Xtopher Posted March 8, 2011 Report Posted March 8, 2011 I was wondering if we could get the +/- rep system to work here. I believe that posters who post useful/helpful/meaningful posts should be rewarded and those who reply with the same old flames/complaints/insults should be "punished" not only by GM and moderators but from the community as a whole. I know a lot of people don't and wouldn't care but I think it would mean something to those who go out of their way to help people here and for others to show their appreciation. We are a community, and whats a community without individuals having reputations. We can't see each others warn levels so theres no way for us to know if the people we are communicating with are legitimate posters or just trolls out looking to get lulz from people. I know its not a big thing and its not necessary but I would like to here other peoples' responses to this.
nines Posted March 8, 2011 Report Posted March 8, 2011 Lol every post I make would take me 2 points up and 3 points down XD
Xtopher Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Posted March 8, 2011 Lol every post I make would take me 2 points up and 3 points down XD Probably. Maybe you would stop trolling.... eh, nvm... not going to happen.
Kayleigh Posted March 8, 2011 Report Posted March 8, 2011 I was wondering if we could get the +/- rep system to work here. I believe that posters who post useful/helpful/meaningful posts should be rewarded and those who reply with the same old flames/complaints/insults should be "punished" not only by GM and moderators but from the community as a whole. I know a lot of people don't and wouldn't care but I think it would mean something to those who go out of their way to help people here and for others to show their appreciation. We are a community, and whats a community without individuals having reputations. We can't see each others warn levels so theres no way for us to know if the people we are communicating with are legitimate posters or just trolls out looking to get lulz from people. I know its not a big thing and its not necessary but I would like to here other peoples' responses to this. It would be helpful knowing if people agree with you or not, since not everyone who reads it posts his/her opinion. Might even make it easier for the GMs to decide on suggestions? Though, it can be abused. Those + - buttons in the right-hand corner of posts are there for it, right? It's not too important, but I agree on this anyway =)
Veracity Posted March 8, 2011 Report Posted March 8, 2011 I think this is a good idea, but we would never base accepting or rejecting suggestions off of that.
nines Posted March 8, 2011 Report Posted March 8, 2011 If this were to go through id say only veracity, and wish should be allowed to do this. A bunch of the gms carry grudges and would jump at the chance to decrease rep.
Xtopher Posted March 8, 2011 Author Report Posted March 8, 2011 (edited) This wasn't meant for simply suggestions but the entire forum. Of course this would never be a way to process suggestions. I've always been against poles/votes for suggestions. Making this some sort of suggestion system is completely different than what I'm suggesting. Also, only allowing GMs this privilege defeats my purpose. I'm trying to promote the community and even player leadership besides that of the GM team. My suggestion is to open the +/- for the entire forum for all users. Giving people the opportunity to give feed back if they find a post helpful and to neg rep people who are offensive. This is much broader than suggestions. Guides, updates/announcements, and support are all subject to feed back as well. Example: I'm new and trying to make a Clown. I look through guides and find one by (SomeMember) and his guide is +10 thus viewers have found his post helpful. I'm benefited by knowing this guy has some support from the community and the poster is benefited by knowing his work/guide is appreciated. Again, this isn't a big deal and I think its a minor forum feature addition. I just don't want my suggestion to be misunderstood. Edited March 8, 2011 by Xtopher
Kayleigh Posted March 8, 2011 Report Posted March 8, 2011 It would be helpful knowing if people agree with you or not, since not everyone who reads it posts his/her opinion. Might even make it easier for the GMs to decide on suggestions? Though, it can be abused. Those + - buttons in the right-hand corner of posts are there for it, right? It's not too important, but I agree on this anyway =) I didn't mean this to be a suggestion system nor that the votes would decide if it'll be accepted or rejected. It was more a side note, that if someone suggests something and many people rate it as good/bad could also display people's opinions on it (seeing as some people don't like posting). And yea, this would of course be for the whole forum o.o I did understand you Chris. And the whole idea behind it is pretty cool.
Veracity Posted March 9, 2011 Report Posted March 9, 2011 (edited) This wasn't meant for simply suggestions but the entire forum. Of course this would never be a way to process suggestions. I've always been against poles/votes for suggestions. Making this some sort of suggestion system is completely different than what I'm suggesting. Also, only allowing GMs this privilege defeats my purpose. I'm trying to promote the community and even player leadership besides that of the GM team. My suggestion is to open the +/- for the entire forum for all users. Giving people the opportunity to give feed back if they find a post helpful and to neg rep people who are offensive. This is much broader than suggestions. Guides, updates/announcements, and support are all subject to feed back as well. Example: I'm new and trying to make a Clown. I look through guides and find one by (SomeMember) and his guide is +10 thus viewers have found his post helpful. I'm benefited by knowing this guy has some support from the community and the poster is benefited by knowing his work/guide is appreciated. Again, this isn't a big deal and I think its a minor forum feature addition. I just don't want my suggestion to be misunderstood. Not sure who that was referring to but I understood what you meant, just wanted to address what someone else had said. I've seen the feature on other message boards and I like it. Even though as you said it is something minor, it would still be nice to have. Not sure why it's disabled here, but I don't imagine it would be too hard to implement. (: We'll see what other players thoughts are though before it's seriously considered. Edited March 9, 2011 by Veracity
Apo Posted March 9, 2011 Report Posted March 9, 2011 I suggest you stop suggesting. Or perhaps, it could be useful, or on the contrary people may just randomly spamming it on random people because they feel like it, giving random props to people without any meaning and I doupt anyone would be willing to monitor them neither.
Xtopher Posted March 10, 2011 Author Report Posted March 10, 2011 I suggest you stop suggesting. Or perhaps, it could be useful, or on the contrary people may just randomly spamming it on random people because they feel like it, giving random props to people without any meaning and I doupt anyone would be willing to monitor them neither. What problem do you have with my suggestions? Please be more specific. It's true that it isn't the most necessary thing but RO is all about community. I think this is beneficial to the community. It doesn't require monitoring really, and I doubt people would waste their time here just randomly +/-'ing people for no reason. You yourself have gone as far to say we don't have trolls. Why would any one waste their time with something like that?
Apo Posted March 10, 2011 Report Posted March 10, 2011 You don't have to be a troll to vote pointlessly, let's take the old SOTW as an exemple. [super Cool Sig] #1 [some Random Sig] #2 [Wtf is this shit, but w/e] #3 Votes: Ei I vote 3 cuz he mi frend ^_^ <-[Not Valid] So a said someone would get random +/- based on a friendship and not on their post usefulness which would be pointless in the end, don't you agree?
Xtopher Posted March 10, 2011 Author Report Posted March 10, 2011 Yes, but that doesn't make the entire system invalid. Its not a vote system per say... its a measure of usefulness/helpfulness of he post. Who cares if some kid +'ed his friend blindly... Its a shallow measure of usefulness, true. But its something. A way to show appreciation and a way to know that your posts are appreciated... or on the other hand a way to know that you've offended people or said something you shouldn't have. People often just post "+1 I agree" anyway, why not cut down on the spam and just allow them to actually +1 the post... if they feel they can elaborate then they can make an actual post instead of flooding a topic with spam.
Apo Posted March 11, 2011 Report Posted March 11, 2011 And anyways, we can both agree on the fact that, enabled or not it won't change in any way the way we interact on the forum, so accepted or rejected it shouldn't matter, but I understand the idea in general and I just wanted to give my point of view, there's always pros and cons in everything after all.
Veracity Posted May 6, 2011 Report Posted May 6, 2011 I'll accept this, we may or may not implement it. I don't see the harm in it if we can get it to work. If there turns out to be serious issues with it, we can always remove it! - Accepted -
