Reputation points abuse

Verdammt

I'm getting a little sick and tired of this reputation points thing, so much so that I'm seriously considering not using boards.ie again.

Why on earth are people giving bad reputation points to people if they don't like a joke they have posted or sometimes for no reason at all.

Surely if you don't like a joke don't take it out on the poster, you're not going to find every joke you read funny

I got these lovely comments from various unknowns and this has fu*ked up my rep.





MOD'S, GET RID OF THIS STUPID SYSTEM !!!!

therecklessone

Verdammt wrote:

I'm getting a little sick and tired of this reputation points thing, so much so that I'm seriously considering not using boards.ie again.

Now that you've thrown your toys out of the pram, how about a little perspective? For a start, why let it bother you? Is a couple of green dots that important to you? Its not like people are painting you as the antichrist (though you claim to be a trainee...) People are getting far too wound up about rep, just let it go folks.

Verdammt wrote:

Why on earth are people giving bad reputation points to people if they don't like a joke they have posted or sometimes for no reason at all.

I've just read the joke...jaysus thats poor. Still, I wouldn't give you bad rep for it, more likely I'd say :rolleyes: or something.


Cheer up.

koneko

You're considering not using boards anymore, because of a little extra feature you can ignore? How bout you click on that little icon that makes sure the rep points aren't displayed in your user CP. Then it's like not having a rep points system at all.

Why does it bother you so much, though... really?

amp

Ah did the bad people give you neg rep? Diddums. Please continue to seriously think about leaving boards.

Verdammt

amp wrote:

Ah did the bad people give you neg rep? Diddums. Please continue to seriously think about leaving boards.

You have the check to call me childish. It's a stupid add-in that we could all do without. I haven't heard anyone praise it yet.

It doesn't bother me so much that i'd loose sleep.

yossarin

amp wrote:

Ah did the bad people give you neg rep? Diddums. Please continue to seriously think about leaving boards.

amp, you're not "just really nice" at all. Verdammt - turn it off, like koneko said.

Sarky

Verdammt wrote:

I haven't heard anyone praise it yet.

I like it...

Hagar

I post jokes too, some good, some - what's the word... oh yeah - shyte.

I put this at the start of a recent post.

"If you don't like the jokes just say so, don't fúck up my rep.
You might like the next one, ok?
If you enjoy the jokes half as much as I do remember I'm enjoying them twice as much as you. "

I'm not sucking up for good rep - but I don't want bad rep.

So to some extent I agree with Verdammt.
But jayses that joke was cruel man, no offence

Stark

I like the reputation system. For one thing, when someone posts something that's a bit muppetry, they get red dots in silence as opposed to the thread being clogged up with "you muppet" replies. It gives people a sense that they've another way of expressing their opinions meaning things go smoother. I don't like it when someone gives me a red dot for seemingly no reason, but the system is set up so that those red dots aren't worth much especially if the person giving them is handing them out like sweets on Hallowe'en.

Verdammt

Hagar wrote:

So to some extent I agree with Verdammt.
But jayses that joke was cruel man, no offence

Everyone to their own is what I say. It's amazing how many people actually find it very funny, maybe I just have a strange sense of humour.

I think this is just the tip of the iceberg, the only people who seem to be for the reputation system are the mods and the people that have 4 or 5 green spots beside their names.

I seriously think there should be an official vote to keep it or not.

The Muppet

Lovely another thread about the Karma System. What did we talk about before it was implemented?

IMO the facility to give Karma annonymously should be removed, that leaves it open to abuse. I have no problem with the people i give karma to knowing it . Reading Devs comments in one of the other threads I think this may be uinder considedration already .

On the plus side it is a nice way to give feedback to individulal users without cluttering up the forum with "LOL" or as is more likely in my case "Ya Muppet"
comments.

aidan_walsh

I'm almost fit to give you a red one for starting another bloody whiney thread on the subject... Can one of the mods please combine all the current threads into one and call it an official whinge of something?

angeldelight

Verdammt, if I remember correctly your rep was green when you started this thread....now it's red. Obviously ppl don't want to listen to you moaning about rep, just switch it off!!

Verdammt

angeldelight wrote:

Obviously ppl don't want to listen to you moaning about rep, just switch it off!!

Umm , wait , where's that switch ??


Mods, lock the tread or whatever you usually do when you don't want to listen to someone giving their point of view.

koneko

Little arrows nexto where yours said "3 points total", you won't have to look at it again then.

None of the mods (of feedback)/admins have replied in this thread. You're taking far too serious an attitude towards this, and it won't help to get snotty about it.

The Corinthian

Reading this thread I would have to say that I am undecided about the ‘Reputation’ feature, however I do feel strongly that Verdammt should not be allowed to breed.

smoke.me.a.kipper

[sarcasm] if i didnt have my green dots i just dont know what id do. probably end up feeling lonley cos the people on the intarweb dont like me and obviously this would crush my self esteem and i would become a complete social outcast. :rolleyes: [/sarcasm]

Mercury_Tilt

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Verdammt

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

[sarcasm] this would crush my self esteem and i would become a complete social outcast. :rolleyes: [/sarcasm]

What !!!, even more than you are now ??? 4560 posts later .......

smoke.me.a.kipper

Verdammt wrote:

What !!!, even more than you are now ??? 4560 posts later .......

someone on the web, slagged me. now i really have no reason to go on. life can be such a bitch sometimes.

Verdammt

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

someone on the web, slagged me. now i really have no reason to go on. life can be such a bitch sometimes.

My work here is done ... . . . .. .

Cal

The Muppet wrote:

IMO the facility to give Karma annonymously should be removed, that leaves it open to abuse. I have no problem with the people i give karma to knowing it . Reading Devs comments in one of the other threads I think this may be uinder considedration already.

Ah But wouldn't it be nice to watch the fun if the 'Who gave you the Karma' was back dated to the start.

Cal

flogen

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

someone on the web, slagged me. now i really have no reason to go on. life can be such a bitch sometimes.

Hold out there, SMAK... it's gonna be alllllllllright..
No wonder you get so much bad karma verdammt... look what you've done to the poor guy!

group hug?

flogen

LegacyUser

Cal wrote:

Ah But wouldn't it be nice to watch the fun if the 'Who gave you the Karma' was back dated to the start.

Cal

good idea, was wonderin who called me a ******* ******** ****

smoke.me.a.kipper

flogen wrote:

group hug?

/me drops hand.

aidan_walsh

I just got one of these with no comment

Does this mean people are throwing stones at me now, or what?

Verdammt

doodle_sketch wrote:

I just got one of these with no comment

Does this mean people are throwing stones at me now, or what?

Just got a blank one of those myself. I think there's something rotten in the ranks !!!

Healio

Why dont all the people who are upset with the rep system get together and create a good-karma exchange system, then they can all live in the green world.

ballooba

The Karma system is bo||ox. It's like some sort of a popularity contest.

If you don't agree with someone's views then you give them bad karma?

All the mods get positive karma because they are well know despite the fact that some of them are cócks.

Makaveli

Just ignore it so.
Or if they are cocks why not give them negative karma to make yourself feel better, obviously it's eating you up inside.
I just wanna be loved.

ballooba

Makaveli wrote:

obviously it's eating you up inside.

Hardly, I just made one comment saying that is bo||ox.

My point is that the reputation system serves no purpose other than a popularity contest.

Maybe you should read the whole thread before attempting your nerdy sarcastic humour.

BuffyBot

If you search for "vbulletin" and "karma" on Google at the moment, the top result is boards.ie..

Agent Smith

/me good karmas makaveil

Makaveli

ballooba wrote:

Hardly, I just made one comment saying that is bo||ox.

My point is that the reputation system serves no purpose other than a popularity contest.

Maybe you should read the whole thread before attempting your nerdy sarcastic humour.

I did read the whole thread.
My point is who cares about karma. I pay it no heed.
I'm not the one moaning about mods having high karma ratings.
Get over it.

tipperaryboy

How do i switch of the rep points system for myself?

aidan_walsh

BuffyBot wrote:

If you search for "vbulletin" and "karma" on Google at the moment, the top result is boards.ie..

Until I tried it, I thought he was joking... :eek:

smoke.me.a.kipper

doodle_sketch wrote:

Until I tried it, I thought he was joking... :eek:

same as me. says it all really. :rolleyes:

Boston

I bloody well hate you "insert random boards user", and I've given you negative karma to reflect that point - Boston.

ballooba

Makaveli wrote:

I did read the whole thread.
My point is who cares about karma. I pay it no heed.
I'm not the one moaning about mods having high karma ratings.
Get over it.

I'm not moaning about karma. If you read the whole thread then you would have realised that i didn't start it. I was never 'under it'.

This is a feedback forum and the feedback i'm giving is that the karma system serves no purpose and is a waste of space/resources.

JBoyle4eva

Well, I personally hate it because of Verdammat's same reaosn as well(lame comments that really don't deserve bad rep).

However, I do like looking at the ever growing number of green/red dots a person has, obviously getting new rep titles with the more green/red dots you have! That's something I like about it!

Verdammt

ballooba wrote:

The Karma system is bo||ox. It's like some sort of a popularity contest.

If you don't agree with someone's views then you give them bad karma?

All the mods get positive karma because they are well know despite the fact that some of them are cócks.

Well said

TwoShedsJackson

Verdammt wrote:

What !!!, even more than you are now ??? 4560 posts later .......

OH NOES SOMEONE GAVE ME BAD REP AND NOW MY E-FRIENDZ WON'T LIKE ME ANY MORE WHAT WILL I DO!!!!!!

I KNOW I'LL COMPLAIN ABOUT A NUMBER ON A WEBPAGE AND THEN SLAG SOMEONE ELSE BECAUSE HE HAS MORE POSTS ON A WEBSITE THAN I DO!!

In short, **** off.

flogen

Verdammt wrote:

I seriously think there should be an official vote to keep it or not.

<enter "boards.ie is not a democracy" comment here>

It's not doing any harm to you (you wont get banned for having bad rep), so whats the big deal?
Do you really care what a few internet peoples think about you or your joke? Does it really matter to you that much?

flogen

Crash

Verdammt wrote:

the only people who seem to be for the reputation system are the mods and the people that have 4 or 5 green spots beside their names.

...you do seem to miss the incredibly large difference between "being for the system" and being absolutely and utterly sick of having to hear the same argument over and over and over and over......and over again while its blatantly obvious that DeV and ecksor and regi and cloud KNOW peoples opinions on the system already and sitting here going "wah wah someone made me look bad on the interweb" (and you probably got way way way more bad karma for this thread than anything else) is not gonna change the teensiest little thing in their minds.

on that note.....i'm going back to bed.

keu

eh..can I have some good karma please, I was almost famous a little while ago and it was a nice feeling.

Saint

crash_000 wrote:

...you do seem to miss the incredibly large difference between "being for the system" and being absolutely and utterly sick of having to hear the same argument over and over and over and over......and over again while its blatantly obvious that DeV and ecksor and regi and cloud KNOW peoples opinions on the system already and sitting here going "wah wah someone made me look bad on the interweb" (and you probably got way way way more bad karma for this thread than anything else) is not gonna change the teensiest little thing in their minds.

on that note.....i'm going back to bed.

Somehow I doubt cloud or Regi waste there time on this crap. And as for Dev And Ecksor, its all for their personal amusement, the dirty trolls.

keu

thanks feel better already.

Crash

well see Saint everyone just seems to say "DeV and ecksor" so i felt cloud and regi might like a bit of a mention

amp

Verdammt wrote:

You have the check to call me childish.

I call a spade a spade. Usually. Although there were times this weekend when I called it a club. Besides, I can't check, I can either call or fold as I'm under the gun.

It's a stupid add-in that we could all do without. I haven't heard anyone praise it yet.

I love it. I think it's great fun. You only want it removed because people told you your joke was crap. Which it was. This way you'll hopefully not post crap jokes any more and if the system is helping reduce the amount of crap posted on boards then by god I think it should stay.

It doesn't bother me so much that i'd loose sleep.

Any word on your decision to leave boards or not?

Jim

Saint wrote:

Somehow I doubt cloud or Regi waste there time on this crap. And as for Dev And Ecksor, its all for their personal amusement, the dirty trolls.

Wasn't it Cloud's idea in the first place.

Boston

Karma system is built into vbb 3