Rant time!

[Texrat]

Rep isn't the problem, it's just another thing that the immature members worry about and use to try and rile up anger against established members. It's a reward and punishment system that works much like society. Nothing more or less.

Agreed.

There's going to be abuse of ANY system... so the rational approach is to weigh the pros and cons and decide what makes the most sense in the long term. To that extent, rep has more power for good than bad. It's a community's most powerful tool for policing itself. The abuses will be weeded out over time IF the more responsible members step up to the plate.

Micromanagement won't be a solution, either, especially if it's combined with leniency for habitual troublemakers (see: gbxforums). Just gotta apply some common sense...

[Bodzilla]

i'm too distracted by your boobs to notice your post

i still love your boobs you tho babe. dont feel too bad.
<3?

[FRain]

Rep is only a problem when people make it one. I judge people by attitude and intelligence, not rep.

It's the idiots who come in claiming all manners of rubbish like nonstop rep-circling amongst the big bad site veterans and then go on to abuse the system themselves who are the root of all problems pertaining to rep. I give or take as I see fit.

We should get rid of rep and get the old star system from early GBX when it was first created.

You all keep saying "no people with lots of rep are the problem"

then the others say "no you don't have rep therefore your the problem"

Now, I dunno about you guys, but It seems that the rep system is causing problems. The problem being, the very argument of rep itself.

Eliminate rep, and all is well. Hierarchal systems shouldn't be judged by how many green bars of shit you have, or how few.

If someone is awesome, everyone will know it. If someone is a complete asshole, everyone will know it. People with red rep could have gotten it for no reason at all, and thus are looked down upon. These people then, as said previously, look up in hate at the green repped giants.

Let the users actions themselves in the community heighten or lower their rep, not by bars, but by genuine respect.


If you think rep doesn't cause problems, your neglecting the very fact that we are even having this fucking discussion.

Agreed. Rep needs to go, and fast. Remember I had -rep for a while when I improved and people (especially masters) STILL looked down on me. Now I have green rep (thanks to rossmum's +14 rep beam) and I with that. But seriously, I got some really retarted -reps for making one silly little mistake (IAWTP) from Korny. The rep system gets majorly abused, and, like I said, needs to go, and if it goes, it needs to go, fast.


If you want to keep anything REMOTELY close to rep you need to bring back the old star system from GBX ages ago.

[Reaper Man]

i'm too distracted by your boobs to notice your post

i still love your boobs you tho babe. dont feel too bad.
<3?

</3

[Kornman00]

And when semen pours all over your head, you know you must be dead

[Texrat]

I love it when the system is blamed for the abuse.

[FRain]

Yay for seamen!

[DaneO'Roo]

noob, when I said "you all" I fucking meant the people in the thread complaining about rep.

Bottom line, if rep causes arguments, if it causes shit, which it is, it needs to go. So what if the people without rep bitch. They're going to aren't they.

If rep WERE to be kept however, it should only be distributed by mods and taken away by mods.

[FRain]

^ An excellent idea Mr. Dano, but then the mods would abuse it. (lawl +40000 rep, lawl -999999999 rep)

[Texrat]

I am sooo tempted to dispense some -rep right now...