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Unread 07-12-2005, 16:05
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Re: New calculation of Reputation

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I still think like many reputation dots doesn't matter.
We know who are the ones that are helpful and great mentors and friends. The amount of dots won't change that. They know who they are and how much they have done for many of us, people like Karthik, Brandon Marcus, Dave Lavery, Andy Baker, Arefin Bari, JVN, Amanda Morisson,Paul Copioli,Koko Ed...etc. etc.. ( I know I'm missing a lot of the great ones out there..sorry if I missed you). Thank you to them again and again. They help make FIRST even better.
You help people because you want to not because of the dots you'll get.

I really wish we could end all these reputation threads cause simply they are pointless. There are so much more things to be worked on and are more beneficial to FIRST and FIRSTers than green dots by someone's name.

That's my view point and will always be.
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Unread 07-12-2005, 16:34
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Re: New calculation of Reputation

the reputation is a simple way for the forum to monitor itself. One of the problems for using the internet as a source of information is that, unlike published books and documents that are cross checked and edited, websites are full of stuff posted by anyone and everyone.

Some of what gets posted is worthless. Some posts are outright wrong.

So, to keep the CD forum usefull for new team members, either the forum monitors would have to review and edit each post to CD BEFORE it is posted on the forum

or we need a general way for the CD community to flag people who are consistanly helpfull and know what they are talking about, and to red flag people who make things up, or worse, are just here to stir up trouble.

Thats the value of those green dots. There have been cases in the past where people showed up on this forum only to make trouble for their own amusement. The dot system works as intended.
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Re: New calculation of Reputation

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the reputation is a simple way for the forum to monitor itself. One of the problems for using the internet as a source of information is that, unlike published books and documents that are cross checked and edited, websites are full of stuff posted by anyone and everyone.

Some of what gets posted is worthless. Some posts are outright wrong.

So, to keep the CD forum usefull for new team members, either the forum monitors would have to review and edit each post to CD BEFORE it is posted on the forum

or we need a general way for the CD community to flag people who are consistanly helpfull and know what they are talking about, and to red flag people who make things up, or worse, are just here to stir up trouble.

Thats the value of those green dots. There have been cases in the past where people showed up on this forum only to make trouble for their own amusement. The dot system works as intended.
But that's not always the case niether.
My rep got high because of the initial Fantasy FIRST draft and people just kept fattening me up with rep because they loved it so much. I did not earn my reputation because I am some sage of FIRST wisdom or technical expertise but because I came up with some silly game that a good portion of FIRSTers enjoyed. So in a way I'm kind of a fraud. To judge posters by the rep system would be an equally big mistake.
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Re: New calculation of Reputation

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So in a way I'm kind of a fraud.
I always agree with everything Ed posts :^)

you got your rep because people felt your contribution to the forum was useful and positive- you made CD a better place

but if you started posting technical nonsense, like telling people to plug their robot controllers into 120VAC to get more power, your rep would quickly plunge into the red
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