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colton said:
Tweaked. We'll see if this version of the settings lasts longer than the last version.
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You are awesome, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I honestly wasn't pushing for any change one way or another, just observing, and thinking out loud.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I think the highest before the tweak was YB. Not sure though.
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YB is presently a 6. I am thinking that would be a good top grade for the rep power. A nice goal for newbies to reach in a year or so being here, but once you get comfortably above the required points for that status, the whole king of the hill competiton and bullying would pretty much die out. Not enough rep power to be able to do business trading rep for no better reason that just being in with the bigs. Maybe limit the total rep one poster can give another to, say, whatever it takes to confer one power rep level. A declining rep point schedule for say five reps given to one dude, ten, fifteen and twenty five. Beyond forty and your ability to bolster your favs goes to zero.

I like one thing about the rep system: it does encourage civility. Those posters who go around picking fights and taking up grudges encounter a sort of discouragement that is perhaps more effective at promoting civility than the moderators with their infractions.
 
It also in some ways serves as a defacto "credibility meter". Lower points seems to imply less credibility and/or new poster. Red bar (negative point) implies very little if any credibility. Higher points implies more credibility. In no way is this definitive but I think from many of the posts I have seen that it tends in this direction.
 
babe said:
it was only 3 rep points lost. Lessee, who has rep power of only 3 nowadays, besides me. Millsapa . . . .

couldn't stand me making fun of your revolution, eh????

Well, I wouldn't go so far as to just say stupid thread topic should get stupid comments. . . more like jest thread should get wacky comments. . . . but actually, since rep power has no bearing on your ability to play in here, I think stupid is defined by taking it seriously.
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You know me better than that, babe. I don't care about constructive criticism and I don't call people stupid.
 
Millsapa said:
I feel like I've been rep raped.
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I got the same split from 3 back to 1. As of this moment about 45% of my reps have been for my comments on rep. With some heavy hitters knocking me down a bit.

But I like the way it looks now because it actually levels things out some and sorta reduces the incentive to trade in rep and hopefully will be a better thing in just promoting more considerate posting.
 
Millsapa said:
You know me better than that, babe. I don't care about constructive criticism and I don't call people stupid.
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Well, I didn't realize at the time I said that that big sluggers can hit with half a punch if they want. I still haven't figured out how to give a truely "pointless" rep. Not that my reps aren't sometimes without merit. . . .

I thought you were simply prodding me to do better posting by outing my obviously stupid one. Had no relevance to my opinion of you or my friendship. In my lifetime, my worst enemies have often done me more good than my best friends. . . . so I've conditioned myself to pay attention to those who call me out for some reason and I do consider their point on its merits the best I know how. In regard to the worst enemies things it's generally been people in work situations who take up the crusade to do me in for some reason. I try to understand their reasons, I take reasonable measures to make things work better. . . . after a while they develop into predictable and reasonable folks themselves. . . .

I gave in to the impulse to attribute the negrep to you partly because I just thought it was funny when I suspected you might have done it. I hope you'll forgive and forget my gaffe.

If my wife came in here I bet she would be my worst neg repper. . . . it all comes from that high expectations thing. . . .
 
babe said:
I got the same split from 3 back to 1. As of this moment about 45% of my reps have been for my comments on rep. With some heavy hitters knocking me down a bit.

But I like the way it looks now because it actually levels things out some and sorta reduces the incentive to trade in rep and hopefully will be a better thing in just promoting more considerate posting.
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The surest way to get both types of rep points is to comment about rep points. That is why this whole system is so pointless. I don't want to be some little rat in a cage trying to figure out what makes the unpredictable cheese givers happy. Screw the cheese givers. I just want to be my rebellious lovable self. I don't want to worry about the sneaky bassturds and their anonymous drive-by cheese stealing, but I'm caught in their stinky cheese game. Oh the humanity!
 
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