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[3yardsandacloud]

I agree with BuckNutty. Some whacked out stuff goes on with the rep system. If it does stay, maybe Clarity can change it so that only the reputation you earned on a particular forum is displayed when you post on that forum.

Say your total rep score is 1000

You've earned 750 in the Football forum
You've earned 50 in the Basketball forum
You've earned 200 in the Political forum

The system would only display the number of gems that coincides with your rep score for that forum. And you can only affect other members by that amount of reputation in each corresponding forum. So in the above example, you couldn't affect anyones rep in the recruiting forum.

Another point folks have touched on is the ability to give partial rep points. Some folks I'd like to send a positive rep, but don't want to give them 7-8 gems for simply a nice (but not great) post. Same for negative points.

 

[OilerBuck]

It really bothers me that so many people start threads to complain about dings or write Clarity to do so. Are people's egos seriously THAT fragile? By allowing reps to be disabled, Clarity killed any opportunity for people to cry about their reputation. No matter how bad your rep is, you can always go back to a single onyx chiclet.

I really like the rep system. But if it really causes Clarity that much trouble, I could live without it. I think people are still going whine when they flame and get jumped all over. From what I hear, it is C and the Mods that are really doubting the effectiveness of the system...That really makes me wonder if it is hurting other areas of the board. I don't want the petty fighting to upset a great site.

My official vote is to do what is best for the board. We have some great mods that, together with Clarity, know what would be best for the site.

 

[Hodge]

I agree with the different levels of reps. Maybe eliminate the comment field altogether and make 6 radio buttons. 3 levels of positive rep and 3 levels of negative rep. And of course, auto-signing would be a great idea. I like the idea of it taking much longer to max out. It seems like half of the board has the graphic display maxed out even though their rep points are different. I think that the reps should come back though. It is just one more little thing that sets this site apart from the others.

 

[jlb1705]

Ebay does it - is it possible for the Planet to open up rep so other posters can see what's going on with everyone else? We don't have to see everything - just the last ten received or so. If the rep system is truly supposed to indicate what the rest of the community thinks of each poster, then I think we should have a qualitative reference, not just a quantitative one.

 

[gregorylee]

I am not going to read through everyones posts here but so far the common theme seems to be appending the posters handle to the rep. I am all for that, I like having the rep system but I would vote for the different levels of repdom and appending the name to rep given.

 

[FKAGobucks877]

Why not make it only possible to get positive rep? Therefore if you say something people think is worthwhile, you get rep points, but if you say something completely stupid, (but it's still what you think) then you don't get hurt for it. I think then it would be a lot less worried about.

I think this idea is worthy of further discussion. Why not be able to only award positive jewels? I personally would much rather be able to blast people with a red ruby (at least when they deserve it), but after 3yards sees the stuff that idiots write in some of those dings, and they're obviously causing problems. Along with changing how much "weight" a certain award can give, why not eliminate the negative dings altogether? I mean, face it, no matter how much we change this system, there are still going to be assmunches like LHM that are going to abuse it. And there are still going to be crybaby whiner-whimps like NDChief (sorry chief, but it's true.....or at least it was ) that cry about a negative rep every time they're given one. I love the red rubies, and appreciate the purpose they serve, but it seems to me like they're causing more harm than good. Maybe the solution is to modify and improve the positive rep system, so that people can still "earn" their reputation, but eliminate the dings altogether. We have enough "self-police" here that nobody is going to get too out of control....and if they do, they'll just retire and come back with a different moniker. Right, Alan?

Seriously, I think the best solution may be to eliminate the red rubies. We could probably tie the warning system into this, so that anyone that gets warned by the mod's automatically takes a hit on their rep. as well. That way really classless posts directly effect the user's rep, but petty little bastards can't effect anybody else's.

 

[exhawg]

I agree with the different levels of reps. Maybe eliminate the comment field altogether and make 6 radio buttons. 3 levels of positive rep and 3 levels of negative rep. And of course, auto-signing would be a great idea. I like the idea of it taking much longer to max out. It seems like half of the board has the graphic display maxed out even though their rep points are different. I think that the reps should come back though. It is just one more little thing that sets this site apart from the others.

I think you need the comment field or else you won't know why the person gave you rep. I like to know what people like or don't like. IMO auto-signing would fix most of the problems.

 

[wdg01]

The problem with no negative rep is that once people start climbing the ladder of rep, they can't go back down..a poster could make a bunch of good posts, get a lot of positive rep, and then make a bunch of stupid posts with no affect to his rep.

I like the idea of rep to vcash tho :)

 

[kn1f3party]

I really don't see a point for it. It is abused and promotes elitism. I had a full green thing but why do I care? If someone doesn't agree with another user's post, grow some and reply with your feelings.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

...Maybe scale down the effect high rep people have to a maximum amount. Like maybe 150 points. When Mili gives rep, chiclets come in droves...

The reason why newbies get a butt-load of chicklets when I, or someone else with a ton of rep points such osugrad21, BuckNutty, Buckskins86, etc., give a positive rep is that the number of points needed to get max greenies is so low (around 1500 points), so when I or the aforementioned other give a positive rep worth 500 or so points, the newbie jumps up quickly. Considering that there were at least three of us that had over 30,000 rep points when C-Dog disabled the reps, the 1500-point max is really in need of change.

I'd like to see a way, if possible, that every 10 green chicklets earns you a gold chiklet in their place...thus, if some had points that would normally be worth 10 greens, they'd have one gold instead. Points that would be worth 14 greens (remember, that max is 11 now) would be shown as one gold and four greens. Points worth 56 greens would be five golds and six greens, etc. This would allow a person's increase in rep points to continue to be shown without running across the screen (if the greens weren't maxed out at 11 for 1500 or so points, osugrad21 would have over 200 greens displayed). Now, even with this idea, some folks would still be maxed in displayed gold chicklets once they hit 15,000 points (or whatever point value would equate to 100 greens), but so far those are few and far between. Maybe C-Dog can gin up a special little graphic not much bigger than a current chicklet to represent 100 greens and the count can continue from there. There will be a time not too far down the road where someone will have several hundred thousand rep points, and if the system is to continue to keep points given to posters, something should be set up to display that.

 

[JohnnyCockfight]

Ebay does it - is it possible for the Planet to open up rep so other posters can see what's going on with everyone else? We don't have to see everything - just the last ten received or so. If the rep system is truly supposed to indicate what the rest of the community thinks of each poster, then I think we should have a qualitative reference, not just a quantitative one.

I think this is a great idea. My suggestion would be to couple JLB's idea with the caveat that no comments be allowed--only the positive rep ding, coupled with a signature, and just the negative rep ding, without a signature. This would take away the reactions from nasty and over-the-top comments being left. Anonymous negative dinging (no sig, no nothing) is the only way to cure the "spite" ding.

That being said, if it's too much of a problem to administer, drop it completely Clarity. You of all people don't deserve to be burdened by the immaturity of others after all the hard work you put into this site.

ps. Only posts related to sports should get rep. Specifically, credit should not be given for leaning a certain partisan way in politics.

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

I agree. It's amazing the crap that Clarity has to endure because people in here aren't mature enough to handle it. Case in Point:
One of the mods "dinged" me (he shall remain nameless) anonymously. I asked one of the other mods on the site who it was and he told me. So I dinged this guy back with a comment like "I know it was you". Anyway, I thought he might get a kick out of it or ding me back. Instead, the complete loser sent me a PM saying my behavior was inappropriate and that he would email Clarity to complain. Needless to say, Clarity never said anything about it.

The worst is when you get dinged without a comment. At least try to come up with some creative comment. Of course, you can be like Bucknutty and make a lame goat reference.

Well, Rashmish, you know that wasn't me, because I take personal pride in signing all of my dings of your sorry ass. You also mentioned earlier about certain folks "obsessing" over you, yet you had to run to a mod to see who dinged you. What a fuckin' wah-wah.

As for BN making a "lame goat" reference, you're just mad because he just described your last piece of ass. B-a-a-a-a-a-a-yatch.

 

[exhawg]

Concerning what Mili said I'm sure there would be a way to get a little buckeye leaf sticker involved. I'm sure you could find one that isn't much larger than a chicklet.

 

[ScarletInMyVeins]

I think implementing more chicklets (different colors, Buckeye leafs, etc.) would be a waste of time for Clarity. Wouldn't it be easier if it took longer to receive each green chicklet?

if it took say 200 points to get a chicklet and you only got 10 or 20 points for each positive rep you receive then it would separate the "high quality" posters from the others. If Mili were to write up a really good post and had 20 people give him positive rep for it he would get 2 green chicklets. I think that would keep many of us from maxing out either on the green or red side.

I do agree with everyone else about having the anonymity taken out of it, but I feel that the comment field needs to be in place. Not only does it give praise but it can help people settle differences that they may have between themselves. If someone's skin is so thin that they can't take some criticism then they should probably just off themselves anyways. Harsh personal attacks though should have no place in the comment field or on this site. I cannot read what some of the mods have read in but I'd think those would warrant some warning points and maybe a "time out" for a couple of days.

 

[Oh8ch]

I voted to keep it as is. The problem with tweaking is you can chase your tail forever and never get it right. People just need to stop taking it for more than it is.

I have put a lot of work in as vBook and on the scholarship SS and rarely get rep points for that. But I make a one liner about 'screen shots' and get green chicklets all over the place. I also rarely get negative rep posts - only two that I can recall. I think that has more to do with folks not wanting to ding the regulars than not making any bad posts (I wear my newbie hat on a regular basis). That would be even more of an issue if folks had to sign their dings.

My point to all this is that the rep system is good in that it helps identify the real bozos and also those who have put a lot into the board. But trying to read much more into it than that is asking for trouble. Trying to make it accurately reflect some sort of appropriate 'reputation' may prove equally futile.

All that said I didn't read many of the other posts in this thread and knowing this board there are tons of good ideas for improvement. But I do like the rep system. If you are going to do anything fix it so people don't give Tibor green Chicklets by mistake when he is begging for Dentene.
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