Introducing: The Forum Reputation System

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Originally Posted by NotTheRealPaul

Scroll to bottom and click "Full Site". Did that on my phone so I can give rep points from there as well. Also, I like full site more as I'm more used to the format.

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I know thats the deal but personally i dont like full site on mobile and im not gonna switch back and forth for this.

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Originally Posted by Holbomb

Yeah but you have to vote for 15 others before you can downvote again as it stands. At 10 votes a day its 36 hours between downvotes. Not really worth it.

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Is it 10 votes a day or 15 votes a day? Please confirm. Thanks.

/Xtremegamer234

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Originally Posted by XtremeGamer234

Is it 10 votes a day or 15 votes a day? Please confirm. Thanks.

/Xtremegamer234

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10 per day. You must however vote 15 times before voting for someone again.

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Originally Posted by Holbomb

Yeah but you have to vote for 15 others before you can downvote again as it stands. At 10 votes a day its 36 hours between downvotes. Not really worth it.

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Oops. Didn't notice that detail. Hmm. Makes down votes kind of useless then huh?

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Originally Posted by Holbomb

I know thats the deal but personally i dont like full site on mobile and im not gonna switch back and forth for this.

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I simply keep it on full site, but to each their own

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Originally Posted by Holbomb

No he means a personal vote ratio. Like to post a downvote you must post 5 upvotes. Or something like that.

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Yes, that is exactly what I mean, sorry if it wasn't clear. I am just thinking those forced up votes would offset many of the undeserved down votes. However, someone who really does deserve down votes will get enough of them that they won't get offset by up votes. I don't know, I'm just throwing it out there.

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Originally Posted by JarekDaBoss

10 per day. You must however vote 15 times before voting for someone again.

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Thanks. This has proved useful for me.

/Xtremegamer234

I am interested to know how people are using their rep upvotes. For some of my first ones I went historical rather than staying in the last day or so, and so I thought back to what were the 2 or 3 best posts I had ever read, in terms of interest, content, tone etc and allocated rep points to those posters for those particularly good posts. For the few rep downvotes I gave I went on only current factors, as I don't believe in holding the past against anyone.

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Originally Posted by Tomville

I am interested to know how people are using their rep upvotes. For some of my first ones I went historical rather than staying in the last day or so, and so I thought back to what were the 2 or 3 best posts I had ever read, in terms of interest, content, tone etc and allocated rep points to those posters for those particularly good posts. For the few rep downvotes I gave I went on only current factors, as I don't believe in holding the past against anyone.

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Just been allocating them to posts that I think are humorous, well-written, etc. Things that I would like to see more of on forum. As far as down voting, I'm planning on trying to be careful and only use them when the posts add nearly nothing to the discussion/overall forum quality.

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Originally Posted by NotTheRealPaul

Ok got it. But that brings up another problem of making it more likely, groups will team up. Have a group of 5-10 friends (not hard to find on a large forum), up vote each other every day, and then down vote anyone with a differing opinion together.

It incentivizes people to form a group and do something like that, more so than the current system already does.



Scroll to bottom and click "Full Site". Did that on my phone so I can give rep points from there as well. Also, I like full site more as I'm more used to the format.

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It would honestly be pretty sad to see people come together only to put people down by using this system. I know it's not a super rare ocurance these days, but wby go through all that effore to do this?

And to any mobile users I'd recommend giving the full site a go, I use it all the time and while the formatting may take a bit of time to get used to, once you do get used to it you'll wonder why you ever used the mobile site :p

Though there are some devices/browsers that don't work with the full site (by that I mean it looks atrocious), if this is the case for the time being you're outta luck. Hopefully they bring this rep system to the mobile site soon.

Don't like it.
Totally unnecessary and fertile ground for abuse. It's the last thing the forum needed. Too much negativity as it was.
Don't need "reputation" rankings to appreciate a well written post or to spot a troll.