Introducing: The Forum Reputation System

Don't even know what this is about!

Ive learnt to keep my views to myself on anything involving forum management though.

I think it'll be fine, though theree have been suggestions about this. It is not the same as infractions, and it works well by allowing others to show how they feel about your posts, whether they were helpful etc.

From my experience the majority of users are using it as intended. One of my demotions was by an OP asking for experience of early TH11 life, I gave him my experience and he clearly didn't like what he read. Another one was a revenge demotion with the individual in question trawling through my posting history to try and find a post to give negative rep to �� He settled on one from a couple of days ago. Irony is the individual in question created a thread and got all upset when someone revenge neg repped him ��

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Originally Posted by Rbot14

Another demotion I received was placing something in wrong subnormal.

I think this system is going to create an environment that creates a plethora of "forum police". I feel its like we are back in elementary classroom and having kids rat us out to the teacher for something basic. Its like having the teacher take off a sticker from a class incentive chart.

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But we already had the forum police and wannabee mods. Those "wrong sub-forum" posts have been around forever - they haven't been created by the rep system. In fact, once people start downvoting them it might actually deter some of the more irritating forum police.

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We already have moderators who do an excellent job and sighting infractions if we bend the forum rules. That should in itself be enough. We just don't need to wake up and realize that we unjustly receive a demotion for our point of views or topics of discussion. We should enjoy writing posts hence the simple freedom of speech at its best.

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But infractions and downvotes are for very different things. To take a random example - those "wrong sub-forum" posts. If you think they are irritating and unhelpful, you can downvote them. Mods aren't going to ban people for doing that, as annoying as it can be!

You may have gotten a couple of fairly harsh downvotes, but usually, as in most voting systems, the majority view seems to be winning out.

It's forced my posts to be much less sarcastic than normal and that's probably not a bad thing.

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Originally Posted by Rbot14

I have mixed feelings about the reputation points system and how its benefits. I think its eventually going to make people freely post items or reply.

For example I created a post about war weight. It had over 1500 views and 50 replies. I received both a demotion and a promotion for that post. The demotion was because I spread wrong information? I simply put up a link to a website about war weight for people to discuss and well discussed and some great replies occurred that help us re analyze the war weight guide. So I get penalized for that? It does not make sense.

Another demotion I received was placing something in wrong subnormal.

I think this system is going to create an environment that creates a plethora of "forum police". I feel its like we are back in elementary classroom and having kids rat us out to the teacher for something basic. Its like having the teacher take off a sticker from a class incentive chart.

We already have moderators who do an excellent job and sighting infractions if we bend the forum rules. That should in itself be enough. We just don't need to wake up and realize that we unjustly receive a demotion for our point of views or topics of discussion. We should enjoy writing posts hence the simple freedom of speech at its best.

I feel those that those that are new to the forum who are interested in replying or posting information may deter them from writing further posts if they receive unjustly demotions.

So I feel get rid of this nonsense. Or just leave promotion points only ( make it positive) and get rid of demotion points. No need to make this forum into a poisonous environment by continuing demotion points.

What is your feeling about these reputation points and your experience so far? What do you think needs to change?

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I know what you mean.
TBH I don't really care about the points.
I've received points and some silly demotions too from two same forum IDs (same person with 2 accounts I believe) for the same thread I bumped :)

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Originally Posted by OnyxDS

But we already had the forum police and wannabee mods. Those "wrong sub-forum" posts have been around forever - they haven't been created by the rep system. In fact, once people start downvoting them it might actually deter some of the more irritating forum police.



But infractions and downvotes are for very different things. To take a random example - those "wrong sub-forum" posts. If you think they are irritating and unhelpful, you can downvote them. Mods aren't going to ban people for doing that, as annoying as it can be!

You may have gotten a couple of fairly harsh downvotes, but usually, as in most voting systems, the majority view seems to be winning out.

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Perfectly stated. Agree.

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Originally Posted by Tribul

It's forced my posts to be much less sarcastic than normal and that's probably not a bad thing.

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This saddens me.

If there is no downvote then what is the use of an upvote? If you could not downvote posts then eventually everyone, regardless of the content of their posts, would have bloated reputations. If you feel someone is wrongly down voting your reputation then they're violating forum rule #20 and you can report their actions for a mods review.

I had mixed thoughts on the reputation system when it was announced, but I'm starting to really enjoy it. If your posts are at least somewhat informative, respectful, and/or intelligent then your reputation will eventually rise. The downvotes will not stack up to the upvotes. Best of luck to you.

I dont take part, I read the comments left, but I do not give bad or good feedback

I get the point of it, but its a terrible idea in my eyes, so I choose not to take part