Remove reputation or make it public?

Remove reputation or make it public?

  • Remove it

    Votes: 17 15.2%

  • Make it public (allow anyone to see who left them rep, positive or negative)

    Votes: 78 69.6%

  • Keep it private, but positive rep only (people can leave their name only if they want to)

    Votes: 4 3.6%

  • Make it public, but positive rep only (to avoid neg rep battles)

    Votes: 13 11.6%
  • Total voters
    112
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Austere said:
Yes but you're only saying that because you have a small e-penis. If you had a big, throbbing, juicy one like mine you might not be so quick to have it cut orf.
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The rep is basically how often you post in funny pics/awesome thread/cool videos/porn. Real e-penis' should be measured from joining date :lol:.
 
Public.

I sign my reps these days - both + and -
I didn't sign 1 -rep and that was cause I assumed he'd recieve a metric-fuck-tonne of -rep.

Will be interesting to see who those anon. reps are from XD
 
BlaRo said:
^ :lol:

I've only handed out a handful of neg rep, and I usually don't see the point as it's better to actually respond to them with a post instead. But (as many of you know :D) I sign all of my +reps, and this would definitely save me the typing.

I can also see who left me the humorous neg-reps, and being called out on it would certainly stop a lot of anonymous neg-rep immaturity. And people who bitch about neg-rep are just as annoying as what they're bitching about.
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I'm good with that, and furthermore, I'm giving you positive public rep right now for your sig- truer words were never spoken!
 
Viper007Bond said:
I voted public positive rep. Rep is a good "thank you" button.
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Isn't there a "Thank you" feature/plugin for vBulleting? I think that would be a better option. Maybe also so that the thanks would show up at the post for example like "This post has received X thank yous". And it could also show in users profile how many Thank yous they have received.

I voted to completely remove the rep system though. Having only positive reps would be fine with me also.

Having negative and positive reps are quite pointless imho. Anyone who has been here longer than few days, has made few posts and is not a total asshole will have green blobs anyway. And once you have them, it's really hard to get to red (or even have any visible effect in the blobs). Those people who actually have red blobs usually get noticed anyway and swiftly warned/banned.

Just by having negative reps will generate whining no matter if you see who gave the rep or not.
 
Maybe I'll elaborate my position a little bit.

I think this should be a step-by-step process.

First we have completely private rep, which is the current system atm (obv).
This has a lot of pros and a few cons. Pros include the ability to be anonymous when giving out +rep, just for that bit of added suspense :p. Anonymity for neg reps is also available so that if you want to tell a troll off but not reveal yourself, its good. Cons: Anyone can pretend to be someone else and pass out negative reputation. They'd just have to sign it. This would cause more problems than neg rep flame wars. Signing your name each time is also a pain when several people in a thread deserve rep.

Second step is obviously a public rep option (my vote).
This eliminates the need to type out your name and the possibility that someone is pretending to be you and giving out neg reps. This also, I think, aids the whole neg rep wars thing because personally if someone had a beef with something I'd take it straight to them if it really really required me to. Else it's just a way of knowing who's not the one to talk straight to/avoid on the forums.

Third step (evolution).
Whatever we determine from this public rep system, we then decide what to do for the future. Geeman mentioned the "thank this post" system, which I've seen on another forum, and I think that could work. If we witness again that neg rep is just a warning before they get banned we may eliminate it in the future. I think we should hold off now, because well... I started out with 1 red blob when the rep system first came out. That was enough warning for me to try to behave. It may just work the same for others.

So let's just give the public rep a chance first and experiment and see what the results are. If it's worse, the powers that be can always scrap it.
 
Signed neg reps forces the person to think before dishing them out. I think hard before giving them out for this reason.
 
argatoga said:
Signed neg reps forces the person to think before dishing them out. I think hard before giving them out for this reason.
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Exactly, which is why they should stay. If I give someone a -nep in the first place, I've given it some thought.
 
LurkerPatrol said:
Geeman mentioned the "thank this post" system, which I've seen on another forum, and I think that could work.
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I don't how it works on vBulletin, but on phpBB only OP can thank posts. If everyone could do this it will be like +rep but without power rate.

argatoga said:
Signed neg reps forces the person to think before dishing them out. I think hard before giving them out for this reason.
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This.
 
Removing it will make all the whine go away, isnt that exactly what you want? Also, does the reputation system REALLY bring anything to the table in terms of how you act/post on a forum? I dont think so. Idiot users will get banned anyway.

If you only make posts to get more green blobs then you really are a sad person.

EDIT: :rolleyes: @ decision
 
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Looks like the poll is pretty clear.

Reputation is now public.
 
*checks*

If you wanted to make it retroactive then I'm still not seeing any auto-signatures. Maybe it only works for rep given after the change has taken place.
 
ahpadt said:
Removing it will make all the whine go away, isnt that exactly what you want? Also, does the reputation system REALLY bring anything to the table in terms of how you act/post on a forum? I dont think so. Idiot users will get banned anyway.

If you only make posts to get more green blobs then you really are a sad person.
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I agree! It is very rare that I make comment on how to run the forums (so little to complain about) I am not convinced the reputation system is that good over all.
 
I still can't. Cleared cache, control+F5, logout/login, etc. Should it have been instantaneous?
 
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