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Originally Posted by Andy Baker
As for abuse of positive rep or negative rep, I don't understand. If you are free to say what you want, then someone else is free to give you negative or positive rep about it. If they are being a jerk about it, then they have to deal with the ramifications. How is that abuse? We're all supposed to follow an outline of how to give positive and negative rep? I know how I give rep points, but that is just me. I don't worry about how everyone else is giving them. Nor do I tell others how to give our their rep comments. Do what you want. Deal with the results.
Andy B.
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The part that people care the most about is their appearance in front of the community. That's where reputation hurt the most, because you are in front thousands of people in this program being judged in a spot light. You aren't sure of how you are being judged, you have an idea what they like or don't like to see, but it doesn't really matter if you are right or not because ultimately yourself is the harshest judge of them all.
The reputation point system is an interesting idea to throw out to the community. Everyone have some sort of idea on how it should and shouldn't work, and people did what they wanted for a year and had fun for a year. It seems to me the discussions in here prompted a bigger questions about the Chief Delphi Forum, and that is, what is the appropriate behavior in this forum. We only give or take reputation points when we see something we like or don’t like. Problem is, there are too many standards out there.
We all have different system of right and wrong. That will never change. I for one do not agree with people answering questions in the form of "I am not sure but..." or posts that ask for nothing but trouble. We all have our pet peeves in this forum. Only, with a weapon (or reward) so easily at hand ready to punish people whenever we feel like it, some people use it more often then they should. And that's something to think about
: What message are we sending to the community?
Are we saying we are so lazy at reading people's post that we have to rely on what others thing of them base on how many (or little) green dot that person has, especially when half the dots given or removed are based on acts that are half serious only? For those of us veteran posters, of course not. But any rookie member might come in and see the dots and care more than they should, and I think that's a bad message to send out. I would hate to see us teaching students with anything other than patience, example, and truth.
But Enough about that. People seem to want a reputation system to play with, so I am not going to argue. Anyway…
There are ups and downs with the reputation system, which come from how people use the system. But instead of arguing what's right and wrong, which is only going to dig us deeper into the hole, I think we ought to think of ways to improve the system.
For example, I truly believe that we should add an + zero reputation button so people can give comments to each other without being forced to give or take reputation points. A lot of times when I want to give constructive criticism to a fellow poster, but I don't want to take away rep points, so I awarded them instead. After all, what kind of mentors are we if we can't tolerate some mistakes. If I had the option, I wouldn’t have to do that, and would choose to comment on a lot more posts.
All I ask is for the rest of you to think about it, don't reply so quickly.