The Reputation System Needs to Change

[Ginkasa]

Originally Posted by Sony

This coming from a person who -repped me twice with no text or explanation why he did so.

And continues to -rep me with nothing...

Seriously link... hypocrisy runs very far with you.

I -repped you initially becuase of your stupid fanboy comments. I find it annoyingly stupid that you would rather -rep me than maybe open your eyes a bit, so I subtracted from your reputation.

And I remember the thing with Stray_Bullet. That was fun. Good times...


/me shrugs and walks away

[GameMaster]

I forgot about that, thanks for helping me during that time, Robert McCutchan.

Since then, Stray and I have patched our frayed relationship.

[gekko]

GM, what you said had nothing to do with the vB dev team.

And I don't like the rep system, or post counts, or join dates, or stars, etc. But no one cares what I think. So umm...

+post

[Canyarion]

I give a lot of +rep. Sometimes -rep, but whenever I do so, I immediately get in a fight with someone. Nobody appreciates the +rep though...

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by Link1130

I -repped you initially becuase of your stupid fanboy comments.

If that is just cause for -rep then I think everyone would have shiny red pips everywhere. Everyone has their moments of stupid fanboy comments, even you do. But again, the hypocrisy runs high here...

After the Nintendo press conference, I was poking fun at how they disappointed without the Revolution unveiling. What happened? Nintendo fanboys jumped me and called me annoying and telling me to shut the hell up. Even when I made jokes about Nintendo... they couldn't take it.

Now, as Sony moves forward people are poking fun at them, and making jokes about them. But how dare I get defensive.... It's only natural that I defend the company I trust. You can call it fanboy if you want, I don't care. But again, as I go on the defensive for Sony.... people STILL can't take it and call me annoying and tell me to shut the f*ck up, and now even get -repped for it.

Do you see my situation? You guys can defend Nintendo all you want, but once someone defends Sony or Microsoft, they are automatically attacked by the worst Nintendo fanboys.... I'm not generalizing the forum... but the Nintenfreaks know who they are....

I'm not given a chance at all to express my opinion whether it's favoring Sony or making fun of Nintendo. It's getting ridiculous.

[Null]

thing is with the rep system, is its pointless to have with us because GT is a rather small community. we all know each other rather well, and theres really no need for a rep system. -reping people in a small group only proves to cause arguments. i +rep with every comment even when i have something bad to say to someone, i find that with a +rep, that gets the point across MUCH more then -reping them.

people who say they want people to actually look at thier reps and change what the rep was about by giving them a -rep are totally full of it, thats not going to change a thing. thats like rudely telling someone to do something instead of being polite and asking them nicely. especially in a group as small as us.

and the same abuses from +rep happen with -rep, some people seem like they're setting out and actually searching for something to -rep someone on, so they search and search to find something. its not about the comment, its about the satisfaction they get off of giving someone a -rep.


Now what would be nice if there was 3 options in rep, +rep, -rep, and a neutral one. one where you can simply leave a comment, without it being + or -

[MuGen]

well said...

[Teuthida]

Originally Posted by Null

Now what would be nice if there was 3 options in rep, +rep, -rep, and a neutral one. one where you can simply leave a comment, without it being + or -

If it were neutral why not just post your comment...or send a PM...

[Null]

Originally Posted by Danchastu

If it were neutral why not just post your comment...or send a PM...

why make a personal comment open for everyone, and why go to the trouble of typing up a PM, when all you would need to do is type a short little comment at the click of a button?

if what you said there is the case, Why use a rep system at all? everyone should just PM the comments. is a green or red bar that important?

if the whole point of a rep system is to leave a comment on that perticular post, then there should be a neutral option.

[Teuthida]

Rep makes people happy. Without rep the morale of this forum would drop to levels only seen in the brain waves of pissed off Nintendo fans...uh...carry on...

[Ginkasa]

I'm all for neutral rep. The point is, the reputation system as it is has gotten out of hand and is being abused, and yes, even by me on occasion. I don't think I'd really be able to legitmately see how the reputation system has gone wrong unless I had been a part of it some way or another.


/me shrugs and walks away

[The Germanator]

Originally Posted by Sony

If that is just cause for -rep then I think everyone would have shiny red pips everywhere. Everyone has their moments of stupid fanboy comments, even you do. But again, the hypocrisy runs high here...

After the Nintendo press conference, I was poking fun at how they disappointed without the Revolution unveiling. What happened? Nintendo fanboys jumped me and called me annoying and telling me to shut the hell up. Even when I made jokes about Nintendo... they couldn't take it.

Now, as Sony moves forward people are poking fun at them, and making jokes about them. But how dare I get defensive.... It's only natural that I defend the company I trust. You can call it fanboy if you want, I don't care. But again, as I go on the defensive for Sony.... people STILL can't take it and call me annoying and tell me to shut the f*ck up, and now even get -repped for it.

Do you see my situation? You guys can defend Nintendo all you want, but once someone defends Sony or Microsoft, they are automatically attacked by the worst Nintendo fanboys.... I'm not generalizing the forum... but the Nintenfreaks know who they are....

I'm not given a chance at all to express my opinion whether it's favoring Sony or making fun of Nintendo. It's getting ridiculous.

I think you are missing the point a little bit here. It is not what you argue about that upsets people. This is a video game forum and fanboys and biases are expected and I think we can all agree on that. However, it is how you argue about these things sometimes which rubs people the wrong way. You can be unnecessarily hostile or not prove your points, and yes, I'd agree that some of the Nintendo fanboys on this board are the same way, but that doesn't give you the excuse to use the "well, everyone else hates me and is a Nintendo fanboy so I'm going to be a dick too, wah."
And I think Xantar said it the best in an earlier thread. Perfect Stu is obviously a bigtime Sony fan, but I can't even remember the last time that I was even remotely annoyed by one of his posts because he does it in an appropriate way.

I'm kind of an outsider in this regard. It seems that the most heated debates occur in the gaming forums which I don't post in as much, but this is my view on the whole deal.

[Canyarion]

I'm all for anonymous repping.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

I'm all for anonymous repping.

actually its never been totally anonymous :P you could see who did it to ya.

[Canyarion]

?? How?