Thread: Reputation Change

Tom,

Excellent idea! Keep it positive.

I'd prefer just positive. I have recieved negative reputation marks on a couple of occasions for no good reason. I can deal with it either way.

Can you look up who has given out mostly negative and give them a stern warning?

Yes keep it positive. If there is a problem of abuse "out them" and let our little community know who we are dealing with. It's easy to be pain when you have the luxury of anonymity. It does not seem fair to allow us to continue to interact with persons who you are finding to be devious.

There are people giving bad rep for no reason, and other who give it where it is probably due, but maybe to excess. With a community this big and of this nature (bull/bear) we are bound to have personality conflicts and it's not a surprise to see this type of activity.

Maybe this will help. If I do make the change, I will delete any past negative rep and set anyone with a negative rep rating to the starting / neutral point.

Using only positive rep seems like a good idea. Things get pretty dicey around here as it is.

I will delete the negatives and the software will (should) recalculate the reps. So don't be surprised if your reputation level jumps, but please let me know if you see anything out of whack.

Thanks.

By the way, myself and the moderators still have the ability to leave negative reputation for inappropriate posts. We will only use it when necessary in an effort to protect the board and its members, particularly new members. Thanks.

I know I am in the minority, but my opinion is reputation on this board is now worthless without the ability to post negative reps.

Dave
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how about weighting an individuals rating based on THEIR rep??..e.g. a person with a negative/lower rep has a lower weight to what they rate others...that might prove to be pretty enlightening...the value of one's opinion is rated.

That's the way it works now futurestrader, among other things - longevity, # posts, rep, etc.

Dave, I agree. The negative reps would work in a perfect world, but in the wrong hands it just became an under the table flame war with particular members bad rep'ing the same people over and over, with back and forth retaliation even though people didn't really know who left the bad rep.

Now you'll have people with either very high rep, high, med, or low rep - rarely negative. If posts are blantantly bad, the mods can step in and give the bad rep, hopefully without regard to any personality conflicts.

In Retrospect:

Here is some initial information about the use of reputation as posted by Tom in March of 2006: User Reputations post #1 and post #4.

The administrator was alerted to some potential misuse of reputation.
The allegations were investigated, and there were findings!
Research was conducted into alternate options.
The options were discussed and members were allowed to express their opinions.
A majority decision was made!

Thats what should have been done!

As presented in Tom's thread above. If a member doesn't progress their reputation won't either.