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[sasguru]

although you did rename that to something else SAS didn't you?

yes:

Village People with Learning Difficulties (TM).

[DS23]

Or alternatively, my suggestion of over a year ago:

Let's face it, the only possible reason for displaying post count is to imply that somebody with a high post count has contributed something of value to the community. We know very well that this is not the case.

Therefore, posts in each individual forum (General, Technical, etc) should show only the member's post count for that forum.

After all somebody who's posted a lot in, say, B/C probably has something useful to say on the subject at hand, and their high B/C post count would show that they have contributed.

Conversely, somebody who's posted almost nothing but abuse of immigrants and inane ranting about BTL in General, or indeed somebody who's posted a lot of drivel in LR (like me), shouldn't have a spurious credibility conferred on them when they post in a different area.

Post count by category is the only way post count can have any actual value.

whs!

[Incognito]

And this is totally like the post count whores IMO.

There's your problem Admin. The reason that General has become more like Light Relief is because those post count whores migrate over here to keep their score going. Sad really isn't it.

[Incognito]

So the bullying that I see in General is humourous and without venom?

There you have it. Too many of the 'click' thinking CUK is just for their amusement and anyone with an opposing opinion is a village idiot, although you did rename that to something else SAS didn't you?

[Sysman]

The 'Money Saving Expert' forum has a different take on the 'rep' idea IIRC...

Posts can be voted to be useful or not - which they've chosen to brand as 'thanked', so you have the post count plus 'thanked x times in y posts'. They also show who thanked/rated them. Not sure that's necessary.

I've seen Thanks and Groans which were used as a means of bullies ganging up on others. In that case, the Thanks/Groans function was removed from the sections of the forum equivalent to LR here.

[NickFitz]

As soon as you try to measure anything it misbehaves.

Everyone here knows that mine is the only valid opinion and mo-one else counts. Unless they agree with me.

Why not have it all:

SomeBozo
Idiotlike


Posts: 33,567
Posts in Technical: 3
Reputation: -9,999,876

[realityhack]

Any other suggestions welcomed.

The 'Money Saving Expert' forum has a different take on the 'rep' idea IIRC...

Posts can be voted to be useful or not - which they've chosen to brand as 'thanked', so you have the post count plus 'thanked x times in y posts'. They also show who thanked/rated them. Not sure that's necessary.

Other forums and social sites have a simple thumbs up/thumbs down (I like this/I don't) symbol next to or below the post, which results in post count plus a positive and negative indicator.

Yes, it's open to abuse - but I think it'd be easy to spot people trying to skew the system, or use sockies.


PS - the simple like/dislike symbol would be the easiest to use - especially if it didn't take you away from the current page/thread, much like the multi-quote button.

[BrilloPad]

And this is totally like the post count whores IMO. Post count / rep is useful on a forum at times though. The reason for removing post count from LR posts was due to the likes of the counting thread, we want new users to be able to see those whose opinion should be valid by some form of measure of time on here or reputation.

We are considering options, as suggested by boudica and MM, will let you know what we come up with. Any other suggestions welcomed.

As soon as you try to measure anything it misbehaves.

Everyone here knows that mine is the only valid opinion and mo-one else counts. Unless they agree with me.

[oracleslave]

For the third time...

Not sure if vBulletin supports that out of the box, though

Good solution imo.

[NickFitz]

Any other suggestions welcomed.

For the third time...

Not sure if vBulletin supports that out of the box, though

[administrator]

But then you get rep whores.

And this is totally like the post count whores IMO. Post count / rep is useful on a forum at times though. The reason for removing post count from LR posts was due to the likes of the counting thread, we want new users to be able to see those whose opinion should be valid by some form of measure of time on here or reputation.

We are considering options, as suggested by boudica and MM, will let you know what we come up with. Any other suggestions welcomed.

[BrilloPad]

They were the other mods

Are you suggesting the mods are not united? What fun days they must have at cuk central.....

[Sysman]

Other boards I use (much friendlier than here) use the "Reputation" feature of vBulletin. Basically, you get a few points of "rep" to hand out each day.

You can't give "rep" until you have reached a certain post count (I guess it would dissuade sock-puppeteers if this was set at around the 1000 post mark).

But then you get rep whores.

[NickFitz]

Why didn't you just ban those giving you grief?

They were the other mods

[realityhack]

Is there some way of using the credibility ratings similar to the ones on other boards? I guess they would just be hijacked by the sockpuppets...

Other boards I use (much friendlier than here) use the "Reputation" feature of vBulletin. Basically, you get a few points of "rep" to hand out each day.

You can't give "rep" until you have reached a certain post count (I guess it would dissuade sock-puppeteers if this was set at around the 1000 post mark).

What a brilliant idea. Completely remove post counts and instate this. The (invisible) 1000 threshold to prevent sockpuppetry should be enough.