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Why don't you rep him until you feel he has enough rep?Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostComment
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I intend to! And I dont think I will stop. But people have short memories round here.Originally posted by Old Greg View PostComment
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The price of fish of course! How could you forget that?Originally posted by Old Greg View PostComment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostWHHATTT?!?!?!?!
I don't remember anyone saying delete the old rep.
Admin won't be winning any popularity competitions for awhile it seems.
Glum doesn't even cover this one!!!
WHS
If admin was a clerk in a bank and a customer complained that they cannot see where the money is coming into the account from he would reset the account to 0.
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A quick rep update for you all. I have made some pretty big changes to rep and been too hectic to let you all know but think you all deserve some kind of explanation...
Due to the initial weightings of the rep scores, which some of you worked out, the system was unfair in awarding a lot of rep giving power to posters with a high post count - this rep giving power led to other users getting high rep giving power due to the weighting that rep points had on rep giving power. This led to the battle for rep supremacy.
I don't blame anyone for this apart from myself. We all like to be challenged and we like to game systems such as this so it was no great surprise but my limited time meant that it went out of control without me really noticing and by then it was too late
I don't like the fact that the rep system was used to bully certain forum posters and that it helped cliques develop, neither of which is good for a public forum. The forum has two aims from my perspective, to enable us long-standing users to have somewhere to post cr4p and insult each other to help pass the day but also, more importantly, to help new contractors and geeks in general find somewhere they can ask questions and get answers from people who know what they are taking about. The forum has helped countless people over the years from answering simple contracting questions to assisting the likes of the BN66 victims and contractors who have been affected when their payment vehicle providers have done a bunk (not you personally Bunk, you know what I mean!) This is a wicked place and I treasure it for those reasons. The rep system was meant to be there so that new users can see who is "worth listening to" and who is famed for giving out duff info and the hijacking of the system has caused me to reconsider how it was used.
Firstly I was not amused that VB was stupid enough to put a unique identifier that allowed the rep-giver to be identified but Freamon's MF framer really did give me a laugh. It made it clear that rep should be open IMO and I am happy that no-one can now hide behind rep comments or be fooled into thinking that others made comments that they hadn't etc. On trawling through the rep comments from the last year or two it made me uneasy that certain upstanding members of the contracting community could have given others some pretty nasty rep comments and if I simply turned the ability to see these comments on it could cause some bad feeling so my best option was to delete all rep comments and start again.
When I reset all rep I saw very quickly that those with high post counts were again starting to dominate rep and following suggestions from some of these threads and from PM messages I tweaked all of the rep setting to level the scores that end users pass on. Basically we all have pretty much the same rep-giving powers now, no matter how high your post count or how much rep you accrue this will not allow you to massively influence the rep score board. I would prefer the rep scores to be there as an indicator for new users as to who gives good advice on the forum. If this isn't achieved with the tweaks I have made to the rep system then I will simply disable it.
A longer rant than intended as usual but hope this gives some explanation for my actions.
I await your neg rep!
Kind regards
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You are Wim121 and I claim my 5 negative reps.Originally posted by administrator View PostWhat happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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