Regarding the Reputation Issue

[benjamin]

if the reputation system was to revert back to how it was and this idea was implemented then i would agree.

looking at the current system where you have to get 1000 points for a power, this is impossible because of the powers being lowered.

i completely agree with the second bit, and i don't think that side of it was thought out very well, because all they say in response to that is 'it will feel like more of an achievement', when infact it'll take a lifetime to get it anyway. the majority of the forum members now have 1/2 rep power, so that's like what, 500 reps? i probably get like 2 or 3 reps a day, and well that's going to take a hell of a long time, lmao.

OH and another point, i think that if management insist on keeping the boundary for a rep at 600, then the one for posts should be lowered a hell of a lot. they said it's to encourage to post more to earn rep, but then they higher the post boundary too? it should've stayed at 2,500, or even lowered to 2/1000, and imo it wouldn't have been as big of a problem if that hadn't changed so drastically.

and on a final note, i do agree that a change was needed. but i don't agree that it was needed to this extent.

[Mr.OSH]

I'm in agreement with that idea, it definitely would make people think twice before issuing pointless reputation. Also in regards to the changes to the reputation system as you stated I think that people should firstly get off ---MAD---'s back regarding changes that people don't agree with as it is the management as a team that make decisions and also that maybe everyone should just give it some time and see how it goes, in the long run it may even work out to be a better, more effective system than before. The whole point of this change is because lots of people had very high reputation which made the whole system utterly pointless as people would just rep each other for no reason thus increasing each others reputation and it was turning into quite a fiasco.

At the end of the day even if your reputation points are not as high it is much better when you do get your reputation up to a higher level because you feel you have earn it and you also will feel that reputation is doing what it is supposed to do - showing who has the best reputation from posts on the forum, not who has the most money or who has the most friends with high reputation points which it seemed to be turning into recently. I myself have gone down to 3 reputation points from 7 so I agree with the point that it is slightly frustrating that you feel as if you have lost something as your number has gone down and yes it is only reputation at the end of the day but I can clearly see why some people are frustrated, however you must remember now that having 10 + reputation points is much higher than i t used to be, it isn't just your reputation that has gone down, it is everyone's.

Therefore in effect your not loosing out on anything because the reputations points you have now are in effect worth as much [in terms of your effort to gain reputation] as they were before. The only thing that has changed is the number of reputation points people have and as it has changed in proportion it make no difference at all to your "power". All this change is doing is trying to make sure the people who have high reputation deserve it and they don't feel that they have worked hard for high reputation when others have just bought it or gained it unfairly.

Of course your not going to like the fact that your reputation points went down but as I've said in effect they have not as everyones have gone down and no one is being singled out individually. If you think it through this isn't such a bad decision after all, at first I was like "Oh why has my reputation gone down" and I was wondering why this change had been made but then when I had a think about it I had a change of opinion on the matter because int he long run it hopefully will make the system better and people will feel the reputation they have has been earned fairly.

I can imagine lots of you will say that the only reason I'm in agreement is because I'm staff or sucking up to the management or whatever however I can tell you if I didn't agree with this change I would say so, this is how I feel about whats going on at the moment and I think some people need to just have a think about the fact it is only a number at the end of the day and also nothing have been "lowered" in terms of who has the most reputation power, the numbers have simply changed to make it fairer.

[jrh2002]

if the reputation system was to revert back to how it was and this idea was implemented then i would agree.

looking at the current system where you have to get 1000 points for a power, this is impossible because of the powers being lowered.

I agree now the new system is here it will make it very hard to gain more power.
I think it has been lowered to 600 per rep now but could be changed a little once we see how well its working.

Personally I think they should have made it so you get 1 rep after your first 100 posts and then 1 every year. I would have made it impossible to gain rep any other way and then people would only feel the need to rep good posts instead of repping in the hope to get rep returned to boost their rep power. If this happened then it would be nice for all members to see who left you rep so you can see the nice comments.

[reindeer.]

what about if you were allowed to give only 5 reps a week?
wouldn't that discourage pointless rep?
then you wouldn't be able to rep the legitimate posts if you had wasted them all on pointless rep.

[Catzsy]

I agree with what you wrote in red and think the rep change is great

Okay James, being a bit cheeky here so are you going to disable yours as
now it is probably one of the highest rep powers on the board?

[jesus]

I agree now the new system is here it will make it very hard to gain more power.
I think it has been lowered to 600 per rep now but could be changed a little once we see how well its working.

Personally I think they should have made it so you get 1 rep after your first 100 posts and then 1 every year. I would have made it impossible to gain rep any other way and then people would only feel the need to rep good posts instead of repping in the hope to get rep returned to boost their rep power. If this happened then it would be nice for all members to see who left you rep so you can see the nice comments.

thats a decent idea, 1 per year and 1 per 1000 posts should be acceptable because 'reputation' itself is basically how 'well known' you are, and if you make a 1000 posts or are on for a year you are certainly well known.

the red text in the first post would be a good idea if the above was considered.

[le harry]

i think just increasing the amount of reps it takes to rep someone again would of done the job..

[reindeer.]

i think just increasing the amount of reps it takes to rep someone again would of done the job..

no because then u get people pointless repping with 'spreading' as the message.
we all like to recieve it but the admins don't like it.

[le harry]

no because then u get people pointless repping with 'spreading' as the message.
we all like to recieve it but the admins don't like it.

Rep 5 people a day and say it takes 30 rep's to rep the person again..?

[benjamin]

no because then u get people pointless repping with 'spreading' as the message.
we all like to recieve it but the admins don't like it.

but then if the highlighted text in the first post was implimented, peole wouldn't do it , and if they did, then they're really stupid :S