Reputation points

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Is there a way to delete or otherwise filter reputation points?

I mean i don't want to disable mine entirely, since i plan on selling stuff in the exchange forums, but i have a number of negative points simply because i disagreed with someone in a thread or called them out for posting something asinine. and that's just retarded.
 
All you can do is earn more greens to offset the troublesome reds. That means participating here and doing so in a way that tends to draw greens.

Keep in mind that nobody else can read the comments, just see the total points.
 
Now any paying member can see who gave them rep points. I suspect this will reduce the amount of frivolous red so it shouldn't be as much of a problem in the future. As Gollnick said, just earn some greens and you can easily negate the reds.
 
If you get enough greens and somebody with way less tried to give you red it will show up grey. Meaning his/her red doesn't mean jack. :cool:
 
If you could simply edit out negatives that would make the system kind of pointless obviously.

-Cliff
 
nelsonmc said:
If you get enough greens and somebody with way less tried to give you red it will show up grey. Meaning his/her red doesn't mean jack. :cool:
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I don't think having way less points is the determining factor as to whether the chicklet will be grey. I think for it to be grey the person leaving the rep has to either have a rep level of zero or less. If someone has 1500 points and a person with 100 points leaves this person a negative, it will be red.
 
Everybody please read the new & improved Reputation Points FAQ sticky thread in Bladeforums Service & Support. It's new! It's improved! It's spiffy! It will answer all your questions! If it doesn't, post questions in Service & Support!
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I think a lot of people should just relax about rep points. We've had them on other boards for a long time, and people get wound up about them at first, then come to realize they don't mean a whole lot. There'll be rep whoring, which is basically a (you hit me with + reps, I hit you back) between circles of people, which builds up massive amounts of rep between it's participants. On very popular boards, it's common to have people with 500,000 + rep points. Besides rep whoring, on controversial issues is where most people get hit with reps, positive or negative. (as you've found ayzianboy) Also for funny posts, stuff like that.

Pretty soon, people learn not to put too much emphasis on them, and just see them as a general guideline. But not that much better than post count.

Heck, just to show how little they mean to me, and as a sign of protest against the system, I'll be a neg rep warrior. Hit me with all the neg rep you got!
 
Ayzianboy, as a victim of your name calling, I hope that you will temper your posts a bit. There are going to be people who resent the name calling. So a post was asinine, go to the next.
Calling people out is not the way. I believe Woodrow Wilson said (paraphrasing)" If you come at me with your fists doubled, then expect me to double mine" That is what has happened.
Take care,guy
 
Yep, I am now a paying member and can see the guy who gave me a red "hit and run." The funny thing is, I looked at all of his posts and they almost exclusively (950+) 99%, are posts in the Whine and Cheese Forum and hardly nothing else in the actual forums about, uh... knives??? I restrained myself (not easy!) from giving him a red one back, even though he isn't a paying member and couldn't see the sender ID. Turn the other cheek right? (At least with something as frivolous as rep points on an online board. :rolleyes: ) Oh, well.

Thanks to everyone else for making me welcome these last few months! I've become quite the Swamp Rat, Becker, Spyderco, Ranger Knives fan soley from the accumulated experience here and on Knifeforums!

Make green chicklets, not war. :p (courtesy 360joules)
 
On the other hand, I have noticed when people who are generally considered to be dorks try to join in the rep whoring it doesn't work for them.
 
This is the stuff that renders the reputation system useless, and one of the reasons I'm against it.
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I am not sure what the reputation system is supposed to measure. If the concern is trading then shouldn't it be limited to GB&U or the exchange forums? What is the point of awarding reputation points to posts beyond those forums?

What I have found useful; is that the reputation point system provides a secondary feedback system. It allows us a mechanism to let someone know how we feel about their post without interfering with the natural flow of the discussion on the thread. As such it has value, and it has nothing to do with the meaningless chicklet count.

n2s
 
Fiddlesticks! Right when I got my fifth green box (and I began strutting around like a rooster) they hadda go and ruin it. :(
 
not2sharp said:
I am not sure what the reputation system is supposed to measure. If the concern is trading then shouldn't it be limited to GB&U or the exchange forums? What is the point of awarding reputation points to posts beyond those forums?

What I have found useful; is that the reputation point system provides a secondary feedback system. It allows us a mechanism to let someone know how we feel about their post without interfering with the natural flow of the discussion on the thread. As such it has value, and it has nothing to do with the meaningless chicklet count.

n2s
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Maybe there could be a similar system of feedback where one could give little messages, just without accumulating chiclets? The only thing I will miss about the Rep points system is reading the little messages in my CP.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Maybe there could be a similar system of feedback where one could give little messages, just without accumulating chiclets? The only thing I will miss about the Rep points system is reading the little messages in my CP.
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PM or email. Doesn't work with everybody.
 
not2sharp said:
I am not sure what the reputation system is supposed to measure.
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Popularity. If you want it to be meaningful then it should be public to everyone, including who leaves you feedback and in regards to which posts.

-Cliff
 
I never have seen any reason to keep it. It isn't working for what it was originally made to do. The idea was good but it is abused. All you have to do is post some cool nudes at the Pirates cove and load up, or so it seems.

Or just do a give away and ask for points I guess.

I saw a guy that hadn't been a basic member for more than a few months with barely 400 posts the other day and he had so many green boxes it was like what the heck is going on? Big red flag there in my opinion. So, I view all his posts. Where does he hang out most? Pirates Cove posting nudes and ranking up points like there is no tomorrow. That isn't what it was meant for and is an abuse either directly or indirectly in my book especially if there is collaboration on the part of several individuals to kiss each other's behinds.

Even still who needs the points system? The old saying that you can tell a good tree from the fruit that it bears is true for all of us. Even a newbie can tell if something posted is a sweet accurate statement that jives with their own experiences or a sour one that is complete BS.

Personally I don't need a point system to know who rates and who doesn't around here. I think it is time to wipe the slate and make everyone the same. We are all like a bunch of green GIs that just got out heads buzzed now, all wearing the same uniform, the same cap, with the same hair cuts.

I think it is all good.
 
Cliff Stamp said:
Popularity. If you want it to be meaningful then it should be public to everyone, including who leaves you feedback and in regards to which posts.

-Cliff
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Very true; if the intent was to create an ebay-like feedback loop then the content of the comments would be far more relevant then the score. 2000 positive points for posting nudie pictures, or pontificating on the political forum, doesn't tell us much about the guy's trading habits.

n2s
 
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