Rep

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Originally Posted by viper_man

My apologies to agwiii, you are not a hypocrite.

I can now see the drawbacks of rep, its not such a big deal to me but you can see how easily it can almost cause arguments. Someones given me negative rep and quoted directly from a post I made to agwiii earlier in the thread, making it seem as though it was agwiii himself.

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Thanks - you show that you are a man of honor. I posted a positive for you and signed it with my SIG here.

This is a great forum and it should be about OPEN discussion, and not about secret ways to disparage and demean. Keep everything open - no secrets.

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Originally Posted by agwiii

Hazell B


The beauty of the open forum is that you can -- within limits -- write whatever you wish, disagree with anyone -- or agree with anyone.
Philosophically, the secret rep is anti-forum. So, back to your original question, I think that to a) not sign rep or to not identify secret rep to the forum is not in the spirit of things.

Your thoughts?

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My thoughts are that you can and should still post your thoughts in the open forum, just like before the relaunch. However, adding rep means you've also got the chance to express glee or horror another way. For example, it stops me posting loads of thread-clogging " :laugh: " posts when I find somebody funny. Some choose to send out bad vibes, and let them get on with it I say. If it makes them feel big and tough to bad rep somebody secretly, good luck to them. They are pretty sad individuals, and I somehow think they know that :laugh:

So far I've not been offended by any bad rep, just laughed at it or felt a bit sorry for the sender. If and when I get it reasonably, I'll take that on the chin too. Then again, I quite enjoy a scrap :p :

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Originally Posted by Mark

Well I've figured it out now. Some of the comments left by people are funny :p

But it's easy to see who the children are.

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To stop all the bickering, I have an idea that might just work :)

What's the chance of you, Mark, saying you can post either a list of who's sent what percentage of rep (eg. Hazell sent 50% positive and 50% negative during 2007) or that you will post a list of the people who've sent most to the least negative and positive rep (like the current who's gained what list)? Obviously you wouldn't post where any of it went.

Simply knowing the bad reppers will be shown for all to see would put some of them off I would hope.

Sounds like work, yet I have a feeling that just saying it can be done will put some of the petty ones off. Worth a try?

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Originally Posted by Hazell B

My thoughts are that you can and should still post your thoughts in the open forum, just like before the relaunch. However, adding rep means you've also got the chance to express glee or horror another way. For example, it stops me posting loads of thread-clogging " :laugh: " posts when I find somebody funny.

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:up:

(sorry to clog up the thread, I've got to spread it around first ;) :p : )

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Originally Posted by Hazell B

To stop all the bickering, I have an idea that might just work :)

What's the chance of you, Mark, saying you can post either a list of who's sent what percentage of rep (eg. Hazell sent 50% positive and 50% negative during 2007) or that you will post a list of the people who've sent most to the least negative and positive rep (like the current who's gained what list)? Obviously you wouldn't post where any of it went.

Simply knowing the bad reppers will be shown for all to see would put some of them off I would hope.

Sounds like work, yet I have a feeling that just saying it can be done will put some of the petty ones off. Worth a try?

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I think the best thing to do would be to reconfigure the rep system (if possible), so as to make it like the private messaging system. Where everyones name comes up regardless. That way if you get bad or good rep for any particular reason you can take it up with them and then possibly the mods. That would save all this open bickering about it. Because I have a feeling its staying anyway.

Or Mark could just come on here and say 'everyones got to sign rep from now on or youre punished', if he can see who is giving rep all the time.

I think my idea would possibly be clearer, although Hazells may well be much easier to do.

Either way I think something may soon have to be done, as Ive said before Im not personally too bothered but it gets to the point where its unavoidable.

:laugh:

(you knew that was coming :dozey: )

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Originally Posted by viper_man

Or Mark could just come on here and say 'everyones got to sign rep from now on or youre punished', if he can see who is giving rep all the time.

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I hadn't thought of that - it beats my idea by miles :up:

Um, see post #189 :mark:

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Originally Posted by schmenke

Um, see post #189 :mark:

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Now THAT, is a good idea! ;)

The rankings are so stupid now.

Apparantly RaikkonenRules is the worst member of the forum, and real illusions the 5th worst. And me, Real Illusions and 306 Cosworth on the last page!

I'm not complaining about my rating, maybe I deserve, but I know for sure none of the others I've mentioned do.

On the flip side, check out the top repped people

RacingFanStan? Hazell B? Come on! Obvious forum favourites I see. Carl Metro? Dan? and Bezza? Are they 20 squares better than those I mentioned before? No.

In fact, I see most of them posting the sort of post likely to attract -ive rep. Me thinks they spend most of their time repping each other. Seems to me to very much a "club" of people constantly repping each other.

How can someone who has posted 20 times be amongst the best 20 members?