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Unread 17-07-2005, 07:48
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Re: Welcome the Newbies

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Originally Posted by Bharat Nain
We could give some polite suggestions using the Neutral rep option.
You still have to be careful with that. I have given neutral rep to someone and even started the comment with "Just a suggestion," but I got back a PM which indicated the user was rather annoyed at having received "negative" reputation. Although I did PM back and explain that it was neutral and didn't effect them either way, I never heard back from them and was afraid I had driven them away from CD. Fortunately, they're still around.

We should try to give a grace period to new comers. If you see someone who joined 15 minutes ago make a new thread when the very same topic was sitting at the bottom of the portal list, just calmly and politely point it out to them and tell them not only to search, but how to do that. As I remember, things like the forums list and even the somewhat more obvious search link were rather hard to find when I first joined. Posting on a new forum, especially one with as many forums and extras as CD can be confusing for a while. Give the inexperienced a chance.

On the other hand, if a person has been making the same mistakes for months, then it might be justified to use a negative rep to try to drive your point home.

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Originally Posted by JBotAlan
I'm just curious, what is your criteria for giving good rep? What would 'wow' you enough?

P.S. (I'm pretty new) how do you go about giving rep?
Anything insightful, helpful, etc. Anyone who helps me almost always gets positive. (That means reply to my threads. )

Seriously though, I don't really have a criteria for positive. I rarely give out negative rep. I've only given out 4 negatives on my last 4 pages or rep given and they've all been to the spam bots which occasionally pop up. The last real negative I gave out was in 2004 to 2 people who were insultingly negative of another person's idea.

P.S. Interesting thread, Arefin.
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