Reputation ?

[liflod]

What is the reputation (REP) indicator on the profiles?

[hydromike]

I just saw it and was going to ask the same thing. Mine is a green square. I wonder what happens when it turns red....

If I hover the mouse over the little green square, it says "hydromike is on a distinguished road"...... The road I live on is anything but distinguished...

~m

[Mike]

Man, you guys are fast! I had a few people ask about reputation over the past few weeks and I thought I would try it out. I just enabled it this morning and meant to post about it.

Basically if someone posts a helpful topic or post you can click on the weighted scales icon at the top right of their post and leave positive feedback.

The more people leave you feedback, obviously the higher the reputation goes but it's not just a cut and dry formula. If someone with many posts on here leaves you good reputation it will count more than someone with hardly any posts, etc. There are several other formulas involved but you get the idea.

What do you think? Is it even worth having? It really is more of a social thing than anything but I guess "real reputation" is social too

I guess the only hesitations I have about it are:

- Will it get abused ie. people leave negative feedback because they don't like the topic rather than the post/poster
- Is there any point to it really?

[Mike]

The road I live on is anything but distinguished...

Mike, I will make a special one for you

[liflod]

I'm sure it is a completely worthless function, but I'm sure if you keep it, we will abuse it accordingly

[Roger S]

I gave liflod a rep approve check and turned his color dot by his name green, I think

[hydromike]

Yeah, abuse of a completely useless "doo-dad" is pretty much expected. It doesn't serve a true purpose, and the potential to really hurt someone's feelings is really there.

That said, I LIKE IT . Can I get Lance kicked off of the board if I leave him enough negatives? Can the moderator erase bad things I say about him? I'm gonna go test the uselessness of it....

Jeff posts 300 posts per day, so if I leave enough negatives maybe I can make him cry? Okay, I wouldn't do that.

..yet.

~m

[hydromike]

Cool, you can read the comments when someone leaves you feedback. It shows up under your user CP. It doesn't say WHO left the feedback, though, so you're left guessing who told you that "you suck" (for instance), or what-ever. Hey, at least it's a positive!

[egoperf]

this looks like it's going to be alot of fun!!!!!

[hydromike]

Keep talking like that, and you're gonna get a big fat DISAPPROVE!



~m

[whipper-ag]

You are the nicest, funniest people I've never met. Lance, your're suppose to be working. Jeff, I thinks it's more like 500 posts. Hydromike, enjoyed the first reputation post about Mike, but it's not a secret now is it ? Mike, you started this. Now, let the games begin.

[hydromike]

Oh-man, Whipper. That's a disapproval right there...

DISAPPROVE

Actually, the screen shot was my profile. "Someone sent me the message that "I suck".

~m

[whipper-ag]

The little green box

hey Mike, Can I get the color of my box changed? I like orange.

[Mike]

Man, I go away for a few hours and this turns into one of the funniest threads yet. Maybe I should go away more often? (That was rhetorical, no comments from the peanut gallery )

I think you all answered whether or not the rating/reputation system will stay. It's a conditional yes. As long as everyone plays fair then it can stay but if someone gets hurt I will have to take it away

And Whipper, unfortunately I can't change individual colors unless I change them all or do some coding so green (or red if you are bad) it is!

[Mike]

Ok, I just noticed something. One of you (you know who you are) is very brave. Giving the Admin negative reputation takes some guts. Just don't be surprised when you mysteriously can't log in any more