Bring back reputation!

Karl Hungus

As it says.

DeepBlue

Why?

Karl Hungus

DeepBlue wrote:

Why?

It was fun. We could have fun again.

Terry

I like fun.

Silverfish

No!


I had negative rep!


Neeeeegaaatiiiiiive! ;_;

Nevyn

I'd rep you silverfish.....

CuLT

Don't we have a gathering card for this?

Vokes

When did we last have it? I can't remember it

Mr. Presentable

Karl Hungus wrote:

It was fun. We could have fun again.

Rep whoring threads were fun?

Jesus Wept

reputation? Maybe I can guess...

godtabh

Karl Hungus wrote:

As it says.

What was it?

Ruu_Old

Silverfish wrote:

No!


I had negative rep!


Neeeeegaaatiiiiiive! ;_;

<token cic while down>
Me: 118
You: 117

=Me Win \o/

Info on rep. It was abused so removed as far as I can remember. Everyones rating are still there, I can see. O_O

uberwolf

kearnsr wrote:

What was it?

pfft, n00b.

I never got to say that before. I can remember the good old days.

do a search for vbulletin reputation.

Nevyn

http://wiki.boards.ie/wiki/Rep

I never took part in the whole rep or karma thing.

godtabh

uberwolf wrote:

pfft, n00b.

I never got to say that before. I can remember the good old days.

do a search for vbulletin reputation.

Mods are suck ****. Never got to say that before*


* Joking!

faceman

why would it be fun?

Terry

faceman wrote:

why would it be fun?

Because we could all get negative rep and laugh at the stupid comments that people leave.

mike65

The rep was utterly butterly, I mean corrupt.

The little cliques which we all know exist on boards started repping in the round so if you were Johnny No-Mates you were doomed to occupy a last spot on the last page from the off.

Yeah bring it back!

Mike.

GuanYin

I quite like the rep system, mainly because despite the general hatred that the boards population directs towards me daily, I never left the top 10 on the rep leaderboard.

Which just goes the show that the rep system is a load of scalded donkey c0ck and there is no point in bringing it back.

aidan_walsh

Ooh, lets do have Feedback flooded with threads of "such and such repped me down, why did he do that I want him banned now waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhHHH!!" again please...

uberwolf

kearnsr wrote:

Mods are suck ****.

it's true, it's true.

Rep would have worked as an aside to this conversation. I would have repped you - just to let you know I was kidding. You may have neg repped me before twigging that I was joking. Some fight the powah would have neg repped me for some combination of mod/n00b joke issue they have, and all my buds would have repped me, just cos.

Goodshape

You know, until this very day, I always thought it was Billy Dee Williams who played Apollo Creed in Rocky.

(I am not a Rocky fan)

Rep++ for AngleWhore.

BlitzKrieg

Ooh, lets do have Feedback flooded with threads of "such and such repped me down, why did he do that I want him banned now waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhHHH!!" again please...

We have the thunderdome for that now.


Aside, old boardsie memes seem to be quiet these days. Thank you Karl for bringing them back.

So who's gonna pop out the gathering deck and have a game.

Or shall someone be turned into a newt.

faceman

Given the amount of bickering, difference of opinions, muppetry on boards, do you really want to bring in a rep system??

Nevyn

Yes

GuanYin

BlitzKrieg wrote:

Aside, old boardsie memes seem to be quiet these days.

Its like the ancient ones in Anne Rice books, we all tend to go underground after a while, usually in sheer disdain at the way boards.ie has changed and we lose touch....

David Michael

psi wrote:

I quite like the rep system, mainly because despite the general hatred that the boards population directs towards me daily, I never left the top 10 on the rep leaderboard.

Which just goes the show that the rep system is a load of scalded donkey c0ck and there is no point in bringing it back.

You were top 10?

GuanYin

David Michael wrote:

You were top 10?

Yeah merc, amazing really considering I didn't partake in any of the games people were playing.

Boston

I was a top ten at one stage.

miju

I remember starting a thread on this before and it was so very badly shot down in flames

I reckon we should bring it back even for a trial.

Giblet

Boston wrote:

I was a top ten at one stage.

I was first :eek:

Mr. Presentable

A compromise. Rep for all except mods. And rep awarded only by mods

Healio

Boston wrote:

I was a top ten at one stage.

Me too, i was a right little rep pimp or should that be whore??

Nevyn

nipplenuts wrote:

A compromise. Rep for all except mods. And rep awarded only by mods

No that way lies maddness

David Michael

psi wrote:

Yeah merc, amazing really considering I didn't partake in any of the games people were playing.

I'd say no one recalls it. Your word is good for me though.

Kinetic^

+++++++++++++

CuLT

psi wrote:

Its like the ancient ones in Anne Rice books, we all tend to go underground after a while, usually in sheer disdain at the way boards.ie has changed and we lose touch....

I don't think you count as a meme, psi.

David Michael

Kenny 5 wrote:

+++++++++++++

++++

GuanYin

CuLT wrote:

I don't think you count as a meme, psi.

Probably not, although I've been around longer than you think, in various different guises

Ask Amorak

CuLT

psi wrote:

Probably not, although I've been around longer than you think, in various different guises

Ask Amorak

If you didn't start out here with the nick sykeirl then you'd have me baffled

GuanYin

CuLT wrote:

If you didn't start out here with the nick sykeirl then you'd have me baffled

Thats not the username *I* started with - it is the first username of this account tho

The Bollox

*pretends to know what he's talking about*

ah fúckin' A, the rep system was the shít

Terry

nipplenuts wrote:

A compromise. Rep for all except mods. And rep awarded only by mods

No.
Equality for all.
2 legs good.

Red Hand

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Last edited at 8.36 by a number of mods. Reason: for being such a decent chap and all round good egg, he could not possibly have been let to voice an opinion that supported such a system, and took away from his unspoken reputation. Hail Jeremiah 16:1-thou art the fulcrum upon which all boards hinges on

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Rep sux donkey balls.

Mr. Presentable

Thaedydal wrote:

No that way lies maddness

And I thought that was the point

seamus

There were two main abuses of the system, IIRC:

The first was that the default setup meant that all rep was anonymous, but you could leave a comment. So two jokers decided that it would be funny to start leaving negative rep and signing the comments as DeVore and ecksor. Unsurprisingly, although the user couldn't see who repped them, the admins could see who repped who and could see who made the comments. They got temp sitebanned for that one.

Then Cloud edited it so that it was no longer anonymous, and the phenomenon of mutual repping started. I rep you, so you rep me, so I rep you, ad nauseum. A thread even emerged where if you posted in it, everyone who saw your post gave you positive rep.

In some isolated cases, it was also seen by aggrieved posters as a method by which they could abuse someone or tell them that they disagreed with their post, without posting on-thread.

This all kind of made the system a waste of time.

We can still see people's rep though, the data still exists...

GoneShootin

CuLT wrote:

Don't we have a gathering card for this?

Yes YOU do:

faceman

So what if in a thread you had a difference of opinion than someone else. Chances are that person will diss your rep regardless of who's argument is stronger or correct.

AlmightyCushion

My reputation is bad enough in the real world, the last thing I need is to lose it here as well.

Fysh

I've no idea if this is feasible in vbulletin, but could rep be enabled as an optional feature? As in, you can disable viewing your own rep and that of other people in the same way as you can turn off viewing signatures?

Overall I kind of liked the heyday of karma/rep, although the karma-whoring threads did get tiresome. With the number of active users as it stands, would it cause a significant increase in traffic/extra load on the servers?