PSA: Me

[Amit]

Obviously it wouldn't be perfect. What is? I don't really care if it's perfect or not. The only reason I mentioned it is because it seems like a way to incentivize people to act civilly. I think it would have that effect to some degree regardless of whether or not it is flawed.

That sounds like a good idea for a new forum...where nobody knows each other. But I have to say, I honestly laughed when I read the part quoted above.

Most people here have known each other for 2+ years (you included). Most of the people here have experienced the rep system. We can safely say it does jack and shit to help. In fact, Rep sometimes was the source of more issues since "This person -Repped me and now I have to retaliate because I really hate this person's guts." There is no incentive to act civil when using reputation. There is only incentive to abuse the system. Not to mention, rep has zero relevance to how you act.

This is Modacity. Do you really think that bringing back rep will make everything peaches and pears?

[king_nothing_]

Rep has zero effect on how people post? I find that very hard to believe.

"Man, I'd really love to tear this guy a new one" ---> "Oh wait, I'll probably get neg repped into oblivion if I do" ----> "Meh, guess I'll just not say anything / I guess I'll say it a little more politely than I initially wanted to"

That would never happen?

[Donut]

^ ive witnessed that happen. its a doubled edged sword though. yeah, it might stop somebody from posting something inflamatory, but then you can get that rep bomb bullshit that somebody used to do. i dont remember who it was, but it was bullshit.

[n00b1n8R]

Rep added nothing positive and only served as a circle jerking tool.

[TVTyrant]

^ ive witnessed that happen. its a doubled edged sword though. yeah, it might stop somebody from posting something inflamatory, but then you can get that rep bomb bullshit that somebody used to do. i dont remember who it was, but it was bullshit.

I used to spread rep around like a mofo to try to get plus repped.

Worked pretty well too. Zilla and the "cool kids" of 2008 provided me with plenty.

[n00b1n8R]

bacon allways tried to start a rep circle with me, I ignored him and got over +100 for free~

[Cortexian]

We could always do something like what Overclock.net does, only allow positive rep and make rep levels take fucking forever. Also increase the rep spread to like 15 users and such. That still wouldn't eliminate the ability to circle-jerk yourself upwards, but it would eliminate the rage associated with getting a -rep.

If rep was brought back though I'm p sure we would reset it.

And just to point out, n00b was only banned for two weeks and that was the original intent.

[n00b1n8R]

If you wanted to re-implement it you should only let rep power = 1. Nobody should be "more important" in any way as a result of the rep system.


Also Lancer: you owe me like 100 ladder points since when you banned me my W/L in sc2 tanked to like 0.2

[rossmum]

here's an idea

make shitty unfunny memes or shitty unfunny posts an officially infractable offence so people stop doing that stupid bullshit. do the same for low-content posting, i.e. going into a thread just to post 'lol' or emptyquote pointlessly or restate something that's already been said for no good reason. bring back rep because there was nothing fucking wrong with it, make crying about rep on the forums infractable. if someone is hurting your internet penis then either fucking deal with it or, if it's legitimate harassment, take it up with staff. rep was fun and also being able to -rep someone for a bad post was a good way to either break that habit or encourage them (if they were a shitty enough poster) to STOP POSTING. there is nothing wrong with this.

all i see in this forum outside of the handful of threads i still actually post in is just thread after thread of horrible fucking posts where everyone repeats memes that were tired five years ago. it's not even funny, it's just a sea of absolute turd. now imagine i am a total outsider and have no knowledge of where these memes even come from, all i see is a bunch of kids spewing bullshit that makes no sense and jerking each other off about it.

you're all fucking terrible at posting and you need to stop.

e/

We could always do something like what Overclock.net does, only allow positive rep and make rep levels take fucking forever. Also increase the rep spread to like 15 users and such. That still wouldn't eliminate the ability to circle-jerk yourself upwards, but it would eliminate the rage associated with getting a -rep.

no. no. this is everything that is wrong with the world. we should not cater to the lowest common denominator by removing -rep just so some fucking baby on the internet doesn't slit his wrists because the little box under his name turned red. internet kids these days are already spoiled brats, the last thing we need is to encourage that by mollycoddling them. if you are a bad poster or generally unlikeable, you get -repped. if not, you get +repped. the system worked. even at the height of my rep-bombing i still couldn't drop someone from grey to red in one hit, it would take at least two of us strategic rep command sorts to do that and more often than not it wasn't organised. if someone was a horrible poster then it really should not have come as a surprise that they got bombed into oblivion.

rep circles definitely existed, but by and large they didn't even begin to compete with legit rep and were mostly a vessel for conspiracy jokes. the system was as good as you will get, there is no reason to dumb it down so crybabies don't get butthurt over it. it was clearly stated in the rules, i believe, that rep was not to be whined about on the forums, they still did it. clearly they cared more about meaningless coloured squares than their account here, and they deserved everything they got.

If you wanted to re-implement it you should only let rep power = 1. Nobody should be "more important" in any way as a result of the rep system.

if you perceive rep as any measure of importance, then you are creating your own problem. rep is nothing more than a measure of how well someone here is liked/trusted by the community, or how much of a suitable spokesperson the community as a whole sees them as. importance doesn't even begin to come into it, and it never did. it was a ludicrous argument invented by bad posters with inferiority complexes who felt the need to paint higher-rep members as their oppresors and bid everyone else to rise up against them. it's stupid.

[Amit]

Rep has zero effect on how people post? I find that very hard to believe.

What I meant to say was: "Not to mention, rep has zero relevance to how you're supposed to act.

"Man, I'd really love to tear this guy a new one" ---> "Oh wait, I'll probably get neg repped into oblivion if I do" ----> "Meh, guess I'll just not say anything / I guess I'll say it a little more politely than I initially wanted to"

That would never happen?

Except this is what usually happened:

"Man, I'd really love to tear this guy a new one" ---> "Everyone will agree with me because it's obvious that I'm right" ----> "I'm getting neg repped? WHAT THE FUCK?!"