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Originally Posted by Justin
... I've been a member of these forums for quite a while now (almost since the begining) and I to am probably on a few people's lists, although I'm proud to say it is by my own doing :-P. I watched as the "old forums" gave way to the "new forums." I was here for, as some may remember the post count scandal ... everyone was posting like mad with useless one word posts in order to try and jack up their post counts ... However I think that this idea of reputations is even more troubling. ... However the idea of negative reps and people get pretty vindictive with these things, worse than that I think it encourages people to judge one another whether posatively or negatively when you see all those green bars you think "wow" and when you see a single gray dot you wonder what is up with that person.
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I'm new to these forums. I've only been here since late 2003. I think I actually joined almost right at the time this reputation system started with a switch to VB3. I'll be the first to admit, the reputation system is interesting, and I'm not exactly sure what causes some people to throw some rep at you, and what doesn't.
However, I think that everyone should be willing to admit that a reputation system, voted on by your peers, should be a system that's infinitely better than looking at a sheer number of posts.
The truth of the matter is that green dots don't determine your human worth or dignity. They're dots! However, I'm somewhat of a green dot junkie. I get a little ego boost after posting something well thought out with a little research, and having give me rep, writing "Great post, thanks for answering my question."
It's encouraged me, personally, to either post something worthwhile, or not at all.
If you're truly concerned about getting green dots next to your name, (which I plead you really don't worry about) all you have to write informative, worthwhile, and proof-read posts. Reputation will come, either in the form of dots, or hopefully more importantly, in the form of actually respect by your peers.
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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil
Not suprisingly, the "popular people" as indicated in the People I want to meet at nationals thread have a ton of rep points. Reading that thread made me relive some not so nice parts of high school  |
I think the relationship is actually better correlated to forum join date, posting frequency, and respect (read: not reputation dots). I am a case in point example. I'm not on any of the lists, but happen to have a bunch of green dots. I'm not at all surprised about not being on the list - I'm a newbie!
Maybe you want to take some time to appreciate that you've outgrown the popularity contests of high school!
However, let me plead again to everyone that you don't base your self worth, or prejudge others' by green dots or lack-thereof.
There are more to people than reputation dots on a web forum!
They're just dots!
Matt