Introducing: The Forum Reputation System

If there are toxic posts, the report button has always been an option. we don't need to report and down vote.

Now what we're seeing is thread about whatever, and people are coming to the thread saying, this is stupid, I'm down voting you. and then we see the reply of "oh yeah, well I'm down voting you" Its very elementary school and I think just gives trolls another way to troll.

On the other hand, I think it does encourage those who already post way too much to post even more in hopes of getting more up vote attention.

Both situations are attention seeking and neither really improves the quality of the forums.

I also hope they do away with the system.

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Originally Posted by NotTheRealPaul

Supposed to be for toxic comments. Really is just abused.

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Pretty much. I might write up some things about the flaws in the rep system if and when I have time.

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Originally Posted by Rakanishu

If there are toxic posts, the report button has always been an option. we don't need to report and down vote.

Now what we're seeing is thread about whatever, and people are coming to the thread saying, this is stupid, I'm down voting you. and then we see the reply of "oh yeah, well I'm down voting you" Its very elementary school and I think just gives trolls another way to troll.

On the other hand, I think it does encourage those who already post way too much to post even more in hopes of getting more up vote attention.

Both situations are attention seeking and neither really improves the quality of the forums.

I also hope they do away with the system.

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Well summarised

The person who got banned for stating they would down vote supposedly never even downvoted anyone ♥♥♥♥. You can't on mobile. At least i don't have a desktop version of this forum. He was less harmless than the people who are actually downvoting. But people get more irritatated by someone who says they will downvote in the thread than by someone actually downvoting. Kind of interesting.

Stupid feature is stupid.

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Originally Posted by Stevejnr

I have noticed that at least on of the persons responsible for threatening to 'downvote' people's posts has already been banned, I don't know if this was the reason, but the mods here do a pretty good job of policing the trolls.

I believe it is a trial still at this stage and it may need tweaking a bit, but if it helps the mods to identify and weed out the toxic trolls, then I think it could prove to be positive. You never know it might encourage some people to grow up a bit rather than hiding behind a keyboard with no fear of retribution.

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The Reputation System isn't a substitute for reporting. If people are toxic you should still report them. There is no real consequence if you get a negative rep, just that the square above your avatar will turn red at some point and people will take you less serious.

This system is stupid. End of.

By all means, make a system where we can 'like' eachother posts, or a 'thanks' button where when someone helps us, this is a better way of letting them know.
On the profile page have a 'likes received' / 'thanks received'.

There should NOT be an option to dislike something. This just makes people lose motivation imo. Or as others have said, a way for people to finally get back at someone and abuse the system. Very stupid idea to whatever genius thought of it. If someone disagrees with a post, they will soon say. Or if it's really bad, it'll be reported, removed and a warning given out.

Smh

It does seem like the downvote is getting abused. I've only downvoted one person, but thay was because he was name calling a few players.(I reported as well) I really wish that people would only use the downvote for borderline toxic posts. It's even crazier that people will talk about the downvote and people upvote solely to counter the downvotes.

Yup, give people power and it will be abused. I agree with OP completely that negative rep should be removed. Positive rep is harmless, but probably meaningless too.

Question for mod/SC is what's the purpose of the system? Are you gathering stats for some type of profiling purpose?

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Originally Posted by MasterOfAllTimeAndMagic

It does seem like the downvote is getting abused. I've only downvoted one person, but thay was because he was name calling a few players.(I reported as well) I really wish that people would only use the downvote for borderline toxic posts. It's even crazier that people will talk about the downvote and people upvote solely to counter the downvotes.

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I'm mainly active in the CR part of the forum and I think it's working great over there. I feel like the toxicity has gone back and a lot more people try to answer questions or help others out. Downvoting needs a reason and I think if there is none, mods can reverse it. Also revenge downvoting is against the rules and can lead to a ban. I guess if its getting abused a lot negative rep can be disabled by the mods

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Originally Posted by Deaglemann

The Reputation System isn't a substitute for reporting. If people are toxic you should still report them. There is no real consequence if you get a negative rep, just that the square above your avatar will turn red at some point and people will take you less serious.

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I don't pretend to know exactly how the reporting or reputation systems work but maybe the mods were getting swamped with reported posts and we're looking for a way that might highlight consistent offenders while reducing the amount of time it must take to check through that persons posts to see if they warranted a telling off or a ban. Maybe people who quickly add up a lot of 'disapprovals' get highlighted to the mods, maybe not...

I am not saying the reputation system is the right way forward, I'm just trying to see a reason that it might have caused it to be introduced in the first place.

However since it is currently in place, whilst it is here I will use it as I believe it is intended, to give positive feedback to those who deserve it and constructive criticism to those who need it.