New Feature: Good Post/Bad Post

[quote]Who are some of the worst culprits we’ve had for that?[/quote]

I forgot their names, but they since left this site. They posted like 20 times a day and most of that was “yea you right” or “I totally agree” or some silly joke. Nothing that added to anything.

[quote]3 of which are in the top 10 “posters” on the site.  How fascinating…  0.001%, is representing 30% of the top post count.[/quote]

Because they been with us for many years. What i was talking about was those new members who showed up posting 30+ posts a day of 4-5 word posts. Not members with us since like 2001 who post 3 times a day and have alot of posts only because over time they had more opportunity.

You got to look only at how many posts they make in a day on average. Going by total posts is a waste.

[quote]I totally agree with your sentiments Imperious Leader, how do we cut down on people posting fluff, just to get on the “total posts” leaderboard?.[/quote]

People who consider their post count important have some real issues. It means nothing to anybody. Karma for some reason motivated them as well.

[quote]Post “gimmie votes” and the community must downvote it until you start losing reputation instead. Personally, I’m much more willing to downvote a single post than subtract karma from somebody.[/quote]

Yea but like karma it will bring again that silly thread which had its only purpose to rank up + votes, where people asked for votes and reciprocated to those who gave them. It is only a matter of time before something like that shows up.

Again their is no [b]result[/b] from having alot of + posts. The only result that may appear is by having many - votes and the post gets hidden. So really, their is no need for +

[quote author=djensen link=topic=27511.msg969519#msg969519 date=1338912631]
None of the BBCodes are working. The stupid BBCodes permission plugin, I think, is the problem. I’m looking into it.
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Thank you!!

[quote author=Gargantua link=topic=27511.msg969536#msg969536 date=1338915606]
I like the concept that it -costs- reputation to smite a bad post.

But of course, you have to post alot in order to score any reputation.
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You would never be able to smite, then, Garg.

And perhaps that’s the way it should be Gamer! :)

How bout make this only related to the post and not a mark against the poster.

People vote for the post or not and if it heads into say the -10 range, it gets hidden.

Why the heck does it need to run a cumulative total for that poster?

So if you remove the total under the avatar, it might work.

Is there a reason we need to see everyone’s total posts under the avatar? Removing this may help stop the race for post leader board.

Exactly right. It will solve all the problems.

We tried to tell you, Dave :-)

Can you imagine what Garg and IL’s totals would be in a couple of weeks? :-P

Heck, I even gave IL like 7 +'s last night and he STILL has -43 in one day! :-)

[quote author=djensen link=topic=27511.msg969849#msg969849 date=1338955659]
-147?
-43?
Already guys?

Sigh.

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:lol:

No offense, but we certainly did see this coming.

It’s funny, though.  Its only been 1 day!  :lol:

[quote author=Veqryn link=topic=27511.msg969394#msg969394 date=1338885910]
DJ, you should remove that “respect” counter below everyone’s name.

Have the karma be per-post, and not per-person.

If anything, make it so that only admins and moderators can see people’s respect total.

reason: if you give people a counter of any kind, they will try to increase it.  You will quickly see people giving each other “respect points” purely to give each other points.  This serves no purpose, and distorts the original intent.

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Make the cumulative total Only visible to mods and admins……

Well D, I’ll tell you why.

Some peopil are petty. :) Atleast for me, and from what I can tell, that has been the source of my negative reviews.

With that said, [b]I agree with Imperious Leader[/b] as well as everyone else, if there is no cumulative total posted under each specific user, smiting their post becomes irrelevant, unless the content is specifically bogus.

[quote author=djensen link=topic=27511.msg969959#msg969959 date=1338978627]
Why doesn’t this work here? There are plenty of other places where reputation/respect works just fine. :-S
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:lol:
We are weird.  We are not like other places!

IL, I’m still trying to think of the guy’s name who was the huge karma freak and posted just a few words at a time…

Congratulations on -145 in a day and a half, Garg.  Did you use a second profile to snipe yourself, to get yourself the reputation you wanted?  :lol:

I didn’t do more than 30-35 of those, the other 100 or so…well…figure it out.

LOL, well hey, what can I say?

I’m a professional. :P

+1 to the two baddest boys on the block!

Are you sure, David, that there is no malfunction with the +/- system ?

I ask this because yesterday, Garg was at - 99 . And about 5-7 mn later, i clicked on “refresh” and he was at -151…so that means he has received like 52 “-” in just 5mn…