The Reputation System is gone.

The discussion was never about having to pay for the site.

I know that CAV, but it was mentioned earlier on in the thread.

Well it's back. I was down on it , but I'm glad it only gives the opertunity to give positive feedback. I do have a few people I want to know that I apretiate thier posts.

Just a thought from my side.
One sad thing I noticed on many boards.

If there is no reputation system, you won't get much positive feedback on your advices. Negative - of course, but I barely get a "thank you" or "helped me a lot" from the users, although they write on other or even the same board a few days later, that "this and that" worked fine for them.
But, as soon as there is such a system, people do it. That makes me asking myself - why do they?
I think it's because if you give positive reputation, you hope you recieve them either. It's like with the many "photo"-Sites we have here in Germany. People with ugly photos get many positive comments, just because the write 100 a day and know 300 people and everyone feels that he HAS to give something positive back and nothing different. If someone gave you 20 positive comments on your pictures and already got 20 positive for his pictures - who is brave enough to say "sorry, that is really not good, because... (honest and correct explanation to follow)". From what I've seen and read, nearly no one.
I don't think that everyone acts like that, but I also don't think that everyone uses negative reputation as a weapon. There will be a minority that will misuse these things and that shakens the whole stuff a lot (just as Rich said in the first posting).

Imho - I don't need the system, I don't look at the points or something. Perhaps we'd all do better if we say "thank you" or give positive feedback a little more often - perhaps per PM - but don't get into the trap of YOU MUST give the feedback or "the user has 400000 points - I CAN'T give HIM a negative comment." I think it's a main aspect of a discussion to get positive and negative comments, that's the only way to improve yourself.

...my 2cc and greetings
Michael

hehehe -that's funny, I've been on the site today for 20 minutes before reading this post and I didn't even notice that we have the 'dots and numbers' back!!! And here I was going on about how I missed it! Silly me!

Thanks Rich,

I am glad that the rep system is back. What are the new rules? I tried to give some points but the balance logo does not work?

I played around with the settings a bit before re-enabling this function. So this will give you an idea of how the reputation points are awarded to everyone:

Did you change other things? I was just checking the balance logo and all I can do is give good reputation point (I didn't want to give bad one but I was just checking if it was all like before).

Thanks.

That is correct. I removed the capability of anyone giving someone else negative reputation points. You can treat this as a "if you can't say something nice about someone's posts, don't say anything at all" kind of a system. That will prevent the abuse I was seeing earlier.

Fair enough...good philosophy. I hope it doesn't come back to smack you in the teeth if there's a run of 'difficult' people that you have to deal with personally. I think in part the negative possibility may have kept some people from saying as much as they would have liked to for fear of retaliation....

....but you're being a good parent figure to us all here Rich, we couldn't play nicely, so you took away the toy for a bit to make your point and then gave it back to us with some modifications so we won't go around hurting each other! If anyone tries again they might get a time-out!!!