rep system adds anything positive to the general forum experience.
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Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
I've said that here before! Posters laughed at that idea. Well who's laughing now???
Uhm... ha, ha, ha! There, see? I like to think that if this were a more general forum, and George Carlin were still alive, and he was a regular poster here, he'd be so, so deep in the red! You know why? 'Cause he didn't care who got mad at him! He had the guts to say exactly what was on his mind. Say what you want about that, but he certainly had moxie. And that's what I think. If someone doesn't even have the guts to stand by their words on an Internet forum of all places (It's not like anyone's gonna be knocking down your front door if you say the wrong thing, folks! The worse that'll happen is... what, you'll get banned? ONOEZ!!!), then I don't think their opinions really mean all that much in the first place, don't you agree? |
Well said!
Neg Reppers don't have what it takes! End of.
Thelonious Monk
You know, maybe I ought to turn mine back on. It's like a badge, showing how many anonymous cowards with thin skins I've managed to rub the wrong way.
It's like giving me a badge for shooting so many fish in a barrel.
Dead fish.
That are big.
With targets on them.
Point blank.
EDIT: Only two red pips? I guess I'm not the scourge of the Internet afterall! lol
ok, im confused, my rep just nearly doubled, and i was in a really nasty mood the past few days, i boggle.
This forum has rep?
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Someone with lots of +rep has obviously taken a liking to your "new posting style" |
Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
ok, im confused, my rep just nearly doubled, and i was in a really nasty mood the past few days, i boggle.
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- maybe you should keep it up 
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