calculus said:
Yea, but you get that at any board you go to. Doesn't matter if post counts are shown or not or if there even levels.
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Yea, but you get that at any board you go to. Doesn't matter if post counts are shown or not or if there even levels.
i know this rep system from a number of other forums where i'm a member (sports, science and tech related).
I don't like it at all because it gets abused a lot.
when you look at the rep's of certain members you see immediately that they got "rated up" by their friends (9.9 come on who gets that right from the start) and other good members got downrated. probably somebody needed to "pay back" for some older discussions.
they should get rid of it.
I don't like it at all because it gets abused a lot.
when you look at the rep's of certain members you see immediately that they got "rated up" by their friends (9.9 come on who gets that right from the start) and other good members got downrated. probably somebody needed to "pay back" for some older discussions.
they should get rid of it.
andiwm2003 said:
I recall the same issue at a forum that I was an admin of for a while until we decided to shut it down. We had a rep hack installed, and it just got abused horribly.
There's a psychological experiment that does this same type of thing. It creates an arbitrary division between groups of subjects, props one group higher than the other and watches as they tear each other apart because of this "class" division (which only really exists in their own minds).
Notice it took all of two pages for someone with a low score to complain about the scoring system being unfair, then someone with a high rating tells them off.
Notice it took all of two pages for someone with a low score to complain about the scoring system being unfair, then someone with a high rating tells them off.
Onizuka said:There's a rep now? Jesus, I should be banned by now jsut from the Nintendo gang in the games forum.
I'll get them for you, vniow! I'll get them good!
Ahahah....Oh trust me
I had to look at another post of mine again to realize I had a rep so I could post here! Ahh...a decent rep? I'm not even at 2,500 posts?! Maybe it's my quiet demeanor.
People who have monetarily contributed to MacRumors are afforded certain special privileges, like access to private forums and the option of having a special title like "Demi-God(dess)" or "Contributor". They also occasionally engage in little games like this to remind the rest of us of their superiority (sic).BlizzardBomb said:I'm so confused... So it's just another day for me
Pretend that you're back in junior high school and it will make a lot more sense.
Lyle said:People who have monetarily contributed to MacRumors are afforded certain special privileges, like access to private forums and the option of having a special title like "Demi-God(dess)" or "Contributor". They also occasionally engage in little games like this to remind the rest of us of their superiority (sic).
Pretend that you're back in junior high school and it will make a lot more sense.
Stop pretending! It's life! This sort of s*** happens all the time.
Self-contradictory. If life isn't fair, you can get a low rep without doing anything wrong.Kingsly said:
Frankly, I think the idea of "reps" is dumb. What, do we have the popular kids and the unpopular kids now? That is so high school.
Thomas Veil said:Self-contradictory. If life isn't fair, you can get a low rep without doing anything wrong.
Frankly, I think the idea of "reps" is dumb. What, do we have the popular kids and the unpopular kids now? That is so high school.
And damn, just like high school i'm unpopular ;-p. Times two, since I'm not even hip enough to have rep.
Did you just call me stupid?Thomas Veil said:Self-contradictory. If life isn't fair, you can get a low rep without doing anything wrong.
Frankly, I think the idea of "reps" is dumb. What, do we have the popular kids and the unpopular kids now? That is so high school.
devilot said:
I also wonder if it has something to do with how many times you have renewed the paid subscription to Macrumors ?
However I am only on my 2nd round, and didn't over pay, so I don't know why I have a higher rep as opposed to someone that has been a contributor longer ?
Ok, on this reputation thing, I deleted my Avatar to see if I could get rid of my unwanted reputation, however now that I have done that, the Reputation (once part of my Avatar) remains!
It is still an image, however I have selected to NOT use an avatar, and I have no way to remove it in my user CP ! The image file is titled NoAvatar 4.3.gif. I am not able to find anything about this image on Google or on vBulletin's site! This must be something that is being done by the forum software, and I have no control over it.
What I don't get however, after I did this change my reputation went up from a 4.2 to a 4.3 !?!?!? Is this some kind of warning level, meaning that the higher number is worse ?
It is still an image, however I have selected to NOT use an avatar, and I have no way to remove it in my user CP !
The image file is titled NoAvatar 4.3.gif. I am not able to find anything about this image on Google or on vBulletin's site! This must be something that is being done by the forum software, and I have no control over it.What I don't get however, after I did this change my reputation went up from a 4.2 to a 4.3 !?!?!? Is this some kind of warning level, meaning that the higher number is worse ?
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Warbrain said:
Hehee.. It took me 3 years, 3 months (ish) to get to 500 posts... but then the Evil Master of Time-Suckage, Forum Spy appeared
As for these reputation numbers, I can't help but think they're a bad idea. I've been browsing with images disabled for a few days (I do most of my MacRumoring from work, and I've been trying to keep bandwidth usage down) so hadn't seen the new reputation thing. Seems a bit random, but is it really worth getting annoyed about? I mean, surely people who read posts judge them by the content of he message not some apparently arbitrary 'score'?
*shrug*... but I suppose I could just be saying that because I apparently have a low rep
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