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Originally Posted by Tytus Gerrish
it is kinda bad
ppl are giving me bad rep points for spelling and being mean about it too and gave the coment... "Learn how to spell" 
Andy Baker was nice and sent me a PM saying how i would look better and would get more respect if i would just check my spelling. Like a nice Good person 
prehaps if there was a reason checkbox in the rep popup it would probaly discourge such things
Overall i thinnk its a nice system gives us addicted ones somthing else to do and make this a better place in the process |
I have been giving this reputation system a lot of thoughts, that's why I haven't said anything for a while.
Let's organize our discussion a little bit, shall we?
Pro's for the reputation system:
I personally like the fact that you can give little comments to the posters when you give them points. It's like using PM, except much more conivenent. You can easily give comments like "very well said", "I agree with you 100% on the issue", or "hey, I understand you feel really strongly about the topic, but maybe you shouldn't have said that about someone" or "it will help a lot if you pay attention to your spelling a little more". That feature alone will help a lot of posters out there to become better posters by hearing comments from veteran posters.
It helps recognize people in the forum, although I am not quite sure what we recognize them for... They could be people who say something a lot of people like, or someone who spend a lot of time in this forum, or someone who are really dedicated to FIRST. As of right now, I see a lot of great posters with good reputation points who are all of that.
Con's
If people don't like the way you say something, it is possible that they will give you negative points just because you have a bad attitude. So, if you happens to not be the crowd's favorite and a lot of people disagree with you, you may get a lot of negative points. But having said that, it's not 100% harmful to listen to some of those constructive criticism and learn what you can from others.
It could become a popularity contest, and people are too consumed in trying to please people to get a better reputation. I remember for as long as the Chief Delphi Forum existed, we didn't need a reputation system. People take the time to read messages and figure out if that person is a good poster or not. We learn to respect people because of what they said, and not what their titles are or what others said about them. And you get to really know those people instead of reading titles on a long list of reputation rating.
So what now?
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I really like the ability to give comments to other posters using the point system, and recognize a good job when I see good messages... On the other hand I personally will not use the reputation system to judge how good a poster someone is. It's nice to see the list of who is on top or bottom, but nothing more than that. I would rather get to know the people personally rather then looking at a list of statistics.