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Originally Posted by logank013
1. Make reputation a number- this would make reputation actually mean something to veteran members who have filled bars. Obviously, many people would still not care about rep but it'd be interesting to see the reputation number rather than 11 bars.
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Rep is already a number, it's just not displayed as such on every thread. If you go to the usercp and look at your Latest Rep Received, you can see the number in the top right. If you go to the member list, you can sort by reputation, which I have to assume sorts by the number, not just the dots.
Leaving it at just dot's for the posts helps keep things from getting out of hand. We don't want people posting with the sole intention of gaining rep, or being so afraid of losing rep that they don't post! Having it be a displayed number like that would create such a culture. In fact, I'd like to see rep removed from posts all together, leave it as something in the usercp that I can go look at for a more private way to judge how I'm doing.
Sure, the rep bars are a good way for someone new to see who the popular posters are, but I have to wonder if its really valuable. If I come here as a new poster and ask a technical question, I may get a quick reply from someone will good rep... but how do I know if they earned that rep by giving good technical advice, or by being witty and making people laugh? With rep being almost completely arbitrary, what use is it? I've received both green and red rep for the same post before!
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2. Mark Thread Read Button- on the portal page, there is an option to mark all threads read. Sometimes, I want to mark a thread read because I want to stay updated on the new posts in the thread and don't really care about the old posts but don't want to visit all the pages to make the thread title not bolded.
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To mark a thread as read, you only need to visit the last page in the thread, view the last post. That's it. Go ahead and skip the previous 20 pages if you want. You can also mark an entire forum as read through the "forum tools" in the top of the forum header, if you want.
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3. Reputation Notifications- I'm not really driven by reputation but always find it interesting when I get new rep. Every once in a while, someone will also make a legit comment using the neutral rep button so it isn't a PM or a public post. I also would like to see those as soon as possible. So just like PM notifications, if a notification box could just pop up when new rep is received and would link the user to their user cp page, that'd be great.
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I would actually like to see this as a notification as well, and making it just another line under the Private Messages in the top right would work well. I've gotten good feedback (meaning something useful, not just green dots!) through rep before, and not seen it until months later because I just don't check that page very often.
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Originally Posted by Chak
Anyways, I would love a good CD phone app.
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And I'd love for that popup about Tapatalk to stop showing up on my phone. Seriously, I see it a few times a week, and ignore it every time. I tried the app, I don't like it and much prefer using just the website.