Could you please reinstate the Rep Point system

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I noticed that the Chiclet Royalty often offered much to other forumites in the various community centers. If chiclets were meant to show who was or wasn't a square dealer, they indirectly tied in, too.
 
thombrogan said:
I noticed that the Chiclet Royalty often offered much to other forumites in the various community centers. If chiclets were meant to show who was or wasn't a square dealer, they indirectly tied in, too.
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But you got GBU to read about that... hell you can go there and find out exactly who is a jackass and WHY... with the rep system a dealer may have a RED CHICLET for pissing people off in the "Anything Goes" forums, but also be a great dealer at the same time... but the red chiclet may take business away from him because people dont know any better.

The GBU was a better source for finding out who can be trusted and who cant, rather then the rep system here.
 
Icon of Sin said:
... with the rep system a dealer may have a RED CHICLET for pissing people off in the "Anything Goes" forums, but also be a great dealer at the same time... but the red chiclet may take business away from him because people dont know any better.
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While potentially true in theory, this, so far as I know, never occurred in practice. Anybody with an opinion got dinged every once in a while. Who cares? A couple of negative points didn't mean anything. But nobody wound up with a slew of red boxes that didn't deserve 'em.

I enjoyed the rep point system, and would be happy to see it again.
 
Nathan S said:
While potentially true in theory, this, so far as I know, never occurred in practice. Anybody with an opinion got dinged every once in a while. Who cares? A couple of negative points didn't mean anything. But nobody wound up with a slew of red boxes that didn't deserve 'em.

I enjoyed the rep point system, and would be happy to see it again.
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Your right, never occured, but let a dealer stumble into W&C and say somthing that a few people dont like back there and they will get slammed.

Sure it never happed.... yet. With things like GBU, there is no need for a rep system to find out who is a good seller/dealer.

Plus to find out who is knowledgable and such you could always go by post count and do a little searching. If someone has been around for more then 1000 posts, chances are they know what they are talking about when they reply to your topic.

Dont get me wrong. I have seen forums that are successful using the rep point system and have not had problems due to rules layed down (and enforced) to begin with. However with the abuse of the system that was here before, rules or no rules it will still be abused, not through the forums but through off forum communication.

The people who have abused the system do not understand how well it works when not abused.
 
Speaking for myself, I liked the rep system.
Here is an idea, why don't we take a poll on BF by all members. Let the poll last about a week to try and give everybody a chance to vote. Then reinstate or not according to the poll results.
What do you think?
 
Larry B. said:
Speaking for myself, I liked the rep system.
Here is an idea, why don't we take a poll on BF by all members. Let the poll last about a week to try and give everybody a chance to vote. Then reinstate or not according to the poll results.
What do you think?
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Aside from all the above mentioned abuses, why put the moderators through all that nonsense again(if for no other reason).
They spent a great deal of their time responding to abuses of that system.

The few (very few) people that want this back were among the greatest abusers. Does that tell you anything about how it would work in the future if the system were reinstated?
 
Mike Hull said:
Aside from all the above mentioned abuses, why put the moderators through all that nonsense again(if for no other reason).
They spent a great deal of their time responding to abuses of that system.
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They could've just ignored the people who started the 2 dozen page threads after receiving one red...
 
Ryan8 said:
They could've just ignored the people who started the 2 dozen page threads after receiving one red...
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Without the rep system, we would have never had that problem.
 
Icon of Sin said:
Without the rep system, we would have never had that problem.
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Without the rep system, we wouldn't have had all that fun. It was FUN, guys. And, it can be fun again, as long as we don't have any rep whore begging threads.
 
Someone had suggested making the Rep points for 1 green to be in the range of 1 point to 1 million points. That way you were only likely to have 1 chicklet no matter what but you could still get the comments and it would nullify most of the abuse. That seemed to be an excellent suggestion, I wish I remembered who said it so I could give them credit.

my .02

oil
 
OilMan said:
Someone had suggested making the Rep points for 1 green to be in the range of 1 point to 1 million points. That way you were only likely to have 1 chicklet no matter what but you could still get the comments and it would nullify most of the abuse. That seemed to be an excellent suggestion, I wish I remembered who said it so I could give them credit.

my .02

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It was me, send me a knife as credit :D
 
Nordic Viking said:
It was me, send me a knife as credit :D
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Well, I didn't want to break up the set but I guess I could send you one of my 101 Frost Knives for $10 knives. Go to Smokey Mountain and pick one out and let me know. It's gotta be out of the 101 set though. :D

oil

PROPs to NV for the excellent suggestion though. :thumbup:
 
There isn't an evaluation system that isn't slightly skewed.

Think of the job performance evaluation/appraisal system(s) that you've experienced in your current or past job(s). No matter how many rules, filters, etc., they will always be laced with differing degrees of subjectivity.

Questions generated, to the staff here, about the system isn't necessarily the fault of the system itself. For example, how many new people entering this forum read the rules before posting? How many members, after being here for a while, go back and review the rules to see if updates have been made? I don't know how many times I've seen moderators redirect people to the "rules" area to obtain answers to their questions or have had to move threads, even though there are rules clearly posted as to what is considered acceptable content of a particular sub-forum. Especially with the "rep point" system. Yet, some people continued to b*tch about it, because it didn't meet THEIR specific need or fit the way that THEY thought that it should be administered. :rolleyes:

There is subjectivity and bias in the vast majority of the threads on this forum. Yet, the forums, sub-forums, threads and posts aren't closed, removed, etc.

From my understanding the system was "supposedly" turned on to protect buyers and sellers. Of course, I wasn't aware of that until after the system was shutdown (and I periodically read the rules). Yet, a POS could hose several people before those hosed turned them red. When turned red, others weren't able to see the reason why. Again, subjectivity could enter and a buyer give a seller a red tag due to a knife showing up late, by one day.



Maybe the system should have been called something other than "Reputation Points." The last time I checked:

Reputation: is the general opinion of the public towards a person, a group of people, or an organization.
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Maybe if it was named, "The Abuser System," it would meet the approval of SOME! :rolleyes:
 
GigOne said:
Questions generated, to the staff here, about the system isn't necessarily the fault of the system itself. For example, how many new people entering this forum read the rules before posting? How many members, after being here for a while, go back and review the rules to see if updates have been made? I don't know how many times I've seen moderators redirect people to the "rules" area to obtain answers to their questions or have had to move threads, even though there are rules clearly posted as to what is considered acceptable content of a particular sub-forum. Especially with the "rep point" system. Yet, some people continued to b*tch about it, because it didn't meet THEIR specific need or fit the way that THEY thought that it should be administered. :rolleyes:
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So what you are saying here is, it's not the systems fault, it's the users fault?

Thanks for agreeing with me.
 
Whats up with some of you guys showing rep points under your avatars?

Is the system back up or did you guys just find a way to include it in your avatars on your own?

STR
 
They're just including it as a graphic, like a little kid going to school with a Superman cape. :)
 
I can't believe the rep whores are back, their sense of identity and ego so tied up in this childish nonsense, that they find themselves here begging and whining for the return of this BS system. These losers feel so inadequate without them that they resort to affixing them to their avatar or signature.
How pathetic.
 
averageguy said:
I can't believe the rep whores are back, their sense of identity and ego so tied up in this childish nonsense, that they find themselves here begging and whining for the return of this BS system. These losers feel so inadequate without them that they resort to affixing them to their avatar or signature.
How pathetic.
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Ya know what? I used to at least respect your opinion but this last blast put you over the top. I don't see anyone in this thread begging for anything. Some people merely want the tool back because it was another way to say atta boy or you're a d1ck without wasting everyones bandwidth. Unfortunatly you had no such qualms with your crap. And yes, there certainly seems to be a loser posting in this thread but I don't think it's who you think it is. :thumbdn: :thumbdn:

oil
 
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