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Is there a way to limit a neg to one per post? IE if there is a bad post and a member gives it a neg is there really a reason for 45 more to neg the same post? Just a thought.
 
If we were going to have negative rep at all, I think it would be important that EVERYONE could do it for the same post. If one person doesn't like your post, it may not mean much. But if LOTS of people don't like it (maybe for the same reasons, or different reasons), you might rethink your posting strategy.
 
kathylove said:
If we were going to have negative rep at all, I think it would be important that EVERYONE could do it for the same post. If one person doesn't like your post, it may not mean much. But if LOTS of people don't like it (maybe for the same reasons, or different reasons), you might rethink your posting strategy.
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Good point Kathy.
 
kathylove said:
If we were going to have negative rep at all, I think it would be important that EVERYONE could do it for the same post. If one person doesn't like your post, it may not mean much. But if LOTS of people don't like it (maybe for the same reasons, or different reasons), you might rethink your posting strategy.
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Right on .
 
kathylove said:
If we were going to have negative rep at all, I think it would be important that EVERYONE could do it for the same post. If one person doesn't like your post, it may not mean much. But if LOTS of people don't like it (maybe for the same reasons, or different reasons), you might rethink your posting strategy.
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The problem with this perspective would be that there actually ARE people out there who would be perfectly willing to make multiple bogus registrations just to be able to slap someone with negative rep.

Think it won't happen?
 
Maybe you could mostly avoid that by allowing neg rep only for those who have been registered a certain amount of time? Not much, maybe a month or two? Then the "problem children" would have to plan, at least! And from what I see, the bogus registrations usually get figured out eventually, anyway. And those kinds of members usually don't stay members forever - whether they voluntarily leave or get banned.

At least, that is what it looks like from what I have seen, but I could be wrong.
 
kathylove said:
Maybe you could mostly avoid that by allowing neg rep only for those who have been registered a certain amount of time? Not much, maybe a month or two? Then the "problem children" would have to plan, at least! And from what I see, the bogus registrations usually get figured out eventually, anyway. And those kinds of members usually don't stay members forever - whether they voluntarily leave or get banned.

At least, that is what it looks like from what I have seen, but I could be wrong.
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Applying a length of time registered as a filter for net rep is not an option in the admin panel displayed earlier in this thread. Those are the ONLY options I have available to work with. As mentioned, I am not going to put custom programming into this effort.

And the point of what I am inferring here is that if someone does throw a monkey wrench into someone else's reputation in such a manner, even if they were to wait out a time limit and then slam someone, I am not going to spend my time trying to fix such "damages". Members will be contacting me complaining about the neg rep, making claims that will be pretty much unverifiable (at least via any realistic effort I would consider worth expending), wanting me to DO something about the rep points as well as the member who "attacked" the other member with them. Nope, I have no intention of jumping into the middle of member personality clashes if I can help it.

Sorry, but if I do decide to implement neg rep again, only members who have earned the privilege via a Contributor level membership will be able to use it. And yes, I may very well use the way I have it implemented on FC as a model for this site. So far it has not caused any crimes of passion that I am aware of there.
 
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I am not sure there is a perfect answer. There is always going to be a way for people to skew the numbers. I really like Rich's idea of only allowing contributing members to leave negative rep. How about the same for positive rep? What about allowing members to "like" a post, but only contributing members to affect reputation.

Rich, I am a programmer for a living, so I understand your position and believe me, I am not trying to propose changes that are more difficult.

-braingarble
 
I'll be happy with however rep gets sorted out. I would like to have age, and the ability for non-contributors to edit for whatever it matters.
 
I don't know ANYTHING about programming, so take my ideas with a grain of salt, lol!

Letting only Contributing members leave neg rep would seem to limit any "crazy" types from doing much damage. A member MIGHT become a Contributing member mostly leave neg rep, but is not likely to make a bunch of bogus Contributing memberships in order to extend the damage. So that seems a logical damage control step, and a good perk to increase that membership category, as well.

There were lots of good ideas here. I think I will be happy with whatever is decided upon.
 
"I'll be happy with however rep gets sorted out. I would like to have age, and the ability for non-contributors to edit for whatever it matters."

Yes, the age would be most important to me, for reasons already stated.

I am conflicted about the edit feature. It is a nice perk for Contributors, but maybe posts would be more readable if everyone had it? Not sure about that one. Of course, spell check is available to everyone, and plenty of people don't use that, haha!
 
I agree it would be nice to have display age. It changes how I respond. I agree with Kathy about conflicting feelings about the edit function. It think this is a great forum. You get full access to all the information posted here for FREE. I think "edit" is a perk of becoming a contributor. Not that its a bad idea, just my opinion.

-braingarble
 
kathylove said:
I don't know ANYTHING about programming, so take my ideas with a grain of salt, lol!

Letting only Contributing members leave neg rep would seem to limit any "crazy" types from doing much damage. A member MIGHT become a Contributing member mostly leave neg rep, but is not likely to make a bunch of bogus Contributing memberships in order to extend the damage. So that seems a logical damage control step, and a good perk to increase that membership category, as well.

There were lots of good ideas here. I think I will be happy with whatever is decided upon.
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Even if someone made a couple extra accounts and paid the fee, when they were found out, which doesn't take long does it? They would get banned and you'd still have the fee, which would ultimately be good, right? :laugh:

I would like to be able to see the users age displayed as well. It takes a bit of the anonymity out of the equation. If you are young and posting like a twerp people could/should cut you a bit of slack b/c young uns can have that type of attitude sometimes. They do know it all after-all :rolleyes: If your an adult and are posting like a belligerent twerp, well then you deserve :argue: Yes people can lie about their age, but most don't, unless they need to be older to register to a site.
 
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